Watch: 'Jeopardy!' Clue Pokes Fun of Travis Kelce's Relationship With Taylor SwiftAlison Betts will take the category manifestation for 7,600. Indeed, the Jeopardy! contestant embraced this power during the show's Feb. 11 episode, when she correctly predicted her competitors' answers to the last question of the game. For the episode's final Jeopardy, host Ken Jennings asked Alison as well as contestants Isaac Hirsch and Josh Hill to identify a "1960s novel character whose 'reward' is to have his brave act go unrecognized." After all three submitted their answers, Ken read out Alison's lighthearted guess. "Her response was, 'I hope they both bet everything.' I don't know if you mean you want them to bet everything and get it right or get it wrong," he joked, to which she replied, "The getting wrong part is kind of key to my plan." In fact, Alison was so confident in her strategy that she only wagered $414 out of her total $3,200, and it certainly worked in her favor. Seconds later, the host showed that Isaac and Josh-who both were in the lead with $7,600-wrote down "Randall" and "Caulfield" respectively, which were incorrect. (The correct answer was Boo Radley from To Kill a Mockingbird.)readWhat Jeopardy! Host Ken Jennings Really Thinks of Show's "Cringey" Contestant InterviewsIn a surprise turn of events, the two contestants also bet all of their earnings in this round, leaving Alison to move on to the show's semifinals on Feb. 13. Stunned by the outcome, she briefly dropped her head on the podium before looking at the audience. Alison echoed her reaction on Instagram shortly after, sharing a video of the priceless moment and writing in the caption, "Josh and Isaac were AMAZING and bet perfectly, for what it's worth!" @jeopardy Replying to @Fanndr Leaving this here for you 💙 Jeopardy! FinalJeopardy! #trivia #funnymoments ♬ original sound - Jeopardy! This isn't the first time a Jeopardy contestant has surprised themselves with their own answers, both right and wrong. While competing on the show's Tournament of Champions last month, Lisa Ann Walter incorrectly guessed a clue while already having a score of -$200. When the host revealed the answer, she hilariously replied, "What the hell?" Unfortunately, the Abbott Elementary actor's performance didn't improve in the following rounds, as she ended with -$2,600. Meanwhile, her competitor TJ Fisher won $15,199 and advanced to the semifinals. Though Lisa-who won season two of Celebrity Jeopardy! in 2024-didn't secure a spot in the franchise's next episode, she's already made a special plan for her previous trophy: She's planning to store her ashes in it. "I'm going to be buried in it, it's my urn," she told Ken in the game's January episode. "I fought for it, I won it and it's going to go to good use. And I'm not kidding, it is now in my will." Keep reading to see more Jeopardy! moments... Sony Pictures Television1. Jeopardy! was first conceived by media mogul Merv Griffin in the 1960s, when he and his then-wife Julann Wright were discussing the infamous quiz show scandals of the 1950s. She joked to Griffin about creating a game show in which the host would give contestants answers to let them come up with the question. 2. According to Griffin, he went straight to NBC with the idea and the network "bought it without even looking at a pilot show." 3. How did they land on the name Jeopardy!? Answer: Griffin's initial title of What's the Question? was rejected, with network executives commenting that it sounded like a show without any "jeopardies" in the game. 4. Art Fleming served as the host of Jeopardy! when it first premiered in 1964. Alex Trebek took over the post when the show went into syndication in 1984.
Abc-Tv/Kobal/Shutterstock5. During his 37-year tenure on the show, Trebek only missed one taping: When he and then-Wheel of Fortune host Pat Sajak swapped places as an April's Fool joke in 1997. 6. Trebek taped his last episode on Oct. 29, 2020, 10 days before he died of pancreatic cancer at age 80. His daughter Nicky Trebek suspected that her father knew that would be his last taping. "I remember driving [him] home and saying, 'Are you gonna go back?'" she recalled in a 2023 episode of the official Inside Jeopardy! podcast. "And he said, 'I don't think so, Nick.'" 7. Trebek died at his home on Nov. 8, 2020. According to his daughter Nicky, he spent his last days with loved ones, sitting on a "swing that he loved" and "looking at photos of old memories."Eric McCandless/ABC via Getty Images8. Prior to Trebek's death, the Jeopardy! crew already put a plan in place for him to miss several tapings due to a scheduled surgery, according to supervising producer Lisa Broffman. As a contingency, then-consulting producer and former contestant Ken Jennings was set to be his temporary replacement, but rehearsals were canceled when staffers received news of Trebek's passing. 9. Jennings was one of the first guests to fill in Trebek's vacant spot as execs looked for a perm