July 22, 2026
Alex Trebek
Today we're Alex Trebek's birthday: game show legends, Jeopardy!, and the golden age of TV game shows.
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Caalaruga Shark Media. Hi, I'm Mark Ellison. In Today's theme
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is Alex Trebek's birthday? Game show Legends, Jeopardy and the
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Golden Age of TV game shows? Question one. Alex Trebek's
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birthday falls on July twenty second, in what year and
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in which Canadian city? Was the longtime Jeopardy hostborn? Question
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two before Alex Trebek took the lectern in nineteen eighty four.
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Who hosted the original NBC Jeopardy from its nineteen sixty
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four debut through nineteen seventy five and the nineteen seventy
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eight seventy nine revival. Question three? What is the title
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of the thirty second final Jeopardy Think music? Composed by
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creator MERV Griffin as a lullaby for his son, that
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plays while contestants write their wagers and responses. Question four.
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Name for a game show legend born Monte halperin which
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showman co created and hosted Let's Make a Deal and
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later lent his name to a famous probability puzzle about
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switching doors. Question five which late one thousand, nine hundred
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and fifty s television controversy centered on shows like twenty
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one and contestant Charles Van Doren, prompted Congress to amend
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the Communications Act of nineteen thirty four to make rigging
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quiz programs illegal. We'll be right back with these answers
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after this break. Welcome back. Question one When and where
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was Alex Trebek born? Answer? July twenty second, nineteen forty, Sudbury,
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Ontario now Greater Sudbury, Canada. Trebeck was born in Sudbury, Ontario,
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on July twenty second, nineteen forty, and grew up bilingual
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in English and French. He began his broadcasting career at
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the CBC before moving to US television and becoming synonymous
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with Jeopardy. Question two, Who was Jeopardy's original host before Trebec? Answer?
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Art Fleming. Actor and broadcaster Art Fleming was the first
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face of Jeopardy, created by MERV Griffin. Fleming's authoritative style
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defined the show's early years. Trebec later assumed hosting duties
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for the syndicated revival in nineteen eighty four. Question three,
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What's the name of Jeopardy? Final Jeopardy theme? Answer? Think?
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MERV Griffin wrote the tune as a lullaby, originally titled
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A Time for Tony. It became the instantly recognizable Final
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Jeopardy theme. Its steady clock like rhythm is designed to
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underscore the suspense of the final clue. Question four, which
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host of Let's Make a Deal, inspired the Monty Hall
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Problem answer. Monty Hall, Winnipeg born Monty Hall, co created
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Let's Make a Deal and presided over its zany tray
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aids and curtain reveals. The Monty Hall Problem, based on
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a simplified version of the show's door choice setup, famously
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demonstrates the counterintuitive benefit of switching question five. What were
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the late one thy, nine hundred and fifty STV rigging
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scandals called answer the quiz show scandals? Revelations that certain
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quiz shows had supplied answers to contestants shook public trust
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and led to the nineteen sixty amendments to the Communications
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Act Section five hundred nine banning the fixing of contests.
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The fallout reshaped industry standards and ethics for game shows.
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That concludes Today's five daily trivia questions. I'm Mark Ellison,
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and today's questions were crafted with the help of AI technology.
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See you tomorrow.
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