Jeopardy! fans insulted by clue about New York City landmark with a nickname ‘no one’ uses

JEOPARDY! fans have lost sleep over a culturally inaccurate clue about the city that never sleeps on Monday night.

The internet was flustered when the game show likened The Grand Concourse in the Bronx to the iconic Champse-Elysees in Paris.

The video clue read, ‘Grand Concourse, a wide thoroughfare with tree-lined medians, is known as this Parisian street of the Bronx’Credit: Jeopardy!

Adriana Harmeyer – on Jeopardy!’s latest hot streak – correctly responded ‘Grand Concourse’Credit: ABC

Fans just had to laugh, ‘Who’s calling the Grand Concourse the Champs-Élysées of the Bronx?’Credit: AFP
Adriana Harmeyer, who won her fourth of five wins and now boasts a total of $116,200, faced Carol Ritchey and Matthew Kahn.

The Jeopardy! round clue under “Around New York” for $800 came with a video of the Bronx borough of New York City.

Alongside the clip, Ken Jennings read the clue to the determined players.

It was, “The Grand Concourse, a wide thoroughfare with tree-lined medians, is known as this Parisian street of the Bronx.”

Adriana correctly responded, “the Champs-Élysées,” referring to the postcard-worthy avenue in Paris, France.

‘CHAMPS-ELYSEES OF… THE BRONX?’

Fans flooded social media, agreeing that no one calls the slightly less picturesque Grand Concourse the Champs-Élysées of the Bronx.

“Lifelong NYer here and I have to ask….has anyone ever heard the Grand Concourse referred to as the “Champs-Élysées” of the Bronx?” one Redditor wrote.

“Nobody from the Bronx, or NYC, calls it that – ever,” replied another.

“Only tourists from Paris call it that,” joked a third.

“Who’s calling the Grand Concourse the Champs-Élysées of the Bronx?,” wrote a fourth.

Regardless, after a tough $7,600 Daily Double miss from the impressive Carol, Adriana won the game with $20,200.

STRUM-THING’S OFF

It’s not the first time Jeopardy! fans questioned an answer during her run.

During Adriana’s second victory last Friday, fans called out the show for incorrectly crediting a song to a band that didn’t write it.

Adriana selected the category “Songs in the Key of Life.”

“In the title of a Rascal Flatts’ song, ‘Life is’ this type of road,” Ken read.

“What is ‘A Highway?'” Adriana replied.

“Yes, it is,” Ken said back, rewarding her the $400 clue.

Artist Tom Cochrane originally wrote Life Is a Highway, adding it to his album Mad Mad World in 1991.

In 2006, Rascal Flatts covered the song for the Cars soundtrack.

Fans jumped on X to react to Jeopardy’s incorrect attribution.

“Very offensive to Tom Cochrane to call Life Is a Highway a Rascal Flatts song,” one fan blasted.

“Why has Jeopardy decided Life Is a Highway is a Rascal Flatts song when they just produced an inferior cover?” someone else mocked.

“Rascal Flatts did not write Life Is a Highway! You will pay for this disrespect!” a third critic ranted.

“Rascall Flatts was the wrong answer to a question on Jeopardy!” a fourth viewer wrote on X.

“Ahem! Tom Cochrane is the original Life Is a Highway performer,” another pointed out.

Jeopardy! fans ‘offended’ after show ‘incorrectly’ credits country song to band that didn’t write the hit.mp4

‘INCREDIBLY IMPRESSIVE!’

Meanwhile, Adriana, an art archivist from West Lafayette, Indiana, has been going strong since arriving last week.

In the following game on Tuesday, June 4, she won $24,400 for a tremendous five-day total and a Tournament of Champions ticket.

Fans took to social media buzzing about Adriana who is the fourth qualifier for the next (currently all-female) ToC.

“Way to go, Adriana, you are a great contestant!!” one Redditor wrote.

“Adriana is impressive, likable, and fun to watch. I’m going to predict a 20-game run. Hoping for even more. Go, Adriana!” wrote another.

“Adriana is killing it and I love her retro vibe, like she stepped off the set of the Mary Tyler Moore show,” wrote a third.

“Adriana is so cool I bet she doesn’t even sweat,” wrote a fourth.

So far, the other qualifiers for the next ToC (all female) are five-day winners Alison Betts and Dr. Amy Hummel and Celebrity Jeopardy!’s Lisa Ann Walter.

That said, with four wins, Grant DeYoung and Amar Kakirde will likely join the fray as well.

NOT ‘FINDING THE DAILY DOUBLES’

Other fans have pointed out that Adriana has opted for a risk-averse strategy, which is especially rare in the modern era.

She has not gone Daily Double-hunting a la James Holzhauer.

Instead, she has only found six of the 15 hidden clues, playing top-down and refusing to bounce across the board.

This lets the other contestants find the Daily Doubles (like Carol on Monday) and fall on their swords by missing them with big bets.

“What’s with starting at the top all of a sudden? Lol,” one fan noted on Facebook.

“There goes the argument that finding the DDs and luck takes all the fun out of it!” wrote another after her fifth win.

Adriana will go for his sixth win on Wednesday, and if she pulls it off, she’ll have the longest streak in all of Season 40.

Meanwhile, Adriana is a clinical assistant professor and archivist of University History in Purdue University’s Archives and Special Collections.

She said in a recent interview that she took the show’s online test for fun and was blindsided to be contacted a few weeks later.

“I had taken the online test a couple of times before, but this time I’d went online one evening and took the test for fun.”

“I didn’t expect anything to come out of it – I just thought of it as another fun internet quiz.”

Jeopardy! Host Timeline

Jeopardy! has had a tumultuous history regarding hosts after the death of the iconic Alex Trebek in 2020. Here are all of the hosts since the game show’s inception in 1964.

Art Fleming – 1964 to 1975, he was the original host of the daytime version of Jeopardy! on NBC.

Alex Trebek – 1984 to 2020, the late, great Alex hosted Jeopardy!’s modern iteration for 36 years until his death from pancreatic cancer.

Guest hosts – 2020 to 2021, Jeopardy! tested out a series of guest hosts for week or two-week stints, including Anderson Cooper, LaVar Burton, and Aaron Rodgers.

Mike Richards – 2021, he was named host for one week before resigning amid controversy. He was the show’s executive producer at the time.

Mayim Bialik – 2021 to 2023, when Mike was announced as the show’s new host, Mayim was chosen to host tournaments and primetime specials.

Mayim and Ken Jennings – 2022 to 2023, 74-time champion Ken (the longest-winning contestant ever) joined Mayim as a guest host and they split hosting duties.

Ken Jennings – 2023 to present. Last December, Mayim announced on Instagram that she would “no longer” host Jeopardy! after a lengthy hiatus, having stood with the writer’s strike, and Ken was named sole host.

Ken now helms all editions of Jeopardy! including Celebrity Jeopardy!, the nightly show, and other primetime specials like Masters.

Jeopardy! airs at 7 pm ET on ABC – check your local listings.