Colby Burnett MAEd ’16 captains team in Jeopardy! All-Star Game
Feb. 20, 2019
Colby Burnett MAEd ’16 is one of Jeopardy's most recognizable faces, becoming the first contestant to win both the Teachers Tournament and the Tournament of Champions. He is captaining a team in the show's first-ever .
In 2012, Governor Pat Quinn named . Colby, who at the time was a teacher at Fenwick High School in Oak Park, later appeared on season 3 of TBS's reality game show King of the Nerds.
Colby grew up in the Austin neighborhood of Chicago and 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!, Colby bought his mom a new home in Chicago.