Jeopardy! fans slam 'bad category and clue' that stumped all of the contestants

Contestants struggled to answer a difficult hint on Jeopardy!, but fans defended them and blamed the clue writers for the strange category

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might be known for tough questions, but fans thought one Final Jeopardy! was harder than usual. After an intense battle between the competitors, they were faced with the category "Oprah Version" which was pretty vague, according to fans. then read the clue, saying: "Telling the story of a duke, a jester, and the jester's daughter, it was written by poet Francesco Maria Piave.

" Unfortunately, none of the contestants were able to get the correct answer, the Rigoletto libretto. While often fans are perplexed when contestants fail to answer, this time, they sympathized with the quiz gurus. One fan wrote on X, formerly known as Twitter: "Was there a Final #Jeopardy mixup? Was this one supposed to be in #JeopardyMasters a bit later? I don’t fault any of these three players for not coming up with it.



" "What a painful FJ clue," another fan chimed in. A third said: "Don’t take this as a spoiler of tonight’s Final Jeopardy, but did anyone else think that it was just a bad category and a bad clue? How would anyone have gotten that?" They were so angry that they argued a quiz writer should be fired. One fan said, "Whoever wrote that final jeopardy answer should fired!!It was ridiculous!" Another added: "That final jeopardy question.

This isn't Jeopardy Masters, fa cryin out loud!" As for playing at home, fans felt totally duped with one person writing, "Good one, #Jeopardy Good one. You got us with a tricky opera Final. I see what you did.

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