JEOPARDY! host Ken Jennings has been called out by viewers for giving a clue that wasn't seemingly fact-checked prior to the show. Contestants Zoe Strassfield, Matt Brooks, and Cat Pisacano were met with a clue in the Rhyme Time category during Monday night's Jeopardy! airing. The category was looking for a synonymous answer consisting of two rhyming words.
All three players failed to buzz on the $800 clue, which was, "A kayak inspection." Ken , 50, noted that the contestants had all been "stumped" as he revealed the answer, "A canoe review." After the episode aired, some viewers thought the players had been led astray after noting that kayaks were different than canoes.
"Kayaks aren’t canoes. That was a painful clue," one person wrote on a Jeopardy!-themed online thread. "Yea, I thought kayaks were kayaks!" a second agreed.
"Kayaks and canoes are not synonymous. As an avid boater that one really stuck in my craw," a third raged. "I never understand how mistakes like this that are so easy to fact check get through," a fourth added.
"Anyone who's used both knows how absolutely different they are," another agreed. "I was displeased with this clue." Others noted that while kayaks and canoes may be "related," they still shouldn't have been recognized as the same thing in the clue.
Viewers often show their frustration over clues and answers given on the long-running game show , which happened again last week. During Double Jeopardy! on June 25, Drew Basile , a former Survivor co.