Taylor Swift Fans Credit Singer for Knowing Final 'Jeopardy!' Answer
The final Jeopardy! question on May 30 was a tough one, but it was no match for the Swifties watching at home.
Thanks to Taylor Swift, many of her fans were able to come up with the correct answer to the Final Jeopardy! clue during the Tuesday night episode, which left even the three contestants stumped.
Two-day champion Diandra D'Alessio and her fellow contestants Nathan Dennis and Ilhana Redzovic all struck out after they were given a clue in the category "Literary Groups," which read: "Windermere, Thirlmere & Grasmere are three of the sites that helped give a 19th-century literary group this name."
The category for tonight's Final Jeopardy! is ... Literary Groups.
Now here's your clue: https://t.co/EcG3nOqPky pic.twitter.com/VlfsmTKh09— Jeopardy! (@Jeopardy) May 31, 2023
The answer: the Lake Poets. Though none of the contestants guessed correctly, die-hard Swifties had much more luck thanks to the pop superstar, who actually has a song entitled, "The Lakes."
The melancholic song, featured as a bonus track off the deluxe edition of her eighth studio album Folklore, mentions the Lakes district in its lyrics, including the lines, "Take me to the lakes where all the poets went to die / I don't belong, and my beloved, neither do you."
Swift even mentions Windermere directly, singing, "Those Windermere peaks look like a perfect place to cry / I'm setting off, but not without my muse."
This gave Swifties a leg up on Final Jeopardy, with many of them taking to Twitter after the show to celebrate and thank the "Anti-Hero" songstress for helping them out.
"apparently no one on jeopardy tonight is a Taylor Swift fan, I got the final question right and none of the contestants did ??," one fan quipped after Tuesday's episode.
I’d like to think as an English major I would have gotten this anyway, but the folklore bonus track didn’t hurt anything! // #TaylorSwift #Jeopardy pic.twitter.com/ZF7URqacgc
— Breanne (@BreanneReinhard) May 31, 2023
"I only got Final Jeopardy right because of the song The Lakes by Taylor Swift. Don’t tell me she’s not an educator!" another Swiftie wrote on Twitter.
"thank u taylor swift for the correct final jeopardy response xo," someone else added.
"I love it when I know Final Jeopardy answers due to my deep knowledge of the Taylor Swift discography," another fan chimed in.
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