A spelling error in the Final Jeopardy round ended contestant Ben Chang’s nine-day winning streak and some fans are asking for a change in the ruling.
A missing letter in a Final Jeopardy! answer spelled doom for one “Jeopardy!” contestant. Mehal Shah, a contestant on the Jan. 30 episode of the show’s Tournament of Champions, was not given credit for his answer in the final round because he misspelled a word by one letter. “After Camillagate, a fire at Windsor Castle & marriage problems in her family, Queen Elizabeth II dubbed 1992 this,” host Ken Jennings read as the clue in the category “Latin Phrases.
Fans who saw the clip on the “Jeopardy!” YouTube page were stunned by the ruling, with some lamenting his bad luck and others insisting it was the proper decision. “Man that is a BRUTAL call on the misspelling,” someone commented. “Mehal will NEVER forget this day,” another person wrote. “That is a horrible clue to have people write down their response,” someone else chimed in. “This was objectively the right call,” another person wrote. “Is it a tough break because he knew it? Yes.
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