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JEOPARDY!’s Ken Jennings has revealed he got a shady early holiday gift from the game show he now hosts.
The staff still won’t let him live down his NSFW moment from 2004 when he was a contestant under Alex Trebek.
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Ken, 48, wrote to Twitter on Tuesday: “They printed me a souvenir at Jeopardy! yesterday.
“Eighteen years later and there’s STILL no note about accepting any alternate answers,” he saltily added.
The rare photo of a Jeopardy! clue sheet – which is what the hosts are given before each episode – could be seen.
Fans loved this throwback and look at the inside workings of the show as one replied: “Don’t worry, we all know you were correct!”
Another penned: “Kinda love that the text of the clue is printed in the typeface used on the show.”
Ken replied on the famed font in question: “Korinna Bold hive rise up.”
A third wrote: “My favorite moment between you and Alex!”
A fourth asked: “Were you at all embarrassed after you said it and heard the ‘correct response’?”
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To which a fifth claimed: “Oh, he knew it was wrong all along, but he had ahead by a bajillion dollars and decided it was worth the $400 just to say that word on national television.”
The air date was circled in a pen and it did not have an alternate answer for the clue, though Ken certainly gave one at the time.
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‘WHAT IS: A HOE?’
Well into his 74-game run resulting in $2.5M in 2004 – still the longest streak ever – the then-30-year-old software engineer buzzed in on the category “Tool Time.”
The clue read, “This tool is a long-handled gardening tool that can also mean an immoral pleasure seeker.”
“What is, a hoe?” Ken responded with a giant smirk on his face, as gasps and uproarious laughter from the audience ensued.
Host Alex replied in shock: “Woah! Woah… woah! They teach you that in school in Utah?”
Ken had just graduated from Brigham Young University.
The clue was of course, looking for “Rake” – which Ken joked he was surprised, all these years later, was still the only answer acceptable in his new tweet.
While “Hoe” technically did apply as a gardening tool, the response was so shocking that the clip on YouTube has scored 1.2M-plus views and it’s become known as one of Jeopardy!’s most famous moments.
The game show also made a dig at Ken’s hilarious switch-up just last season.
A clue in the category “Tools” read: “It’s a prolonged tool for gardening, and no one would use a hoe for that.”
The correct response once more was “a rake.”
Over the summer, Ken and actress Mayim Bialik were officially announced as the permanent replacements for the late, great Alex, who had hosted since 1984.
Alex tragically passed away from pancreatic cancer at age 80 in 2020 leaving huge shoes to fill.
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