History of alex trebek

George Alexander "Alex" Trebek^[9]OC (July 22, 1940 – November 8, 2020) was a Canadian-Americantelevisiongame show host.

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He hosted Jeopardy! for 37 seasons from 1984 until his death in 2020. He was born in Greater Sudbury, Ontario.^[10][11][12] He became a naturalized American citizen in 1998.^[13] In 2011, he snapped his achilles tendon while trying to stop a thief trying to rob his San Francisco hotel room.^[14][15]

In March 2019, Trebek announced that he had been diagnosed with stage IVpancreatic cancer.^[16][17][18] He died from the disease more than a year and a half later on November 8, 2020 in Los Angeles, aged 80.^[19][20] The same disease previously affected his predecessor on Jeopardy!, Art Fleming, 25 years earlier.^[21][22] He had been contracted to host Jeopardy! until 2022.^[23]

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