[Warning: The below contains MAJOR spoilers for the Friday, December 6 episode of Jeopardy!]
Jeopardy! champ Dave Bond pulled off a second win on Friday’s episode, and talking of issues that are available in pairs, viewers have been caught off guard when the quiz present introduced a clue with the phrase “boob” in reference to a feminine breast for the primary time. Others realized that the cutoff for the 2025 Event of Champions entailed a little bit of a booby prize for the champ.
Bond, a retired grant author from West Henrietta, New York, entered with a one-day whole of $25,000, having overthrown two-day champ Stevie Ruiz. He confronted Erin Adams, a historian and educator from Springfield, Tennessee, and Zach DeBoer, a graduate pupil from Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
Within the Jeopardy! spherical, nobody pulled forward till Bond doubled to $8,000, appropriately getting the primary Day by day Double underneath “Scientific Discoveries” as “Endorphins.” He completed the spherical within the lead with $8,400, DeBoer with $6,000, Adams with $4,800.
In Double Jeopardy!, quickly after Adams missed the second Day by day Double underneath “Literary Landmarks,” not figuring out “Pushkin,” the $800 “A For Artwork” clue was chosen. Ken Jennings learn, “3-word title of a Titian within the Prado: she’s reaching for the forbidden fruit, he’s reaching for her boob.”
DeBoer buzzed in and appropriately responded, “Who’re: Adam and Eve?” Perhaps it was the clue ending with the punctuated “boob,” or maybe simply listening to former champion Jennings say it in such a context, however it immediately made viewers perk up with consideration.
From there, DeBoer discovered the final Day by day Double, however Bond’s huge achieve on the primary one allowed him to paved the way going into Last Jeopardy although all three gamers have been within the 5 figures, making for a nailbiter end. The returning champ had $16,400, Adams had $13,000, and DeBoer had $12,000.
The “TV CHARACTERS” clue was, “On TV within the Nineteen Sixties & the 2020s, this character has a primary identify that’s partly from Latin for “Loss of life.”” Bond and Adams have been right with “Morticia Addams,” and the champ added $10,000 for a giant $26,400 win and a two-day whole of $51,400.
Followers celebrated the champ’s win within the Reddit thread for the episode, the place the vast majority of reactions have been, sure, in regards to the boob clue- some identified it was certainly Jeopardy!’s first ever.
“TIL you possibly can say boob on jeopardy,” one person wrote.
“It was beforehand established you possibly can say “manboobs”, so that is giving equal therapy to every kind of boobs,” wrote one other.
“It’s taken about 50 years, however by utilizing “boob” in a clue in reference to a feminine breast, Jeopardy! has lastly progressed to the extent of language utilized by Seventies Match Sport,” identified a 3rd.
“Doubt that will fly 20 and even 10 years in the past. “Breast” would’ve been the phrase of alternative. The clue writers have gotten extra goofy lately,” wrote one other.
“Folks speaking about boob, however I really feel like glazing was wilder lmao,” argued a fourth.
“I used to be so distracted by Ken saying boob that I didn’t even hear the clue!” wrote a fifth.
Different followers within the thread introduced up Jennings point out of the Event of Champions cutoff, which entails a troublesome break for Bond: even when he retains profitable, he is not going to be in January’s 2025 ToC (or the postseason in any respect), however within the subsequent another than a 12 months from now.
“Perhaps I misunderstood Ken – he stated WHOEVER wins at this time will likely be included within the subsequent eg subsequent spherical of CWC/TOC and so on bc cutoff. Does that imply that Dave, a 2 day champ, is not going to be within the upcoming tournaments?” a sixth fan requested.
“Sure, his stats will roll over to the 2026 TOC/postseason relying on how a lot he continues to win,” defined a seventh.
This additionally implies that from right here on out till the ToC airing in late January, any participant who goes on huge profitable streak will likely be within the subsequent annual event, not this one. There’s additionally extra urgent challenge on the board, which is that there wound up being solely 20 qualifiers for the 21-player, upcoming 2025 ToC, one thing producers will seemingly deal with on Monday’s Inside Jeopardy! podcast.
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