Jeopardy! host Alex Trebek sets Guinness World Record for most game show episodes hosted

Answer: This game show host recently set the record for most game show episodes ever hosted.

Question: Who is Alex Trebek?

Last Friday evening marked Alex Trebek's 6,829th episode of Jeopardy! The 73-year-old host of "America's Favourite Quiz Show" has been asking questions — or, more specifically, giving answers in search of questions — for 30 seasons of the show, without taking a single sick day. His impressive streak earned him the Guinness World Record for most game show episodes hosted by the same presenter (same programme).

"It's an honour to hold the Guinness World Record for hosting Jeopardy!, which I've often said is the best of reality TV," Sudbury, Ont.-born Trebek said of the record. "We have had incredible support from our viewers for the past 30 years, and without them, I wouldn't have set this record."

(He did miss one episode: On April Fool's Day in 1997, Trebek hosted Wheel of Fortune while Wheel of Fortune host Pat Sajak hosted Jeopardy!)

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Trebek's new record is just one of many for the beloved quiz show. Jeopardy! holds the record for most Emmy awards won by a TV game show: 29 between 1988 and 2011. Jeopardy! producer Harry Friedman holds the record for most game show nominations, at 37.

And 2011's computer-contestant "Watson" holds the record for "highest score by a computer" on the show.

"I want to continue for a few more years," Trebek said in the video. "The good news is as long as I keep hosting the program, I stay ahead of whoever's in second place, and that makes me feel good."

The 31st season of Jeopardy! will begin airing this September.

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