World history teacher Colby Burnett won $100,000 last year in the show's Teacher's Tournament and even more in its Tournament of Champions that finished airing Tuesday.
World history teacher Colby Burnett won $100,000 last year in the show's Teacher's Tournament and even more in its Tournament of Champions that finished airing Tuesday.
(This article originally appeared on Oak Park Patch.) Fenwick High School teacher Colby Burnett won the $250,000 grand prize Tuesday in the Jeopardy! Tournament of Champions. Burnett, an AP World History teacher at Fenwick, won the show's Teacher's Tournament and $100,000 in prize money back in November and added to that total by beating the best of the best. On Monday he built a big enough lead—$22,200 to the other contestants' $4,800 and $400—that he was able to coast on Tuesday. He got off to a poor start in the first round, but out of the commercial break we were reminded why we love him. Host Alex Trebek brought up the fact that Burnett's mother worked three jobs ("Two and a half, but let's say three because she worked that hard," …
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