This is Jeopardy: Remembering Art and Alex
Alex Trebek, who hosted Jeopardy for thirty-seven seasons, died on November 8th. My connection to him and the show was through Art Fleming, a prior host of the show, who got Alex the gig. Let me explain. As a child, I was quite the nerd. I could recite the U.S. presidents forward and backward at age eight, along with the names of their wives. State capitals were no challenge. Back in the days of Art Fleming, who hosted Jeopardy on NBC from 1964 until 1975, it was not that hard to get on the show. It was 1973. I had recently returned from eight months of travelling abroad. I had hitchhiked around Europe, slept in youth hostels, stayed on the southern coast of Crete for a month in a house... Read more...
