Alex Trebek

TV Host — Jeopardy!, High Rollers, Double Dare

Born

1940

Birthplace

SUDBURY, ONTARIO

Citizenships

Canadianness Score

🍁🍁🍁🍁🍁

5.0/ 5

Weighted across 2 scored criteria

Designation

Bleeds Maple Syrup 🍁

Born, raised, and still says “out for a rip” unironically.

Scorecard

Path A — born on Canadian soil

I. Origin

Born on Canadian soil

SUDBURY, ONTARIO

Canadian parentage

Both parents Canadian

Citizenship on record

Automatic by birth

II. Residency

Formative years spent in Canada

Raised — Ontario

Lived in Canada by choice

Residency on record as an adult

Worked or filmed in Canada

Credits filed north of the 49th

III. Cultural evidence — not scored

Section III is recorded for the file only. Birth on Canadian soil already settles the matter.

Publicly claims to be Canadian

Says so, out loud

Canada claims them back

Claimed, enthusiastically

The verdict

Born and raised in Sudbury, Ontario, to a Ukrainian-Canadian father and a French-Canadian mother, Alex Trebek spent over 36 years hosting Jeopardy! and somehow never made it awkward when contestants said they were from Canada. Dual citizen. The most famous Canadian to ever politely correct someone for a living. Rest easy, Alex.

Adjudicated by

The Standings Committee

Status

Final — appealable