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Book Review: Alex Trebek The Answer Is...

patgalca @patgalca (18481) • Orangeville, Ontario 14 Jun 21

Alex Trebek reflects on his life in this last writing before his passing last year. Each "chapter" is short, like little anecdotes, with lots of photographs sprinkled within the book. I enjoyed reading about the behind-the-scenes...

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Alex Trebek 1940-2020

Michele @Aquitaine24 (12000) • San Jose, California 9 Nov 20

As you may or may not know, Alex Trebek has passed from stage 4 pancreatic cancer. He first announced this in March 2019. It sounds like he put up a good fight. He was the longtime host of the game show Jeopardy! ,succeeding Art...

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What Is ‘So Sad to Hear That’?

Four Walls @FourWalls (86829) • United States 8 Nov 20

Alex Trebek has lost his battle with pancreatic cancer. The second host of the TV game show Jeopardy! passed away peacefully at his home today, according to a tweet by the show. Old timers will remember Art Fleming as the...

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Jeopardy teen tournament donates some of his winnings for cancer research

George B Vieto @Deepizzaguy (122277) • Lake Charles, Louisiana 16 Jan 20

I really have to give my applause to Jeopardy teen tournament winner Avi Gupta who won the grand prize of $100,000 dollars last summer. Since Avi admires Alex Trebek who has been the host of Jeopardy since 1984 is currently...

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July 22 - Let's discuss what happened on that day

LindaOH @LindaOHio (222727) • United States 22 Jul 19

Hammock Day 1893 - Katharine Lee Bates wrote "America the Beautiful" after seeing the view from the top of Pikes Peak. 1686 - Albany, New York, is formally chartered as a municipality. 1908 - Amy Vanderbilt was born. She was...

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Jeopardy

Laura @lwelizabeth (288) • United States 25 Feb 17

Do you watch Jeopardy? I like the show's quizzing of random trivia and record my answers every evening that I watch it. I think I am going to start keeping score of my answers, too, now that I have found a helpful website to keep...

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