13 January '20..
As is often the case with mundane news about Israel, pundits and journalists are buzzing with excitement after Jeopardy mishandled a question related to Holy Land geography.
The game-show exchange that led to some enraged Twitter comments and, in turn, widespread news coverage — including by CNN, NBC, the Washington Post, Guardian, Independent, Hollywood Reporter, and Al Jazeera — looked something like this:
A contestant chose the last remaining prompt on the board: “Where’s that Church,” for $200.
Jeopardy host Alex Trebek read the prompt (to which contestants must provide the question being answered): “Built in the 300s AD, the Church of the Nativity.”
A contestant buzzed in: “What is Palestine?”
“No,” replied the host.
Another contestant took a shot: “What is Israel?”
The answer was accepted. $200 for Jack.
And cue the online outrage.
American TV game show Jeopardy! sparks outrage after host rules contestant gave the wrong answer when she said Jesus's birthplace was in Palestine pic.twitter.com/sUAkQSZdxb— TRT World Now (@TRTWorldNow) January 13, 2020
Trebek was, in fact, mistaken in the second part of the exchange. The Church of the Nativity is in Bethlehem, an ancient city that at the time of the church’s construction was ruled by Rome but that today sits in a Palestinian Authority-administered portion of the West Bank. Neither Israel nor the rest of the international community views Bethlehem as sovereign Israeli territory.
But the Jeopardy host’s rejection of the first answer was correct. Bethlehem is not in “Palestine,” because there is no country called Palestine.
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