[Warning: The below contains MAJOR spoilers for the January 27 episode of Jeopardy!]
Jeopardy‘s 2025 Event of Champions bought off to considerably of a tough begin with the primary quarterfinal. All three gamers missed the Closing Jeopardy! clue, plus everybody struggled with one class specifically: “Hell’s Kitchen, the Musical.”
Rishabh Wuppalapati, a pupil on the College of Pennsylvania from Vernon Hills, Illinois, Will Wallace, a recreation design director from Austin, Texas, and Alison Betts, a author and artistic government initially from San Jose, California, confronted off within the first recreation of the Event of Champions, which can run till no less than February 11 (it could actually go till February 17). Of the three of them, they solely managed one appropriate reply within the class about Alicia Keys’ musical.
In a video shared on X on January 26, Keys teased the clues can be coming for viewers: “One among my newest initiatives is Hell’s Kitchen, a Broadway musical that includes my songs. It’s a couple of teenage woman named Ali who discovers her metropolis, her expertise, and herself. And I’ll have clues in regards to the present.”
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— HELL’S KITCHEN: Alicia Keys’ Hit Broadway Musical (@HellsKitchenBwy) January 27, 2025
However within the class, with all of the clues offered by Keys (and that includes clips from performances), 4 out of the 5 clues ended up being triple stumpers (with Wallace making an attempt two). Wuppalapati was the one one to get one accurately, the $1000 clue, “Empire State of Thoughts,” with visitor vocals by Jay Z.
After, followers took to the Reddit thread with complaints in regards to the class. “That Hell’s Kitchen class was not nice. I noticed the present and nonetheless missed a pair. I assume they’d have accepted Instances Sq. for Theater District…” one particular person wrote.
In response, one other fan famous, “That ‘Harlem’ response…. oof” in response to the $200 clue. That learn, “Virtually a personality itself, the setting of a lot of the present is Manhattan Plaza. The actual-life constructing the place I grew up amongst many artists hoping to make it only a block east to eighth Ave, the sting of this district.” The incorrect response got here from Wallace, and the right reply was Theater District.
“That Alicia Keys class was brutal. It was so wordy I forgot what the questions have been by the point the music began enjoying,” one other fan wrote.
With everybody incorrectly answering Closing Jeopardy! — the clue in Phrase Capitals learn ” House to greater than 400,000, it’s the one world capital within the ‘Roaring Forties’ latitudes, and the right response was Wellington, NZ — Wallace superior with 10,799.
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