Ken Jennings is not only one of Jeopardy!’s biggest winners and the current host of one of the best game shows of all time. He’s also responsible for what is possibly the most viral Jeopardy! moment ever. We’ve all seen Jennings’ response from that fateful 2004 episode, and the Jeopardy! writers make sure to remind us of it from time to time. But, when the host was asked about it recently during an audience Q&A, he revealed a twist to the ending of that story.
It’s a tradition on Jeopardy! for the host to take questions from the studio audience during breaks from the game — Colin Jost has had some great reactions to questions about his wife, Scarlett Johansson on Pop Culture Jeopardy! — and someone asked Ken Jennings recently about his viral “hoe” moment. First, he recalled the clue that got him in trouble, saying in a video on the show’s X (Twitter) page:
