JEOPARDY! has seemingly attempted to downplay its hotly contested Bible clue from the 2022 Tournament of Champions.
The infamous Final Jeopardy question re-aired on Wednesday but was cryptically never posted to the game show's YouTube page.
Jeopardy! is now airing summer reruns until the new season premieres on September 11, including the 2022 Tournament of Champions.
Amy Schneider, 42, won the $250,000 special in a ferocious now-airing weeklong final against Andrew He and joke-cracking professor Sam Buttrey.
The show opted for a first-to-three-wins format, taking six incredibly intense games out of seven maximum.
The finals are re-airing this week, and fans were reminded of the third game, which sparked a backlash of Biblical proportions when it first aired.
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The New Testament Final Jeopardy got into largely disputed territory, and many said it "robbed" Sam of a win at the time.
Jeopardy! has uploaded the clip of each Final Jeopardy from the tournament on their official YouTube page every night they've re-aired it.
In fact, Jeopardy! uploads every Final Jeopardy clip- rerun or not- because the show isn't streaming online.
However, the Bible Final Jeopardy! clip was not uploaded, The U.S. Sun exclusively spotted.
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It has been 24 hours since it re-aired Wednesday night, and the game show has since shared other YouTube clips instead.
It would appear at this point that Jeopardy! will be skipping out on sharing the clip again.
NEW TESTAMENT CLUE SPARKS HELLFIRE
Under the category "The New Testament" the question read: "Paul’s letter to them is the New Testament epistle with the most Old Testament quotations."
Professor Sam led with $14,800, Andrew with $13,200, and Amy with $2,400.
Amy got it correct, according to Ken Jennings, with "Who are The Hebrews."
Ken ruled: “Yes, Jewish followers of Christianity, so of course, Paul quoted the Old Testament.”
Sam revealed he wrote the “Who are the Romans” - this alternative was not accepted.
Ken - who is Mormon- groaned: "Ah, he wrote the Romans" and denied Sam a match point he would have otherwise gotten.
Andrew didn't have the correct response with "Philippians" but had enough earnings to win after the new scores were shown.
The problem is the topic is still a matter of much discussion among Biblical scholars.
Religious researchers have shared different perspectives on whether Paul actually wrote the letter to the Hebrews.
'SAM SHOULD HAVE WON'
At the time, a Reddit thread of 400 angry fans erupted and even upon re-airing last night, fans were still POed nearly a year out.
One person tweeted: "Sam should have won. There is no conclusive evidence that Paul wrote the Epistle to the Hebrews."
Another person posted: "Jeopardy Has it Wrong!! Sam Buttery replied Correctly in final by naming Romans as the book that Paul wrote with the most Old Testament quotes! Give Sam back his Win!"
"Is anyone going to talk about the way @Jeopardy whiffed on this one?" wrote a third.
"Hey! The authorship of Hebrews is nebulous at best. It may have been Paul, Barnabas, Apollo, or another. You need to redo that Tournament of Champions final! I love ya but yikes..." wrote a fourth.
According to CNN after being covered by The U.S. Sun upon airing: "The statement isn’t controversial because it’s about the Bible.
"The correct answer [The Hebrews] is still a subject of debate, even among Biblical scholars."
"Experts have varying opinions on whether Paul actually wrote the letter to the Hebrews – and thus, whether the answer was actually correct."
CNN added: "Many viewers thought Buttrey’s answer should have been the correct one, since scholars generally agree Paul was the author of the book of Romans."
Paul's writing "The Hebrews" is accepted by Ken's Mormon church.
In the past, even the show has acknowledged Paul's unknown or disputed authorship in other clues.
EXECS STAND BY THAT BIBLE CLUE
Jeopardy! execs stood by the clue in a surprisingly dismissive statement soon after last fall's tournament, saying they double-checked it with a seminarian [or student].
Showrunner Michael Davies said: "When it comes to Bible categories, we have taken it upon ourselves as a show to use the King James Version of the Bible - as our 'Bible of Bibles' so to speak."
"And we've kind of let the world know; so for the most part, when contestants come, they kind of know that we are referencing the King James Bible."
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He added: "This clue in particular, we also reached out to a seminarian who had verified that our information, as written in the clue, was correct, and that's when we went ahead and were like 'OK, we feel secure in our doing this clue.'"
If Sam had been deemed correct, he would have won two final matches instead of one, and the tournament outcome may have been different.
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