He eats snickers and watches Fox News backstage. And when he shaved his mustache, it was covered by media outlets everywhere. The New Republic’s Noreen Malone tries to figure out the man behind Jeopardy!. Let’s be sure to phrase this in the form of a question: Who is Alex Trebek?

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