On this year’s Jeopardy Tournament of Champions is “a high school world history teacher from Chicago, Illinois, Colby Burnett.”
His style made me think I had seen him somewhere before — and I have.
Burnett was on Northwestern’s Quiz Bowl team at the 2003 NAQT Division I Intercollegiate Tournament in Los Angeles. I was on Iowa State’s D-II team that year. We would have attended some of the same tournaments in the Midwest.
That makes two people connected to my quiz bowl days who I’ve seen on Jeopardy. The other is TOC winner Michael Falk, who I did Quiz Bowl with at ISU.