- Aaron Rodgers
- Ken Jennings
- Anderson Cooper
- Mike Richards
- Katie Couric
- Bill Whitaker
- Oz
Looking forward to Mayim Bialik and LeVar Burton, whom I think both will be good.
Chronologically:
2021-01-04 Ken Jennings
2021-02-22 Mike Richards
2021-03-08 Katie Couric
2021-03-22 Mehmet Oz
2021-04-05 Aaron Rodgers
2021-04-19 Anderson Cooper
2021-05-03 Bill Whitaker
So far Anderson Cooper was the best host, followed by Mike Richards and Ken Jennings. Katie Couric and Aaron Rodgers were OK, but nothing special. Dr Oz and Bill Whitaker are at the bottom. Whitaker just does not have the voice for it, he’s the worst so far. I’m constantly thinking of Perd Hapley from Parks & Rec whenever he speaks.
I thought I heard Mike Richards say that they expect the new host to devote themselves to the role, and I can’t imagine someone like Anderson Cooper is willing to give up everything else to do this. Ken Jennings or Aaron Rodgers? Maybe.
Thanks for agreeing. I haven’t made an actual count, but we are definitely a minority.
Is it about time for a poll? Mike Richards would also have my vote.
I thought FJ was “Lorax” too. I thought the “Oh the Places You’ll Go” was written by Shel Silverstein.
The only one I could come up with was Hop on Pop; I thought it might sell well around Father’s Day.
There was another one I missed last week. The category was World’s Fairs.
I said “twenty-first century”, since the Seattle World’s Fair was officially called the “Century 21 Exposition”.
I was 12 in 1962 and got the answer instantly, because as I remember it “Space Age” was a thing then. Maybe non-elderly people were at a disadvantage with the clue?
Who you callin’ “elderly”? 
“Space Age” was the first thing that popped into my head, too. I grew up near Seattle and went to Seattle Center (the site of the Fair) many times, and I knew that World’s Fair had a future theme. Then I remembered that the official name of the fair was “Century 21 Exhibition”, so I figured the answer was “twenty-first century”.
We’ve all seen cases where Jeopardy! accepts a response that wasn’t what they originally expected, but which is still, arguably, correct. I wonder if they’d have accepted mine since that was part of the name of the fair. Now, obviously if I’d been on the show that day, I would have had an insurmountable lead and Final Jeopardy wouldn’t have made a difference, but I’m still curious.
In fact, there was another one last week, in the category “4-letter synonyms”. The clue was “forehead” and I said “what is pate?” I wonder if they’d have accepted that.
By 1962, “Space Age” had pretty much superseded “Atomic Age,” which was the big thing after 1945. I was seven in 1962, and almost everything was advertised as “Space Age.”
Why myself, of course.
Life starts at 60!
Puck was a British humour 
magazine. Wikipedia says it was published 1871–1918.
So it does, but it also reports that it was American, published first in St. Louis (and actually in the German language for its first six years), later in New York, where its headquarters building still stands.
Somewhat irrelevantly, David Bowie lived one block south of the building on Lafayette Street at the time of his death.
I used to live just a few blocks from the Puck Building. Its exterior has been shown in many movies and tv shows.
Ryan “apologizes” - he’s sorry you’re offended because he wanted to CRUSH KILL WIN!!
Is he supposed to be commenting while the tournament is airing? I thought contestants were supposed to keep quiet until after the TOC is over.
Did people really care? I noticed it, because it was unusual. But really all I thought was “this kid is playing to win.” It didn’t seem nasty or meanspirited at all.