Scott Duke Kominers, Columnist

Kominers’s Conundrums: This Puzzle Honors a Game-Show Legend

If you too are mourning Alex Trebek, you might appreciate seven clues in the style of “Jeopardy!”

November 15, 2020 at 1:00 PM UTC

Scott Duke Kominers is the MBA Class of 1960 Associate Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School and a faculty affiliate of the Harvard University department of economics.

A buoy of calm in a sea of fun facts. — A buoy of calm in a sea of fun facts.
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Last weekend, the puzzle and game community lost one of its shining stars: Alex Trebek, legendary host of the game show “Jeopardy!”

“Jeopardy!” brings together contestants from all over — and gathers families and friends at home — for a nightly celebration of knowledge. The show’s questions have served as a cultural gateway for everything from hip-hop to Pokémon and Jeff Bridges.1 And for decades,2Trebek was the unimpeachable source of right and wrong, a buoy of calm in a sea of fun facts.