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By Peter White

Getting real. While Jeopardy! is currently airing its iconic special, The Greatest of All Time, host Alex Trebek doesn’t feel he was at his greatest when he filmed the special with contestants Brad Rutter, Ken Jennings and James Holzhauer.

Alex Trebek is still not ready to retire from Jeopardy!, but he already knows what he hopes his cultural impact will be. At the Television Critics Association winter press tour on Wednesday, Trebek and Greatest of All Time Tournament champions Ken Jennings, Brad Rutter, and James Holzhauer spoke about the longtime host's status as a living legend as he continues to receive treatment for pancreatic cancer.

If you've ever watched Jeopardy! and wondered why certain contestants pluck their clues from the middle of the board or buzz in when they clearly don't know the answer, you are definitely not alone. According to the series' most successful contestants of all time, though, there is a strategy at play there.

In a surprisingly thrilling hour of television on Tuesday night, Ken Jennings squeaked past James Holzhauer and thoroughly crushed Brad Rutter to win the first night of ABC’s prime-time competition “Jeopardy! The Greatest of All Time.”

The biggest showdown in history kicked off Tuesday with Day 1 of the special Greatest Of All Time tournament, pitting the three biggest winners in the show's history against one another for a $1 million grand prize and the right to claim the title of GOAT.

Who are… The Greg Kihn Band and “Weird Al” Yankovic?If you guessed that those are the two artists in the 61-year history of the Billboard Hot 100 who have charted hits with “Jeopardy” in their titles, you’d be correct!As ABC airs its first Jeopardy! “Greatest of All Time” tournament on Tuesday night (Jan.

For Jeopardy! fans it doesn’t get better than this. Tuesday night, for the first time ever, the best of the best are set to go head-to-head to be crowned the greatest of all time.

1. Jeopardy: The Greatest of All TimeSpecial To celebrate three decades of fun facts, Jeopardy! reunites three of the show’s most successful winners to find out who has all the answers. Alex Trebek will host as James Holzhauer, Ken Jennings, and Brad Rutter return to the show and compete for a chance to win the $1 million prize.When: Tuesday on ABC