What was the category? Sometimes that makes it clear which way to go.
That’s not poorly worded at all.
Uh, yes it is. I had exactly the same reaction to it.
Don’t recall the category, and for some reason yesterday’s game has been posted at Jeopardy! Archives yet.
The category was simply “Inspiration”. Not much help there.
I immediately thought Swift and didn’t think the clue was ambiguous.
For all my complaints about Trebek I must say he does do a good job of pronouncing the clues
I didn’t think the Swift clue was ambiguous at all. IIRC, the other questions in that category all referred to the authors of works.