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Die-hard Jeopardy! fans do not take kindly to ambiguous clues.
This was obvious in the instance of an $800 clue from the Monday, September 16 episode. Under the category, “1964 Firsts,” the clue in question read, “The first courtroom verdict on live network TV was when this assassin’s assassin was found guilty & sentenced in Dallas.”
Returning champion Evan Suttell — who was playing against Aiden Orzech, a teacher from Thornhill, Ontario, and Sam Watson, a pharmacy software salesman from Westwood, Kansas — rang in correctly with “Ruby” as his answer, for “Jack Ruby.”
Though the nonprofit program assistant from Lakewood, Ohio — who returned with a one-day total of $20,200 — secured the …