All three contestants couldn’t name the popular song.
Swifties who regularly tune into Jeopardy! likely walked away with a deep sense of satisfaction after all three contestants recently missed a clue about a Taylor Swift song.
On Thursday, March 14, Jeopardy! Tournament of Champions competitors Yogesh Raut, Ben Chan and Troy Meyer failed to answer a $400 question under the “Songs of Youth” category. Host Ken Jennings read off the prompt: “Inspired by her bestie, Tay Tay sang when ‘somebody tells you they love you’ at this title age ‘you’re gonna believe them.”
Meyer guessed 17, while Raut answered 22, and Chan didn’t offer up a guess. The correct answer, of course, was “Fifteen,” a track from Swift’s second studio album, Fearless. The pop superstar, 34, previously shared that she wrote the song about her high school BFF, Abigail Anderson, when they were 15.
“We’re gonna get killed for that,” Meyer declared when Jennings revealed the correct response. And he spoke no lie.
One X (formerly Twitter) user, wrote, “Found a common weakness among the 3 finalists in the @Jeopardy Tournament of Champions… @taylorswift13,” alongside a clip of the triple miss.
Another person tweeted, ” I can’t believe the one triple stumper this episode was about Taylor Swift.”
