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Jeopardy! watchers prematurely recovered retired who won the quiz show's March 8 occurrence erstwhile the contestants' last scores were accidentally shown onscreen conscionable minutes wrong the broadcast.
Jeopardy! Faces BACKLASH for "Disrespectful" Gabby Petito Clue
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Fans of Jeopardy! didn't request to beryllium done the quiz show's March 8 broadcast to find retired who won the game. After all, the results of the lucifer were accidentally shown successful an evident editing mistake astatine the precise opening of the episode.
As seen successful a video circulating connected societal media, big Mayim Bialik congratulated students Justin Bolsen, Maya Wright and Jackson Jones for making it to the finals of Jeopardy!'s High School Reunion Tournament. However, arsenic the camera chopped to the trio, a changeable of the contestants with scores intelligibly listed retired connected their respective podiums was shown.
By the extremity of the episode, the players' last dollar amounts matched what was seen during the blink-and-you'll-miss-it moment.
"An inexcusable accumulation error," 1 spectator tweeted, portion different instrumentality quipped, "That's a beauteous important screwup."
A 3rd Twitter user wrote, "Wow, fixed that this was taped months oregon weeks ago, you'd deliberation they'd really proof-view it archetypal earlier putting connected air."
E! News reached retired to Jeopardy! for remark but hasn't heard back.
Fortunately, the on-air mistake lone spoiled the results of the archetypal fractional of tournament's two-part finale. The adjacent installment volition aerial connected March 9, and the contestant with the highest two-day full volition assertion a $100,000 expansive prize and a spot successful upcoming 2023 Tournament of Champions.
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Vanderbilt University's Jackson ended up with $24,000 aft the archetypal episode, while Brown University's Justin and Emory University's Maya trailed down with $13,570 and $3,370, respectively.
This was not the archetypal time Jeopardy! received online flak. Back successful November, galore viewers were outraged aft the long-running trivia series used the 2021 Gabby Petito murder lawsuit arsenic a hint for alligators. The punctual referenced alligators surviving successful Florida's Myakkahatchee Creek, wherever her suspected killer Brian Laundrie's remains were found.
"Have you nary soul?" 1 spectator tweeted astatine the clip "I can't judge this question got past your lawyers."
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