KEN Jennings has been criticized for a major pronunciation error on the programme.
The danger! host was called out for mispronouncing a clue during Monday’s Double Jeopardy! round.
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In the mistake, Ken, 50, asked the contestants about bodies of water, looking for an answer in the Philippines.
“There is an active volcano in this country’s Taal Lake, which occupies a caldera,” he said.
None of the three contestants appeared to respond, and the television presenter ended up clarifying: “In the Philippines.”
On Reddit, fans were quick to explain the answer Ken was looking for, but also noticed his incorrect pronunciation of the lake itself.
“The clue about the Philippines refers to Volcano Island in Taal Lake. The island itself has a lake, Main Crater Lake, which has an island called Vulcan Point, which makes it an island in a lake on an island in a lake on an island,” one person said.
“I wish Ken would learn the correct way to pronounce Taal,” another boomed in response.
“Ken mispronounced it as alto, not ta-al, two syllables,” a second social media user explained.
“Yeah, kind of disrespectful, Trebek wouldn’t have done that,” wrote a third, referring to Ken’s predecessor, Alex Trebek.
Alex hosted Jeopardy! from 1984 until he died at age 80 in 2020.
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While viewers at home criticized Ken, the television presenter recently revealed his own criticism of the contestants.
At the Inside Jeopardy! podcast, Ken talked about being cruel to players when they make a common mistake.
“Actually, the rules are different in the first and second round,” he shared, revealing that it gets stricter as the game progresses if contestants forget to prefix their answers with phrases.
“In the first round, I can remind them very harshly. I say, ‘Yes, but please remember your sentences.’
“In the second round, I might give them a second to figure it out and then I’ll have to rule against them and say, ‘Oh, it was Grover Cleveland, but you had to say, ‘What is Grover Cleveland?'”
He jokingly added, “It gets worse as the game goes on, just like the life you’ll encounter.”
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