Famous Alexes for $200: This naturalized US citizen hosted the quiz show Jeopardy! for 37 seasons.
Alex Trebek has been honored with a sheet of memorial stamps from the US Postal Service looking like the question board on the show he indeed hosted for 37 seasons.
Announcing to the nation in 2019 a pancreatic cancer diagnosis, and his intention to fight it until the end, it didn’t take long for Trebek to step down from his role as host—a position he had filled since 1984.
His final episode garnered 14 million viewers and aired three months after his death in 2020.
The stamps feature four columns on the Jeopardy! game board, and include Game Show Hosts, Entertainment, Famous Alexes, and Forever Stamp collections. Below each tile are the words “Who is Alex Trebek?”
“My family and I were completely surprised about Alex being honored by the U.S. Postal Service. It is a such an extraordinary honor and a wonderful way to recognize what Alex meant to so many people,” Jean Trebek, the game show host’s widow, said at a ceremony at John Calley Park at Sony Pictures Studios on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the game show and the 84th Birthday celebration of Trebek.
“Alex would be over the moon about this distinctive honor and he’d feel very humbled,” she continued in a statement released along with the ceremony.
Ken Jennings, one of the show’s most successful contestants, and Trebek’s successor as host, agreed.
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“Alex Trebek was an American institution and so it makes perfect sense to honor him on a postage stamp. And of course, I had to geek out when I saw that the full sheet of stamps looks like a ‘Jeopardy!’ game board.”
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