Alex Trebek was born in Ontario on July 22, 1940, and grew up in a bilingual French-English home. He was a bellhop before attending the University of Ottawa and became interested in broadcast news. After working announcer jobs for a while he got into game shows in 1973. He hosted The Wizard of Odds, High Rollers, Double Dare, Stars on Ice, The $128,000 Question, Wall $treet, Pitfall, Battlestars,