Jeopardy! fans mock show for 'easiest final clue ever' as player Dennis Chase wins by just a few dol

JEOPARDY! fans have mocked the show for what they considered to be one of the easier final clues ever as player Dennis Chase won the game by a close margin.

All three Jeopardy! Champions Wildcard competitors correctly answered the Final Jeopardy! clue on Friday's episode of the long-running trivia game show.

Dennis, a biotech project manager from Palm Springs, California, competed against Danielle Maurer, a digital marketing manager from Peachtree Corners, Georgia, and Fred Nelson, a university professor from Fresno, California.

The game started out and continued to be close with the scores going into the first break being Fred with $2,400, Danielle trailing with $1,400, and Dennis leading the pack with $3,000.

By Double Jeopardy! however, Danielle had gone on a brief run and gone from last to first, leading the other constants with $7,400.

She added $2,200 during the first Daily Double when she correctly responded: "What is no harm" to the clue, "Completes the Hippocratic injunction 'to help, or at least, to do...'"

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The celebration was short-lived however as Dennis wagered $3,003, bringing his total to 33,603 and earning just enough to edge out a win over Danielle by $3 while also advancing him to the Champions Wild Card Finals.

On a Jeopardy! dedicated Reddit board, many viewers praised the close-fought battle between the contestants while others criticized the questionable level of difficulty of the questions.

"Was this Celebrity Jeopardy? Layup common knowledge DDs and the second easiest Final Jeopardy! of the year," one person said.

Another added: "That had to have been one of the easiest Final Jeopardy's to solve that I've ever seen."

"That was a ridiculously easy Final Jeopardy. I would understand if this was something that happened 10 years ago but it was literally like a month ago…"

While one defended: "If you never had Netflix (as I have not) this wasn't an easy one. I can see where you might connect red envelopes with Netflix just through osmosis, ads, etc… but I had no idea."

OBVIOUS QUESTION

On Thursday, Jeopardy! contestant Ed Hashima had the incorrect answer to a final question and lost the Champions Wildcard show to his opponent Jen Jazwinski.

Fans were disappointed to see the community college history professor provide the wrong element as an answer to an "obvious" question.

In the Final Jeopardy! round, the question was: "First detected in the sun's atmosphere in 1868, it got its name from an old word for sun."

Contestants Amy Bekkerman and Jen both correctly wrote down helium and confidently bet a significant amount on the answer.

Ed was confident in the topic as well, as he bet $18,000 of his $23,000 on hydrogen.

He knew he had the wrong answer as he had time to scribble it out.

Ed added: "Thanks for having me back!" at the bottom of his answer.

Although fans were disappointed about Ed's incorrect answer, they still thoroughly enjoyed the "action-packed" Champions Wildcard show.

One fan took to a clip posted on YouTube and commented: "That was quite an action-packed episode! It was a great back-and-forth battle amongst all of the contestants!"

A second fan slammed Ed's incorrect answer and shared: "Anyone who couldn't get helium shouldn't be anywhere near the finals."

Then a third criticized: "He missed a really obvious answer - I'm an imbecile when it comes to science and I got it without even thinking about it! Bit of a shock."

Ed wasn't the only star to make an on-air blunder under the pressure of the time constraints.

NOT RIGHT?

Contestant Nick Cascone went home on Wednesday's episode as the champion struggled with answering one clue.

In Double Jeopardy!, Nick- an orthopedic physician assistant originally from Queens, New York - was on a winning streak.

He selected the last clue on the board, the $2,000 clue under the category "Belgium."

Host Ken Jennings, 49, read: “In WWI the second battle of this western Belgian city saw some of the earliest use of deadly poison gas.”

Nick responded with what sounded like: “What is: Eeps?”

“Eerps?” he attempted a second time as Ken did not interrupt him.

“Ypres,” Nick said as a third guess, which was the correct answer.

“Ypres,” he said once more in the same way to confirm that was what he was going with.

Ken hesitated to rule and cut him off by saying: “Hmm, you're not saying it right.”

Nick threw up his hands and said: “I don't speak Belgian or Walloon!”

Ken explained as it was a tongue-twister word: “The ‘S’ is silent, and the ‘R’ is kind of silent. You got there eventually.”

“We will give you credit for ‘Ypres,’” the host decided.

Nick wiped his brow and was awarded $2,000 for the correct answer.

Even though Nick won, fans were hung up on his mispronunciation.

One fan wrote: “Awesome job by Nick, but a bit surprised they gave him credit.”

Another fan agreed: “Great job by Nick. Would be curious to see how they would have ruled the last clue had the game been closer."

A third wrote: “If you don't speak the language, then just pronounce all the letters in the word or name phonetically, no matter how goofy it sounds.

"Nick could have said 'why-press' and would have immediately been given credit.

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