[Warning: The below contains MAJOR spoilers for the January 31 episode of Jeopardy!]
Clues about well-known TV exhibits have Jeopardy! followers questioning the writers room after the Friday, January 31 installment of the 2025 Event of Champions. The clues have been about Bosch and I Love Lucy, with the previous prompting questions on why it’s continuously talked about and the latter being posed as too simple a clue for a event like this. An Alex Trebek-themed TV clue additionally misplaced a participant cash as a result of she did not make one of many phrases plural.
The Lucille Ball clue got here up within the second spherical, and the Bosch clue was a part of the third Each day Double. The second-round class was “Taking part in Non-Sports activities’Ball,’” that means that the solutions to every clue would contain the phrase ball. The clue, answered accurately by participant Allison Gross, was, “She starred because the title character on TV’s No. 1-rated present from October 1952 to April 1955.” This 1,200-point clue being performed in Double Jeopardy meant that it was meant to be medium-level problem. One viewer thinks this clue was too simple for the event.
“Judging the writers,” a fan wrote of their recap of the episode on the Jeopardy! Reddit dialogue board on Friday. “Sure, within the ToC, they supplied 1,200 for realizing Lucille Ball was the most important sitcom star of the 50s, after recognizing everybody the phrase ‘Ball.’”
Bosch additionally got here up on this spherical. It was the 1,600 sq. within the “What an Artist Dies in Me” class. The clue: “If this northern renaissance painter of untamed imagery was alive, he’d ask, ‘A TV cop has my identify? & What’s TV?’” The reply, as participant Mark Fitzpatrick accurately answered, was, “Who’s Bosch?”
A fan on Reddit famous that Bosch will get frequent mentions on the present.