--- title: Jeopardy Has a Pretty Good Response to That Beatles Clue Everybody Hated description: '"Jeopardy" puzzled some viewers with a Final Jeopardy round that may have misinterpreted the Beatles'' hit "Eight Days a Week."' authors: - name: Jennifer Calfas url: https://money.com/author/jennifer-calfas/ at_money_since: 2017 articles: 339 covers: - Lifestyle - Banking - Business - Career Advice - Credit Cards - Economy and Politics - Education - Housing - Identity Theft - Insurance - Investing - Loans - Personal Finance - Pets - Retirement - Shopping - Taxes - Technology social: - https://x.com/jencalfas former_staff: true published: '2018-03-28T21:34:00.000Z' modified: '2024-04-17T10:13:59.000Z' section: Lifestyle tags: - onetime - Television word_count: 377 canonical: https://money.com/jeopardy-beatles-clue/ type: Article source: structured-blocks --- > **Disclosure:** We research all brands listed and may earn a fee from our partners. Research and financial considerations may influence how brands are displayed. Not all brands are included. [Learn more](https://money.com/page/disclaimer/). ![Alex Trebek Fims Jeopardy](https://img.money.com/2018/03/jeopardy-mike-teevee.jpg) *Host Alex Trebek poses on the set of Jeopardy on April 21, 2012.* If you think love is the equivalent of a grueling week at work, you may be eligible to compete on *Jeopardy.* The long-running game show puzzled some viewers and The Beatles fans Tuesday night with a Final Jeopardy round that may have misinterpreted the band's 1964 hit "Eight Days a Week." Before wagering thousands of dollars to determine the game's winner, contestants were given the prompt under the category of 1960s No. 1 songs: "Complaints about heavy workloads inspired the titles of 2 songs by this group, No. 1 hits 7 months apart." Two of the contestants — Katy, who was in the lead heading into Final Jeopardy, and Robert, who was several thousand dollars behind — guessed correctly with The Beatles. But Robert took the win with game-winning wager of $11,000, giving him $23,601 in the end. Alex Trebek explained the two back-to-back Beatles hits suggested from the clue were "A Hard Day's Night" and "Eight Days a Week." Now, The Beatles are perhaps a shoo-in for a category asking about a popular band from the 1960s, but some fans noted that "Eight Days a Week" isn't about a "heavy workload." Exhibit A: "Ain't got nothin' but love baby, / Eight days a week," the song goes. But in a statement to Money, the show emphasized how the song “Eight Days a Week” isn’t about a heavy workload, but instead inspired by it. A representative from *Jeopardy* said Paul McCartney had the idea for the song after chatting with a taxi driver on the way to the studio. “Have you been busy?” McCartney asked him, according to the show. “I’m been working flat out, eight days a week,” he replied, the show said. “There are also stories that Ringo coined the phrase with a similar backstory, but either way, it seems to be a pretty fairly worded clue,” the show said. With previous controversial rulings on the show, *Jeopardy* sometimes takes to its online blog to explain what happened. Back in January, for example, a contestant [incorrectly mispronounced](https://money.com/jeopardy-josh-milton-gangstas-paradise/) Coolio's "Gangsta's Paradise" and subsequently lost $3,200. Back then, the show explained that "gangsta" and "gangster" — the latter being how the contestant pronounced the song — had two different definitions in the Oxford English Dictionary. ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "BreadcrumbList", "@id": "https://money.com/jeopardy-beatles-clue/#breadcrumb", "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "name": "Home", "item": "https://money.com" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "name": "Lifestyle", "item": "https://money.com/lifestyle/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "name": "TV", "item": "https://money.com/tv/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 4, "name": "Jeopardy Has a Pretty Good Response to That Beatles Clue Everybody Hated" } ] }, { "@type": "WebSite", "@id": "https://money.com/#website", "url": "https://money.com", "name": "Money", "publisher": { "@id": "https://money.com/#organization" } }, { "@type": "WebPage", "@id": "https://money.com/jeopardy-beatles-clue/#webpage", "url": "https://money.com/jeopardy-beatles-clue/", "name": "Jeopardy Has a Pretty Good Response to That Beatles Clue Everybody Hated", "isPartOf": { "@id": "https://money.com/#website" }, "datePublished": "2018-03-28T21:34:00.000Z", "mainEntity": { "@id": "https://money.com/jeopardy-beatles-clue/" }, "inLanguage": "en-US", "breadcrumb": { "@id": "https://money.com/jeopardy-beatles-clue/#breadcrumb" }, "dateModified": "2024-04-17T10:13:59.000Z" }, { "@type": "Article", "headline": "Jeopardy Has a Pretty Good Response to That Beatles Clue Everybody Hated", "articleSection": "Lifestyle", "image": [ { "@type": "ImageObject", "url": "https://img.money.com/2018/03/jeopardy-mike-teevee.jpg", "width": 594, "height": 440, "caption": "Jeopardy-Alex-Trebek" } ], "author": [ { "@type": "Person", "name": "Jennifer Calfas", "url": "https://money.com/author/jennifer-calfas/", "@id": "https://money.com/author/jennifer-calfas/#author", "sameAs": [ "https://x.com/jencalfas" ] } ], "publisher": "https://money.com/#organization", "datePublished": "2018-03-28T21:34:00.000Z", "description": "\"Jeopardy\" puzzled some viewers with a Final Jeopardy round that may have misinterpreted the Beatles' hit \"Eight Days a Week.\"", "abstract": "\"Jeopardy\" puzzled some viewers with a Final Jeopardy round that may have misinterpreted the Beatles' hit \"Eight Days a Week.\"", "@id": "https://money.com/jeopardy-beatles-clue/", "inLanguage": "en-US", "dateModified": "2024-04-17T10:13:59.000Z", "wordCount": 377, "keywords": [ "onetime", "Television" ], "about": [ { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Lifestyle", "sameAs": [ "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lifestyle" ] }, { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Television", "sameAs": [ "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Television" ] } ] } ] } ```