It's Thursday, it's late, it's time once again for the game that's sweeping the nation: GUESS THE THEME! All the clips below have something in common. Leave your best guesses in the comments.
Today, everyone's favorite game show host turns 76 years old. Let's celebrate!
In 2006, Trebek played “Special of the Day” with Telly.
In 1980, the tables were turned, and Trebek found himself the contestant on this episode of Card Sharks. The “tell me about yourself” portion of the program doesn’t go so smoothly, but he’s pretty good at the game itself.
In this sketch for the 40th Annual Daytime Emmy Awards, Trebek throws a waiter in a pool. The takeaway is clear: Don’t phrase things in the form of a question when you’re talking to the Jeopardy! host.
And how the agency’s work with other companies helps all of us, not just astronauts.
Happy April Fool's Day 1997! (Pat Sajak hosted Jeopardy that night.)
That was the actual name of the category.
Behold “Sexiest Potpourri Ever.”
You didn’t think we’d leave without posting one of these, did you?
On this day in 1970, Janis Joplin died of a heroin overdose at the age of 27. The singer-songwriter was known as "The Queen of Psychedelic Soul." Here, we remember Joplin with covers of her only number-one hit, "Me and Bobby McGee." Joplin's version of the song, originally written by Kris Kristofferson and Fred Foster, topped the charts after her death, making the song the second posthumous number-one single in U.S. chart history.
