I started watching this show just a few years before Alex Trebek took his leave. Alex was in a class of his own and enabled the game show to reach such an astonishing height that Alex was able to pass it on as a legacy to many millions of fans. We see stories from people who have personal connections to parents and grandparents who watched or actually appeared on the show.
Alex set a high standard for his successor Ken Jennings to follow. It is fair to say that Ken shows a good measure of the class and wit that flowed so effortlessly from Alex over many years. It is obvious that the contestants want badly to win and they deserve full credit for placing themselves before a national audience and performing as well as they can, which is very well indeed, under what must be nerve wracking conditions.
The questions cover a broad range of knowledge of history, literature, the arts, sciences, geography, word play, politics, personalities, and popular culture. I find the word play the most difficult but the contestants show astounding analytical ability. Their concentration and recall is amazing.
The audience at home can play along without the worry of performing before a national audience. At the same time we can view for ourselves the wealth of knowledge, recall and analytical thinking the contestants are able to display. The television audience can also judge their own intellectual strengths and limitations. Very few of us are in the same league as the contestants but there are enough to keep the game rolling on from one generation to another.
Alex set a high standard for his successor Ken Jennings to follow. It is fair to say that Ken shows a good measure of the class and wit that flowed so effortlessly from Alex over many years. It is obvious that the contestants want badly to win and they deserve full credit for placing themselves before a national audience and performing as well as they can, which is very well indeed, under what must be nerve wracking conditions.
The questions cover a broad range of knowledge of history, literature, the arts, sciences, geography, word play, politics, personalities, and popular culture. I find the word play the most difficult but the contestants show astounding analytical ability. Their concentration and recall is amazing.
The audience at home can play along without the worry of performing before a national audience. At the same time we can view for ourselves the wealth of knowledge, recall and analytical thinking the contestants are able to display. The television audience can also judge their own intellectual strengths and limitations. Very few of us are in the same league as the contestants but there are enough to keep the game rolling on from one generation to another.