Canadians aren't allowed to compete on Jeopardy!

A restriction on Jeopardy!
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Sorry, Canadian trivia whizzes: Unless your name is Alex Trebek, you probably won't be on Jeopardy! for the foreseeable future. Canada's online privacy regulations are to blame.

"As international laws governing how information is shared over the internet are ever-changing and complex, we are currently investigating how we can accept registrations from potential Canadian contestants," show spokeswoman Alison Shapiro told the Toronto Star.

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Julie Kliegman

Julie Kliegman is a freelance writer based in New York. Her work has appeared in BuzzFeed, Vox, Mental Floss, Paste, the Tampa Bay Times and PolitiFact. Her cats can do somersaults.