“Celebrity Jeopardy” contestants fail to identify Usher's 'Yeah!' in triple whiff: 'So awkward'

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All three contestants on the season 3 premiere of Celebrity Jeopardy failed to identify Usher's "Yeah!", which was the biggest pop song of 2004, during the Triple Jeopardy round.

In the category "2004, What a Year!," Max Greenfield (New Girl), Camilla Luddington (Grey’s Anatomy), and W. Kamau Bell (United Shades of America) received the prompt, "We got so caught up in this Usher song that it spent 12 weeks at the top of the charts."

Greenfield first chimed in with "What is 'Caught Up'?," a wrong answer that cost him $1,500. ("Caught Up" is an Usher song, but it didn't release until 2005, and goes against the general Jeopardy norm of excluding the words from the correct answer in the phrasing of the question.)

Luddington then attempted to correct his answer with "What is 'All Caught Up?'," which is not an Usher song, consequently costing her $1,500 as well.

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Bell allowed the timer to expire instead of offering his own guess, which meant he was the only contestant to escape the clue without losing money.  "Feels so awkward to be the Black guy who doesn't know the Usher song," he joked. "I was listening to Rage Against the Machine at the time, sorry everybody."

Released in January 2004, "Yeah!" remained on the Billboard Hot 100 for 45 weeks, ultimately becoming the second-biggest song of the decade after Mariah Carey's "We Belong Together." The track features Ludacris and Lil Jon, and remains the biggest hit of Usher's career.

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Bell had a chance to redeem himself in a later category. In the column titled "Hard New York Times Crossword Answers," the comedian received the clue, "11-Down, 3 Letters: Group that had the first hardcore rap album to reach no. 1 on Billboard."

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Bell successfully answered "Who is NWA?", earning him $1,200. "Feel better about that?" host Ken Jennings asked. "Yes! Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's more my style," Bell responded.

Unfortunately for the players, the Usher question wasn't the only one to stump all three contestants. The trio also failed to identify John Legend's "All of Me," neglected to name Eleanor Roosevelt as the longest-serving First Lady in American history, couldn't recall the pitchfork as the primary object in Grant Wood's American Gothic, and couldn't procure the titles of the novels Where the Crawdads Sing or Cat's Cradle.

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Bell ultimately emerged victorious, moving on to the semi-final round with $11,009.

Other stars set to appear on this season of Celebrity Jeopardy include Blake Anderson (Workaholics), Rachel Brosnahan (The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel), Corbin Bleu (High School Musical), Yvette Nicole Brown (Community), D'Arcy Carden (The Good Place), Margaret Cho (Fire Island), Seth Green (Robot Chicken), Sean Gunn (Gilmore Girls), Natalie Morales (Dead to Me), Ana Navarro (The View), Melissa Peterman (Happy's Place),  Neil deGrasse Tyson (Cosmos), and Roy Wood Jr. (The Daily Show).

Celebrity Jeopardy airs weekly on Wednesdays at 9 p.m. ET/PT on ABC.

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