Alex Trebek, 'Jeopardy' host and trivia master, has died at 80

Alex Trebek, the master of trivia whose quick wit, easy smile and my-favorite-professor demeanor made "Jeopardy!" a welcome guest in the living rooms of America for decades, has died at his home following a battle with pancreatic cancer, per the quiz show's Twitter account. He was 80.

The game show host had suffered a series of medical complications in recent years — a heart attack in 2007 and brain surgery for blood clots that formed after he hit his head in a fall in 2018. In early 2019 he revealed he had Stage 4 pancreatic cancer and vowed to beat the disease, joking that he still had three years left on his contract.

But there was urgency in his voice as well. "So help me," he said on a YouTube video announcing the diagnosis. "Keep the faith and we'll win."

Late in the summer of 2019,