Erin Buker recently earned the second-lowest winnings of any contestant in the history of 'Jeopardy!,' something she called an ‘out-of-body experience.’ "Jeopardy!" fans were left angry and confused Wednesday after the game show accepted a technically wrong answer for a final clue. The final Jeopardy clue read: "It’s the geographic word in the title of a Robert Burns poem about "the mountains .
.. covered with snow .
.. the straths & green valleys below.
" Contestant Evan Dorey wrote "Highland," and host Ken Jennings accepted the answer. "‘My Heart’s In The Highlands‘ is the name of the poem," Jennings explained. However, Dorey's answer lacking the "s" on the end confused fans.
‘JEOPARDY!’ FANS OUTRAGED OVER TAYLOR SWIFT, TRAVIS KELCE DISS IN ‘NASTY’ CLUE The final jeopardy clue from Wednesday's episode of "Jeopardy!" (Jeopardy!) "I’m confused," one user wrote on Reddit . "If a FJ contestant gives a singular name though the correct title is plural, it’s accepted. But if they write that singular and are starting to add s when time runs out, it isn’t?" "Little confused by that myself," another responded.
"I thought if the answer was a word in a title, the answer needed to be the title word, not a version thereof." One user gave their own interpretation of Wednesday's "Jeopardy!" ruling , which left Dorey the game champ: "My interpretation of this ruling is: If the clue specifically wanted the full title and he wrote ‘My Heart’s in the Highland’, tha.
