It was a rough ending to a great Jeopardy! winning streak for Ben Chan, a philosophy professor at St. Norbert College.
He had won nine straight contests heading into Tuesday night’s episode, when this Final Jeopardy came up with the category of Shakespeare’s characters: “Both of the names of these 2 lovers in a Shakespeare play come from Latin words from ‘blessed.'”
The answer? It was: Who are Beatrice and Bendedick?
But Chan answered “Who are Beatrice and Benedict?” And the spelling mistake cost him dearly. He wagered enough that it left him second place, and Jeopardy! fans everywhere were so mad, because they thought spelling didn’t count:
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