Skip to main content
Fun
Frisky
Nostalgic
Intense
Adventurous
Choked Up
Curious
Romantic
Weird
More On:
Jeopardy
-
Seven-Game 'Jeopardy!' Champ Drew Basile Admits The Show Had To Re-Tape His Reaction To Winning
-
A 'Survivor' Contestant Just Shocked Fans By Beating 15-Time 'Jeopardy!' Champ Adriana Harmeyer
-
Adam Rodriguez Recalls His Brutal 'Celebrity Jeopardy' Loss To Mira Sorvino On 'Live': "I Went To High School, She Went To Harvard"
-
Do You Have What It Takes To Be A Contestant On 'Pop Culture Jeopardy!'? Here's How To Apply
It’s official: Diana Ross has been cursed by Jeopardy. Fans of the singer jumped to her defense after a contestant on the game show delivered a supremely incorrect answer about Ross’ age. The incident took place during the Jeopardy‘s “A Number Between 1 and 100” category, when competitor Jake Marvin managed to age Ross by over a decade with his wrong reply.
In response to the clue, “Your standard phonograph record until the 1950s, or the age Diana Ross turned in 2022,” Marvin unfortunately answered 90, per Yahoo Entertainment. In reality, Ross is not even in her 80s yet — the famous singer is 78 years old.
Fans didn’t take too kindly to Marvin’s misstep, and were quick to correct him on Twitter, while also pointing out that he wasn’t the first competitor to make the mortifying error.
Marvin’s mistake comes shortly after two other competitors incorrectly guessed Ross’s age on Jeopardy just months ago. In March, two contestants incorrectly identified Ross as the 95-year-old singer featured in a Final Jeopardy clue about “the oldest person to release an album of new material.” (The correct answer was Tony Bennett.)
Jeopardy devotees quickly linked the two episodes together and rallied around Ross, with one viewer tweeting, “Remember that recent Final Jeopardy where the clue was about a singer who’d recently turned 95 (correct response: Tony Bennett) and TWO of the contestants guessed ‘Diana Ross?!’ Poor Ms. Ross!”
Jeopardy contestants have been flubbing their celebrity answers in particular this season. Last month, a competitor confused Chuck D’s rap group Public Enemy with Mark Wahlberg‘s Funky Bunch, while another contestant that month mixed up Michael Caine and Mick Jagger in a guess one fan deemed a “historic bad answer.”
It just goes to show, celebrity knowledge could make or break a Jeopardy run. Competitors, maybe put down the textbooks and pick up a tabloid every once in a while — it just might get you that Ken Jennings-worthy winning streak!
Jeopardy airs weeknights at 7/6c on ABC.
