fans were shocked with the judges stepping in. On the Tuesday, July 9 episode of the trivia game show, viewers saw stay-at-home mother from , Anna Paone, and chemistry professor from Indiana, Kathy Davis, face . Just as Isaac got Double Jeopardy, host Ken Jennings interrupted the game to share he would be changing the scores after judges had to re-evaluate a contestant's answer.
This lead to a series of changes that were made throughout the game at the judges' discretion. First, he shared that Kathy's score would be going from $600 to - $1,000 after the judges realized her 11-letter word wasn't 11 actually letters. Then, Isaac went from $8,600 to $11,000 when they accepted charred grill rather than charred broil, which also gave Kathy $1,200 since she also guessed a different answer.
Isaac was once again granted $4,000 when judges realized there was "such a thing" as a "magic triangle" and he wagered $4,000. Jeopardy! fans at home were stunned with the final scores: Isaac with $15,000, Anna with $9,000 and Kathy left with $200. One person on X, formerly known as Twitter, wrote: "Wow! Never saw score changes like that before! #Jeopardy.
" Another person wrote: "4 score correction run, that was wild. I’m amped up, that was intense. #jeopardy.
" A third person wrote: "Wow - thankfully we have judges. Ken had a lot of misses today #jeopardy." A fourth wrote: "That #Jeopardy four score correction run was wild.
How did the judges miss that many responses? I've never seen anything l.