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Alex Trebek
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Canadian and American game show host and TV personality (1940–2020)
OverviewAI-generated
Alex Trebek (1940–2020) was an author and television personality whose professional career spanned from 1961 to 2020. He had three children and a net worth of 75,000,000. His published works include the DVD release *National Geographic Bee 2010*. Trebek was recognized in the Hollywood Walk of Fame collection.
He is associated with several recorded quotes, including "I'm curious about everything—even things that don't interest me." and "Don't tell me what you believe in. I'll observe how you behave and I will make my own determination." Another quote reads, "What goes 0-300 in less than 2 seconds? Your mother on a scale."
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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 4
Top works
- National Geographic Bee 2010 [DVD] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC]
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 46
- Total plays
- 2,883
Tags
George Alexander "Alex" Trebek (/trɨˈbɛk/; born July 22, 1940) is a Canadian-American television personality. He has been the host of the syndicated game show Jeopardy! since 1984; before that, he hosted other game shows, including The Wizard of Odds, High Rollers, and Pitfall. Trebek has made appearances in numerous television series, usually portraying himself. A native of Canada, he became a naturalized United States citizen in 1998. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Alex+Trebek">Read more o
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold
· 2021 · cited 43,656x
- SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python
· 2020 · cited 36,548x
- ImageNet classification with deep convolutional neural networks
· 2017 · cited 32,060x
- Human-level control through deep reinforcement learning
· 2015 · cited 23,789x
- Welcome to the Tidyverse
· 2019 · cited 20,494x
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Quotes
- “I'm curious about everything—even things that don't interest me.”
- “What goes 0-300 in less than 2 seconds? Your mother on a scale.”
- “Don't tell me what you believe in. I'll observe how you behave and I will make my own determination.”
- “Don’t ask me who’s going to replace me because I have no say whatsoever, but I’m sure that if you give them the same love and attention and respect that you have shown me, then they will be a success and the show will continue being a success. And until we meet again, God bless you and goodbye.”
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Key facts
- Born
- George Alexander Trebek , ( 1940-07-22 ) July 22, 1940, Sudbury , Ontario , Canada
- Died
- November 8, 2020 (2020-11-08) (aged 80), Los Angeles, California, U.S.
- Citizenship
- Canada United States (from 1998)
- Alma mater
- University of Ottawa
- Occupations
- Television personality game show host
- Years active
- 1961–2020
- Known for
- Hosting Jeopardy! (1984–2020)
- Spouses
- Elaine Howard ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1974 ; divorced</span>"}]]}'>div. 1981 ) Jean Currivan ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1990 )
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Encyclopedic overview
George Alexander Trebek (/trəˈbɛk/; July 22, 1940 – November 8, 2020) was a Canadian and American game show host and television personality. Regarded as a pop culture icon, he was best known for hosting the syndicated quiz show Jeopardy! for 37 seasons from its revival in 1984 until his death in 2020. Trebek also hosted a number of other game shows, including The Wizard of Odds, Double Dare, High Rollers, Battlestars, Classic Concentration, and To Tell the Truth. He made appearances, usually as himself, in numerous films and television series.
A native of Canada, Trebek became a naturalized American citizen in 1998. For his work on Jeopardy!, Trebek received the Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Game Show Host eight times. He died in November 2020, at age 80, after 20 months with stage IV pancreatic cancer. At the time of his death, Trebek had been contracted to host Jeopardy! until 2022.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Alex Trebek” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.