‘Jeopardy!’ fans skewer contestants over Betty White flub: ‘Good grief!’
nypost.comlate American treasure Betty White in the “Everything’s Coming Up Rose” category. “In 1986 she won an Emmy Award for playing Rose Nylund on ‘The Golden Girls,'” host Mayim Bialik, 47, read the clue.
Contestant Ashwin Phadnis, an attorney from Hillsdale, NJ, buzzed in: “Who is McClanahan?”“Who is Bea Arthur?” replied Brian Alzua, a biocompatibility scientist from Minneapolis. (Minnesota is Rose’s home state.)Returning champion Hannah Wilson, a Chicago data scientist, did not even attempt to guess, as Bialik filled an awkward silence with the correct answer: “Betty White.”The late actress died of natural causes on Dec.
31, 2021, at the age of 99. She portrayed Rose Nylund on the NBC sitcom for seven seasons, from 1985 to 1992.Rue McClanahan, Bea Arthur and Estelle Getty also starred.“Golden Girls” fans slammed the brainiacs for not knowing this information. “These #Jeopardy contestants are gonna get roasted for not knowing Betty White was the correct question,” one Twitter user correctly predicted. “I can’t believe I’m watching jeopardy and not a single one of the 3 contestants knew that Betty White played Rose Nylund on golden girls…I’m 22, that show came out well before my time and even I knew that cause I’ve watched the whole show and Betty is an icon!!” one cultured fan wrote. “Especially after the other two stars were off the board.
Good grief!” another expressed. They missed Betty White?! #Jeopardy pic.twitter.com/Gqy1UaFH4R“How did none of the Jeopardy contestants know that Betty White played Rose on The Golden Girls?!
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