A ‘Jeopardy!’ Contestant Had A Hilariously Wrong Guess About A Very Hot Clue

Jeopardy! is often considered the brainier of the two syndicated game shows beloved by the evening television crowd. While Wheel of Fortune makes headlines for its blunders and letter follies, the quiz whizzes on Jeopardy! usually get clowned for not knowing sports questions and other stereotypical nerd stuff.

This is why a wrong answer on Thursday was particularly delightful because it had nothing to do with football or popular music. Instead, it was in the category of Hot Stuff and a contestant wildly misreading the temperature necessary to cook meats and cheeses.

Steve, who had control of the board, completely whiffed on the answer for the $1,000 question from yet another new guest host this week, Bill Whitaker. You really need to see it for yourself.

In hindsight this is a pretty easy answer. But Jeopardy! is a hurried game of racing to ring in on the signaling device before the other two contestants, often before you even really have a grasp on the answer yourself. And it seems like that’s exactly what happened here to poor Steve, who froze and then did his best Ben Wyatt impression on the stage by answering “calzone.”