9-day champion Ben Chan saw his winning streak come to an end after he misspelled a word by one letter during Final Jeopardy.
You better dot all your i’s and cross all your t’s when competing on “Jeopardy!”misspelled a word by one letter“Both of the names of these two lovers in a Shakespeare play come from Latin words for ‘blessed,’” was the clue in the category of “Shakespeare’s Characters.”
The correct answer is Beatrice and Benedick from “Much Ado About Nothing,” but Chan wrote Beatrice and Benedict, which host Mayim Bialik informed him was wrong.afterward. “So if you’re going to go out on a miss, go out on a memorable miss.” “Jeopardy!” fans were less than pleased by how Chan was penalized for what he wrote and were not shy about expressing their disgust on Twitter.“Since when does being off by one letter count in final jep? There’s no other character he could have meant,” another personWhile many fans were up in arms that Chan lost, the show does specify that contestants must spell properly when necessary.
Interestingly, the new “Jeopardy!” champion, Lynn Di Vito, wrote “Romeo and Juli” in Final Jeopardy, which Bialik read as “Romeo and Juliet.” Despite the loss, Chan leaves behind quite a legacy. He became the first “Jeopardy!” champion to have his first nine wins be a “runaway,” which means no other contestant could catch him.
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