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Evidently, there was a black contestant that pronounced Wayne Gretzky as "Wayne Greet-sky". Sajak couldn't take the answer.

Found after reading a few blog responses.

Yes, and names like that are hard to guess if you don't know popular media. I'd not have had a clue.

I seem to remember another instance of which some science word came up which nobody knew how to pronounce. To me, it sounds more like the editors did'nt do their due diligence in finding things people could say.