# Who else hurls insults at Alex Trebek? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 30, 2011, 5:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-else-hurls-insults-at-alex-trebek/590815 "2011-07-30T05:54:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Justin\_Bailey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/justin_bailey/32/8792_2.png) [@Justin\_Bailey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Bailey)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2011, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-else-hurls-insults-at-alex-trebek/590815/41 "2011-07-31T18:29:11Z")
> [@John\_Mace](#): > > Most of the questions are fairly easy, although it’s funny how often they have some absurd one that few people would ever know. I struggle on categories that have to do with Broadway and Opera, but otherwise I find that the real challenge of Jeopardy is to guess the answers just by knowing the categories. What I always find crazy is when they’ll have a category like “Bestsellers” or “Recent Movies” and the $1000/$2000 answer is something extremely current and/or extremely popular. And then none of them of get it. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2011, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-else-hurls-insults-at-alex-trebek/590815/42 "2011-07-31T20:57:54Z")
> [@Justin\_Bailey](#): > > What I always find crazy is when they’ll have a category like “Bestsellers” or “Recent Movies” and the $1000/$2000 answer is something extremely current and/or extremely popular. > > And then none of them of get it. :smack: How about when the category is “Existentialsts” and the clue is “John Paul Sartre once spoke highly of John Doe, whose philosopher mother lived in this capital city of Oregon.” . ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2011, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-else-hurls-insults-at-alex-trebek/590815/43 "2011-07-31T23:23:18Z")
> [@TreacherousCretin](#): > > How about when the category is “Existentialsts” and the clue is “John Paul Sartre once spoke highly of John Doe, whose philosopher mother lived in this capital city of Oregon.” > > . Plus for extra time-wasting, they’ll have a Clue Crew member recite the answer on video: “I’m in Paris, where Jean-Paul Sartre often spoke highly of John Doe…” ---
**Author:** ![candide](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/46a35a/32.png) [@candide](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/candide)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2011, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-else-hurls-insults-at-alex-trebek/590815/44 "2011-07-31T23:28:42Z")
We put on Jeopardy at the bar in the evenings. We’ve got a mean, petite red-headed bartender who despises Trebek and seems incapable of stopping herself from cursing the screen when he puts on airs. She speaks several languages and particularly hates his accents. I find the interviews particularly cringe-worthy. I hate the way every third contestant has to tell the fascinating story of how they met/got engaged to/married their fiance/husband/wife/whatever. I’m still waiting for a guy to get on and tell Trebek how he met his husband in a San Francisco bathhouse and that they got together because of the fabulous rimjobs. Don’t think that would get by the contestant coordinator and onto the blue card, though. I suspect Ken Jennings will get the call when Trebek retires. I would take it as a breath of fresh air. When KJ corrects a contestant on a wrong answer, or provides one that no one knows, I would be more inclined to believe he knows the answer that when Trebek does it. Another less likely replacement would be Jeff Probst who hosted Rock & Roll Jeopardy on MTV for a few years. They would have to work around the Survivor schedule, but I don’t think that would be insurmountable. Besides, unlike KJ, I think Probst is well on the way to perfecting the smug, stick-up-his-ass persona that Trebek mastered oh so many years ago. ---
**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2011, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-else-hurls-insults-at-alex-trebek/590815/45 "2011-08-01T00:03:28Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > Plus for extra time-wasting, they’ll have a Clue Crew member recite the answer on video: “I’m in Paris, where Jean-Paul Sartre often spoke highly of John Doe…” In which case the category would be “Paris.” . [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-else-hurls-insults-at-alex-trebek/590815.md?page=2)