‘Danger!’ Indignated fans after competitors Miss ‘Wizard of Oz’ final question
“Danger!” fan He expressed their disbelief after all three competitors were left perplexed by a last question about a character in a beloved piece of pop culture.
In Thursday’s episode of the long game match, the competitors Mary Walheim, Alfred Wallace and the three -day champion Bryce Wargin arrived short when they showed up with a clue in the “imaginary characters” category.
Readent I read: “Boq is one of these imaginary people”, not as big as adult people … but they were not very young either. “
“Danger!” The fans were incredulous after all three competitors were bewildered by a clue “The Wizard of Oz”. (Getty Images)
Walheim remained with a dollar in total win after betting $ 5,999 of his total touch of $ 6,000 when he mistakenly guessed “What is a Lilliputian?”
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“I’m afraid they are not the Lilliputian of” Gulliver’s Travels “” “Jeopardy!” The guest Ken Jennings told her.
The competitors of Walheim, Wallace and Wargin also seemed to believe that the clue referred to the 6 -inch high men who lived on the island of Lilliput in the classic novel of 1726 by Jonathan Swift.
Wallace’s answer was revealed “What are Lili?” The competitor, who bet $ 10,000 of his $ 10,600 in winnings, observed that his response was “almost Lilluputian”. Jennings agreed, adding that Wallace had probably exhausted the time to write the full name of the characters.
Wargin’s first hypothesis was “What are the Lilliputian?” Before crossing the answer and wrote “Nani”.
Jennings then informed the competitors that “What is a Munchkin?” It was the correct answer.
The question came during the final round of the game show. (“Jeopardy!” YouTube)
“In the 1939 film of” The Wizard of Oz “, the Munchkins are very young, but in the book the Munchkins are said to concern Dorothy’s height,” Jennings told them.
Wargin, who was at the head at the end of the final round with $ 16,000, had bet $ 5,201, which dropped him to $ 10,799.
However, like “Jeopardy!” Four days! Sample, the total Wargin winnings were $ 70,199.
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Many fans who looked at home had easily guessed the right answer since BoQ’s character played a leading role in the 2024 mega-hit “Wicked” film “Wicked”, which was an adaptation of the winning Broadway musical of Tony Award.
BoQ was played by Ethan Slater in “Wicked”, who recited Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo.
After the end of the episode, the fans poured on social media to share their amazed reactions.
All three competitors failed to give the correct answer, “What is a Munchkin?” (“Jeopardy!” YouTube)
“Read the word” boq “and screamed” munchkin !!!!!!!!
“As nobody did to get that BOQ response on Jeopardy Right,” added another X user.
“All those who watched Jeopardy and recently saw Wicked were screaming at their TV tonight …”, made a spectator.
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“Nobody knew that Boq is a Munchkin on the last Jeopardy, a” Jeopardy “fan published on X, adding crying emojis.
“My whole family was shouting Munchkin !!! apparently not one of the 3 Vito “Wicked”, Another fan wrote on X.
“The final was so easy. As everyone has been lost,” asked himself a spectator in the show of the show of the show.
The character of Ethan Slater BoQ was in the foreground in “Wicked”. (Max Cisotti/Dave Benett/Wireimage/Getty Images)
Both the film and the comedy “Wicked” were based on Gregory Maguire’s book “The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West”.
Maguire’s novel focused on the imagined background of Elphaba, The Wicked Witch of the West and presents an alternative version of events that took place before the novel for children of the 1900s by L. Frank Baum “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz”.
Boq is present in both books, but it was not included in the classic 1939 film “The Wizard of Oz”, which Started Judy Garland.
After “Wicked” was released last November, the film became great success, collecting $ 747.2 million all over the world against a budget of $ 150 million. The film is now the adaptation of the musical film with the greatest collection of all time. “Wicked” also received 10 nominations at the 2025 Academy Awards, including the nod for Erivo as the best actress and great for best supporting actress.
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The film brought the Oscars home for the best costume design and the best production design.
Slater will return like Boq, together with Erivo like Elphaba and as big as Galinda, in the second part of “Wicked”, entitled “Wicked: for Good”. This autumn is planned.
