Twitter Is Shocked By The Question Alex Trebek Asked A Jeopardy Contestant

All week, "Jeopardy" has been doing "Power Player" games, which are basically "Celebrity Jeopardy" dressed up with the gravitas that the contestants are mostly politicos, journalists, TV pundits and others you'd expect to be in-the-know on current events, politics and pop culture.

But on Tuesday night's match-up, Former Republican National Committee chair Michael Steele, television journalist Anderson Cooper and journalist and war correspondent Lara Logan proved themselves to be anything but in-the-know with a trainwreck of a game that has quickly and widely been nominated for the title of "worst episode of 'Jeopardy' ever."

And while it was shocking to see how little the people we get our news from seem to know about basic politics, world news, geography or any book or movie ever made, the episode actually had a much more shocking moment than Anderson Cooper not being able to identify the "snake with a hood" or anyone being able to come up with a word for both a military vehicle and a home for your fish. TANK, PEOPLE. Tank.

It happened after the first commercial break, which "Jeopardy" reserves for light-hearted banter between Trebek and the contestants. Trebek asks each contestant a question and they respond with a story -- usually things along the lines of "I always go to the zoo on my birthday," or "My wife and I once had a comical misunderstanding" or "I plan to throw a party with my winnings." Anderson Cooper, for instance, got asked about being a childhood model.

Inexplicably, Trebek chose this generally fun, introductory segment to say this to middle contestant Lara Logan:

"Lara Logan, a few years ago in Egypt, on what was supposed to be a happy occasion, you were violently sexually assaulted--"

TREBEK WHAT ARE YOU DOING NOOOO STOP. 

He did not stop.

"A few months ago, there were a number of women who experienced the same thing as a festival in Europe. WHAT IS GOING ON? I thought we were making progress in our treatment of women?"

Not only did he casually bring up the woman's violent sexual assault, but he then asked her to basically explain why rape happens, a problem he apparently thought we were nipping in the bud already!

Twitter was instantly not about it.

Alex: Lara, you were violently sexually assaulted in Egypt, tell us about that #Jeopardy #facepalm — PurdueMatt (@PurdueMatt05) May 17, 2016

You get to ask one question and you choose to ask Lara Logan about her sexual assault? Incredibly poor taste, Alex. #jeopardy @jeopardy — Lisa Echerd (@LisaEDesignNC) May 18, 2016

"So, tell me put the time you were violently raped." REALLY TREBEK?! #jeopardy — Brian (@BigBrain61) May 18, 2016

Nice "chit chat," segment, Alex. Childhood modeling, Republicans, and then violent sexual assault. Asshole. #Jeopardy — Kelly Schirmer (@schirmcat) May 18, 2016

"So last year you were violently sexually assaulted" - Alex Trebek silky smooth with the small talk #Jeopardy — te'o (@tommyohandsome) May 17, 2016

In case you don't remember, Logan was beaten and sexually assaulted for almost half an hour in 2011, when her camera died while covering a celebration in Tahrir Square in Egypt. She was dragged by her scalp in a crowd of 200-300 men, some of whom were snapping cell phone pictures of the assault before being rescued by arriving soldiers. Not exactly cocktail conversation.

Of course, many people have pointed out that the conversation was almost certainly cleared by and likely proposed by Logan, as it was also connected to the charity she was playing for, Committee to Protect Journalists.

If Logan was trying to use her own experience to bring attention to her charity, then good for her. But it's not a huge surprise that the tie-in didn't come off well from a man who regularly jokes about "women's lib" and his "ex-wives" on-air.

It was hard to even pay attention to Logan's answer after hearing Trebek essentially open with: "So you were raped. What's up with that?"

Ultimately, despite a poor showing from all the contestants, Logan did take the game, so at least her charity will be receiving that $50,000 donation.