"Jeopardy!" contestant Becky Sullivan grabbed America's attention after she inadvertently insulted liberals while answering a question wrong on the game show Friday. While many would have chosen to take the easy way out and leave the board blank if they didn't know the answer to a Final Jeopardy question, Sullivan decided to have some fun with it.
The Final Jeopardy question asked the remaining two contestants to identify a flower by its picture, the name of the flower also being a "disparaging term for people on the political left." Sullivan revealed that she wrote "pansy" on her board, according to Entertainment Weekly.
"I think you may have found a way to insult liberals in this country," host Alex Trebek said and the incorrect answer cost Sullivan $6,000. Fellow contestant Sean Anderson was the winner of the night after he rightly answered the question with "bleeding heart."
Since then, Sullivan, who is an NPR producer, took to Twitter to explain that she had no intention to insult anyone, stating that "she just put the only flower I knew that was also an insult," according to The Wrap.
Watch the video below:
File this under "Unexpected Responses."
Posted by Jeopardy! on Friday, 23 October 2015
OK here's the deal with pansy: I actually didn't know bleeding heart was a flower. I just put the only flower I knew that was also an insult
— Becky Sullivan (@becsully) October 24, 2015
Second place still gets me two grand though. Worth it. Sean did great. — Becky Sullivan (@becsully) October 24, 2015
