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Posted on 08/04/2013 3:25:36 PM PDT by LurkedLongEnough
The Newtown Middle School student won $2,000 as the runner-up.
A Connecticut eighth-grader who misspelled the correct answer to a "Jeopardy!" question and lost money over it says he was cheated.
Thomas Hurley III correctly answered the Final Jeopardy question about the Emancipation Proclamation signed by President Abraham Lincoln. But Thomas spelled it "emanciptation" and was ruled out by host Alex Trebek.
He bet $3,000 of his $9,600 in winnings and finished well behind a rival who amassed $66,600.
"I was pretty upset that I was cheated out of the final 'Jeopardy!' question," he told The News-Times of Danbury. "It was just a spelling error."
E-m-a-n-c-i-p-a-t-i-o-n-e-i-e-i-o
dagnabit!
I’m on the kid’s side here.
Me too. Jeopardy has a history of favoring women and minorities. I watched one show during the Kid’s Tournament where they gave a black kid a second chance at answering a question. Of course, he won.
I meant to write, “I believe the rule is that if the misspelling changes the pronunciation it doesn’t count.”
It was a typo.
Youze beweaves tuh wool iz thut iffin zee mistypelling chage da pronouncetiation its donna count’?
Well that be retarted, sir
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RJ
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The scores going in to Final Jeopardy were: $36,600, $9,600 and $6,400. The first place player's largest safe bet was $17,399, but he bet $30,000. If the first place player would have gotten it wrong they would have tied for first with $6,600. A very risky bet when he had a guaranteed win going in.
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Uh, you spell it wrong, you lose.
I think that’s spelled “loose”, at least here on Free Republic (ducks)!
The kid who won deserved it. He bet $30,000 of his $36,600 on the final question AND he spelled it right to boot.
What this 2nd place kid is whining about I don’t know???
That is correct! As in "Your a looser to." ;-)
Actually he did have a shot of winning had he spelled correctly and if his rival had the wrong answer. His rival had bet $30,000 of his $36,600 total.
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The potatoe head
If all the other ‘answers’ on Jeopardy are verbalized and not written down, then the final answer as verbalized should be good enough.
The sad irony is that if he just SHUT UP just being on Jeopardy as a child and doing pretty well would be an honor that stayed with him the rest of his life. Now he looks like a fool that wants his own way.
If I were the parents, I would've kept quiet and finagled for a return in a few year to teen Jeopardy. JMHO
It is explained to contestants that mispronunciations and spelling errors would be held against them, so the kid new.
He’s got $2,000 more than I do, so he should shut it.
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