Episode 674
Alex Trebek
Fri, 2019-Mar-08 01:39 UTC
Length - 1:39
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With 565,136 views on Thursday, 7 March 2019 our article of the day is Alex Trebek.
George Alexander Trebek (; born July 22, 1940) is a Canadian-American television personality. He has been the host of the syndicated game show Jeopardy! since it was revived in 1984, and has 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. Trebek is contracted to host Jeopardy! until 2022. On March 6, 2019, he announced that he had been diagnosed with stage IV pancreatic cancer.Trebek has made appearances in numerous television series, usually portraying himself. A native of Canada, he became a naturalized United States citizen in 1998.
This recording reflects the Wikipedia text as of 01:39 UTC on Friday, 8 March 2019.
For the full current version of the article, see Alex Trebek on Wikipedia.
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