Ken Jennings slams ‘Jeopardy!’ fan who questioned clue: ‘Buy a dictionary!’
nypost.comeven with this fan. “Jeopardy!” host Ken Jennings got into a Twitter tiff with a viewer who claimed a seemingly correct answer from Friday’s episode was incorrect.A fan of the trivia show tweeted to the champ, claiming that the answer for the $200 question under the “Potent Potable Rhyme Time” category did not actually rhyme.The clue provided read: “Rice wine for the guy who rides a racehorse.”One of the contestants, Kari Elsila, rang in immediately with, “What is ‘sake’ and ‘jockey’?” The answer was referring to the Japanese alcoholic beverage, which is pronounced to rhyme with “jockey,” according to Merriam-Webster, though the show reportedly uses the Oxford English Dictionary for reference.
That prompted the viewer’s attempt at correction.“Dear @Jeopardy writers ‘Sake’ and ‘Jockey’ are not rhyming words,” wrote the fan before tagging Jennings, 48, in a separate tweet.
Jennings then clapped back at the viewer. “I am once again asking Americans to buy a dictionary,” slammed Jennings in his reply, which included photos of both words phonetically spelled out.
Unfortunately, that was not the end of it. “Love when English changes foreign words, I guess,” responded the Twitter user. Jennings refused to back down as well. “Yeah, I’m always mad when people say the ‘s’ in Paris.
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