Alex Trebek

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Biography

Recent Role:
Himself on Live! with Kelly
Gender:
Male
Birthplace:
Sudbury, Ontario, Canada
Birth Name:
George Alexander Trebek
AKA:
Alex Trebeck, The Man
Birth Name

Giorgi Suka-Alex Trebek



Height

5' 8" (1.73 m)



Born and raised in Sudbury, Ontario, Trebek graduated from the University of Ottawa with a degree in Philosophy. After his first decision to become a newscaster, he joined the CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Company), Canada's premier network in 1961. As he was working, he helped organize national news and covered a variety of special events for CBC's radio and television divisions, receiving high praise as a broadcaster who retained his poise and composure in











… More the toughest places. Then, in 1966, he became a Canadian game show host on "Reach for the Top" (1965), and stayed there for the first seven years until he migrated to the United States to host his very first game show in that country, "The Wizard of Odds" (1973), for NBC.



Prior to being selected as the host of "Jeopardy!" (1984), for syndication, he came back to NBC and hosted the revamped version of "c Concentration" (1987), which was also his second hit in his almost 30 year career. On this show, he received 4 Emmy nominations, but didn't win. It was cancelled in 1991, when the network stopped making game show for daytime TV.



On May 17, 2002, "Jeopardy!" (1984) celebrated a milestone, the show celebrated its 4000th episode and at the same time, it received another Daytime Emmy for "Outstanding Game Show/Audience Participation", making it its 21st Emmy. Like Bob Barker, Alex Trebek had broken the world record as host of TV's #1 quiz show in the country, and he won 2 Emmy Awards and received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, and, this year, was described as one of the Top 10 Canadians on U.S. television.

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    6 Fair
    He's ok...acts kind of smugly superior on Jeopardy (I'd like smart too if I had the answers in front of me) hide show

    I've probably watched over 100 espisodes of Jeopardy over the years (thinking makes my brain hurt). Maybe the show makes me feel inferior? I'm lucky to get 10 answers right (or in this case questions).

    I liked Alex better when he had his iconic mustache. But since mustache's have been out of style for years now...he shaved it off a few years ago!

    He really doesn't offer much as a host, and his extremely dry almost non-existant sense of humour doesn't work for me.
    And he seems to uptight to be a fun guy to be around.

    So, he's an okay guy (I liked his guest appearance on The Simpsons), but not a favorite.

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    Evil_Dead_Ash Added Jun 22, 2007 All my reviews
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    10 Perfect
    Alex Trebek is my hero!!! hide show

    I love Alex Trebek so, so, so, so, so, much that I did my 8th grade term paper on him. I know everything about him. I could tell you about his childhood, his family members, career, and any thing else you could possibly want to know about him, even some things you might not want to know. I some day hope to become editor for him, thats why I have been contributing so much to this person. I gave Alex Trebek a 10 becuase as you can see I'm a pretty big fan, people ask me why i like him so much, I tell them because he's the host of the best game show in the world!!!

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    CURLYHURLEY Added May 7, 2007 All my reviews
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    7.5 Good
    A decent and knowledgeable guy hide show

    Alex has been host of “Jeopardy!” since 1984. He is one of the best game show hosts in America because he gets the fact that people don’t watch the show to see him. Now if someone else was hosting, they might suck and cause the show to lose audience, but Alex is good at drawing the attention back to the contestants.

    Another thing that makes Alex a great host is that he’s just as comfortable with youth contests as with super egg head championship tournaments.

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    RJ-viewer Added Sep 11, 2005 All my reviews
 

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