Idk man, this is a pretty hard loss.

Who decides how much they lose if they guess wrong?

​@@MassiveBeaver Each player makes a wager before the clue appears and lose that amount if they're wrong. I'm assuming you've never watched Jeopardy before, eh?

I agree

@@mark99k I've only seen clips. I know they say what is or who is instead of giving an actual answer. Why is it called jeopardy anyway? Again coz they have to wager?

No it’s so confusing 🤣

You ain't the only one. It was a poorly worded answer in my opinion

I thought it was just me. I was like well, that’s why I’ll never be on Jeopardy, I don’t even understand the questions! lol.

@@daniellebudick9485 That's because they're answers......not questions. 😀

@@Devo_gx LOL yep! The answer could have been phrased for common folk. No wonder no one knew the question.

Not misleading at all. The guy lost that all by himself.

@@joshuarichardson4604 Do you realize that under a rule change announced in 2016, if Brian had wagered only $7,000 and dropped to $14,000, it would have not resulted in co-champions, but a sudden-death tiebreaker? He could have easily still lost. He quite reasonably chose to wager the extra dollar to guarantee himself a win with a correct answer, even if Christine doubled up. Contestants have indicated it went in effect right after the 2014 tournament of champions, but there is admittedly no statement on the Jeopardy! website as to the exact effective date. A similar loss could perhaps be considered embarrassing under the old rules. But, it is merely unfortunate under today's rules.

Seems to be a trend in youtube to out mistitle each other's videos.

@@TimCarter It's not mistitled, it just went over your head.

Ain't that the truth!

Yeah seriously! This is like....pretty damn common for Jeopardy. If you don't know it, you don't know it, so he guessed. And he had a very well thought-out wager: if they were both right, the MOST she could have won was $28,000. If he was also right, he would have had $28,001. In the case that they were both wrong, he was basically banking on her risking at least $1 to tie, $2 for him to win. This isn't embarassing at ALL. People in the comments here probably watch way too many movies and are like HOW DID YOU NOT GET THAT?! Maybe he has a life that doesn't involve watching movies all day long, and knowing which actors got which awards and which movies that they were in got which other awards lol.

Yup. There are more embarrassing moments.

@@johnedwardcabrera4559 yes, like everyone ends-up with zero and they have to go by the scores before just to get the $1K and $2K to the losers.

My favorite is the guy who won with $1 because the other two were tied and bet it all and both got the wrong answer.

Putler fanboy

Agreed. This was a tough loss, surely, for Brian, but the wager was a common strategy; I'd struggle this an embarrassing loss, but a tough pill no doubt.

@@CanadianGuitarist except he wagered in the wrong direction by $1 your supposed to wager $6999 so if you miss it second place has to answer correct to win

​@@TheDirtymikenation Its ok to not understand something, no need to pretend like you do

@@TheDirtymikenation no he wagered so that if she doubled her score (to 28000), he would still win (with 28001) if he was correct

How would you rate this one for Final Jeopardy? 2013 College Championship, final jeopardy question "After moving to Argentina in 1949, this industrialist was named a righteous gentile by Yad Vashem?" Her answer: "Who is Himmler?" When Alex gave a big hint after the time expired she realized how wrong she was and started smiling and laughing. Alex thanked her for her humour.

Mythology is also quite often a category.

it would have been more embarrassing if he had said Tijuana.

Everyone knows its Los Angeles

+Christopher Burns: Believe what you will, but you cannot deny that at the very least, Jesus existed. You may not believe he was the son of God, but it is a fact he existed.

I was expecting the same thing

This can happen in any score scenario where #1 hasn't runaway from #2. If 2 makes a zero bid and 1 bids to match 2's score + $1 and misses, this will happen. That's why you ALWAYS BET TO TIE. And don't respond Dicaprio to this prompt smh lol.

@@ryanrutter0825 There is still the issue of a tiebreaker (IIRC, this wasn't in play yet here). He could have forced a tie, only to lose it on one question.

He played for the win with house money. Why not?

combined with the rule change a few years back where they got rid of co-champions

writing dicaprio is a really dumb mistake.

ospreyy hi cliff!!!

On a daily double a guy named Gene Newmier said that response on a daily double the clue was (Hedda Tesman, Helen Alving, Knut Brovik) and he said "who are three people who have never been in my kitchen I don't know"

By the way, I think the best one is: What Is Aleve, cause two people did it in which they are Alex Jacob and Alex did that in his semifinals of the 2015 tournament of champions and won the finals giving him an extra 250,000 by using a strategy that is known as the "let's bet it all" but he did that on the All-Stars Games and it didn't payout in the wild card match-2 which he wagered 15,600$ and they lost everything on match 1 at the end of final jeopardy of the wild card match and at the end of the double jeopardy round in match 2 his team had 3600 which got Alex Jacob's team's which included Buzzy Cohen and Jennifer Gilesgot their team's fate sealed cause team Colby had 7,600 at the end of double jeopardy round in match 1 and match 2 of the wild card match and team Austin had 5200 but Austin had 8,800 at the end of double jeopardy round in-game 2 so they could bet 0 so team buzzy can't make up enough realm to catch either Team Colby and Team Austin so Alex Jacob team splitted 75,000 and Austin's team got 2nd place but that wild card match determined who is the 3rd person that goes to the finals so Austin's team that included Roger Craig And Leonard Cooper also splitted 75,000, and which on the other hand, Terry, he just did it on a normal game and he wagered 1,337 and lost on his next game to 8-day champion Mackenzie Jones that won 204,808 on her run.

Thats a question

I recently saw someone write "what is the answer to this question". It was not accepted.

No, I think Sean Connery's multiple losses makes him the worst ever.

@@randyjordan5521 I would argue Cliff’s is still more embarrassing, considering he literally had the game locked up but went all-in and lost because of it

@@masterdoge987 Well his reply was technically correct, the three people in the "answer" were never on his kitchen

If you are in second or third place, you need to figure out how much the leader will bid to win (the leader will have to bid enough to have one dollar more than double the second place total at the end of Double Jeopardy). So the only way you will win is if the leader is wrong and you respond correctly. So only bid enough so that if he/she is wrong and you are right, you win. Sometimes, that means a bid of zero, as you saw here. In this example she knew that he would bid $7001 to guarantee a win at a final total of $28001. If he responds correctly, then no one beats him, no matter how correct you are. But, if he is incorrect, his score falls to $13999. So she knew that she could bid zero and beat him. She also realized that she would automatically beat the third place, since she had more than double the winnings of the third place finisher.

@grizzly adams Well....NO. The person in third RARELY would win if they bid nothing. Most of the time they have already been beaten. If it's a "runaway", then they are already beaten. If they less than half of what the leader has (most of the time...), they've already been beaten. OCCASIONALLY, there is a perfect storm where the third-place player can pass BOTH of the other two by betting nothing, but that means BOTH of the top two players will have to be wrong...and OVERBET. This is quite rare.

@grizzly adams That's all well and good...for traditional game theory....whatever you think that might be. Jeopardy is not JUST about game theory, although many "Arthur and James come latelies" have convinced Jeopardy newbies that it is. You ABSOLUTELY cannot EVER assume (you've made one of yourself here already..) that BOTH players ahead of you will be incorrect. In some other "game-theory" scenario, that might be the proper play. There's a reason you're in third place...the other players were better than you. In Jeopardy, the best players RARELY miss. There were many nights when Ken or James missed NO questions... Game theory cannot prevail over knowledge and speed. It's that simple.

@grizzly adams But let's clarify a few other things: IF you have perfect storm of a score - AND you can win by betting nothing and (misguidedly) HOPING that both of the better players will miss...then yes, stand pat...and keep hoping and praying. I did not say that the third-place player should bet everything. It probably should, and DOES happen rarely. But most of those who bet everything cannot mathematically win...or sometimes even get into second. Even if they do it too much for your liking...most of the time it just doesn't matter...so they should just do what they want. Next...if you cannot win the game...but betting everything might get you into second place and $1,000 more for your troubles...then that is probably the right play. NOTHING that THIS third-place player could have done would have helped her win, EXCEPT for the other two players screwing up badly - both the Q/A AND the betting.

@grizzly adams So are you saying HERS is a GOOD example of proper betting? Do you ALWAYS want her to bet nothing...even if she was comfortable with the category?

Contigo his bet was actually a good one if they both got it right and she bet it all. The problem was that it was the perfect situation where they both got it wrong and he lost by a dollar.

He was banking on them both getting it right, and she doubling her money.

Had he wagered $7,000 even, it would've been a tie.

It was not a one dollar loss, but a $7001 loss. Now I know what you mean.

I'm going to guess it was an act of kindness. Think of it, why would he go ONE dollar in that direction? Unless I'm missing something (it's likely I am I don't binge watch Jeopardy all day) the only thing that truly makes sense is that. He probably just didn't know the answer and said, "screw it, let's make this girl's day."

Day-Lewis was a much better guess. I could've told you immediately that Hanks and Dicaprio were incorrect.

My guesses for the two were Jack Nicolson and Tom Hanks.

​@@johnanderson9765 Yes. And the clue was too poorly worded. I had to use too much time re-reading it to understand what they were asking for exactly. And only one response was necessary.

@@johnanderson9765 Nicholson was in two Best Picture winners, but one of his wins was for Supporting Actor.

Yes, Taarak, this is exactly my thought. 7k wouldve minimized risk. I only do 7001 in this circumstance if it were among my strongest categories, and clearly this wasnt his if he knew so little to know that DiCaprio hadnt to that point won even 1 best actor. 7k at least gets you to sudden death unless you get it wrong and she bids nonzero and gets it right. I may even consider a $0 bid if i dont have much confidence in the category, because I only lose if she bids $7001 or more and gets it right, and it would keep safe my earnings if she either bids $0 or gets it wrong.

It is very disrespectful to refer to that woman as Chinese. Instead of saying "This was actually so smart from Chinese", you should've used her actual name. I didn't see the episode but there was no guarantee she even was Chinese. She could easily have been Korean or one of those other countries around there, Gangnam if that is a country for example.

@@jaymo3205 I think you misread and they wrote "Christine", not "Chinese".

@@jaymo3205 what you on about

@@jaymo3205this one angry comment is funnier than anything I’ve watched today and why I scroll through comments on KZfaq.

The "being too greedy" scenario was played out in a Cheers television episode when Cliff Clavin appears on Jeopardy and loses in Final 😂. It was only by the chance score of second place having 2/3 of the score of the current first place holder that he lost by a dollar. They both played correctly, especially with what would normally be seen as an "easy" category. You have to assume with a topic like the academy awards that everyone will get it correct.

@@jackmessick2869 that’s the first thing I thought of. “Who are 3 people who’ve never been in my kitchen”. 🤣🤣

He should have gauged how certain he was. DiCaprio was an awful guess.

@@jackmessick2869 It's a little known fact that Cliff ran the "Celibacy" category and finished the opening round by betting it all on the Daily Double question. That's why he had such a big lead going into Final Jeopardy.

@@robertt4687 Sure it wasn't "Barroom Trivia"?

Well it sort of is from what i can see, he gave himself an opportunity to lose where he didnt have to. He should have bet 7000 to hedge against this exact situation which was extremely plausible. That way the worst case scenario is a tie instead of the losing like he did. He was 100% in control losing or not.

Marc Power no he would’ve won by $14,001 because she didn’t bid anything

dobattlers that wouldn’t have been a good strategy at all. The point is to avoid giving your opponent a chance at winning by getting the question right so he went with the right bid. It’s just his fault for not knowing it

he didnt know she would bet 0. if she had bid everything. then he wouldve won be $1 had they both been right

There are 4 possible scenarios. 1 Both right 2 Girl right guy wrong 3 Girl wrong guy right 4 Both wrong If he bet 7000 he would be coming back tomorrow in 3/4 scenarios regardless of the woman's wager (1,3,4). By betting 7001 he is coming back in 2/4 scenarios and the one scenario that he eliminated by wagering 7001 did happen (scenario 4). Having watched a lot of jeopardy scenarios 1 and 4 are more likely than 2 and 3 so yes I would say he made a poor wager he reduced his chances of returning by a fair bit while only increasing his maximum possible winning by only $1 and lets face it coming back tomorrow is way more valuable than any dollar amount in jeopardy

I highly doubt she knew anything of the kind. He was the one who incorectly made the bet. Hers was a fluke.

@@jaimhaas5170 Nope, Jay is right. It's a common strategy: leaders will often bet enough to win by $1 if the second-place contestant doubles their money. Although she may not have known his bet with 100% certainty, she might have guessed that $7001 could be a likely bet.

@@jaimhaas5170 Brian was trying to win with 28001 if Christine doubled her score to 28000. Good wagers on all parts.

As someone who has no interest in Oscars, my guess was Marlon Brando. Who's a good girl 8]

Cool. My guess was Jack Nicholson but I was wrong.😭

Movie questions are usually hard especially when they ask who won the Academy Award. I tend to forget who won what in just a few months after the show!!

Yes, I was thinking along the lines of Clark Gable or Spencer Tracy.

My brain said Pacino

Putler fanboy

A legend? seriously? All he did was read cue cards on a overrated boring game show meant for teacher pets and 40 year old virgins. Get a grip. A "legend". Please. Bye honey.

Yes, Arthur Chu used very good strategy in his betting and he would not have bet $7001 in this situation.

Not necessarily. After Chu's appearances they instituted a tiebreaker rule. In the case of a tie, a tiebreaker question will be given. (This has yet to occur, but several contestants have reported back that this rule was indeed explained to them.) I agree that Brian should have bet $7000 even and risked that scenario.

The point of the game is to win, not go for a tie and hope you get the tiebreaker answer right.

+Opus Penguin Easy to say, until you get the tiebreaker question and lose the match just because the other guy was faster than you on a single question. Or just go and talk to Alan Koolik who lost the Teen Tournament in 2014 on a Tiebreaker question after having mostly dominated the championship games for two days. And BTW, it cost him not only the title, but over $20,000, even though he scored $54,200 combined over the two-day final. The only thing he did wrong was not ring in first on the tiebreaker question.

I agree a tie would be a valid strategy, really tough score differential to go for a win. An alternative is he could've went big and bet more.

I think the biggest problem is that betting $7001 here implies that he was confident in his DiCaprio answer. If not, then he suspected that she could also be wrong in any event and would bet money with a wrong answer. It doesn't seem like his logic is consistent here. At the very least, he did not predict that she would predict that he would conceivably lose money.

@@niarazu3883 Bro, you don't even know how the game works. Category -> Wager -> Clue -> Write question

@@niarazu3883 You bet before you know the clue

@@niarazu3883 they see the category and then bet. that's what makes it challenging. so Brian thought he had a decent chance to get a question in that category right, and bet 7001 so that if he was right, he guaranteed wins, and if wrong loses not too much money.

Google's great isn't it.

WOW!!!😲 Did you come up with that all by yourself???🤔 💩

@@dibber43 No, they needed James to help then lmao🤣

He is fuckin' boring!! Jeopardy has never been That boring. But I keep watching because I love it.

@@gilbertmartinez1504 That's your opinion. I think he's awesome.

he's gay, ya know.....

No, the whole idea of that strategy is to still win, even if you're wrong, while also betting as much as possible.

No the proper bet would have been 6999$

@@lacymacdougall9660 It's not that simple. If they are both right and he doesn't bet enough, he loses. Brian was trying to win with 28001 if Christine doubled her score to 28000. If he bet 6999, and she was also right, it would have been Brian with 27999 and Christine with 28000, and that would have been embarrassing.

@@jeffkerr807 If they are both right and Brian doesn't bet enough, he loses. Brian was trying to win with 28001 if Christine doubled her score to 28000. If he bet 6999, and she was also right, it would have been Brian with 27999 and Christine with 28000, and that would have been embarrassing.

I knew Marlon Brando was one of the best actors. I forgot about Dustin Hoffman.

The male contestant deserves to comeback on a future show because of the daily double she had that showed the answer

I think that they said that this was embarrassing because Leo hadn't won an Oscar at this point. His first Oscar wasn't until 2016.

A number of players have been in first and not covered the second place player's total and have won. You have to also decide how well you know the category. Some players have also not covered the second place player's total and gotten the final right and have lost. One player in the College tournament was leading into final jeopardy and bet enough to cover the second place player's total and got it wrong and lost. Her opponent also got it wrong but didn't wager very much. She was so upset that she couldn't face the camera.

Rich Twilling That one dollar cost him $12,000 lol how was that smart?

JT3151 He doesn't have to bet $7,001. Any bet of $0 to $6,999 and he wins. $7,000 and he ties and goes into sudden death. Anything higher and he loses. You also have to gauge your own comfort level with the category. If she bets it all and she loses if it is wrong. You don't have to assume another player gets it right because often they don't.

From contestant posts on reddit and JBoardtv, it seems the new rule actually took effect in Nov. right after the 2014 TOC, which was before this game. Though, it was not confirmed until Feb. 2016 and no exact effective date was given. But, regardless, you did a great job showing the profound effect the new rules have in this scenario.

Underrated comment.

At least for Norm who was counting on a loan.

that's not right. Brian was betting to beat Christine if they both got it right and she bet it all. He would have finished with 28,001 to her 28,000. That said - if he'd bet exactly 7,000 he still would have tied her in that scenario, and also in the scenario that actually happened. A bet of 6,999 would only have paid off in the instance where she bet zero, and they both got it wrong. If she'd bet everything, he bet 6,999 and they both got it right (which is actually more probable than both being wrong), he would have lost by a dollar (28,000 to 27,999). *That* would have been embarrassing.

@@nycgus Oh you're right.... ooopths.

My first thought was tom hanks. Then hoffman but...I could only picture his face and not actually remember his name. I would of wrote down nothing lmao.

It's embarrassing because at the time it was a very well known fact, to the point of being a meme, that Leonardo DiCaprio had never won an Oscar despite multiple nominations.

The man can't add right

Because she knew the right wagering strategy. Since her score was exactly 2/3rds of the leader's, she knew to bet $0, since the leader's score would have dropped below hers anyway if he bet to cover, which he did.

That because she shame her family for wrong answer!

They always do, they do not impress easy.

@@Megacooltommydee She had the right strategy - he had the wrong one. Nothing wrong with a tie. In that case, they both win the money. He went for a win that he simply did not need.

kevin the truck driver Also further more some of the other possibilities may have included Jack Nicholson since he was nominated for at least 10 Oscars and some of them did win Best Picture.

Actually, it's Brando for On the Waterfront AND The Godfather...and Hoffman for Kramer vs. Kramer AND Rainman. it said "...two Best Actor" Oscars...

Not unfortunate. Very smart on the lady's part.

I thought he should have wagered exactly 7000. Christine had to wager nothing or everything and he should have wagered for the tie at $7,000 unless you are confident in the category then you can wager $7,001. He could have still had a chance on a tiebreaker if he just wagered $7,000.

Cliff Clavin

I don't think the embarrassment was regarding loosing by $1. I think it was because at this point Leo had never won an Oscar.

Tony Pettengill that was hilariously bad

Steve B-If the date on this video is correct, the tie rules would have already changed. It would have been a tie breaker. So no he would not have automatically gotten to the next game with a tie.

Move was genius; it just backfired in the end. Not exactly embarrassing, but still heartbreaking.

Jordan Hollins not really, it doesn’t matter if you win by a dollar or thousands. This just made him look like a fool and why would anyone want to not maximize their winnings? I believe he made a mistake because otherwise a smart man would’ve bet all.

I guessed Marlon Brando too. Didn't know Dustin Hoffman...

@@billybill822 rainman and the graduate. (nope it was Kramer v. Kramer on the second one)...

@Al Delvecchio Jeopardy players can no longer "tie for the win", so it isn't ridiculous to bet the extra dollar. A tie breaker clue will be given to the players, a rule that was implemented 5 years ago.

It is a little embarrassing. You see, if he had thought about it he would have realized that the best the women could have done was get to $28,000 - so if he bets $7000 and wins he also get's to $28,000 and they both win. No harm there, they both keep the money they won and they both return for the next game. But, if he bet's $7000 and loses he falls to $14,000 which is what his opponent has. So, if he's wrong she has to be right and bet something for her to win outright. It was a failure to think clearly about what he was doing and it was embarrassing. I mean, it's not rocket science, just think for a minute and you realize the proper bet is $7000 not $7001.

Excellent analysis. 2/3rds is the cut off. If you finish in first place and your second place opponent has less than 2/3rds of your total then you need only to bet enough to beat them if they bet everything and it's an easy question you both get. In this scenario the first place finisher would also be covered if it's a hard question they both miss because the first place finisher would not go below the second place finisher's total even if the second place person bets nothing. However if your opponent has more than two thirds of your total, or in this case exactly two thirds, then you could loss, as this guy did, to a crafty second place opponent betting nothing if you bet to win outright. He should have gone for the tie, not the knockout.

I'm gunna have to look up "chagrined"

@@davidcharles3871 That used to be the case, but no longer.

He lost the whole game because he bet $2 too high.

ytmndan he has to bet 7001 in case the previous person doubled. If she bid everything, he would’ve needed 7001 to winn

@@zbunk8260 honest

Heem Lo the rules in jeopardy: “The tiebreaker rules were announced in 2016: “If there are two or three players tied for first place after each contestant unveils their Final Jeopardy! response, [host] Alex [Trebek] will present one more category and read the clue. ... The first contestant to buzz in with the correct response was declared a winner.” You always bet to win. Why risk it going to a tiebreaker?

Heem Lo no idea but the rule makes sense

Easy there Cliff!

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This joke has been retired after a long career.

Your mother your wife and your daughter????

Dicaprio won worst actor begging for carbon tax money.

Ohhhhh.....GOT IT! THANKS!!

'Cause it is show about demonstrating your knowledge, maybe?

It wasn't a question. Lol

@K Weaver 😂😂😂

You're right! All 3 of them had the incorrect question to the answer. Smh

But then if Christina had wagered everything and gave the correct response, he would have lost with that wager even if he also gave the correct response. You never want to lose while giving the correct response when you're leading.

And that's why you're not on jeopardy.