Alex Trebek Trivia Quiz Questions and Answers

Trivia quiz questions and answers about Alex Trebek

Alex Trebek Trivia Quiz Questions and Answers
Who is Alex Trebek?
A: George Alexander Trebek is a Canadian-American television personality.

He has been the host of what syndicated game show since it was revived in 1984?
A: Jeopardy!.

He has also hosted a number of other game shows, including what?
A: The Wizard of Odds, Double Dare, High Rollers, Battlestars, Classic Concentration, and To Tell the Truth.

Trebek has made appearances in numerous television series, usually portraying whom?
A: Himself.

A native of Canada, when did he become a naturalized United States citizen?
A: In 1998.

Where was Trebek born?
A: In Sudbury, Ontario, Canada

When was he born?
A: On July 22, 1940.

Who was his father?
A: George Edward Trebek, a chef who had emigrated from Ukraine as a child.

Who was his mother?
A: Lucille Lagacé, a Franco-Ontarian.

He grew up in what kind of household?
A: A bilingual French-English household.

Trebek graduated from the University of Ottawa with a degree in what in 1961?
A: Philosophy.

While a university student, he was a member of what society?
A: The English Debating Society.

At the time, he was interested in a career in what?
A: Broadcast news.

Before completing his degree, Trebek began his career in 1961 working for whom?
A: The CBC.

He would eventually read the national news and cover a wide range of special events for whom?
A: The CBC's radio and television divisions, including curling and horse racing.

Trebek's first hosting job was on a Canadian music program called what?
A: Music Hop in 1963.

In 1966 he hosted what?
A: A high school quiz show called Reach for the Top.

From 1967 to 1970 he was a host for the CBC, introducing what?
A: Classical music programs including performances by Glenn Gould.

For one or two seasons he hosted a weekly what?
A: Skating program.

Starting in spring 1969, Trebek also hosted what?
A: Strategy which aired on week days.

In 1973, he moved to the United States and worked for whom as host of a new game show, The Wizard of Odds?
A: NBC.

A year later Trebek hosted what popular Merrill Heatter-Bob Quigley game show?
A: High Rollers, which had two incarnations on NBC (1974–76 and 1978–80), and an accompanying syndicated season (1975–76).

In between stints as host of High Rollers what did Trebek host?
A: The short-lived CBS game show Double Dare (not to be confused with the 1986 Nickelodeon game show of the same name).

Double Dare turned out to be his only game show with what?
A: The CBS network.

He returned to CBS in 1994 to host what?
A: The Pillsbury Bake-Off until 1998.

Like other hosts of the day, Trebek made several guest appearances as a what?
A: A panelist or player on other shows.

One of his guest appearances was on a special week of what?
A: NBC's Card Sharks, in 1980.

He and several other game show hosts (Allen Ludden, Bill Cullen, Wink Martindale, Jack Clark, Gene Rayburn, and Jim Lange) competed in a what?
A: A week-long round robin tournament for charity.

Who won the tournament defeating Cullen in the finals?
A: Trebek.

Trebek also appeared as a celebrity teammate on what NBC game show?
A: The Magnificent Marble Machine in 1975 and the Tom Kennedy-hosted NBC word game To Say the Least in 1978.

Both of those shows were produced by whom?
A: Merrill Heatter-Bob Quigley Productions.

They also produced what show that Trebek was hosting during both of those guest appearances?
A: High Rollers.

Trebek also was a contestant on Celebrity Bowling in 1976, teamed with whom?
A: Jim McKrell.

The duo won their match against whom?
A: Dick Gautier and Scatman Crothers.

After High Rollers was cancelled in 1980, Trebek moved on to what?
A: Battlestars for NBC.

When did the series debute?
A: In October 1981.

When was it cancelled?
A: In April 1982 after only six months on the air.

In September 1981 Trebek took the helm of what?
A: The syndicated Pitfall, which taped in Vancouver and forced him to commute, as he had done while hosting High Rollers and The $128,000 Question in 1978.

Pitfall was cancelled after what?
A: After its production company, Catalena Productions went bankrupt.

As a result, Trebek was never what?
A: Paid for that series.

After both series ended, Trebek hosted a revival of Battlestars called what?
A: The New Battlestars.

It ended after how long?
A: Thirteen weeks.

For Griffin, he shot two pilots for a revival of what show?
A: Jeopardy!.

In 1987, while still hosting Jeopardy!, Trebek returned to daytime television as host of NBC's what?
A: NBC’s Classic Concentration, his second show for Mark Goodson.

He hosted both shows simultaneously until when?
A: September 20, 1991, when Classic Concentration aired its final first-run episode (NBC would air repeats until 1993).

In 1991 Trebek made broadcast history by doing what?
A: By becoming the first person to host three American game shows at the same time, earning this distinction on February 4, 1991, when he took over for Lynn Swann as host of NBC's To Tell the Truth, also for Goodson-Todman, which he hosted until the end of the series' run on May 31, 1991.

In 1994, Trebek returned to the CBS network for the first time since hosting Double Dare to host what?
A: The Pillsbury Bake-Off, which he hosted until 1998.

In August 1995 in a return to his broadcast-news roots, Trebek filled in for whom for a week on Good Morning America?
A: Charles Gibson.

What year did Trebek appear on Celebrity Poker Showdown?
A: In 2005.

He came in second place in his qualifying game, losing to whom?
A: Cheryl Hines.

On May 9, 2008, Trebek was a guest on what late night TV show?
A: Jimmy Kimmel Live!.

On the program what did he discuss?
A: His 24-year career as the host of Jeopardy!.

Revisiting Kimmel in 2011, he talked about what?
A: The IBM Challenge on Jeopardy!.

Trebek also appears in many commercials for what insurance company?
A: Colonial Penn Life Insurance.

In December 2010, what TV show did Trebek guest-star on?
A: How I Met Your Mother.

On March 26, 2014, Alex Trebek made a guest appearance on Hot in Cleveland as whom?
A: As himself.

On June 13, 2014, Guinness World Records presented Alex with the world record for what?
A: The most episodes of a game show hosted, with 6,829 episodes at the time.

On the December 18, 2014 series-finale episode of The Colbert Report, Trebek greets Colbert as he boards a what?
A: A sleigh driven by Santa Claus and Abraham Lincoln and leaves the studio for the last time.

On June 24, 2018, Trebek returned as a panelist on the ABC revival of what?
A: To Tell the Truth.

On October 1, 2018, Trebek moderated the only debate in what?
A: The Pennsylvania governor's race.

Who did Trebek marry in 1974?
A: Businesswoman Elaine Callei.

The couple had no children and divorced in what year?
A: 1981.

In 1990 who did he marry?
Jean Currivan, a real estate project manager from New York.

How many children do they have?
A: Two, Matthew and Emily.

In what year did Trebek become a naturalized citizen of the United States?
A: In 1998.

In late 2001, during Jeopardy!'s 18th season, what did Trebek do?
A: He shaved the mustache that he had worn for over 30 years.

He wore a fake mustache for the first half of the April 1, 2008, episode as what?
A: An April Fools' joke.

On March 6, 2019 what did he announce?
A: That he had been diagnosed with stage IV pancreatic cancer.