JEOPARDY! viewers were not all buying Tuesday's Final Jeopardy question.
Some fans have even accused the writers of lacking a happy medium between triple-gets and triple-stumpers recently.
Returning champ Daniel Ciarrocchi faced Jeremy Felton, a chemist from Cary, North Carolina, and Deb Bilodeau, a winemaker from Oakland, California.
Daniel is a writer from Baltimore, Maryland who became the one to beat after winning yesterday's rarity episode.
The game show presented three new contestants and no returning champion.
Three-day champ Ben Chan abruptly exited after having contracted COVID-19. He will be returning on May 15’s episode to go for win four at that time.
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Regardless, Daniel - who adorably shared he grew up calling Jeopardy! "Nemeny" as a toddler - didn't fare as well in his second outing.
Deb - dressed for success in a cool leather jacket that matched their casual clue selection style- got a late $3,000 Daily Double and almost a runaway.
By Final Jeopardy, they had $16,500 while Daniel had $8,300 and Jeremy had $8,000.
Final Jeopardy under The Oscars category read: "Born in 1932 & the son of a percussionist in the CBS radio orchestra, he’s been nominated for 53 Oscars."
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'EASIEST EVER?'
Everyone was correct with: "Who is: John Williams?"
The Star Wars composer is the most Oscar-nominated person alive, having also scored the theme music to Jaws and Schindler’s List among others.
Deb added a safe $101 to protect their sizable lead and win a one-day total of $16,601.
While fans enjoyed their presence, viewers did not all feel the last clue met Jeopardy! standards.
"Easiest Final Jeopardy! ever?" one fan asked on Reddit.
"The Walt Disney clue from last week stands out as incredibly easy to me," wrote another.
"Been a couple of weeks of four tough Final Jeopardy's and one random layup of a Final Jeopardy sprinkled in now," accused a third.
"Randy Newman would've been a good guess as his Hollywood discography is enormous. I don't think this was as easy as some posters are suggesting," defended a fourth.
"This is definitely one of the easiest Final #Jeopardy clues I've ever seen," another fan wrote on Twitter.
"Nominated for 53 Oscars, son of percussionist, gives it away as a musician, of course," wrote another.
FLUCTUATING FINAL JEOPARDY! CLUES
Fans have grumbled that Final Jeopardy clues lately have oscillated between "too difficult" - there have been at least five "triple stumpers" this month per Jeopardy.com - and shockingly easy.
April 10's Final Jeopardy read: "In 1966, the year of his death, he shared plans for an experimental prototype community in Florida."
Everyone was correct with Walt Disney and fans did not feel this was a fairytale ending for a quiz show episode either.
"I’m a bit perplexed by Final Jeopardy today, not because there was a problem with it, but that clue felt like it should have been on the $200 space in the Jeopardy round, not an FJ answer," one person wrote on Reddit.
"Even my 5-year-old cousin knew the finale," another user reacted.
That said, recent 3-day champ Brian Henegar took to a Reddit AMA- or "Ask Me Anything- and discussed one of his Final Jeopardy clues.
On April 8th's episode under the category Fashion History, it read: "These decorative items get their name from their origin in the port city of Strasbourg, on the border of France & Germany."
No one was correct with "rhinestones," at the time which even host Ken Jennings, 48, admitted was tough.
He told the players: "Strasbourg is a port on the rhine river, which is how rhinestones get their name. Kind of a tricky one."
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Brian told internet users "On the third game (with the rhinestone FJ!), Ken mentioned that he stared at that clue for five minutes before it hit him."
Another fan responded to him: "Very interesting. That should be a pretty good indication to the writers that maybe the clue is a bit too difficult."
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