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These are the hardest 'Jeopardy!' questions that stumped all the contestants see how many you ca

Updated 2020-03-19T13:11:00Z
  • While "Jeopardy!" is meant to be a game show to showcase people's intelligence, sometimes the contestants stumble.
  • Using an episode database, Insider found some questions that stumped all three contestants. 
  • With categories ranging from baseball to Disney, can you get right what these "Jeopardy!" contestants couldn't?
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"Jeopardy!" is America's favorite game show and for good reason. It's entertaining to watch people earn money based on their intelligence, but every so often that intelligence runs short. 

Insider rummaged through J-Archive — an exhaustive, fan-made episode database — and found a number of "triple stumpers," which is when all three contestants did not know the answer to the clue. Although it's rare, it does happen. 

Throughout the show's 34-season history, there are a number of categories that prompt the contestants to stumble. Keep reading to see which questions confused players and to challenge yourself to see if you're smarter than a "Jeopardy!" contestant.

This question was worth $200, and the category was "Let's Have a Ball."

"Let's have a ball." Frank Olito/Business Insider

First contestant's answer: "Um ..."

Second contestant's answer: "What is the 8-ball?"

Third contestant's answer: "What is the pinball?"

Correct answer: What is the cue ball?

This one was under the "Name the Automaker" category and worth $200.

"Name the Automaker." Frank Olito/Business Insider

First contestant's answer: "What is Toyota?"

Second contestant's answer: "What is Mercury?"

Third contestants answer: "What is Buick?"

Correct answer: What is Pontiac?

In the "Food, Glorious Food" category, this question was worth $200.

"Food, Glorious Food." Frank Olito/Business Insider

First contestant's answer: "What is a goose?"

Second contestant's answer: "What is a turkey?"

Third contestant's answer: "What is a partridge?"

Correct answer: What is a pigeon?

This "Star Wars" question was in the "At the Movies" category and worth $200.

"At the Movies." Frank Olito/Business Insider

First contestant's answer: "What is 'Return of the Jedi?'"

Second contestant's answer: "What is 'Attack of the Clones?'"

Third contestant's answer: "What is 'Phantom Menace?'"

Correct answer: What is "Revenge of the Sith?"

Worth $200, this clue was under the "Alcoholics Eponymous" category.

"Alcoholics Eponymous." Frank Olito/Business Insider

First contestant's answer: "What is rum?"

Second contestant's answer: "What is bourbon?"

Third contestant's answer: "What is whiskey?"

Correct answer: What is gin?

In the "Entertain Me" category, this clue was worth $2000.

"Entertain Me." Frank Olito/Business Insider

First contestant's answer: Silence

Second contestant's answer: "What are 'The Three Blind Mice?'"

Correct answer: The Rescuers

For $2,000, this clue was in the "Must You Be Going?" category.

"Must You Be Going?" Frank Olito/Business Insider

No one answered. 

Correct answer: Saint Maarten

Under the "Bouncy Castle" category, this one was worth $600.

"Bouncy Castle." Frank Olito/Business Insider

No one answered. 

Correct answer: Richard the Lionheart

For $1,600, this clue was under the "Alexander Graham Bell" category.

"Alexander Graham Bell." Frank Olito/Business Insider

First contestant's answer: "What is a stethoscope?"

Second contestant's answer: "What is ... sorry."

Correct answer: What is a metal detector?

This clue was worth $1,000 and under the "Adjectives" column.

Latin word 'Jeopardy!' Frank Olito/Business Insider

First contestant's answer: "What is opalescent?"

Second contestant's answer: "What is luminescent?"

Correct answer: What is iridescent?

For $600, contestants could not name the state of this newspaper.

"State of the Newspaper." Frank Olito/Business Insider

First contestant's answer: "What is Iowa?"

Second contestant's answer: "What is Michigan?"

Correct answer: What is South Dakota?

This clue was under the "Our Favorite Suff-ics" category and was worth $600.

"Our Favorite Suff-ics." Frank Olito/Business Insider

First contestant's answer: "What is semiotics?"

Second contestant's answer: "What is heuristics?"

Correct answer: What is semantics?

This $200 clue under the "Air Force Base" category confused contestants, too.

"Air Force Base." Frank Olito/Business Insider

First contestant's answer: "What is Kitty Hawk?"

Second contestant's answer: "What is Columbus?"

Third contestants answer: "What is Akron?"

Correct answer: What is Dayton?

For $800, this question was in the "Book of Palms" column.

"Book of Palms." Frank Olito/Business Insider

First contestant's answer: "What is 'South Pacific?'"

Second contestant's answer: "What is 'Islands of the South Pacific?'"

Third contestant's answer: "What is 'Tales from the South Pacific?'"

Correct answer: What is "Tales of the South Pacific?"

This $1,600 clue was in a chair-focused category.

"Chair Force." Frank Olito/Business Insider

First contestant's answer: "What is a kitchen?"

Second contestant's answer: "What is a bedroom?"

Correct answer: What is a library?

For $1,600, this question was in the "Baseball Records" column.

"Baseball Records." Frank Olito/Business Insider

No one answered. 

Correct answer: What is "The Boys of Summer?"

For $600, this confusing clue was in an even more confusing category called "D in American History."

"D in American History." Frank Olito/Business Insider

First contestant's answer: "What is Day of Rationing?"

Correct answer: What is Daylight Saving Time?

Under the "Ends in 'EE'" column, this clue was worth $1,000.

"Ends in 'EE.'" Frank Olito/Business Insider

First contestant's answer: Who are the Seneca?

Correct answer: Who are the Shawnee?

This clue was worth $1,200 and placed under the "Those Darn Franciscans" column.

"Those Darn Franciscans." Frank Olito/Business Insider

First contestant's answer: "What is brown?"

Second contestant's answer: "What is blue?"

Correct answer: What is grey?

This $400 "Seinfeld"-related question was under the "Keep It Down" category.

"Keep It Down." Frank Olito/Business Insider

First contestant's answer: "What is a hearing aid?"

Correct answer: What is the puffy shirt?

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