Morgan Wilbanks, MD, FACEP, assistant professor of emergency medicine and interim director of undergraduate medical education at the Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee, is a Jeopardy! champion. His three-day run resulted in $46,000 in prize winnings and memories to last a lifetime. “Being up at the podium, next to Alex Trebek, and holding the buzzer gave me the biggest thrill of my life,” Dr. Wilbanks said. He’s loved trivia for a long time, having grown up watching Jeopardy! and competing on his quiz bowl team in high school. He says that as an emergency physician, trivia comes naturally because you have to know a wide variety of topics, similar to emergency medicine. He spent much of his time off-shift catching up on Jeopardy! episodes and working through his flash deck with 250,000 trivia questions. He was invited to a regional audition in 2008, and after he didn’t advance, he continued to work toward that goal. This past year, he finally got his chance to be on the show and really made it count!
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