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“Leave Ken Alone!” Affected Contestant Pleas After Tabloid Frenzy
“Contestants may change their responses as long as neither the host nor the judges have made a ruling.”
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Mark Ramirez, career statistics:
52 correct, 9 incorrect
5/6 on rebound attempts (on 11 rebound opportunities)
44.74% in first on buzzer (51/114)
1/2 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $200)
1/2 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $18,600
To win:
3 games: 61.692%
4: 38.059%
5: 23.479%
6: 14.485%
7: 8.936%
Avg. streak: 3.610 games.
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All Time Winnings
All Time Jeopardy! Winnings, Regular Play Only:
1. Ken Jennings $2,520,700
2. James Holzhauer $2,462,216
3. Matt Amodio $1,518,601
4. Amy Schneider $1,382,800
5. Jamie Ding $882,605
6. Cris Pannullo $748,286
7. Mattea Roach $560,983
8. Jason Zuffranieri $532,496
9. Scott Riccardi $455,000
10. David Madden $430,400
11. Julia Collins $428,100
12. Matt Jackson $411,612
13. Austin Rogers $411,000
14. Ray Lalonde $386,400
15. Harrison Whitaker $373,999
16. Adriana Harmeyer $349,600
17. Caleb Groen $346,968
18. Adam Remsen $306,415
19. Ryan Long $299,400
20. Arthur Chu $297,200
All Time Jeopardy! Winnings, Including Tournaments (and Consolation Prizes):
1. Brad Rutter $4,968,436
2. Ken Jennings $4,372,700
3. James Holzhauer $3,614,216
4. Matt Amodio $1,964,601
5. Amy Schneider $1,864,800
6. Yogesh Raut $1,598,403
7. Victoria Groce $1,023,801
8. Mattea Roach $897,983
9. Jamie Ding $885,605
10. David Madden $785,733
11. Cris Pannullo $754,286
12. Roger Craig $706,200
13. Andrew He $684,365
14. Larissa Kelly $671,930
15. Matt Jackson $623,612
16. Jason Zuffranieri $549,496
17. Paolo Pasco $548,717
18. Scott Riccardi $533,000
19. Jerome Vered $499,102
20. Julia Collins $495,767
21. Austin Rogers $493,000
22. Juveria Zaheer $491,000
23. Ben Ingram $449,201
24. Adriana Harmeyer $446,600
25. Buzzy Cohen $441,603
That one rule, known by insiders for decades and made explicitly public by the show in 2016, caused a lot of headache and controversy this week in Jeopardy! spaces, with clueless viewers stirring the tabloid media into a feeding frenzy, slandering newly-minted permanent host Ken Jennings with baseless accusations of misogyny (New York Post’s Decider) and favoritism (Fox News). (The author will not be linking to these articles in order to prevent their clickbait tactics from succeeding.)
Viewers were confused because champion Luigi de Guzman was permitted to correct a misspoken answer at the end of the Jeopardy! round (an attempt to pronounce artist John Constable), whereas challenger Harriet Wagner was ruled against on her misspoken answer (saying Angela LeGuin instead of Ursula LeGuin) before she was able to issue her own correction at the end of Double Jeopardy!. However, the rules are clear: if the host has ruled, the response is final. Both rulings were correct within the scope of the game’s rules—multiple people even reported to Reddit that judges stopped tape in both instances in order to confirm that Ken’s rulings were acceptable.
This is not even an isolated incident in Jeopardy! history—back in 2014, Brad Rutter was ruled correct after correcting “streptolococcus” to “streptococcus” in Battle of the Decades—a ruling that, here at The Jeopardy! Fan, I even said was consistent, as Chip Bell was given three chances six weeks prior to that to pronounce Narragansett Bay.
The contestant most affected by this, retired Houston lawyer Harriet Wagner, has now taken to Twitter in defense of the host. In a tweet yesterday afternoon, she pleaded, “Leave Ken alone!!! He’s my main man (except for my hubby) and has to work in real time the same as the contestants. He’s doing a great job.” I agree. Ken and the judges acted within the bounds of the show’s published rulebooks, and the media should be ashamed of its behavior and attempts to turn Jeopardy! into a reality show circus.
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