Rachel Maddow's own category is the 'Best New Thing' on 'Jeopardy'
MSNBC host Rachel Maddow provides the clue in a new 'Jeopardy' category named after her 'Best New Thing In The World' segment. (Jeopardy)

Answer: This MSNBC host is the basis for a category that debuted on the game show Jeopardy on Wednesday night, Ad Week reported.

Question: Who is Rachel Maddow?

The show released video of Maddow providing the clue for "Best New Thing In The World," a set of questions based on a long-running segment on her show. It also posted a short video of Maddow explaining why she would have liked to cover the 1964 presidential election as it happened.

"With the country having just been through the trauma of the [John F.] Kennedy assassination, I just feel like '64 was something that I would have liked to see up close," she said. "And I would loved to have had a role in trying to make sense of it, trying to explain it."

Watch Maddow provide a clue in the category, as posted online on Wednesday, below.

And her remarks to the show can be seen here.

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