“Jeopardy!” fans expressed distrust after all three contestants were confused by the final question about their beloved pop culture character.
On Thursday’s longtime game show episode, contestants Mary Walheim, Alfred Wallace and three-day defending champion Bryce Wurgin were shortened when they presented clues for the “fictional character” category.
Prompt read, “Boq was one of these fictional people, and “not as big as those who grew up…but they weren’t very small either.”
“Jeopardy!” After all three contestants were confused by the “Witch of Oz” clue, fans couldn’t believe it.
Walheim said, “What are the Liliptians?”
“Jeopardy!” fans call it confusing the ultimate danger clue: “It’s not the first word I use.”
“I’m worried that I’m not a Liliputian from ‘Gulliver’s Journey’,” host Ken Jennings told her.
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Wallheim contestants also seemed to think that Wallace and Wargin had mentioned the six-inch tall man who lives on Lilipto Island in Jonathan Swift’s classic 1726 novel.
It was revealed that Wallace’s answer was, “What is Lili?” The contestant who wagered $10,000 out of his $10,600 prize money pointed out that his response was “almost Lil Petian.” Jennings agreed, adding that Wallace likely ran out of time to write the character’s full name.
Waggin’s first guess was “What are the Liliptians?” Before he went beyond the answer and wrote “dwarf.”
Jennings then informed the contestants, “What is the Munchkin?” That was the correct answer.
Questions came in the final round of the game show.
“In the 1939 film of The Wizard of Oz, the Munchkin is very small, but in the book, Mancheon is said to be about Dorothy’s height,” Jennings told them.
Wargin, who was leading towards the final round at $16,000, had bet $5,201, which dropped him to $10,799.
However, the four-day “Jeopardy!” champion Wargin’s total prize money was $70,199.
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Many fans watching at home have easily guessed the correct answer as the BOQ character played a prominent role in the 2024 mega-hit musical “Wicked.”
Boq was portrayed by Ethan Slater in “Wicked,” starring Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo.
After the episode ended, fans flocked to social media and shared a stupid response.
All three contestants were unable to provide the correct answer. “What is the Munchkin?”
“I read the word “boq” and cried out “munchkin”!!!!!”
“How no one answered that boq was at risk,” another X user added.
“Everyone who saw Jeopardy and recently saw Wicked was screaming on their TV tonight…” cried one viewer.
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“No one knew Boq was the final Jeopardy Munchkin,” added an emoji that “Jeopardy” fans screamed, posted on X.
“All my family were screaming the Munchkin!!! Apparently not one of the ‘Evil’s’ that the three saw,” another fan wrote to X.
“The final was so easy. Why did they miss it?” viewers wondered in the show’s Reddit discussion thread.
Ethan Slater’s character Boq was featured prominently in “Wicked.”
Both the film and the play Wicked were based on Gregory Maguire’s 1995 book, The Life and Era of the Evil Witch of the West.
Maguire’s novel focuses on the imaginary backstory of Elphaba, the evil western witch, L. It presents an alternative version of the event that took place before Frank Baum’s 1900s novel, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.
BOQ is featured in both books, but he was not included in the classic 1939 film The Wizard of Oz, starring Judy Garland.
After “Wicked” was released last November, the film became a blockbuster, raising $747.2 million worldwide against a $150 million budget. This film is currently the best on sale musical film adaptation of all time. “Wicked” also received 10 nominations at the 2025 Academy Awards.
This film took home an Oscar for the best costume designs and best production designs.
Slater will return as Boq along with Elfaba, entitled “Evil,” Eribo and Grande as Grande, and Eribo as Garinda. It is scheduled to be released this fall.
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