Photos: Alex Trebek through the years

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Photos: Alex Trebek through the years

Photos: Alex Trebek through the years

Alex Trebek is the host of TV game shows "Jeopardy" and "Concentration". He was photographed in his home on Mullholland Dr. in Los Angeles on July 7, 1988.

"Jeopardy's" Alex Trebek

Alex Trebek, the host of the television game show "Jeopardy," poses with his wife Jean Currivan, on the stern of the yacht "Jacana" on July 2, 1990 in New York.

Game show creator Merv Griffin, left, shares a laugh with "Jeopardy!" host Alex Trebek, second from left, and "Wheel of Fortune" hosts Vanna White and Pat Sajak, right, during a news conference in Atlanta Thursday, March 28, 1996 to announce their Olympic marketing plans. The popular game shows are Olympic sponsors and begining in April will launch major Olympic promotions and offer Olympic-related merchandise to their viewers.

Ellie Matthews, 52, winner of the 38th Pillsbury Quick & Easy Bake-Off competition, looks to host Alex Trebek as he unveils her winning Salsa Couscous Chicken in Orlando, Florida. Mathews, Seattle homemaker, won the cooking contest and will take home a $1 million grand prize. The contest had a ''Quick and Easy'' theme, and the judges were looking for main dishes that required less than 30 minutes to prepare. Mathews' winning dish was prepared in a skillet, not baked.

Emmy award-winning game show host, Alex Trebek gestures to the 400 fans on hand to watch him receive his newly-dedicated star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in the Hollywood section of Los Angeles, Monday, May 17, 1999. Trebek, who hosted the game shows "Wizard of Odds," "Concentration" and "To Tell the Truth, is celebrating his 15th year anniversary with TV's "Jeopardy!"

Jason Borschow of San Juan, P.R., left, reacts after missing a question during the 1999 National Geography Bee, Wednesday, May 26, 1999 at the National Geographic Society in Washington. Host Alex Trebek is at center and eventual winner David Beihl of Saluda, S.C. is at right.

Quiz show host Alex Trebek, left, talks with boxing promoter Don King at the National Association of Television Program Executives convention in New Orleans, Wednesday, Jan 26, 2000.

Jeopardy host Alex Trebek, (L) poses contestant Ken Jennings after his earnings from his record breaking streak on the gameshow surpassed 1 million dollars July 14, 2004 in Culver City, California.

This photo supplied Sesame Workshop shows "Jeopardy" television game show host Alex Trebek posing with some of the Muppet cast of the "Sesame Street" children's television show as they tape an episode on the 37th year of the series, on the set at Kaufman Astoria Studios in New York on Thursday, Nov. 17, 2005.

Actress Cloris Leachman and television personality Alex Trebek listen to the "Actors and Others for Animals" Roast of Betty White at the Universal Hilton on March 12, 2005 in Universal City, California.

(L-R) Host Alex Trebek, actors James Denton, Bebe Neuwirth and Neil Patrick Harris during a rehearsal for Celebrity Jeopardy at Radio City Music Hall on October 08, 2006 in New York City.

Honoree game show host Alex Trebek and actress Rachel Blanchard attends Canada's Walk Of Fame Gala sponsored by Chanel at the HummingBird Centre June 3, 2006 in Toronto, Canada.

Alice Luo, of Alpharetta, appears with game show host Alex Trebek on the set of Jeopardy! Lou, a junior at Georgia Tech, made it to the semi-finals of the show's college championship. Although she didn't advance to the finals, she brings home more than $10,000 in cash prizes.

Alex Trebek, host of America's number one quiz show, knows getting enough calcium by drinking milk may help keep bones out of "jeopardy" by helping prevent osteoporosis. To help build strong, healthy bones, the National Academy of Sciences recommends adults consume 1,000 mg of calcium a day, the equivalent of about three 8-ounce glasses of milk. (Left photo) Tracey Ullman, star of the award-winning show, "Tracey Takes On...", is "taking on" osteoporosis in a new milk m ustache ad. Ullman's ad features four different characters from her cable television program sporting the famous white 'stache. Osteoporosis is a major public health threat for more than 28 million Americans. T

Game show host Alex Trebek is seen after the funeral for Merv Griffin at the Church of the Good Shepherd August 17, 2007 in Beverly Hills, California. Television personality Merv Griffin died of cancer at the age of 82.

Alex Trebek, left, points to National Geographic Bee geography competition winner Akshay Rajagopal, 11, of Lincoln, Neb., in Washington on Wednesday May 21, 2008. The sixth grader, who was the youngest of the top ten finalists, won the bee by getting no answers wrong. Trebek, best known as being the host of the show "Jeopardy!", moderated the bee for the 20th year.

TV personalizes Alex Trebek (L) and Travis Storkspeak during the 36th Annual Daytime Emmy Awards at The Orpheum Theatre on August 30, 2009 in Los Angeles, California.

Television host Alex Trebek attends the celebrity race at the Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach on April 18, 2009 in Long Beach, California.

TV personalities Alex Trebek and Regis Philbin attends the 37th Annual Daytime Entertainment Emmy Awards held at the Las Vegas Hilton on June 27, 2010 in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Actress Annette O'Toole and TV Personality Alex Trebek speak onstage at the 4th Annual Comedy Celebration Benefiting the Peter Boyle Fund hosted by the International Myeloma Foundation at The Wilshire Ebell Theatre on November 13, 2010 in Beverly Hills, California.

Alex Trebek, host of the "Jeopardy!" quiz show, speaks to an audience of primarily media about an upcoming "Jeopardy!" show featuring an IBM computer called "Watson" in Yorktown Heights, N.Y., Thursday, Jan. 13, 2011. It's the size of 10 refrigerators, and it swallows encyclopedias whole, but an IBM computer was lacking one thing it needed to battle the greatest champions from the "Jeopardy!" quiz TV show - it couldn't hit a buzzer. But that's been fixed, and on Thursday the hardware and software system named Watson played a competitive practice round against two champions. A "Jeopardy!" show featuring the computer will air in mid-February, 2011.

Teen Jeopardy finalist Kailyn LaPorte with Jeopardy! host Alex Trebek. She is from Decatur.

Host Alex Trebek poses on the set at Sony Pictures for the 28th Season Premiere of the television show "Jeopardy" on September 20, 2011 in Culver City, California.

(L-R) Lifetime Achievement Award honorees Pat Sajak and Alex Trebek pose in the press room at the 38th Annual Daytime Entertainment Emmy Awards held at the Las Vegas Hilton on June 19, 2011 in Las Vegas, Nevada.

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Alex Trebek is the host of TV game shows "Jeopardy" and "Concentration". He was photographed in his home on Mullholland Dr. in Los Angeles on July 7, 1988.

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