{"id":656480,"date":"2026-03-15T03:01:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-15T03:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/656480\/"},"modified":"2026-03-15T03:01:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T03:01:10","slug":"caitlin-clark-turned-heads-with-a-message-to-a-jeopardy-contestant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/656480\/","title":{"rendered":"Caitlin Clark turned heads with a message to a Jeopardy! contestant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When the Indiana Fever took Caitlin Clark first overall in the 2024 WNBA Draft, she was viewed as the answer to their problems. To a Jeopardy! contestant, the former Iowa Hawkeyes star was quite literally the answer that unlocked a fortune.<\/p>\n<p>In a recent Jeopardy! episode, the final question had Clark as the answer, but only one of the three contestants got it right.<\/p>\n<p>The question that host Ken Jennings popped was from the category \u201c21st Century Women,\u201d and the clue was \u201cThe Iowa legislature passed a resolution declaring Feb. 22, 2004, her day across the state.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Luke Henson, who is a grocer from East Moline, Ill., wagered $8,398 of his $8,400 on his answer: \u201cWho is Caitlin Clark?\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">we know the answer \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p>who is: Caitlin Clark \ud83d\udcfa <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/nSFINarP5n\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/nSFINarP5n<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Indiana Fever (@IndianaFever) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IndianaFever\/status\/2032596150381863239?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">March 13, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Like the Fever star with her shots from deep, Henson was on the money with his response, which gave him a total of $16,798.<\/p>\n<p>That wasn\u2019t all that Luke got by making the right answer, as the 24-year-old\u00a0Clark gave him a shoutout afterward.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLuke is him,\u201d Clark <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DV1sDA4ktvI\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">commented <\/a>on the video of Henson\u2019s winning moment.<\/p>\n<p>Clark\u2019s message got plenty of attention as well, but the real star here is clearly Henson, who ended the reign of previous champion James Denison.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When the Indiana Fever took Caitlin Clark first overall in the 2024 WNBA Draft, she was viewed as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":656481,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[49],"tags":[233,234,176308,62,67,132,68,232],"class_list":["post-656480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-caitlin-clark","tag-indiana-fever","tag-jeopardy","tag-sports","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us","tag-wnba"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116230965509615640","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=656480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656480\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/656481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=656480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=656480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=656480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}