Jeopardy!’s Ken Jennings reveals ‘funniest wrong answer’ on show and shares thoughts on Alex Trebek-style makeover

JEOPARDY! host Ken Jennings answered some behind-the-scenes questions and recalled his favorite wrong answer on Friday.

The 50-year-old game show notable appeared in a candid Instagram video where he responded to fan questions.

Jeopardy!’s Ken Jennings reminisced on past contestantsCredit: Instagram/jeopardy

The host said Alison Bett’s incorrect answer amused him the mostCredit: Jeopardy!
Ken revealed several fun answers, including his favorite pasta shape, which is Cavatappi.

A fan also asked Ken which was the funniest wrong answer he had ever been given and Ken took a few seconds to contemplate.

He revealed that it came from Jeopardy! contestant Alison Betts, who appeared on the show in April.

“Feel like a few months ago we had a contestant trying to name a like a punk band,” Ken told the camera.

“She said ‘What is Foghorn Leghorn?'” Ken smiled and shrugged.

“And you know cartoon rooster punk band.

“It’s not a bad name for a band, actually,” he finished.

Another fan also asked the host, who took over from Alex Trebek following his death in 2020, whether he would ever grow a mustache like the previous iconic host.

“I feel like you can’t compete with Alex in any arena,” Ken responded.

“But mustache least of all.

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“I have an old driver’s license photo from college where I do have a straggly mustache,” he added.

“And it’s a bad one.”

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Contestant Alison fell short against Marko Saric and Rob Blumenstein on a gotcha-style Final Jeopardy clue that duped all three players the same way back in April.

“Until Alabama became the 22nd state, this one was first alphabetically,” Ken asked.

Jeopardy! Universe

Jeopardy! first aired in 1964 until 1975. Then the nighttime version began in 1974. Since then, many spinoffs of the game show have emerged. Here they all are:

Jeopardy! – (syndicated) 1974 to present, weekdays on ABC at 7 pm ET.

Tournament of Champions – 1984 to present, features the top champions who have appeared on the show since the last tournament.

Second Chance Tournament – 2022 to present features hand-selected non-winners from the season prior, where the prize is entry into Champions Wildcard.

Champions Wildcard – 2023 to present, features all one, two and three-day champions from the season prior worth entry into the Tournament of Champions.

Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament (syndication) – 2023 to present, features past greats invited by producers to vie for a slot in Masters.

Jeopardy! Masters (primetime) – 2023 to present, features the six highest-ranked Jeopardy! champions competing against each other.

Celebrity Jeopardy! (primetime) – 1992 to present, has celebrities compete against each other to raise money for charity.

Pop Culture Jeopardy (streaming) – 2024 to present, will feature teams of three tasked with pop culture trivia on Amazon Prime, host and airdate TBD

Jeopardy! has done away with specialized tournaments like its College Tournaments, Kids Week, and Professor’s Tournament to gear towards a more sports-like model, with Masters being the top of the Jeopardy pyramid.

Other versions of Jeopardy! have fizzled out throughout the years as well, like Sports Jeopardy!.

Everyone incorrectly wrote “Arkansas,” and the correct answer was revealed to be “Connecticut.”

Rob made a huge wager and dropped to $1, while Alison dropped to $2,500.

Marko dropped $9,101, giving him a razor-thin win and the new winner with $3,799 as he looked bewildered and Alison applauded.

Alison was a fan-favorite on social media while on the show.

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Alison is a mom of two who has a degree in Film and Media Studies from Arizona State University and is now a full-time writer.

She has developed and written movie pilot scripts and served as the head speechwriter and communications director for a U.S. Senate Campaign.

In Ken’s favorite answer, she mistook the “Our House” band Madness for the cartoon character “Foghorn Leghorn” and a clue about a hawk for a “finch.”

During her first win on the show, she told the story about when she had a “passionate,” kiss with an alligator.

It went down during a “Swamp tour,” when the tour guide tossed out the offer to kiss the tiny gator.

As she described it, Alison was the only one to volunteer and “made out with” the critter.

“We keep in touch,” she added humorously when Ken asked whether it was nice.

Fans called her their favorite contestant in “a long time,” as one social media user shamelessly put it, “I like her! Modest, unassuming, smart and pretty too!”

In Ken’s video, he also added that his favorite cheese was Manchego and he would never appear on Dancing With The Stars.

He added that is would be indecent for the viewers to watch him attempt to dance.