Alex Trebek and me: a Jeopardy contestant’s encounters with a great man

I am mourning Alex Trebek, along with the rest of the Jeopardy community, and everyone else. I mourn him in a special way, as I was a Jeopardy contestant. Along with a University of Toronto prof whom I contacted after he competed, I must be at most among the two or three contestants in Toronto.

I met Trebek twice. The first in a contestant search in Toronto and then on the actual program in Hollywood. I can’t claim a personal relationship, developed over many games, like all-time winner Ken Jennings. Yet he…