Shakespeare’s Characters (5-23-23) – Page 2 – Fikkle Fame (2024)

VJ says:

Okay, enough is enough. If you’re mad about the ruling, take it up with the show — the link to the email is at the bottom of the recap.

The clue asked for the two names in the 16th century Shakespeare play. It didn’t ask for the root of the names meaning blessed. Idk why we have to go through this every time there’s a ruling some people don’t like, but it is or should be well known by Jeopardy! viewers that whether a misspelling gets accepted depends on how the pronunciation is affected as well as the discretion of the judges.

Any more comments objecting to the ruling will be deleted.

Jake McBreak says:

BullHockey!

Chris says:

French opera of Much Ado About Nothing spells is Benedict. Shouldn’t that count?

T.W. Gaulke says:

Exactly at what point in these games is it allowed to accept incorrect spelling and then not to?? The judges throughly accepted spelling errors earlier in this series of competition!! The root of the name was correct!

Howard says:

Really nice comeback by Lynn, and for once, a wise wager by a challenger.
I was kind of ready to see Ben go, but we’ll see him again someday.
Other than the Cold War meeting DD, which was not difficult, I got skunked on all the other DDs, the listed stumpers, and FJ.

Eugenia H. says:

Well, I said “Beatrice & Benedict”. I’ve seen the play twice, once in London and once with Emma Thompson & Kenneth Branagh), and read it. It never registered that his name was one which I’ve never even heard before! (Except probably in the live plays, where it swooshed over my head that it wasn’t Benedict.) This was a crappy (am I allowed to say that?) final jeopardy. Sort of like that clue a couple of weeks ago where they all gave their best pronunciation of “Solzhenitsyn” (sp?) and were all ruled wrong.

Collin says:

Ben had a minor mistake on Final Jeopardy, although the word “Benedict” is unacceptable. That caused a triple stumper on Final Jeopardy for today. Ben wagered his score down to a score less than Lynn’s score. Lynn becomes the winner, and she’s going to play again tomorrow. Ben will be coming back in the next Tournament of Champions!

Roberta Currell says:

Ben(edict) rules, but sadly not tonight 😢 . Tough loss for Ben, and we will forevermore rememember that it’s the ‘dick’ that’s the blessed one in Will’s play 😂

Rick says:

Ugh! I also went with Romeo and Juliet for FJ, but Ben clearly gave it a good shot.

DC says:

Well done Lynn.

While I think the judges ruled correctly in FJ, I was perplexed on ruling Ben correct on the clam clue in the first round where he tried 2 or 3 times, saying something like “qwags”; considering it is a 2-syllable word – quahogs – I can’t see how all his 1-syllable attempts were acceptable.

Kevin Cheng says:

Man, Ben was agonizingly close, he had the name spelled Beatrice correctly but he did not give the second correct character name of Benedick but instead spelled with a T at the end instead of the K, meaning he was very properly ruled incorrect. That cost him the game and the title, It also cost him a chance to become a double digit winner. Tough ruling for Ben but this was a 100 percent correct call from the judges. Benedict and Benedick are pronounced differently so that’s why Ben’s response was not accepted. Last week Erica Johnson’s response of Appalachin Trail was accepted while Ben’s response of Beatrice and Benedict was not accepted. So these two responses should be added to the spelling list decisions.

William Weyser says:

Ouch. Sorry about that, Ben, but with 9 wins and over $250,000, we’ll see you in the Tournament of Champions.

VJ says:

Well, I thought Ben’s runaways had to end sometime and I had a hunch it would be today. If he had to go out completely though, at least it was with an easy mistake to make.

By the way, “Béatrice et Bénédict” is a comic opera by Berlioz first performed in Germany in 1862