They must not have liked him. There have been many times when the answers were scrawled and barely legible and accepted as correct.
True. I remember one incident where the final Jeopardy answer was "Clint Eastwood." One of the contestants wrote down "Who is Clint E.?" - and they gave it to her!
Just once I'd like to see someone leap over the podium and smack the ___ of of Alex Trebek!