Jeopardy!’s Ken Jennings reveals the show’s ‘funniest wrong answer’ and shares thoughts on his Alex Trebek-style makeover

JEOPARDY!’s Ken Jennings answered some behind-the-scenes questions and recalled his favorite wrong answer on Friday.

The 50-year-old game show host appeared in a candid Instagram video where he answered questions from fans.

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Ken revealed several fun answers, including his favorite pasta shape, which is Cavatappi.

A fan asked Ken what the funniest wrong answer he’s ever received was and Ken took a few seconds to reflect.

He revealed that he came from Jeopardy! contestant, Alison Betts, who appeared on the show in April.

“It seems like a few months ago we had a contestant trying to name a punk band,” Ken said to the camera.

“She said ‘What’s Foghorn Leghorn?'” Ken smiled and shrugged.

“And you know the cartoon punk band.

“It’s actually not a bad name for a band,” he concluded.

Another fan also asked the host, who replaced Alex Trebek after his death in 2020, if he would ever grow a mustache like his.

“I feel like you can’t compete with Alex in any arena,” Ken responded.

“But much less mustache.

“I have an old driver’s license photo from college where I have a scraggly mustache,” he added.

“And it’s bad.”

LIVE ERROR

Contestant Alison came up short against Marko Saric and Rob Blumenstein in a prank-style Final Jeopardy clue that fooled all three players the same way in April.

“Until Alabama became the 22nd state, it was the first state alphabetically,” Ken asked.

Everyone misspelled “Arkansas” and the correct answer was “Connecticut.”

Rob made a big bet and fell to $1, while Alison fell to $2,500.

Marko lost $9,101, giving him a narrow victory and the new winner with $3,799 as he looked perplexed and Alison applauded.

Alison was a fan favorite on social media during the show.

FUNNY MOMENTS

Alison is a mother of two, has a degree in Film and Media Studies from Arizona State University, and is now a full-time writer.

She developed and wrote film pilot scripts and served as chief speechwriter and communications director for a U.S. Senate campaign.

In Ken’s favorite answer, she confused the band “Our House” Madness with the cartoon character “Foghorn Leghorn” and a clue about a hawk with a “tentiment.”

During her first victory on the show, she told the story of when she shared a “passionate” kiss with a crocodile.

It happened during a “swamp tour” when the tour guide threw out the offer to kiss the little alligator.

Danger! Universe

Danger! it first aired in 1964 until 1975. Then, the nighttime version began in 1974. Since then, many spinoffs of the game show have emerged. Here they are all:

Danger! – (syndicated) 1974 to present, weekdays on ABC at 7pm ET.

Tournament of Champions – 1984 to present, features the top champions who have appeared on the show since the last tournament.

Second Chance Tournament – 2022 to Present features hand-selected non-winners from the previous season, where the prize is entry into the Champions Wildcard.

Champions Wildcard – 2023 to present, features all one-, two-, and three-day champions from the previous season that are eligible for entry into the Tournament of Champions.

Danger! Invitational Tournament (distribution) – from 2023 to the present, features big names from the past invited by producers to compete for a place in the Masters.

Danger! Masters (primetime) – from 2023 to present, features the six Jeopardy! champions competing against each other.

Celebrity Danger! (Primetime) – From 1992 to the present, celebrities compete against each other to raise money for charity.

Pop Culture Jeopardy (streaming) – from 2024 to present, will feature teams of three in charge of pop culture trivia on Amazon Prime, host and air date to be determined

Danger! eliminated specialized tournaments, such as University Tournaments, Children’s Week and Teacher’s Tournament, to move towards a more sporting model, with the Masters being the top of the Jeopardy pyramid.

Other versions of Jeopardy! have also failed over the years, such as Sports Jeopardy!.

As she described it, Alison was the only one to volunteer and “stay with” the creature.

“We keep in touch,” she added humorously when Ken asked if it was cool.

Fans have been calling her their favorite contestant for “a long time,” as one social media user cheekily put it: “I like her! Modest, unpretentious, intelligent and beautiful too!”

In Ken’s video, he also added that his favorite cheese was Manchego and that he would never appear on Dancing With The Stars.

He added that it would be indecent for viewers to see him try to dance.

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