Jeopardy! fans insulted by clue about New York City landmark with a nickname ‘no one’ uses
The internet was flustered when the game show likened The Grand Concourse in the Bronx to the iconic Champse-Elysees in Paris.
Adriana Harmeyer, who won the match with a four-day total of $91,800, faced Carol Ritchey and Matthew Kahn.
The Jeopardy! round clue under “Around New York” for $800 came with a video of the Bronx borough of New York City.
Alongside the clip, Ken Jennings read the clue to the determined players.
It was, “The Grand Concourse, a wide thoroughfare with tree-lined medians, is known as this Parisian street of the Bronx.”
Adriana correctly responded, “the Champs-Élysées,” referring to the postcard-worthy avenue in Paris, France.
‘CHAMPS-ELYSEES OF… THE BRONX?’
Fans flooded social media agreeing that no one calls the slightly less pictuesque Grand Concourse the Champs-Élysées of the Bronx.
“Lifelong NYer here and I have to ask….has anyone ever heard the Grand Concourse referred to as the “Champs-Élysées” of the Bronx?” one Redditor wrote.
“Nobody from the Bronx, or NYC, calls it that – ever,” replied another.
“Only tourists from Paris call it that,” joked a third.
“Who’s calling the Grand Concourse the Champs-Élysées of the Bronx?,” wrote a fourth.
Regardless, after a tough $7,600 Daily Double miss from the impressive Carol, Adriana won the game with $20,200.
STRUM-THING’S OFF
It’s not the first time Jeopardy! fans questioned an answer during her run.
During Adriana’s second victory last Friday, fans called out the show for incorrectly crediting a song to a band that didn’t write it.
Adriana selected the category “Songs in the Key of Life.”
“In the title of a Rascal Flatts’ song, ‘Life is’ this type of road,” Ken read.
“What is ‘A Highway?'” Adriana replied.
“Yes, it is,” Ken said back, rewarding her the $400 clue.
Artist Tom Cochrane originally wrote Life Is a Highway, adding it to his album Mad Mad World in 1991.
In 2006, Rascal Flatts covered the song for the Cars soundtrack.
Fans jumped on X to react to Jeopardy’s incorrect attribution.
“Very offensive to Tom Cochrane to call Life Is a Highway a Rascal Flatts song,” one fan blasted.
“Why has Jeopardy decided Life Is a Highway is a Rascal Flatts song when they just produced an inferior cover?” someone else mocked.
“Rascal Flatts did not write Life Is a Highway! You will pay for this disrespect!” a third critic ranted.
“Rascall Flatts was the wrong answer to a question on Jeopardy!” a fourth viewer wrote on X.
“Ahem! Tom Cochrane is the original Life Is a Highway performer,” another pointed out.
‘INCREDIBLY IMPRESSIVE!’
Meanwhile, Adriana, an art archivist from West Lafayette, Indiana, has been going strong since arriving last Thursday.
She’s racked up 90 overall correct responses, and just nine incorrect, and won multiple games in runaways.
“Adriana is so incredibly impressive. She might just be my favorite female multi-day champion whose name starts with an A this season,” recent five-day champ Alison Betts wrote on Reddit
Adriana is a clinical assistant professor and archivist University History in Purdue University’s Archives and Special Collections.
She said in a recent interview that she took the show’s online test for fun and was blindsided to be contacted a few weeks later.
“I had taken the online test a couple of times before, but this time I’d went online one evening and took the test for fun.”
“I didn’t expect anything to come out of it – I just thought of it as another fun internet quiz.”
Others penned after Monday’s show that they hoped to see Carol in the next Second Chance contest as she would have won barring her big Daily Double miss.
“I’d love to see Carol back for Second Chances, for her pure joy if nothing else!”
Adriana will go for win five tonight which would officially qualify her for the next Tournament of Champions.
So far, the qualifiers for the next ToC (all female) are five-day winners Alison and Dr. Amy Hummel and Celebrity Jeopardy!’s Lisa Ann Walter. That said, with four wins, Grant DeYoung and Amar Kakirde will likely join the fray as well.
Jeopardy! airs at 7 pm ET on ABC – check your local listings.
