Jeopardy! Contestant Robbed Of Win For Excruciating Reason

^^^^ he should argue that the "t" was silent! :)

This is an old rule, no one was robbed. You can misspell, but it must match a pronunciation of the correct response. So I think “Benedik” would have been accepted for “Benedick”, but since his response of “Benedict” changes the pronunciation, he is ruled to be wrong. And when giving a verbal answer, a mispronunciation is accepted, IF the spelling could be read that way. I think that is to allow for someone who has seen the word in print, but never heard it pronounced (or there are different pronunciations). So a reply for “Eggers” could be pronounced with a long E or a short E, and be accepted verbally.

It makes sense in a way, otherwise, the judges are trying to guess what he meant - and that's subjective. This is an objective ruling, like it or not.

REF: LINK

That said, I think it is unfair when a clue requires TWO things to be correct - they should ask for any one of the two. Otherwise, it's like TWO Final Jeopardies, not ONE. That's not Final!

But “Romeo and Juli” counted as an answer

Tran wasn’t even pissed

Wasn’t the past “lady” champion been-a-dick too?

that is pathetic

Alex just rolled over in his grave and will be making a couple calls the PTB to get her arse off the show.

That was a poor, poor call.

Rating must have been down...that was B.S.

So...he had a 'dict but needed a 'dick?

I’d like to kick Blossom square in the nuts tbh

I haven’t seen jeopardy since before trebek died. This doesn’t have me feeling like I’ve missed anything. Tran was robbed.

Jeopardy has become weird. I saw them call everyone incorrect recently because they mispronounced a russian word

No consistency is what’s allowed or disallowed spelling; don’t get it. He was robbed.

If he doesn’t finish the word, does he get credit?

BS...i've seen them award correct answers to much worse grammatically spelled "questions."

That's some petty as shite. Everyone knows what he meant

Yeah this version of Jeopardy is terrible