“Jeopardy!” had a pronunciation drawback on Monday’s episode.
All three contestants misplaced out once they mispronounced the response to a $1,600 clue within the Double Jeopardy class “The Quotable Alex” that requested the supply of a quote about socialism.
The reply was Russian author and dissident Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. All three gave that reply however none pronounced it to the satisfaction of host Mayim Bialik.
Juveria Zaheer, the primary to buzz in, went with “solitchnitchin.”
Bialik’s pause earlier than rejecting that reply might have signaled the 2 others that it was a pronunciation problem.
Sami Casanova tried “soliznitsin.” Hannah Wilson stated “soltsaneetchin.”
Bialik rejected these, too, after which stated, “We’re on the lookout for ‘solzhanitsin.'”
Some viewers of the present weren’t pleased with the ruling, with one commenting on social media, “When you’re not going to just accept anybody’s try and pronounce Solzhenitsyn, don’t write a clue about him.”
One other wrote, “Solzhenitsyn. I get it’s arduous to say, however certainly one of them was pretty shut. Of all of the names to be strict on.”
It wasn’t the one ruling on Monday’s present that viewers discovered persnickety. Some thought Zaheer ought to have gotten credit score for saying “mothers” moderately than “mommies” in a solution concerning the youngsters’s e book “Heather Has Two Mommies.”
Returning champion Wilson gained Monday’s sport, her fourth.
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