fans blasted the gameshow as they credited a famous song to a band who covered it, with viewers revealing the true singer of one famous 2000s country song. During Thursday evening's episode, real estate broker Sandee Baker, IT director Brad Miller, and archivist Adriana Harmeyer all took the stage to compete in a challenging round of Jeopardy. The three contestants were quizzed in a variety of categories from national courts of arms to their .
During the Song in the Key of Life category, gave the clue: "In the title of a Rascal Flatts song, 'Life Is' this type of road" to which Adriana answered "highway" and was awarded $400 points. But after the question aired, fans proved the clue to be not entirely true as the country band was not in fact the original singer of the hit song and was actually singing a cover from a Canadian artist. After Ken posed the clue, one die-hard country fan took to X, formerly Twitter, sharing the true singer and songwriter of Life is a Highway.
They asked: "Why has #Jeopardy decided Life is a Highway is a Rascal Flatts song when they just produced an inferior cover?" To which another fan replied with a gif of Dwight from The Office with the words "It's true." And a third quoted the post and joked: "This Tom Cochrane erasure will NOT stand, #Jeopardy!" Canadian county star Tom Cochrane originally wrote and recorded Life Is a Highway for his 1991 album Mad Mad World. The song was a smash hit reaching number one on the charts in Canada and number six o.
