Wednesday marked Jackie Robinson Day, and the sports world celebrated the baseball legend, who made his big-league debut 73 years ago on April 15, 1947 and became the first African-American player to play in the majors in the modern era of baseball.
However, on the Jeopardy! episode that aired Wednesday night — it was Game 3 of the 2020 College Championship — not everyone remembered the Brooklyn Dodger.
In the middle of the opening Jeopardy! round of college students facing off against each other, there was a baseball question in the Unique College Courses category. At that point, Nathaniel, a sophomore at Yale, had the lead with $1,800, while Xiaoke from USC and Marshall from Texas had $600 and $200, respectively, according to J-Archive.com.
This was the $1,000 clue — seems awfully easy for the most valuable spot in the category — which would have put Xiaoke within $200 of Nathaniel if she answered correctly:
One of the topics covered in a Major League Baseball course at Arizona State is this player who broke the color barrier in 1947
Unfortunately for Xiaoke, she mistakenly said Babe Ruth, allowing Nathaniel to ring in and provide the correct answer.
Xiaoke ultimately won the game, despite all three contestants getting the Final Jeopardy clue wrong.
