Ben Chan's nine-game winning streak on "Jeopardy!" ended due to a misspelling during the Final Jeopardy! round. Chan misspelled "Benedick," a character from Shakespeare's "Much Ado About Nothing," by swapping out the "K" for a "T." Despite fans' disappointment, the show's rules state that the answer must be "phonetically correct," and Chan's spelling was technically a different name. Chan remains positive and will return for the "Tournament of Champions."
Ben Chan, a nine-time winner on "Jeopardy!", lost on Tuesday's episode of the TV game show due to a misspelling. Chan was ahead entering Final Jeopardy!, but for his response seeking the names of two lovers in a Shakespeare play from the Latin words for "blessed" he wrote "Who are Beatrice & Benedict?" However, the correct response was the characters Beatrice and Benedick. Chan blamed the error on bad flashcards that he made. He won $252,600 during his nine-game winning streak and has qualified for the Tournament of Champions.
President Biden misspelled the word "eight" during a speech about economic issues in Maryland, shortly after making a questionable claim that his father never went to college. Biden criticized proposed budget cuts by House Republicans and Republicans allied with former President Donald Trump's Make America Great Again movement for proposing cutting the FBI's budget over alleged political bias. Biden's error recalled other embarrassing political spelling moments, such as former Vice President Dan Quayle changing a 12-year-old student's accurate spelling of "potato" to "potatoe" at a 1992 spelling bee.
