Jeopardy! Followers Query Contestants Who Did not Determine James Earl Jones

Followers of Jeopardy! have their eyebrows raised after three contestants on a current episode all didn’t establish James Earl Jones.

On the Monday, Sept. 15, episode of the long-running sport present, Ryan Sharpe and Kelsi Tyler competed in opposition to earlier winner Paolo Pasco, and confronted a class stuffed with clues associated to Sesame Road. 

Just a little greater than midway into that portion, host Ken Jennings launched Oscar the Grouch.

“All through the years, a number of folks have stopped by Sesame Road like Alex Trebek and Ken Jennings,” the inexperienced Muppet mentioned from his famed trash can. “Why can’t they depart a grouch alone? However, the very first was this man, who recited the alphabet for us.”

As he learn his clue, a black and white photograph of the late actor from his youthful days appeared on the display, exhibiting when he guest-starred on the beloved kids’s present. 

Seconds glided by and the buzzer sounded, letting the contestants know their likelihood to reply was over. 

“That’s James Earl Jones,” Jennings mentioned of the Emmy, Tony, and Grammy-winning American actor and voice performer who died on Sept. 9, 2024, at 93.

In a clip shared to the Jeopardy! Instagram account, followers sounded off on the contestants’ lack of understanding when it got here to the actor.

“So excuse me, you understand Rocco The Rock however you do not know James Earl Jones? I weep,” one particular person wrote. One other commented, “Actually how didn’t a single one in every of them not know THEE James Earl Jones!?”

“No person knew James Earl Jones, straight to jail,” one other fan wrote, whereas one other fan added, “The best way I screamed JAMES EARL JONES to my cellphone a number of occasions.”

All through Jones’ decades-long profession, he starred in The Sandlot, Coming to America and Area of Goals. Nonetheless, he was additionally identified for voicing Darth Vader within the Star Wars franchise and Mufasa within the traditional 1994 Disney animated movie The Lion King.

Shortly earlier than information of his loss of life, Lupita Nyong’o spoke solely to PEOPLE on the Toronto Worldwide Movie Pageant on Sept. 8, the place she mirrored on how she “watched The Lion King very many occasions” as a toddler, when requested if she had a go-to animated movie. 

“The Lion King featured some Swahili in it and I am from Kenya, so listening to Swahili in a Disney film blew my thoughts away,” mentioned Nyong’o, 42. “And yeah, it was set in Africa. I imply, that film was like, that is mine. So I beloved it.”

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Jones additionally made his mark on Broadway. 

“He led an instance that we should always all aspire to be as artists and people,” Annaleigh Ashford instructed PEOPLE. “James Earl confirmed as much as rehearsal off e book, he was the primary particular person within the theatre and the final to go away, all the time working to make tomorrow’s efficiency even better than right now’s, and he made the particular person within the play with the least strains really feel simply as vital and beloved because the particular person with probably the most strains.”

“We’re so fortunate that he graced the stage and display to show us by way of his artwork and his coronary heart,” she added. “Oh how I’ll miss that smile, these eyes, and that voice. His soul lives on by way of the magic of the characters he blessed us with.”