Twelve year old Thomas Hurley won’t win any spelling bees anytime soon. Hurley came into the Final Jeopardy portion of the show in second place before he was asked which document Abraham Lincoln said was a “fit and necessary war measure”
The correct answer is the Emancipation Proclamation, but there’s where things went wrong for Hurley. Hurley knew the correct answer,but badly mangled the spelling of the famous document spelling it Emanciptation Proclamation.
Trebek informed the pre-teen that he would not receive credit for his answer because he “spelled it badly”. When Trebek moved on to the last contestant, he was sure to point out that not only did the young man have the correct answer, but he also spelled it correctly.
Despite airing last Wednesday, the outrage has grown on social media, with viewers flooding the show's Facebook page. Fueling the fire, Hurley’s father called host Alex Trebek “smug". His son Thomas also expressed his displeasure with the ruling. "I was pretty upset that I was cheated out of the final `Jeopardy!' question. It was just a spelling error,'' said the Newtown Middle School student, who won $2,000 as the second runner-up.
My Take:The kid needs to suck it up, I’m pretty sure the rules were spelled out(no pun intended) in advance. Kids today are so coddled, they believe that they should be the exception to the rules. It’s a good life lesson. Besides the kid in first place had 36,000 to Hurley’s 9,000, making it virtually impossible for Hurley to catch up. Suck it up kid this to shall pass.
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