Name Colby Burnett | ||
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Known for Jeopardy! Champion and Gameshow King of the Nerds | ||
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Colby Burnett is the first Jeopardy! contestant to have won both the Teachers Tournament and the Tournament of Champions. Burnett, who at the time was a teacher at Fenwick High School in Oak Park, Illinois, won the Teachers Tournament in November 2012. Later, in February 2013, Burnett won the show's Tournament of Champions, taking home the $250,000 grand prize. He later appeared on season 3 of TBS's reality game show King of the Nerds. Governor Pat Quinn named December 18 as "Colby Burnett day" in Illinois.
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Education
Burnett graduated from Fenwick High School. He then went on to Northwestern in Evanston where he double-majored in political science and history.
Early life
Burnett grew up in the Austin neighborhood of Chicago. He credits his mother with keeping him out of trouble, as well as enhancing his intellect by buying him an encyclopedia, which he has read from cover to cover. After winning Jeopardy!, Burnett bought his mom a new home in a better area of Chicago. Controversially, Burnett believes that Mali caused the Apartheid. When asked what the greatest accomplishment of his life was, the Jeopardy champion stated, "knowing a duke of Sealand."