‘Jeopardy!’ Fans React to Extremely Close Final Jeopardy Round

[Warning: The below contains MAJOR spoilers for the July 18 episode of Jeopardy!]

Within the July 18 version of Jeopardy!, two-day champ and contract compliance analyst Daniel Moore needed to go up towards communications supervisor Chelsea Watt and legal professional/DJ David Bederman so as to add to his winnings of $39,800. Nevertheless, some clue choice methods and wagers made it an especially shut recreation for all of the contestants concerned.

Within the first spherical earlier than break, the primary Each day Double was discovered, which David answered appropriately, permitting him to double his rating to $2,000. This allowed David to keep up the lead popping out of the break with $5,000 and Daniel carefully behind at $4,800. Chelsea had near half of that with $2,400.

The second Each day Double was present in Double Jeopardy, and sadly, Chelsea was unable to reply appropriately, taking her already low rating of $8,600 down by $2,000. The Each day Double was situated within the literature class, which the contestants all determined to not reply, regardless of the nice probability that it might be discovered there. And though host Ken Jennings praised Chelsea for her low wager, going all-in might have probably labored out higher for her in the long term, had she answered appropriately.

Nevertheless, she answered incorrectly once more in the course of the third and ultimate Each day Double, with Chelsea dropping down one other $2,000, leaving the ultimate scores earlier than Remaining Jeopardy at $17,800 for David, $14,200 for Daniel, and $5,800 for Chelsea.

Lastly, within the class of Man-Made Objects was the Remaining Jeopardy clue, which is as follows “Round since 1998, it’s now roughly the size of a soccer discipline & travels at about 5 miles per second.” All of the contestants answered the Worldwide House Station appropriately, however David was in a position to guess $10,601 to win with $28,401, only one greenback over Daniel’s $28,400.

Though many have been fast to level out how easy the Final Jeopardy was or lament their suffering of David’s head tilts when he doesn’t know a solution, others have been proud of how aggressive tonight’s recreation was.

Try among the Twitter reactions under.

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