Jeopardy! fans ‘cringe’ after contestants miss ‘easy’ clues about major artists with painful guesses

JEOPARDY! fans have blasted the contestants for being unable to identify a Drake song and offering up “painful” alternatives.

Later in the same episode, Twitter sounded off when a SZA clue didn’t go much better.

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Current champion Ben Chan was facing David Lu, a mail processing clerk, and Brittani Seagren, a nurse practitioner on May 17th’s episode.

Host Mayim Bialik, 48, presented the $800 clue under “Recent pop music.”

It read: “This Drake song asks, ‘Kiki, do you love me? Are you riding?’”.

Brittani buzzed in and responded: “What is ‘Riding Dirty?’ and was deemed incorrect and seemingly referred to the 2005 song by Chamillionaire.

David then buzzed in with: “What is ‘Hotline Bling?’” – also incorrect.

Mayim then broke the silence and shaded: “No, all good titles.”

She then told them the correct response was Drake’s song “In My Feelings,” which was a Billboard No. 1 smash hit in 2018.

Later in the same category, a clue read: “CTRL and SOS are albums by her seen here” – Brittani buzzed in to identify the photo displayed of superstar singer SZA and incorrectly guessed it was “Brandy.”

‘I CRINGED SO HARD’

One Jeopardy! fan wrote to Twitter: “As a zoomer, I cringed so hard at some of the responses in the Pop Music category lol. “Ridin’ Dirty? For a Drake song?”

Another wrote on Twitter: “Riding Dirty??? Brandy???? LOL Brittani is throwing whatever out there. #Jeopardy”

A third tweeted: “Bruh this Recent Pop Music category got these Jeopardy contestants sick. They showed a pic of SZA and shorty guessed Brandy. Next clue was Drake’s In My Feelings and shorty said Ridin’ Dirty.”

A fourth wrote: “A person on Jeopardy thought In My Feelings by Drake was Chamillionaire.”

And a fifth: “Today there was a Jeopardy question about a Drake song and one of the contestants answered “Ridin’ Dirty” which is a song by Chamillionare and I just…”

A sixth wrote: “Okay, I’m disgusted… “Riding Dirty” for the Drake song that says, “Kiki, do you love me?” and “Brandy” as her guess for the image of Sza …. how?!?! How did she come up with these responses.”

“The lady on #Jeopardy said the lyrics to In My Feelings by Drake were Riding Dirty and then called SZA Brandy,” wrote a seventh.

Meanwhile, Ben has seemed unstoppable since the Wisconsin college professor is the first player in Jeopardy! history to win their first eight games in runaways or ensured victories going into the final round- he’s amassed $227,800 so far.

BLIND SPOT?

Jeopardy! contestants have had such trouble with questions about Black history that it’s made headlines recently.

Recently a contestant during a High School Reunion Tournament was asked a Daily Double question that read: “From 1936 to 1967 this ‘colorful’ guide aided African Americans in traveling safely during segregation.”

Justin took a long pause and incorrectly answered: “What is the Black Book?”

The correct answer was: “What is the Green Book” – which has also been adapted into an Oscar-winning movie.

Earlier this season, all three contestants drew blanks on a clue looking for Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson.

It read, “She’s the first Black woman on the Supreme Court and the first justice to have been a federal public defender” and no one buzzed in.

Also this season, Final Jeopardy under: “Nobel Peace Prize Winners” read: “At times they each lived on Vilakazi St. in Soweto, so it claims to be the world’s only street home to 2 Nobel Peace Prize winners.”

Each contestant needed to think of the two Nobel Peace Prize winners from South Africa, in other words- the other being Desmond Tutu.

One person wrote “Who are: “[Henry] Kissinger and [Angela] Merrkel” and another player wrote down, “Who are Mandela + Obam.”

Twitter lost it: “I’m sorry but that Final Jeopardy clue was too easy for all of them to not get it. Kissinger and Merkel?”

“She thought Mandela and Obama lived on the same street?!?! Ever in life? On what continent?”

Historian Michael Harriot recently summed up the seemingly tricky territory going viral by writing:

“Jeopardy be like: Host: The 2nd Earl of Winchester wrote this 1887 symphony about the tributary to the 42nd-largest river in Obscuristan,” tweeted the historian. “Contestant: What is ‘Aksjducpïsudintal in A Minor?’ I’ll take History for $100.”

“Host: Name a black person who did anything,” continued the tweet “Contestant: [silence].”

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