Twitter critics slam Jeopardy! contestants missing answers

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Who are pissed off?

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Testy Twitter users, apparently, who aren’t pleased with Jeopardy! contestants missing easy answers lately according to the New York Post.

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When contestants Dennis Leung, Kathy Barkey and Ittai Sopher, the two-day champion, missed several questions throughout every round of last Monday’s show, a Twitter storm erupted.

“Whoa! What was up with the folks on #Jeopardy tonight?” one Twitter user ranted. “For people of that caliber, those were some pretty basic questions that no one was getting…”

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Another Twitter user claimed host Ken Jennings, who shares the position with Mayim Bialik, looked “annoyed at the contestants screwing up the answers.

This Twitter user really got into it: “Holy s***! I keep saying the Final #Jeopardy clues keep getting easier, but today’s takes the cake. So easy. However, two of the three contestants either misread or misunderstood the clue and didn’t get the answer right. Everyone involved at @Jeopardy should be ashamed.”

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“The Final Jeopardy! clue read, “At the 1865 Paris art salon, the elder of these two men said ‘If the younger were successful, it would be because his name sounds like mine.’”

Only one contestant correctly guessed “Who are (Édouard) Manet and (Claude) Monet?” with the other two suggesting just one name.

Still another defended the contestants saying: “Exceptionally poorly worded final question on #Jeopardy tonight—looks like many were confused about whether it was asking for one name or two.”

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