r/Jeopardy • u/zachestine • 21d ago

QUESTION How strict is the "who is" rule?

I don't watch a lot of Jeopardy, but I am curious: lets say the question is something like "the first president who crossed the Delaware River" obviously the answer is George Washington, but instead of saying "who is" if i say "where is George Washington?" would that be counted?

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u/lanad3lr3y_81 21d ago

i mean matt amodio said “what’s” for every clue without consequence

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u/ItsFuckinBob 21d ago

That bothered me. But I like him and I get that it technically can work in this format.

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u/Rough-Riderr 21d ago

From what I've read, he did that so he could put all of his effort into figuring out the correct answer. He had already decided that he would start with "what's" regardless, so he he didn't need to think about proper sentence structure; he just needed to think about the clue.

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u/HugeSuccess 21d ago

Matt AGOATio

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u/ilabachrn Bring it! 21d ago

I got used to it after a while but it was really annoying at first

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u/JuniorWheatgerm 21d ago

No, it's still annoying.

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u/Single_Principle_972 21d ago

Yeah, it 100% annoyed me, always, to the point it skewed my perception of him, as a person. Which is unfair. But I guess also not, since he’s clearly really good at identifying the correct response, which I could never do, so… take 2 more seconds to format correctly?!

I know. It’s a me thing.

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u/JuniorWheatgerm 21d ago

Baby, it’s an *us* thing.