[Steve_Seattle]

" . . . casting the “dubious” doc in the role would celebrate “the elevation of … talking head[s] at the expense of academic rigor and consensus.”

Alex Trebec was not an intellectual; he was a game show host, and the contestants are not intellectuals, but memorizers of facts and trivia, much of it having to do with pop culture.

[Jamestown1630]

Over how many years did you watch the show?

There were lots of questions over the years which required knowledge of history, literature, science.