‘Where have these people been living, a vacuum-sealed cave?’
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Some fans of Jeopardy! ended the week wanting to hurl their remotes at the TV after three contestants all flubbed a seemingly question with the late Betty White as the answer.
“In 1986 she won an Emmy Award for playing Rose Nylund on The Golden Girls,” host Mayim Bialik read the clue.
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The first contestant to buzz in, Ashwin Phadnis, answered: “Who is McClanahan?”
The second to guess, Brian Alzua, replied: “Who is Bea Arthur?”
Returning champ Hannah Wilson was clearly stumped and didn’t even try to guess.
As the clock wound down, Bialik gave the clueless contestants the right answer: “Betty White,” she said with a big grin.
White died of natural causes just weeks shy of her 100th birthday on Dec. 31, 2021. She played Rose Nylund on the sitcom from 1985 to 1992.
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Viewers at home immediately took to social media to blast the trio for not being stumped by an easy hint.
“These #Jeopardy contestants are gonna get roasted for not knowing Betty White was the correct question,” one Twitter user correctly predicted.
“I don’t care what generation these contestants are from … not knowing Betty White played Rose on The Golden Girls is a crime against trivia,” a second added, with another wondering, “Where have these people been living, a vacuum-sealed cave?”
One viewer bragged that they “never saw Golden Girls” and got the answer right, while a fifth dismissed the trio, writing, “How did none of the Jeopardy! contestants know Betty White played Rose on The Golden Girls? Is there any hope at all for America?”
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“And it hasn’t been that long since she died either,” another person groused. “Poor Betty White. Forgotten already.”
On Reddit, fans of the show continued to debate how all three could have been so easily baffled.
“How did they not know Betty White was the answer to the clue about her Golden Girls role?” one fan questioned, with another sarcastically adding, “I was hoping Hannah would ring in with ‘Who is Estelle Getty?’ just to complete the trifecta of sadness.”
Alzua saw the anger unfolding on social media and took Twitter to react to the criticism, claiming: “I would just like to say, that YES, I KNOW WHO BETTY WHITE IS, sorry I didn’t know her CHARACTER NAME!!”
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Earlier in the week, fans took issue with a “misleading” clue in the category “18th Century Literature” during Final Jeopardy.
“The first name of this title character is from Hebrew for ‘devoted to God’; his last name suggests he can be easily duped,” Bialik read, with the answer being Lemuel Gulliver from Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels.“
“Terrible clue!” one fan vented.
“In the past few weeks, the ‘get rate’ on (Final Jeopardy) as been in the neighborhood of 15%” a second person complained on Reddit.
“I was watching this game backstage with the other contestants-in-waiting and I don’t think a single one of us got it!” Wilson wrote on Reddit. “I was hung up on the Hebrew / ‘devoted to God’ part and I wouldn’t have come up with Lemuel if you gave me fifty tries.
“This makes me feel better, Hannah,” then two-day champ Kevin Belle responded. “You can tell by my answer that I was completely lost myself!”
Wilson went on to win Friday’s episode racking up a three-day total of $90,601.
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