A JEOPARDY! contestant who gave current champ Adriana Harmeyer a run for her money baffled fans with a particularly odd Daily Double miss. The slip-up was surprising because the clue was about an event that was nearly impossible for any U.S.
citizen to avoid knowing about. On Wednesday, Adriana , who'd win her 11th of 13 wins for $299,050 total, faced Enzo Cunanan and Connor Townsend. Enzo landed on the Jeopardy! round's Daily Double under "Nature.
" Ken Jennings read, "You heard this 8-letter word a lot in relation to the April 8, 2024, solar eclipse; Mazatlán, Mexico was in the path of it." Enzo could not come up with anything and just shook his head, "no," he said. "The path of 'totality," Ken said, explaining the correct response.
"The path where you can see the total solar eclipse." Fans skyrocketed to Reddit, where they were stunned that Enzo, who ended up with $16,400 to Adriana's $20,000 in final, didn't get it. The entire country witnessed the 2024 Solar Eclipse, so fans didn't know how he could be unaware of the term from the nation-uniting moment.
"Enzo was very good but surprised to see him miss on “totality” on the daily double. That seemed very easy to me," one person wrote. "We heard that word a lot here in Indiana," another agreed.
"I was surprised too but I bet it was a face slapper for him, as it was for me," wrote a third. A fourth wrote, "Maybe he got stuck on thinking of eight-letter words instead of just filling in the answer." Others wondered if it.