When it comes to actually appearing on Jeopardy! as a contestant, it’s said that perfecting your buzzer speed actually matters more than the categories that pop up on the board. That’s because the general assumption is that once someone makes it onto the Alex Trebek Stage, they have what it takes to answer the majority of the clues correctly. However, that was not the case on a recent episode, and producer Sarah Whitcomb Foss joked that they might want to forget that game ever happened, after the three contestants possibly set a particularly embarrassing record.
On the June 7 episode of Jeopardy!, Collette Lee and Kristine Rembach took on defending champion Suresh Krishnan, and the game must have featured two particularly tough boards, because more than one-third of the clues read by host Mayim Bialik in the Jeopardy! and Double Jeopardy! rounds went without a correct response. Sarah Whitcomb Foss made note of the cringey stat as she recapped the week’s games on the Inside Jeopardy! podcast with former champ Buzzy Cohen. She said:
