Jeopardy! Swifties Can't Calm Down As Players Miss Simple Taylor's Clue, 'Tasteless Contestants'
Jeopardy! Swifties Can't Calm Down As Players Miss Simple Taylor's Clue, 'Tasteless Contestants'
Updated on July 23, 2022 12:00 PM by Andrew Koschiev
Taylor Swift fans can't calm down over a major failure made on Jeopardy!. A song from Taylor Swift was the answer to a $400 clue during the quiz show's Wednesday episode. Unfortunately for contestants, knowledge of the 32-year-old "Blank Space" singer was not their strong suit.
In the "Title That Completes the Rhyme" category, which quizzes players on their music knowledge, host Ken Jennings read: "And I'm just like oh-oh oh-oh oh-oh oh-oh oh-oh, you need to just stop. Like, can you just not step on my gown?"
Knowing the tune himself, Ken Jennings, 48, did his best not to give too much away. But the contestants still stumbled over the clue, nonetheless. Returning champ, Matt Mierswa, appeared to be completely stumped. After the beep indicated Mierswa's time was up, Jennings told the players the correct answer.
Jennings said, "I really wish this was Johnny [Gilbert] reading these," adding, "This is 'You Need to Calm Down' by Taylor Swift." As the moment aired on TV, fans of the Grammy winner swiftly swarmed social media to share their frustration. "None of the jeopardy contestants got the Taylor swift clue shut the whole show down," One user tweeted.
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Another added, "Everyone who makes it on to #Jeopardy clearly has a crown in my book, but I cannot calm down when there is a triple stumper Taylor Swift clue." The third person said, "Having a little power trip bc I knew the answer to a Jeopardy question was Taylor Swift & none of the contestants got it."
Despite the hiccup, Mierswa still came first and won a whopping $26,644. Previously, in December, Machine Gun Kelly (Colson Baker) was the answer to an $800 clue under the category "MUSICAL 3-INITIALers." Still, none of the contestants appeared to know who the multi-hyphenate celeb was.
"The stage name of this rapper and actor gets shortened to MGK," Jennings said to silence, promptly broken up by that cursed "stumper" triple beep. "Not fans of Machine Gun Kelly, apparently," Jennings then remarked to the contestants, who didn't even recognize the photo paired with the clue.
MGK followers were understandably gobsmacked by the quizzers' lack of recognition for the Bird Box actor, even taking their grievances to Twitter. One fan responded, "Me: *screaming* WHO IS MACHINE GUN KELLY." Another fan tweeted, "Me if I went on Jeopardy and all of the questions were about Machine Gun Kelly," along with a photo of Cardi B surrounded by a pile of cash.