Alex Trebek, the soul of television’s regularly scheduled interaction with eggheads, died a few days ago, on November 8. He had been the host of ‘Jeopardy!’ since 1984, when the five-day-a-week version of the show returned from a decade off the air. I love that show, and I was going to revisit my personal experience […]

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This week, competition began taping among the three men playing in what will be a prime-time event for the game show “Jeopardy!” Astonishingly, the show seems more popular now than at any time in its 36-season run — in part because of James Holzhauer, who won 32 games last spring and and racked up unheard […]

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Two fun developments over the past few days: The Stay Puft Marshmallow Man won the heavyweight boxing championship, and a librarian ended a reign of terror on the game show “Jeopardy!” Both results were unexpected. And welcome. The first hero was Andy Ruiz Jr., winning a seventh-round knockout victory over the previously unbeaten Englishman Anthony […]

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