‘Danger!’ Fans accuse the show of accepting an incorrect answer

We’ll take the correct answer for $200.

After “Danger!” crowned new champion On Wednesday, viewers reacted to a shocking moment during the dramatic showdown.

During the episode, the judges controversially allowed a Final Jeopardy answer that was technically incorrect, and it decided the competition.

Joey DeSena, a development engineer from Raleigh, North Carolina, scored back-to-back wins and earned a total of $44,698 when he faced two competitors.

First up are Lois Dioro, a real estate agent from West Haven, Connecticut, and Evan Dorey, a data analytics director from Toronto, Ontario.

Going into Final Jeopardy, Dioro and Dorey were tied at $14,600, while DeSena was still only $100 behind him at $7,400.

It all came down to the clue “POETRY & PLACES”: “It is the geographical word in the title of a poem by Robert Burns about “the mountains… covered with snow… the layers and green valleys below.” The correct answer was ‘Highlands’.

DeSena was wrong with “Moor??? It was fun!” causing it to drop to $199 and end its run. Dorey wrote “Highland” and seemed unsure. The judges accepted it and he doubled down and had $29,200.

“And we will accept that,” Ken Jennings Dorey said as he exhaled on his podium. ‘My heart is in the Highlands‘ is the name of the poem,’ the presenter, 50, explained. Dioro was also wrong on ‘Scotland’ and dropped to $12,000. Dorey’s response made him the new champion.

Fans flocked to Reddit after the episode to respond to the Final Jeopardy ruling, with viewers expressing confusion that an answer that was missing a crucial letter was accepted.

‘I’m confused. If an FJ participant submits a singular name when the correct title is plural, it will be accepted. But if they write that singular and start adding s when the time is up, isn’t that right? wrote one fan, per TVInsider.

“I’m a little confused about that myself,” said another on the page. “I thought if the answer was a word in a title, the answer should be the title word, not a version of it.”

A third fan chimed in: “My interpretation of this statement is: If the clue specifically wanted the full title and he wrote ‘My Heart’s in the Highland,’ that would be incorrect. But because they only wanted the word and not the full title, they opted for singular or plural.”

Rounding out the comments, one viewer tried to explain what happened.

“I can’t think of any other examples where a ‘word in the title’ clue had any leeway on the answer. “Highland” is not a word in the poem’s title; ‘Highlands’ yes. (Maybe because ‘highland’ falls within ‘highlands’??? But that seems ridiculous,” they said. “By that logic, ‘country’ – a geographical word in itself – should also have been an acceptable answer. ) I think this was a ‘the end justifies the means’ statement. “Evan was the best player today, so he deserved to win, but given the strict interpretation of the rules and the wording of the clue, I don’t think ‘highland’ was a correct answer.”

Meanwhile, outgoing champion DeSena entered the chat and wrote in part, “Well, the unlikely mini-streak has come to an end. All the credit in this game goes to Evan and Lois, two great competitors who came to play. I felt like a fan myself during the Finals, excited to see how the tie would break! I know it may have been said before, but I have the utmost respect for the players who can get five wins in one day of taping. That’s exhausting!”

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