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All Three Jeopardy! Contestants Got a Question Wrong Because They Couldn’t Pronounce It

Everyone playing in the game missed out on a $1,600 clue.

CELEBRITY JEOPARDY! – “Final: Ike Barinholtz, Wil Wheaton, Patton Oswalt” – In the championship round of “Celebrity Jeopardy!,” semifinal winners Ike Barinholtz, Wil Wheaton and Patton Oswalt battle for the title of “Celebrity Jeopardy!” champion and winner of the $1 million grand prize, THURSDAY, FEB. 2 (8:00-9:00 p.m. EST), on ABC. (ABC/Tyler Golden)MAYIM BIALIKTyler Golden/ABC

Despite all three contestants knowing the answer to a clue on Tuesday’s episode of “Jeopardy!,” none of them received the point because no one pronounced it correctly.

The clue was under the category "The Quotable Alex" and read: "Socialism of any type and shade leads to a total destruction of the human spirit.” The correct answer was worth $1,600.

The correct response was “Solzhenitsyn,” but none of the three contestants were able to get the pronunciation quite right (it's sowl-zhuh-neet-sn).

The answer refers to Russian novelist Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. The game show’s host, Mayim Bialik acknowledged it was a “tricky one to pronounce."

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