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Oprah Winfrey was actually named (by her Aunt Ida) after Orpah, from the Book of Ruth in the Bible. In 2008, Ms. Winfrey explained that her family was unfamiliar with the name & spelled & pronounced it “Oprah” (flipping the R & the P) as the world has come to know through Ms. Winfrey’s fame, from her infancy. Also according to Ms. Winfrey, the name is correct, Orpah, on her birth certificate. Maybe I’m wrong, but I’m thinking it’s probably a good thing if Oprah has to fly on mostly private jets when she travels (Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous, & all that). Wouldn’t she have an issue traveling with the TSA since she goes by “Oprah”, but the legal spelling of her name, according to her birth certificate, is apparently “Orpah”, with the R& P flipped? I suppose she could carry a notarized copy of her birth certificate with her, when she flies commercially (I only ask because I seem to remember my airline of choice asking, at some point after 9/11, how I wanted my name listed when I flew with them, & I think it had to match my legal documents on which I was named).

From People: Alex Trebek’s Wife Jean Shares Photo from Their Wedding as She Thanks Fans for Support After Husband’s Death

David Ruprecht’s still around, as well. However, former SNL cast member/writer Leslie Jones is hosting the recently started ABC reboot version.

You’re welcome.

American is still around. US Airways (fka USAir & Allegheny) is the airline that ceased to exist as a result of the American/US Airways merger.

Akiva’s last name is Goldsman, not Goldsmith.

It might be. Since I only know you through this site, I can’t really say. But the curly fries at Arby’s have some sort of seasoned salt (I guess it is) on them & I don’t like them like that. They don’t taste garlicky or oniony, but they don’t taste like they just have plain table salt or even plain sea salt on them either. I’d rather put my own, non-seasoned, salt on my fries, thank you very much.

I got it on my YouTube TV app on my iPhone (I could’ve also gotten it through Hulu, as you did). I think I searched Alex Trebek or Alex Trebek Remembered.

I had posted I missed this “live”. I got to see it after I read about it here, thanks to my YouTube TV app (where I suspected I could find it). So if you missed it & have YouTube TV, it’s there, or still should be.

Jane Lynch is currently doing NBC’s The Weakest Link reboot. She was also doing Hollywood Game Night for them, but it shows up on the schedule so infrequently now that I don’t know if it’s been canceled or not. Just when I think it got canceled, it shows up on air again.

As far as I know, Steve Harvey still has the hosting gig at Family Feud for a number of years (at 1 point I also read he had secured the rights to do the show in multiple countries in Africa, but I don’t know what the pandemic might’ve done to that deal). Savannah Guthrie wouldn’t necessarily have to leave Today (nor George Stephanopolous GMA). Wikipedia says five episodes are taped each day, with two days of taping every other week. And I think those taping days are usually on the weekends. Plus, in the current pandemic environment, Savannah (or anyone not based in LA who gets the hosting gig) wouldn’t necessarily have to be on the same set as the contestants to read the clues, etc. As I said in 1 of the topics yesterday, Meredith Vieira has hosted a syndicated game show both last season & this season, 25 Words or Less (celebrities & their non-celebrity partners try to describe words on a list using only 25 words or less); this season she’s doing her hosting gig from a studio in New York, because of the pandemic, & is seen in the LA studio on a screen. I don’t know when last season stopped taping, in relation to the beginning of the pandemic, because she did all the shows that aired last season from LA. But at least part of the reason she may have stayed in New York this season is so as not to get/get exposed to COVID either on a plane, in an airport, or in the taping studio. Her husband’s in at least 2 risk groups for the virus: his age & his longtime status as a Multiple Sclerosis patient. He’s also legally blind. If Meredith could do her part on her show via a video remote hookup, so could anyone else based in New York who they might get to temporarily/permanently replace Alex.

Hosts Wink Martindale & Bob Eubanks are also still around.

My friend was on Jeopardy! in, like, the late 70s or sometime in the 80s. I forget the exact year, but it was during the era when the runners up contestants would get a selection of different things (at least some of which were usually in large amounts), because they were runners up. Stuff like pantyhose, Rice a Roni, & I forget what else.

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Hopefully most of you will see this in time. There WILL be tributes to Alex Trebek at BOTH the beginning & end of today’s/tonight’s episode of Jeopardy!. The Executive Producer talks about him at the beginning; there’s a title card with a dedication to him in the end. Continued in NEXT post. Sorry it got cut off!

I wonder if they’ll show some kind of memorial pic on today’s/tonight’s episode? It’s possible if they hadn’t sent it out to the local stations which air it before they announced the death. Alex made it 20 months after announcing his diagnosis. I’m sorry it couldn’t have been longer. An old friend of mine was on the show way back when they were still giving the non-winners on each episode “consolation prizes”—a ton of possibly useless stuff, in amounts so huge they may have some left when they die. It was also the era when you were identified by your full name & hometown (I’ve noticed, lately, at least some of the game show reboots are just identifying their contestants by their first name only—I guess they’ve changed how much info contestants give out about themselves on air now, as a safety measure, because it’s so easy to find out pretty much anything about anyone online these days, & you don’t know what someone might do with it). Anyway, my friend (who I met through a shared fandom, & who was also on Comedy Central’s Win Ben Stein’s Money—she also lost there, unfortunately) ended up with the dreaded consolation prizes. Among them was a huge supply of Rice-a-Roni. It was so much, she sent all her friends in the fandom a box of it just to get rid of it.

There’s a Remembering Alex Trebek topic in the Jeopardy! thread of the Competitive Game Shows forum, if anyone’s interested in reading or contributing to it.

I can access On Demand stuff easier on my TV apps, but thanks for the suggestion; I live in an assisted living center. Yes, they have cable, but not all the available channels & I don’t know about On Demand access.

Those actually weren’t words released posthumously; he said them in 1 of the interviews he gave (I think with ABC) after he announced his diagnosis.

The network morning shows said, in remembering him, the last block of shows with Alex finished taping 10 days ago (October 29th). His last show is on Christmas Day (which isn’t gonna make it easy to watch, what with family commitments [for those who have them] & possible pre-emptions for sports [if whichever leagues are playing their traditional Christmas games this year despite the pandemic] or other national/local holiday programming on your local station which carries Jeopardy!). I’m gonna try though.

Wink Martindale and Bob Eubanks are also still alive.

She may have been terrible at it, but she won Daytime Emmys for hosting it, in 2005 & 2009. At any rate, she’s currently hosting another syndicated game show, 25 Words or Less (celebrities & contestants try to guess other words in 25 words or less) which is in its second season. And she’s hosting via video from New York this season because of the pandemic (the celebs & contestants are in the usual LA studio). She may have stayed in New York because her husband’s in at least 2 COVID-19 risk groups, because of his age & because he’s had Multiple Sclerosis for a number of years; he’s also legally blind.

The network morning shows all said Alex Trebek’s last Jeopardy! show is on Christmas Day; some had interviews with the show’s Executive Producer & others had interviews with various former champions &/or contestants. I know Alex’s last show being on Christmas Day isn’t gonna make it easy for a lot of us to watch it, what with family obligations & possible pre-emptions on local stations for sports, if whichever leagues usually play on Christmas play on Christmas this year. But hopefully a lot of us can catch it, or DVR it & watch later. I’m definitely gonna try to watch “live” (it’s a little easier when you live in an assisted living center). I was counting earlier this morning; Alex made it about 20 months. Sorry it couldn’t have been longer. I almost forgot... 1 of my old friends was on Jeopardy!, during Alex’s tenure, years ago (she was also on the old Comedy Central game show Win Ben Stein’s Money after that). This was back in the day when the game shows would give you lengthy or lifetime supplies of all sorts of things as consolation prizes if you didn’t win, which she didn’t. Among the things she got was a huge supply of Rice-a-Roni (either a year’s supply or the equivalent of a lifetime supply, as I remember—anyway she had way more than she could eat in a timely manner). She & I were friends because of a certain shared fandom, & she sent all of us who were her friends through that fandom a box of it, so she could get rid of it faster.

I’m sorry I missed that. I have the YouTube TV & Hulu apps on my iPhone; hopefully I can find it on 1 of them.

Me too. The SNL Jeopardy! skit that was posted in the thread, with Will Ferrell playing Trebek & somebody else playing Connery was funny.