[Warning: The below contains MAJOR spoilers for the July 24 episode of Jeopardy!]
Two-day Jeopardy! champion and marketing director Taylor Clagett had to defend his $31,800 winnings against library circulation assistant Julie Sission and psychologist resident Andrew Knowles.
And although the Final Jeopardy can come across as easy to viewers, some more obvious clues left our cast of contestants completely stumped.
In the first round, “Denmark” category took some casualties, with every contestant getting the same question wrong for $200. “Animals” for $600 produced another triple stumper, as did “Animals” for $400. “Even Rhyme the Time” for $200 made everyone clam up.
However, when the game shifted to Double Jeopardy, Julie found the second Daily Double almost immediately but was unable to answer correctly. She dropped $4,000 from her third-place total of $4,200 against Taylor’s lead of $6,200. This ruined her chance of jumping from third to first place, as host Ken Jennings pointed out, especially since Taylor correctly answered the final Daily Double soon after for a $9,000 total.
After clearing the board after avoiding the “Writers-Directors” category, the contestants were forced to tackle it. After getting the first two right, the clue for $1200 showcased writer/director Ryan Coogler (Black Panther) and co-writer Joe Robert Cole, but no one could make out Coogler. This brought the scores closer to the final round, with
For Final Jeopardy in the category “Compound Word Origins,” Julie and Andrew were able to answer correctly, superstar, with Taylor, unfortunately, messing up his response. Julie added $3,010 to win with $11,210, and Taylor dropped to third place.
“I’m going to shamelessly use the Ryan Coogler Triple Stumper to promote my Youtube page,” a Reddit user claiming to be the owner of Black Jeopardy. “First thing I thought when the photo came up,” another user replied. It’s a well-known thing that, alongside sports, black history is a central weak point for Jeopardy! contestants.
Check out Twitter’s reaction below.
They didn’t recognize Ryan Coogler #jeopardy pic.twitter.com/uoY5Q0GHYl
— Tired of this shit (@tiredtinNYC) July 25, 2023
Ryan Coogler was a jeopardy question tonight and none of the (yt) contestants knew his name ????
— not sorry to this man (@justmorgie) July 25, 2023
It would be funny how often Jeopardy contestants miss the questions relating to African American history and trivia facts…if it wasn’t so pathetic. pic.twitter.com/lpM05WGZoA
— ???? Alien Superstar – THEE Ambitious Amazon ???????? (@Mindbellz) July 25, 2023
Not the white people blanking on RYAN COOGLER #jeopardy
— Dashiell Eaves (@DashEaves) July 25, 2023
No one for Black Panther #Jeopardy
— Cartoon Hero (@toonmanyeah) July 25, 2023
these white folks not knowing who Ryan Coogler is on Jeopardy…
— Luther said uggggh uggggh da na na na (@Phllp_Wnslw) July 25, 2023
Jeopardy be showing show little America knows about “urban” subjects
— Jake from Hate Farm (@StressCurry) July 25, 2023
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