Alex Trebek trivia: 65 unknown facts about the Canadian- American TV personality!

Alex Trebek is one of the better known personalities in the tv landscape! He is Canadian- American!

So let’s find out some trivia and facts about his life!

1. His full name is George Alexander Trebek
2. He is a Canadian- American television personality
3. He has been the host of the syndicated game show Jeopardy!
4. Since it was revived in 1984
5. He has also hosted a number of other game shows
6. Including The Wizard of Odds, Double Dare, High Rollers, Battlestars, Classic Concentration, and To Tell the Truth
7. Alex Trebek is contracted to host Jeopardy! until 2022
8. On March 6, 2019, he announced that he had been diagnosed with stage IV pancreatic cancer
9. Alex Trebek has made appearances in numerous television series, usually portraying himself
10. A native of Canada
11. He became a naturalized United States citizen in 1998
12. Alex Trebek was born in Sudbury, Ontario, Canada on July 22, 1940
13. He is the son of George Edward Trebek
14. A chef who had emigrated from Ukraine as a child
15. And Lucille Lagacé
16. She was born on April 14, 1921
17. A Franco- Ontarian
18. He grew up in a bilingual French- English household
19. Alex Trebek graduated from the University of Ottawa with a degree in philosophy in 1961
20. While a university student, he was a member of the English Debating Society
21. At the time, he was interested in a career in broadcast news
22. Before completing his degree, Alex Trebek began his career in 1961 working for the CBC
23. He would eventually read the national news and cover a wide range of special events for the CBC’s radio and television divisions
24. Including curling and horse racing
25. Alex Trebek married businesswoman Elaine Callei in 1974
26. The couple had no children and divorced in 1981
27. In 1990, he married Jean Currivan, a real estate project manager from New York
28. They have two children, Matthew and Emily
29. In 1996, Trebek ran the Olympic Torch in Jacksonville, Florida, through a leg of its journey to Atlanta
30. Alex Trebek became a naturalized citizen of the United States in 1998
31. In late 2001 during Jeopardy!’s 18th season, Trebek shaved the mustache that he had worn for over 30 years
32. He wore a fake mustache for the first half of the April 1, 2008, episode as an April Fools’ joke
33. In summer 2014, Alex Trebek regrew the mustache for the 31st season of Jeopardy!
34. Only to shave it off again a month into the season
35. Alex Trebek grew out a full beard at the beginning of the 2018 season
36. Shaving it down to a goatee for the second episode
37. And a mustache by the second week
38. Alex Trebek owned and managed a 700-acre (2.8 km2) ranch near Paso Robles in Creston, California
39. Known as Creston Farms
40. There he bred and trained thoroughbred race horses
41. Alex Trebek’s colt, Reba’s Gold, is the stakes-winning son of Slew o’ Gold
42. Alex Trebek sold the operation in 2008 and the property is now an event center called Windfall Farms
43. In 2018, in an interview with Vulture, Trebek stated that he was a political moderate and registered independent
44. Neither conservative nor liberal, with some libertarian leanings
45. On December 11, 2007, Trebek suffered a minor heart attack in his home
46. But returned to work as scheduled in January
47. He injured an Achilles tendon, requiring six weeks in a cast
48. While chasing a burglar who had entered his San Francisco hotel room on July 27, 2011
49. He suffered a mild heart attack on June 23, 2012
50. But returned to work in July
51. On January 4, 2018, the verified Twitter account of Jeopardy! announced that Trebek had suffered a fall
52. And over the winter break of Jeopardy! taping, underwent surgery for a subdural hematoma
53. On December 15, 2017, Trebek was admitted to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center after reportedly experiencing complications from his fall in October
54. He nderwent surgery to remove blood clots from his brain the following day
55. Alex Trebek required a short medical leave
56. He returned to regular hosting duty in mid-January 2018
57. In 2018, while being interviewed by Harvey Levin on Fox News, Alex Trebek floated the idea of retirement
58. He added that he might continue if he is “not making too many mistakes” but would make an “intelligent decision” as to when he should give up the emcee role
59. In October that year, he signed a new contract to continue as host through 2022
60. On March 6, 2019, Trebek announced that he had been diagnosed with stage IV pancreatic cancer
61. In a prepared video announcement of the diagnosis, Alex Trebek noted that his prognosis was poor
62. But that he would aggressively fight the cancer in hopes of beating the odds
63. He would continue hosting Jeopardy!
64. For as long as he was able
65. Joking that his contract obligated him to do so for three more years