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File No. 999888 · Adjudicated
Alex Trebek
TV Host — Jeopardy!, High Rollers, Double Dare
Born
1940
Birthplace
SUDBURY, ONTARIO
Citizenships
CA
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 soilI. Origin
Born on Canadian soil — yes
SUDBURY, ONTARIO
Canadian parentage — not scored
Both parents Canadian
Citizenship on record — not scored
Automatic by birth
II. Residency
Formative years spent in Canada — yes
Raised — Ontario
Lived in Canada by choice — not scored
Residency on record as an adult
Worked or filmed in Canada — not scored
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 — not scored
Has never brought it up
Canada claims them back — not scored
Claimed, enthusiastically
The verdict
Born in Sudbury, Ontario, raised in Ottawa, and the son of a Ukrainian-Canadian father and a French-Canadian mother, Alex Trebek spent 37 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
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