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scathing message on Facebook, “Star Trek: The Next Generation” star Wil Wheaton blasted “Jeopardy!” host Ken Jennings for crossing the picket line during the Writer’s Guild of America strike, giving him a stark warning.“This is a VERY small town, Ken Jennings, and we will all remember this,” Wheaton typed on the social media platform. “Your privilege may protect you right now, but we will *never* forget.”He also included the hashtag “#WGAStrong” in the post.The actor continued his thoughts in the comments section of the post, calling out those who were speaking negatively about unions.“Hey y’all, if you’re here to s–t on unions, you can f–k right off.

returning champion James Holzhauer had a rather flirty exchange Friday during the “Jeopardy! Masters” tournament.The saucy nerd banter between the two men occurred after contestant Matt Amodio chose a question under the “Authors” category.“The Detroit Free Press said ‘The Mummy’ was ‘vintage’ this novelist; ‘elegantly erotic & full of enchanting terror,’” read the clue.Amodio buzzed in with the answer “What’s Stoker.”Jennings, 48, declared that the answer was incorrect and after the two players failed to chime in, revealed the answer to be “Anne Rice.”“I also refer to James as ‘elegantly erotic but full of enchanting terror,’” the 48-year-old host said.Holzhauer, 38, retorted to the quip, saying: “Keep it in your pants, Ken.”The rather flirtatious exchange caused Mattea Roach — another returning champ — to cover her mouth as she started laughing out loud.But Holzhauer — who came in second to Jennings in the highest winnings during regular-season play — wouldn’t let the remark die.“We actually had to pause taping so Ken could take a cold shower,” tweeted Holzhauer later that day with a clip of the exchange.The Post reached out to Jennings and Holzhauer for comment.Fans of the game show were divided about how they felt about the spicy exchange.

White, 66, competed against “Jeopardy!” hosts Jennings, 48, and Bialik, 47, on Wednesday’s episode of “Celebrity Wheel of Fortune.”White earned a total of $2,000, which was later bumped to the show’s $30,000 minimum, raising money for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital.She guessed letters that had already been called, exclaiming, “That’s been called?!”“What?! Oh my gosh! I’m terrible at this game!” she said.But the hosts of “Jeopardy!” were a good match for their rival game show, with Bialik winning the first round and Jennings taking the second.Neither of them solved the bonus round, but they each won over $60,000 dollars for their charities.

pronouncing the name correctly. The flub caused a commotion on Twitter from fans who slammed the show for ruling against each player’s answer. “If you’re not going to accept anyone’s attempt to pronounce Solzhenitsyn, don’t write a clue about him,” one said.“Solzhenitsyn.

ongoing Writers Guild of America (WGA) strike, according to Deadline.Ken Jennings is set to take on hosting duties in her place, according to the outlet, and they will finish out filming for the season at the Sony Pictures lot in Culver City, California, wrapping on Friday, May 19.The show is produced by Sony Pictures Television. The Post reached out to Bialik and Sony for further comment.On May 2, the WGA announced that members were going on strike in an effort to petition for higher wages, a better pay structure to include streaming services, and regulation around article intelligence.The WGA is made up of an alliance of two labor unions that represent more than 11,000 writers in the entertainment industry, according to “Today.”As a result, popular shows like “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” and “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert” have shut down production.

Final Jeopardy!” segment, Holzhauer was in the lead and the clue read: “Opened in 1909 & less famous than an older neighbor, it connects Brooklyn & Chinatown.”Once the first two contestants scribed their responses, Jennings stated that Holzhauer had already begun to write down his answer while the former was still reading the hint.“What bridge did he think of?” Jennings wondered.Holzhauer didn’t write down his reply to the question, however, he did pen the statement: “Stop ducking a rematch, Ken.”The trivia show emcee couldn’t help but burst into laughter and shot back: “You know how much work I had to go to to get all the way over here at this lectern and avoid having to play you again, James?”Holzhauer then referenced the “ducking” bit of his remark, noting: “This is autocorrected, by the way.”Holzhauer and the Washington native are both big champs of the long-running game show, having gone head-to-head in the ABC series’ “Jeopardy! The Greatest of All Time” tournament back in January 2020. Jennings had emerged victorious by winning three games, with Holzhauer scoring one match.

late American treasure Betty White in the “Everything’s Coming Up Rose” category. “In 1986 she won an Emmy Award for playing Rose Nylund on ‘The Golden Girls,'” host Mayim Bialik, 47, read the clue. Contestant Ashwin Phadnis, an attorney from Hillsdale, NJ, buzzed in: “Who is McClanahan?”“Who is Bea Arthur?” replied Brian Alzua, a biocompatibility scientist from Minneapolis.

explained the actor. “One of my roommates lucked into the job of assistant to the executive producer.”“I somehow parlayed that into a speaking role in ‘The Notebook.'”Sadly, the South Carolina native’s fifteen minutes of fame were cut down to mere seconds.“They ended up cutting it down so you only see the side of my face for a couple of seconds,” stated Czekalski.

one person tweeted.“I tried to think of names with ‘El’ and then tried to remember if there were any books about people named Elijah… forgot about Lemuel,” someone else said.“Terrible clue!” a fan exclaimed.However, some people were surprised none of the contestants got it right.“Super proud that I got this right, especially considering none of the contestants did,” one viewer boasted.“Got it swiftly,” one person shared.“This was a strange one, I’m surprised they all missed it,” someone said.They continued, “‘Easily duped’ sent my mind straight to ‘gullible’, and even not being certain of the first name part, the correct answer should’ve at least been a guess for one of them.”

funny.“Jeopardy!” co-hosts Ken Jennings and Mayim Bialik, along with “Wheel of Fortune” co-host Vanna White, are competing on “Celebrity Wheel of Fortune” for charity.In a sneak peek of the episode airing next month, the trio attempt to solve a puzzle — to hilarious results.“Funny meeting you here?” Bialik, 47, guessed incorrectly, dramatically leaning over in defeat upon realizing her blunder.The wrong answer cued Jennings, 48, to swoop in for a win: “Fancy meeting you here.”“They may be two hosts, but they work together like that,” host Pat Sajak quipped as Jennings took a small bow. “It’s really wonderful to see.”Jennings, Bialik and White, 66, step into the unusual role as contestants in the crossover episode, set to air May 10 on ABC at 9 p.m.

notably missing the first “C” in the word “ascorbic.”Jennings paused for a bit, then said, “Yeah, we’ll take that; I think the ‘C’ is pronounced.”But fans took issue with two parts of the mess-up.First, viewers said the answer was clearly supposed to be “ascorbic acid,” and Matheny, a customer success implementation manager from Indiana, pronounced it as a different word.Fans also had a problem with the clue itself: The first “C” in “ascorbic” actually comes before the letter “B,” so if the category were true to follow “A_B_C_D,” then the actual correct response wouldn’t fit.In the same category, the $1,000 clue said: “If you ‘go’ this 7-word phrase, you’ve exceeded what your obligations require.”Anderson, an operations director from Brooklyn, answered with, “What is above the call of duty?” — which is seven words, including the “Jeopardy!” standard “What is.”The correct response was supposed to be “above and beyond the call of duty.”From there, viewers piled on.One person on Twitter questioned that, writing, “why doesn’t ‘above the call of duty’ work? It’s ABCD.”“My thoughts exactly,” someone responded.“Jeez. Asorbic should not have been an accepted response.

Buzzy Cohen, the champion best known by his nickname “Mr. Personality,” which was handed down by late host Alex Trebek, revealed that his famous nine-day winning streak actually only took place over the course of two days.The music executive told Insider that “Jeopardy!” tapes five shows — a week’s worth — in a single day with breaks long enough to allow winners to change outfits between tapings.Cohen, who took home over $164,600 after playing 10 games in 2016, said the process was “exhausting.”“That is certainly something that I think people are surprised by,” he said. “It really makes the fact that people can go on these long runs even more impressive because it’s endurance as well as mental and physical stamina.”The secret is just one of five Cohen shared with the outlet and plans to expose in his new podcast, “This Is Jeopardy! The Story of America’s Favorite Quiz Show,” a Sony production that was launched Wednesday.Cohen — who returned to win the 2017 Tournament of Champions for the $250,000 jackpot before guest-hosting the program four years later in the wake of Trebek’s death — said the show explores how “Jeopardy!” became an American institution and has enjoyed 59 years of success.The podcast aims to take fans behind the scenes, including from Cohen’s own experience playing on and hosting the program.When he guest-hosted the Tournament of Champions in 2021, Cohen was surprised to find how busy the host is despite not getting much airtime.“What’s kind of surprising is how little you’re maybe on-screen, but you are reading the clue, calling a contestant, making a ruling, asking them to select,” Cohen told the outlet.

ABC revealed.The much-anticipated crossover will air on ABC at 9 p.m. following the “Jeopardy! Masters” tournament, which will see the return of some of the game’s top contestants, including Amy Schneider, Matt Amodio, Mattea Roach, Andrew He, Sam Buttrey and James Holzhauer. Fans are thrilled to get to see Jennings, 48, Bialik, 47, and White, 66, face off in the game show, solving puzzles to win $1 million for charity.A thread on the “Jeopardy!” Reddit forum even has people making predictions.“Watch Vanna absolutely smoke both of them and leave us all confused,” one person said, to which another quipped in response, “She does have all the answers.”Someone said seeing White win wouldn’t be surprising considering “she’s spent decades studying by way of being on the show.”“Vanna knows the writers’ thought processes when creating puzzles. Pat [Sajak] has said she even submits puzzles of her own for possible use on the show.

“Inside Jeopardy!““Just this week, somebody said, ‘Do they tell you what categories to study?'” added Cohen, who won the 2017 “Jeopardy!” Tournament of Champions. “I don’t know how that rumor got started … drives me crazy.”Whitcomb Foss, who works as part of the “Clue Crew” — the team responsible for researching topics around the world for the game show’s various categories — also expressed her dismay.

even 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.

EPCOT.”As Mickey Mouse fans know, Disneyland opened its doors in Southern California in 1955. Shortly before his death, in 1966, Disney began to develop the Florida complex that would be called Disney World, featuring its EPCOT theme park.I've been watching jeopardy for like 20+ years and I cannot recall an easier Final Jeopardy“Jeopardy!” viewers argued the clue was too easy for the final round.“I’ve been watching Jeopardy for like 20+ years and I cannot recall an easier Final Jeopardy,” tweeted one fan.“You guys have got to be kidding, how is this a Final Jeopardy and not a $200 question????” someone else wondered. “Who is Walt Disney.

by Ken Jennings, “Jeopardy! Masters” will see the return of some of the game’s winningest contestants, including Amy Schneider, Matt Amodio, Mattea Roach, Andrew He, Sam Buttrey and James Holzhauer. The players will compete in various pairings throughout a three-week competition with 10 one-hour episodes featuring two games per episode.A new poster for the show posted by Entertainment Tonight shows Jennings, 48, standing tall in a blue suit and maroon tie while the six masters of “Jeopardy!” stand on either side of him.Schneider, 43, raked in $1,382,800 after her 40-game streak in Season 38. She’s the first openly transgender “Jeopardy!” super champion and ranks No.

is bringing back six of its top championsfor the new game show, , with Ken Jennings as host, and only ET has an exclusive first look.which premieres Monday, May 8 at 8 p.m. ET/PT, returns former notable winners Amy Schneider, Matt Amodio, Mattea Roach, Andrew He, Sam Buttrey and James Holzhauer. The three-week competition features 10 one-hour episodes with two games each.

works at Pilot Flying J truck stop, appeared on the Monday episode and swept the competition — dethroning reigning champ Crystal Zhao with a whopping $23,201 in winnings.Sadly, the 40-year-old’s victory did not stop online trolls.“I need someone in Brian’s life to tell him he kinda looks like Hitler,” tweeted one viewer.“Brian was so excited when he won, he caused quite a führer,” remarked another person.Henegar responded by saying that he planned on leaving the social media site.“Right now I’m feeling every emotion under the sun reliving my ‘Jeopardy!’ appearance,” wrote Henegar. “And I’m seeing what a bunch of Jerks on Twitter are doing because all they can focus on [are] my looks … So I’m going to be leaving Twitter for a while, see you soon.”The Post has reached out to reps for “Jeopardy!” for comment.Despite the amount of hate, several Twitter users defended Henegar.“The fact Brian Henegar on Jeopardy! last night is being compared to a historically evil dictator based on his looks is utterly disgusting,” defended one user who claimed to know Henegar.

announced the special broadcast on the official “Jeopardy!” Twitter page. They included a photo of a young Trebek rocking a mustache, striped shirt, gray tweed blazer and a full head of hair.The Canadian-American entertainer passed away on Nov.

Geth-SEH-muh-nee.”However, he rattled off the name of the place in Jerusalem with a hard “g” sound — like “gate,” which is correct — in the beginning, and a “d” sound — rather than an “n” — on the last syllable.Jennings, 48, said that was wrong and moved on to the returning champ, Tamara Ghattas, who said used the “n” sound at the end but also said a soft “g” — like “gel,” which is incorrect — on the first syllable. “Yeah, we just needed the ‘n’ in Gethsemane — that’s correct,” said Jennings, who also pronounced the name with a soft “g.” The mistake cost Manning a spot during the Final Jeopardy portion of the show, dropping his $4,200 down to $2,600.Jennings’ call sparked the ire of several fans on Twitter.