George Alexander "Alex" Trebek (July 22, 1940 – November 8, 2020) was a Canadian-American television game show host. He is best known as the host of "Jeopardy!", which he hosted from 1984 until his death in 2020. He was born in Greater Sudbury, Ontario. He became a naturalized American citizen in 1998. In 2011, he snapped his achilles tendon while trying to stop a thief trying to rob his San Francisco hotel room.