‘Jeopardy!’ Gets Called Out After Spelling Mistake on Show’s Calendar Packaging: ‘A Minor Quibble’
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Ain’t no rest for the grammatically correct! At least, that was the case when fans called out Jeopardy! about a spelling mistake on the packaging of the show’s 2025 calendar.

The daily calendar includes a question on every page, and the description on the box reads, “The clue is printed on the front of each page and the answer is printed on the back so try not to peak.”

The mistake was spotted by an eagle-eyed consumer who noticed the mishap and posted about it on the quiz show’s Reddit forum.

“‘Peak’ instead of ‘peek?’ Obviously a minor quibble, but strange to see this lack of professionalism on a Jeopardy! product,” a Reddit user wrote alongside a photo of the packaging.

Other fans chimed in with their thoughts on the mistake, and several cracked jokes about how fastidious the fandom can be.

“It’s OK, Jeopardy fans are not pedantic know-it-alls eagerly scrutinizing every bit of text in the hope that they can point out someone else’s mistake,” another Reddit user added.

A third wrote, “I see no problem. When I do the daily question, I’m peaking every day,” while a separate person confessed, “It’s unreasonable the amount of satisfaction I get from finding these mistakes.”

(There should also be a comma after the word “back” in the sentence on the calendar’s box, but nobody in the Reddit forum had pointed out that mistake at the time of publication of this article.)

Jeopardy! Gets Called Out by Fans After Spelling Mistake
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It’s no secret that Jeopardy! fans don’t let much slide when it comes to questions and answers on the long-running game show. In November 2024, several viewers took issue with the fact that judges accepted an answer that was technically incorrect. It all came down to one letter in the answer for the final Jeopardy! question during the November 13, 2024, episode.

The category was “Poems & Places,” and the card read, “It’s the geographic word in the title of a Robert Burns poem about ‘the mountains … covered with snow … the straths & green valleys below.’”

Evan Dorey, one of the contestants, wrote down “Highland” as his answer, but the technically correct answer was “Highlands.” However, judges approved Evan’s answer and he took home the win.

“And we will accept that,” Jeopardy! host Ken Jennings said at the time. “‘My Heart’s In The Highlands’ is the name of the poem.”

While viewers were shocked at the judges’ ruling, Evan himself chimed in about what he referred to as “the ‘S’ heard ‘round the world.”

“I’m pretty sure the longest 10 seconds of my life were me trying to figure out whether I should put an ‘s’ at the end of Final. I didn’t know the poem so I pretty much had the same debate that raged in this thread against myself,” Evan wrote in the Jeopardy! subreddit. “‘Highlands’ was the place but the phrase ‘Highland Lass’ stuck in my head – did Burns have a poem called ‘To A Highland Lass’? (turns out that phrase actually comes from a Wordsworth poem, so swing and a miss) Which to go with? I figured with [Final Jeopardy,] they can’t ask me to be more specific, so less is more and I’ll leave it to the judges to decide, and this time I got lucky. They didn’t have to stop and confer; it pretty much played out as you saw it so they must have anticipated that potential answer.”

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