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January 28, 2022 2.1k votes 537 voters 84.3k views
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Vote up the toughest questions that ended the runs of Jeopardy!'s all-time greatest players.
Jeopardy! isn't an easy game, and even all-time dominant players like Ken Jennings and Amy Schneider eventually come up against questions they simply don't know. These are the Final Jeopardy questions that led to the show's all-time longest-tenured champions finally losing. Some contestants missed the question outright, while others knew it and lost because of their wager, but either way, they'll never forget these questions now.
Did you know the Final Jeopardy question that eliminated Amy Schneider? How many of them would you have known?
Who is Christopher Marlowe?* (*Holzhauer trailed challenger Emma Boettcher heading into Final Jeopardy, so he bet modestly and needed her to miss the question to win. She got it right.)
What is "too big to fail"?* (* Wilson bet only $5 on Final Jeopardy because he thought the category might trip up all the contestants. All three got it right, though, and challenger Margie Eulner Ott's $17,000 wager carried her to victory.)
