‘Jeopardy’ host Ken Jennings makes callback to infamous ‘hoe’ answer

Peril (And the host Ken Jennings) had a very unexpected NSFW backwards on Wednesday evening.

It all started when candidate Micah Fritz started the trivia game show by choosing “it’s not an exercise” for $ 400. The index was: “A tool with an inclined blade to bring unwanted plants out to the root is called CAPE COD type.”

Fritz buzzed and quickly guessed: “What is a hoe?” He was told that the answer was incorrect, instead, the right one was: “What is a weekend?”

Jennings then joked by saying: “It seems that” what is a hoe? “is never correct here,” which made the public scream to laugh.

Online viewers also seemed to take advantage of the reference, with a Reddit user, “I literally took a DVR and shouted break. It scared my cats.” Another wrote: “It looks like” what is a ho? ” is never the right answer here. LMFAO KEN. “”

The host referred to its own sadly famous moment as a competitor in the program in October 2004. At the time, the category was “the time of the tool” for $ 200, and the index given was: “This term for a long -sleeved gardening tool can also mean an immoral pleasure researcher.”

Jennings quickly replied, of course, with “What is a hoe?” The public burst out laughing, while the host Alex Trebek of the time told him “no”, then let a “woah” escape when he realized why everyone laughed. “They teach you that at the Utah school, huh?” Trebek joked, before admitting that the response of another competitor of “rake” was actually the right one.

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In 2022, 18 years after the fact, Jennings shared his reflections on his initial viral moment.

“Tiktok has apparently discovered this and is delighted,” could be heard Jennings in a tiktok shared with the civil servant Peril account. “Yeah, why didn’t I understand well … I always think I was curly, very frankly. I think I owe $ 200 and maybe writers should bring together a swimming pool.”

Jennings added that he had seen why “What’s a Hoe” was incorrect, but he still doesn’t agree.

“I think the idea is that the index says that it is” an immoral pleasure researcher “and we do not want to characterize all the houes in this way,” he said. “Rakes, apparently, we agree with this spray on their character.”

After a long time Peril Trebek’s host is death in 2020, Jennings – which also has records as a competitor with the longest sequence of victories and the highest average responses per game – was the first person to take over as an acting host. He was then appointed permanent co-host in 2022, alongside Mayim Bialik, until she announced her release in December 2023.