A ‘Jeopardy!’ contestant hilariously whiffed on a surprisingly tough clue

Lots of jokes about 800-degree calzones ahead.

OK, look: to anyone who is making fun of poor Steve from Thursday night’s Jeopardy!, I ask you if you would have gotten this clue that he hilariously struck out on.

Take a minute to think about it! You’re on a nationally televised game show with a few seconds to answer after hitting your buzzer at the exact right time, and the answer to this $1,000 clue isn’t there. So you grasp and say what’s the first thing that comes to mind.

Not so easy, is it?

Now, that said, in hindsight, I imagine Steve is having a bit of a laugh over this answer to the clue in the “Hot Stuff” category:

Yeah, biting into an 800-degree calzone might be, er, a little painful. But would any of you gotten “what is an oven?”

There were lots of jokes, but there shouldn’t be:

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