JEOPARDY! viewers were not all buying Tuesday's Final Jeopardy question.
Some fans have even accused the writers of lacking a happy medium between triple-gets and triple-stumpers recently.
Returning champ Daniel Ciarrocchi faced Jeremy Felton, a chemist from Cary, North Carolina, and Deb Bilodeau, a winemaker from Oakland, California.
Daniel is a writer from Baltimore, Maryland who became the one to beat after winning yesterday's rarity episode.
The game show presented three new contestants and no returning champion.
Three-day champ Ben Chan abruptly exited after having contracted COVID-19. He will be returning on May 15’s episode to go for win four at that time.
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Regardless, Daniel - who adorably shared he grew up calling Jeopardy! "Nemeny" as a toddler - didn't fare as well in his second outing.
Deb - dressed for success in a cool leather jacket that matched their casual clue selection style- got a late $3,000 Daily Double and almost a runaway.
By Final Jeopardy, they had $16,500 while Daniel had $8,300 and Jeremy had $8,000.
Final Jeopardy under The Oscars category read: "Born in 1932 & the son of a percussionist in the CBS radio orchestra, he’s been nominated for 53 Oscars."
