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Jeopardy Category: Music: $200: This Rock & Roll Hall of Fame band from the Back Bay of Boston was formed by Ric Ocasek & Benjamin Orr... Answer: Who are The Cars?
By HENRY FREDERICK / Headline Surfer
ORLANDO, Fla. -- Alex Trebek, the longtime host of "Jeopardy!" died today after a long battle with pancreatic cancer. He was 80 years old.
Trebek hosted the weeknight syndicated game show for 36 years - a record - especially considering Trebek had announced in a video on March 6, 2019, that he had received a diagnosis of Stage 4 pancreatic cancer that week, according to a breaking news story in the New York Times story on his death posted online at 1:38 p.m.
The Times story went on to say in part: He said that like many others with the deadly disease, he had no symptoms until it had spread throughout his body. He delivered the news from the show’s set, wearing, as usual, a bandbox-fresh suit and tie as he spoke straight to the camera without sentiment or histrionics.
As a host, Mr. Trebek was the essence of durability. In the decades that he had captained “Jeopardy!” more than 400 other game shows came and went. “Jeopardy!” endured, with millions of Americans organizing their weeknights around the highbrow program in ritualistic fashion, shouting out the questions to their televisions as Mr. Trebek enunciated the answers with his impeccable diction.
The Cars were used as a lead-in to this breaking news story, even though it never came up on "Jeopardy!" because Benjamin Orr, the Cars' bassist and co-lead vocalist in the new wave band of the late 1970s and 1980s, with staples like "Just What I Needed," "Moving in Stereo," and "Drive," died of pancreatic cancer in 2000. He was only 53. Ocasek died in 2019 of natural causes at age 75. The Cars were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2018.
The Cars were used as a lead-in to this breaking news story, even though it never came up on "Jeopardy!" because Benjamin Orr, the Cars' bassist and co-lead vocalist in the new wave band of the late 1970s and 1980s, with staples like "Just What I Needed," "Moving in Stereo," and "Drive," died of pancreatic cancer in 2000. He was only 53. Ocasek died in 2019 of natural causes at age 75. The Cars were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2018.
Headline Surfer posted a story on pancreatic cancer back on July 18 after the death of a national political figure: Congressman John Lewis among prominent people who have died of pancreatic cancer: Actor Patrick Swayze, rocker Benjamin Orr of The Cars & Dallas Cowboys player Harvey Martin among them.
And here is a link to today's New York Times story: Alex Trebek, Longtime Host of ‘Jeopardy!’ Dies at 80.
Henry Frederick is publisher of Headline Surfer, the award-winning 24/7 internet news outlet launched 12 years ago that serves greater Daytona Beach, Sanford & Orlando, Florida via HeadlineSurfer.com. Frederick has amassed more than a hundred journalism industry awards in print & online -- more than all other members of the working press combined in Central Florida since the mid-1990s. He earned his Master of Arts in New Media Journalism with academic honors from Full Sail University in 2019. Having witnessed the execution of serial killer Aileen Wuornos in Florida's death chamber and other high profile cases, Frederick has appeared on national crime documentary programs on Discovery ID and Reelz for his investigative reporting and cops & courts breaking news stories.