Beloved host’s book lands just ahead of his 80th birthday
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Alex Trebek’s new memoir, “The Answer Is…: Reflections on My Life,” comes out July 21.
Simon & Schuster confirmed the release Tuesday, giving the forthcoming book a landing page on its website, which announces, “For over three decades, Trebek had resisted countless appeals to write a book about his life.”
In the book, the longtime “Jeopardy!” host writes about how the outpouring of love and support after his 2019 announcement of a cancer diagnosis changed his mind: “I want people to know a little more about the person they have been cheering on for the past year.”
The book will feature anecdotes along with Trebek’s own musings, which will provide insight into the life and thoughts of the man who has appeared in American homes five nights a week since 1984.
Trebek gave a heart-wrenching one-year status update on his stage four pancreatic cancer diagnosis in early March, opening up about the “massive attacks of depression” that made him “wonder if it was really worth fighting on.”
“I’d be lying if I said the journey has been an easy one,” Trebek said in a video posted to the official “Jeopardy!” Twitter account. “There were some good days, but a lot of not-so-good days. I joked with friends that the cancer won’t kill me, the chemo treatments will. There were moments of great pain,” he said.
16 Embarrassing Game Show Fails From 'Family Feud' to 'Jeopardy' (Videos)
- The first question on “Who Wants to be a Millionaire?” is generally the easiest, but this sleep-deprived college student still couldn’t manage to get it right.
- Former “American Idol” contestant Kellie Pickler tried to figure out where Budapest is in a November 2007 episode of “Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader?” However, after she determined Europe isn’t a country, it all went downhill.
- According to this contestant on “Who Wants to be a Millionaire?” from January 2010, owls squirt ink. Yes, you read that correctly.
- “Catch 21” contestant Kimberly was determined not to give her competitor Beau five points because she didn’t want him to be 10 points closer to 21. So she gave her fellow contestant Shawn five points, which boosted his score of 16 to a 21. Someone needs a basic math lesson.
- According to one contestant on “Jeopardy!,” the electronic music duo LMFAO introduced us to “It’s a Hard Knock Life (Ghetto Anthem).” Erm, nope, that was definitely Jay-Z.
- This contestant on “Wheel of Fortune” in May 2012 made it to the bonus round, but failed to guess the magic “thing” before time ran out. Clue: It rhymes with wand.
- “Black” was this “Family Feud” contestant’s answer to “What is the first thing that comes to mind when you think of zombies?” Host Steve Harvey looked even more astounded when she justified her answer by saying, “I don’t know if they’re white.”
- In April 2014, Julian from Indiana was on “Wheel of Fortune” and lost the round by mispronouncing the winning phrase … and then blew the next two rounds, too.
- In the fast money round of “Family Feud,” two family members need to get 200 points combined by answering a series of survey questions. In this episode from May 2014, the first member scored a whopping 182 points, meaning the second member only needed 18 points to win … which she failed to get.
- Sometimes buzzing in first isn’t always the best idea, especially when the question is “Name something a doctor might pull out of a person” and you respond with “gerbil.”
- You get a car, you get a car, everybody gets a car!“Price Is Right” model Manuela Arbelaez thought she’d lost her job (she didn’t) when she accidentally gave away a free car in April 2015. Luckily, the producers thought the goof was hilarious.
- We’ll take “You’re All a Bunch of Losers” for $500, Alex. Unfortunately, “Springf” isn’t a city in the United States.
- If this woman on “Family Feud” could ask the Wizard of Oz one thing to give her husband it would be — “a really big thing.” Could you be more specific?
- This wasn’t an accident. “Jeopardy!” contestant Viraj Mehta from Stanford Unviersity said that he subtly flipped off the camera during his February 2017 episode on purpose. Luckily for us, it wasn’t censored.
- We guess he just isn’t a Tennessee Williams fan? Missing any “Wheel of Fortune” puzzle with just one letter missing would hurt, but this “A Streetcar Naked Desire” gaffe from March 2017 is just embarrassing.
- EMINEM AND JACK WHITE ARE NOT THE SAME, JULIE! #Jeopardy pic.twitter.com/eLVyk1TNn2— Hunter Alek Homistek (@HunterAHomistek) January 12, 2018Will the real Slim Shady please stand up? Yes, both Eminem and Jack White have roots in Detroit, but come on, Em is not the guy who wrote “Seven Nation Army.”
Everyone says and does dumb things, but some of us unfortunately do it on national TV
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