After Hilarious Jeopardy Error Involving Mark Wahlberg And Public Enemy, Both Chuck D And The Contestant Responded

Long gone are the days when Jeopardy! contestants could make random guesses to their hearts’ content without worrying about being lambasted by viewers on social media. Still, that looming threat doesn’t tend to stop contestants from blurting out whatever first pops into their super-smart brains, which brings about shameful guesses such as someone thinking Michael Caine was Mick Jagger. Or, in the case of current champ Halley Ryherd, mistaking one of hip-hop’s most seminal acts, Public Enemy, with the short-time rap group led by soon-to-be Hollywood A-lister Mark Wahlberg. Even Chuck D himself weighed in, and was far nicer about it than most Twitter users.

Here’s how things went down. On the Jeopardy! episode that aired on Wednesday, June 29, the Jeopardy round contained the category Chuck D, Times 3. The first two clues revolved around Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol and Charles Darwin’s ship, the Beagle, but it was the third one that drew a collective chuckle from the Internet. The clue: 

• In the 1980s Chuck D began fighting the power in this hip-hop group with Flavor Flav, a man who always knew what time it was