If “Who Is Alex Trebek?” was your answer to the above clue, then please add some money to your total Jeopardy! winnings because Trebek has indeed returned to the new season of Jeopardy! with a stylish silver beard. This is a huge change for the traditionally low-key game show, which tends to reject any attempts to…
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Jeopardy! has had its fair share of famous players over the years, from Anderson Cooper to Willy Wonka’s Mike Teavee to Austin Rogers, who became a celebrity the moment he walked onstage. None, however, could ever hope to be as fabulous as last night’s guest presenter: RuPaul.
“Affable trivia genius” used to be a dependable career, the sort of steady job one could count on to support a family. For Ken Jennings, that meant winning Jeopardy! 74 times in a row and pocketing more than $2.5 million in the process. Nowadays, thanks to Silicon Valley and the so-called “gig economy,” trivia savants…
America’s favorite rapping, nerd-dunking quizmaster is about to turn his eye to the world of politics, with The Philadelphia Inquirer reporting that Jeopardy! host Alex Trebek has been announced as the moderator for an upcoming gubernatorial debate. Trebek—who’s now a naturalized American citizen, after growing up in…
On the average episode of Jeopardy!, three people with excellent memory recall compete to win large cash prizes—but also, to demonstrate to Alex Trebek their remarkable facility for retaining knowledge across a vast swath of topics and concepts. Yesterday was not one of those episodes.
In a video message to Jeopardy! fans, host Alex Trebek has revealed that he recently underwent surgery for a subdural hematoma—or “blood clots on the brain,” as Variety helpfully explains—caused by a fall from October. He’s expected to make a full recovery, but he is going to be stepping out of the Jeopardy! studio…
To celebrate his 34th year at the helm of the popular quiz show Jeopardy, Alex Trebek did what any veteran game show host would do, and assured his loyal viewers that he had once gotten very high. Of course, this little tidbit was just part of a larger interview with The Daily Beast about his storied career and…
The world is pretty scary these days, but at least we can still count on answers in the form of a question and the occasional hilarious misstep, because Variety is reporting that Pat Sajak and Vanna White from Wheel Of Fortune and Alex Trebek from Jeopardy! have all renewed their contracts through the 2019-2020 TV…
On Monday night, Alex Trebek wowed the world with his rip-rap-rippity rapping skills when a “Let’s Rap, Kids!” category popped up on Jeopardy! Though his flow was a bit wack, people loved it all the same.
The special Jeopardy! tournaments targeted toward younger people—whether they’re kids or college students—usually give the show a chance to let loose and throw in some fun pop culture-based categories about things kids like. Today, with the show in the middle of its collegiate tournament, Jeopardy! decided to dip into…
As any regular viewer of Jeopardy! can tell you, the average game usually isn‘t complete without at least one instance of leaning forward, shouting “Bet more, you dummy!” at the screen, and then turning to whomever you’re watching the show with after the contestant gets it right and smugly reminding them, “I told them…
Are you happy, internet? Alex Trebek is 76 years old, and on the January 12 edition of the deathless quiz show Jeopardy!, he had to say embarrassing things like “yas queen” and “keyboard cat” in front of a live studio audience, a TV crew, and three contestants, and the whole thing was broadcast on national television.…
The nostalgia peddlers at Shout! Factory will be bringing back Starcade, the world’s first-ever video game arcade show which ran for three seasons from 1982 to 1983. “Starcade is a classic game show from the ’80s and is pure nostalgic fun. We couldn’t be more excited to work with the original show creators to…
If the last few Jeopardy! episodes have felt a little more emotionally heavy than normal, it might be because one of the contestants—a woman named Cindy Stowell—died just last week after a battle with colon cancer. As explained by a post on the Jeopardy! website, Stowell had passed the online eligibility test early…
Earlier this month, TV host Alex Trebek earned the ire of the Nerdcore rap community with his declaration that fans of Boba Fett-and-BIOS-based rhymes were “losers.” In a possible bid to bulk back up his rap credentials, then, Trebek dropped some knowledge during last night’s Jeopardy!, firing off lyrics from Drake’s “…
Last week, Jeopardy! host Alex Trebek poked fun at a contestant named Susan Cole over her taste in music, describing nerdcore hip-hop artists as “losers” because they rap about video games and science fiction. Cole took it well, laughing along with Trebek as he admitted that he was “just teasing,” but—to nobody’s…
A staple of Jeopardy! is quizmaster-host Alex Trebek’s mingling with the mortal contestants who appear on the show. Reading from cue cards with notes supplied by respective players doesn’t exactly encourage an easygoing exchange, but some interactions are notably poor. Case in point was last night’s episode, when Alex…
Longtime Jeopardy! viewers know not to expect much from the show’s annual celebrity showdowns, but this week’s “Power Players” charity tournament promised slightly more impressive displays of trivia knowledge. At least, it started off that way on Monday with Jonathan Franzen, S.E. Cupp, and Chuck Todd all making it to…
Jeopardy!’s eligibility requirements are few in number (the hazing doesn’t start until the in-person audition, presumably) and, for the most part, reasonable: You must be 18 or older to compete (except for Teen Tournament, College Championship, or Kids’ Week contestants), you can’t have appeared on the show at any…
