--- title: Wheel of Fortune Contestant Venice Geography Fail description: After solving the puzzle "gondola ride through Venice," Wheel of Fortune contestants David and Keri were excited to claim their prize. canonical: https://time.com/4228913/wheel-of-fortune-contestant-geography-fail/ author: Megan McCluskey article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-02-18T15:42:01.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:30:13.055Z og:title: Wheel of Fortune Contestant Needs to Brush Up on His Geography og:description: "What country do you think we’re sending you to?" og:url: https://time.com/4228913/wheel-of-fortune-contestant-geography-fail/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Wheel of Fortune Contestant Needs to Brush Up on His Geography twitter:description: "What country do you think we’re sending you to?" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # This _Wheel of Fortune_ Contestant Needs to Brush Up on His Geography  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Feb 18, 2016 3:42 PM UTC  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Feb 18, 2016 3:42 PM UTC After correctly [solving the puzzle](http://time.com/4111234/wheel-of-fortune-contestant/) “gondola ride through Venice,” and in doing so, winning a trip to said city, [_Wheel of Fortune_ contestants](http://time.com/3855923/wheel-of-fortune-prizes/) David and Keri were excited to claim their prize. Little did they know the [ultimate test](http://time.com/3734143/wheel-of-fortune-seven-dwarfs-fail/) was yet to come. In a clip from Wednesday’s episode of the game show, host Pat Sajak asks the couple what he presumably thought would be a simple question. “Let’s check your geography knowledge,” he says. “What country do you think we’re sending you to?” **Read More:** [Watch Vanna White Have a Hilarious _Wheel of Fortune_ Wardrobe Malfunction](http://time.com/4149611/vanna-white-wheel-of-fortune-holiday-wardrobe-malfunction/) To the embarrassment of his wife, David quickly answers, “Paris,” before pausing for a moment and changing his response to, “France.” Unfortunately, as Sajak and the members of the audience seem to know, Venice is in Italy. “Do we still get it?,” Keri asks. Watch the full clip above. Wheel of Fortune Contestant Venice Geography Fail ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4228913/wheel-of-fortune-contestant-geography-fail/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4228913/wheel-of-fortune-contestant-geography-fail/"},"headline":"This Wheel of Fortune Contestant Needs to Brush Up on His Geography","datePublished":"2016-02-18T15:42:01.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:30:13.055Z","description":"\"What country do you think we’re sending you to?\"","url":"https://time.com/4228913/wheel-of-fortune-contestant-geography-fail/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Television","TV"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Megan McCluskey","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4228913/wheel-of-fortune-contestant-geography-fail/","name":"This Wheel of Fortune Contestant Needs to Brush Up on His Geography"}}]}] ```