With Alex Trebek's death, an era at 'Jeopardy!' draws to a close
Joshua Kosman December 22, 2020Updated: December 28, 2020, 11:15 am San Mateo finance manager Nizar Abdalla (right) appears on “Jeopardy!” with the late Alex Trebek. Photo: "Jeopardy!" Andrew Chaikin had been looking forward to the call from “Jeopardy!” for months. He’d gone through all the audition processes — the online tests to determine whether his trivia knowledge was up to par, the rounds of interviews to be sure he had enough personality to maintain the energy level television requires — and now he was just waiting. Finally, in August, the producers called. C...
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