‘Jeopardy!’ insiders expose truth about longtime cheating rumor

What is … a falsehood?

“Jeopardy!” insiders recently debunked a rumor that contestants are given the categories for the game show in advance.

Former guest host Buzzy Cohen, 38, and producer Sarah Whitcomb Foss, 47, recently confirmed that the categories remain under wraps until the taping of the show.

“We talk about it all the time. ‘How can you prepare for “Jeopardy”? Is there a study guide?’ You hear it over and over again,” Whitcomb Foss said Monday on the duo’s podcast, “Inside Jeopardy!“

“Just this week, somebody said, ‘Do they tell you what categories to study?’” added Cohen, who won the 2017 “Jeopardy!” Tournament of Champions. “I don’t know how that rumor got started … drives me crazy.”

Whitcomb Foss, who works as part of the “Clue Crew” — the team responsible for researching topics around the world for the game show’s various categories — also expressed her dismay.

“How does it still happen?” questioned Whitcomb Foss. “There’s no study guide, people, in case you haven’t heard.”

The Post has reached out to both Cohen and Whitcomb Foss for further comment.

According to the podcast, one “Jeopardy!” alum named David Maybury, who appeared in the show’s 37th season, managed to compile tips from all the top players and created an online guide titled “The Call.”

The unofficial guide details everything from what to do immediately after agreeing to be on the show to what happens after the show airs.

“Jeopardy!” and host Ken Jennings have been slammed recently for various on-air mishaps, including one in which the game show MC, 48, was trolled for “robbing” a contestant of his points over an apparent pronunciation error.

“After the Last Supper, Jesus traveled to this garden to pray & was arrested there,” read the $1,600 clue.

Contestant Kevin Manning rang in with the correct answer of the Garden of Gethsemane, which is pronounced, “Geth-SEH-muh-nee,” according to Merriam-Webster.

Manning pronounced the word with a hard “g” — like “gate” — which is correct, but with a “d” sound — rather than an “n” — on the last syllable.

Jennings stated the answer was incorrect, yet proceeded to give the points to a different contestant who used the correct “n” sound at the end but also offered a soft “g” — like “gel” — in the first syllable, which is wrong.

Another instance that had fans in an uproar was when the game show’s “Final Jeopardy!” clue was deemed “too easy.”

“In 1966, the year of his death, he shared plans for an experimental prototype community in Florida,” read the final clue under the “famous names” category.

Every contestant answered the question correctly: “Who is Walt Disney?”

Fans of the show were not impressed.

“I’ve been watching Jeopardy for like 20+ years and I cannot recall an easier Final Jeopardy,” tweeted one befuddled fan.

“You guys have got to be kidding, how is this a Final Jeopardy and not a $200 question????” someone else wondered.

“I was thinking it can’t be Walt Disney. That’s a Trivial Pursuit, kids edition level question, never mind Final Jeopardy,” added a third person.