Jeopardy! 質問（する） show host Alex Trebek dies 老年の 80
Alex Trebek, who 統括するd over the American 質問（する） show Jeopardy! for more than 30 years, has died 老年の 80.
Mr Trebek, who 発表するd in 2019 that he had 前進するd pancreatic 癌, died at his California home on Sunday, surrounded by family and friends, Jeopardy! studio Sony said.
The Canadian-born host, who made a point of 知らせるing fans about his health 直接／まっすぐに, spoke about his illness and his hope for a cure in a ビデオ 地位，任命するd on March 6 2019.
In the ビデオ, Mr Trebek said he was joining the 50,000 other Americans who receive such a diagnosis each year and that he recognised that the prognosis was not encouraging.
But Mr Trebek said he ーするつもりであるd to fight it and keep working, even joking that he needed to （警官の）巡回区域，受持ち区域 the 病気 because his Jeopardy! 契約 ran for three more years.
いっそう少なく than a week later, he opened the show with a message 認めるing the outpouring of 肉親，親類d words and 祈りs he had received.
Jeopardy! 法案s itself as “America’s favourite 質問（する） show” and captivated the public with a unique 判型 in which contestants were told the answers and had to 供給する the questions on a variety of 支配するs, 含むing films, politics, history and popular culture.
Mr Trebek, who became its host in 1984, was a master of the 判型, engaging in friendly banter with contestants, appearing genuinely pleased when they answered 正確に and, at the same time, moving the game along in a きびきびした no-nonsense fashion whenever people struggled for answers.
He never pretended to know the answers himself if he really did not, deferring to the show’s 専門家s to decide whether a vague answer had come の近くに enough to be counted as 訂正する.
“I try not to take myself too 本気で,” he told an interviewer in 2004. “I don’t want to come off as a pompous ass and 示す that I know everything when I don’t.”
The show was the brainstorm of Julann Griffin, wife of the late talk show host-entrepreneur Merv Griffin, who said she 示唆するd to him one day that he create a game show where people were given the answers.
Jeopardy! debuted on NBC in 1964 with Art Fleming as emcee and was an 即座の 攻撃する，衝突する. It lasted until 1975, then was 生き返らせるd in syndication with Mr Trebek.
Mr Trebeck won five Emmys as the host of Jeopardy! and received 星／主役にするs on both the Hollywood and Canadian walks of fame. In 2012, the show won a prestigious Peabody Award.
