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Only 1 contestant made it to Final Jeopardy because it's 2020, of course

It's reportedly only happened twice in the past decade.

Editor's note: The video above is from March 2020

Who had "only one contestant makes it to Final Jeopardy" on their 2020 bingo card?

It happened on Tuesday's episode of "Jeopardy!" -- an occurrence so rare that even host Alex Trebek was at a loss.

"I cannot recall the last time we had only one player in Final Jeopardy," Trebek said.

Yahoo Entertainment reports contestant Natt Supab finished with negative $400 while Alex Switzky risked his entire bank of $5,900 on the final clue and lost.

That left just the champion, Kevin Walsh, to head to the final round with $14,400.

"You can risk a bundle, you know," Trebek said.

CNN reports the Final Jeopardy clue under the topic Literary Pronouns was "Thanks to a horror film, this novel returned to the bestseller lists in 2017, some 30 years after reaching No. 1."

Walsh didn't risk that much: $4,400. He got the answer right -- "It" by Stephen King -- to head home with $18,800 to wrap up his fourth victory.

He won again on Wednesday, bringing his five-day total to $111,301.

Yahoo reports it's just the second time in a decade that only one contestant has made it to Final Jeopardy.

Fans on Twitter had a field day.

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