{"id":1929840,"date":"2023-05-12T13:40:23","date_gmt":"2023-05-12T17:40:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/jeopardy-fans-react-when-3-contestants-lose-with-correct-answer-wrong-pronunciation\/"},"modified":"2023-05-12T13:42:51","modified_gmt":"2023-05-12T17:42:51","slug":"jeopardy-fans-react-when-3-contestants-lose-with-correct-answer-wrong-pronunciation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/jeopardy-fans-react-when-3-contestants-lose-with-correct-answer-wrong-pronunciation\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Jeopardy!&#8217; fans upset as 3 contestants lose due to mispronunciation despite correct answer."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fjeopardy-fans-react-when-3-contestants-lose-with-correct-answer-wrong-pronunciation%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1929840&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>\u201cJeopardy!\u201d Fans Upset Over Pronunciation Ruling<\/h2>\n<p>\u201cJeopardy!\u201d fans are not happy that several contestants got an answer correct but still <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/how-to-show-lockdowns-are-killing-more-people-than-the-virus\/\" title=\"How To Show Lockdowns Are Killing More People Than The Virus\">lost due<\/a> to flubbing the pronunciation. Host Mayim Bialik presented the clue during the category \u201cThe Quotable Alex.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>The Clue<\/h3>\n<p>\u201cAn author and former prisoner: \u2018Socialism of any type and shade leads to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/morgan-wallens-record-sales-skyrocket-amid-racial-slur-controversy\/\" title=\"Morgan Wallen\u2019s Record Sales Skyrocket Amid Racial Slur Controversy\">total destruction<\/a> of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/woke-coca-cola-other-businesses-refuse-to-reconsider-sponsorship-of-2022-beijing-olympics\/\" title=\"\u2018Woke\u2019 Coca-Cola, Other Businesses Refuse To Reconsider Sponsorship Of 2022 Beijing Olympics\">human spirit<\/a>,\u2019\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJeopardy!\u201d contestant Juveria Zaheer was the first to buzz in with the correct answer, which was Russian writer Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. But she was rejected for mispronouncing the famous author\u2019s complicated last name.<\/p>\n<p>Sami Casanova buzzed in with the correct answer as well, but was also rejected for not properly pronouncing \u201cSolzhenitsyn.\u201d A third contestant, Hannah Wilson, also gave the name a go but was rejected.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a tricky one to pronounce; looking for \u2018Solzhenitsyn,\u2019\u201d Bialik said, pronouncing the name correctly.<\/p>\n<p>Fans on Twitter were annoyed that none of the contestants got credit for the right answer despite getting very close to saying the name right.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201cIf you\u2019re not going to accept anyone\u2019s attempt to pronounce Solzhenitsyn, don\u2019t write a clue about him,\u201d one <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/new-york-times-reporter-resigns-amid-allegations-he-used-a-racial-slur-in-2019-ignore-context-and-intent\/\" title=\"New York Times Reporter Resigns Amid Allegations He Used A Racial Slur In 2019, Ignore Context And Intent\">person wrote<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cSolzhenitsyn. I get it\u2019s hard to say but one of them was fairly close. Of all the names to be strict on \u2026,\u201d another Twitter user replied. Another viewer called the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/jeopardy-fans-react-when-3-contestants-lose-with-correct-answer-wrong-pronunciation\/\" title=\"'Jeopardy!' fans upset as 3 contestants lose due to mispronunciation despite correct answer.\">ruling \u201cabsurd<\/a>.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>But there were \u201cJeopardy!\u201d fans defending the decision too, noting how the show always takes pronunciation into consideration and shouldn\u2019t have made an exception in this case.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m on Jeopardy\u2019s side. The fact that they had this Solzhenitsyn quote on. Say this man\u2019s name right,\u201d one person wrote.<\/p>\n<p>In March, host Ken Jennings came under fire for not accepting one contestant\u2019s pronunciation during the show.<\/p>\n<p>The question asked was: \u201cAfter the Last Supper, Jesus traveled to this garden to pray and was arrested there.\u201d Contestant Kevin Manning rang in with the correct answer, the Garden of Gethsemane, but did not pronounce it correctly when he omitted the \u201cn\u201d sound at the end.<\/p>\n<p>Fans were further outraged when Jennings also mispronounced the answer, saying the word with a soft \u201cg\u201d and accepting that pronunciation from another contestant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cJeopardy!\u201d fans are not happy that several contestants got an answer correct but still lost due to flubbing the pronunciation. Host Mayim Bialik presented the clue during the category \u201cThe Quotable Alex.\u201d \u201cAn author and former prisoner: \u2018Socialism of any type and shade leads to a total destruction of the human spirit,\u2019\u201d she said. \u201cJeopardy!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":345,"featured_media":1929841,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[5973,26615,18853,5823,10093,8870,26618,14968],"class_list":["post-1929840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-answer","tag-contestants","tag-correct","tag-fans","tag-jeopardy","tag-lose","tag-mispronunciation","tag-upset"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1929840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/345"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1929840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1929840\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1929841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1929840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1929840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1929840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}