On Jeopardy yesterday, with the Final Jeopardy category “The Olympics” and the clue: “This sport that made its debut in 1988 has a playing surface of only about 45 square feet.”, the correct response was “What is Table Tennis?”
[The “official” metric dimensions of a table tennis (or Ping-Pong) table now are 2.74m long and 1.525m wide. Originally it was (and for me, it still is) 9 feet long and 5 feet wide (9 ft x 5 ft = 45 sq ft)]
On Jeopardy yesterday, with the Final Jeopardy category “The Olympics” and the clue: “This sport that made its debut in 1988 has a playing surface of only about 45 square feet.”, the correct response was “What is Table Tennis?”
[The “official” metric dimensions of a table tennis (or Ping-Pong) table now are 2.74m long and 1.525m wide. Originally it was (and for me, it still is) 9 feet long and 5 feet wide (9 ft x 5 ft = 45 sq ft)]