Colby Burnett
Colby Burnett is the first Jeopardy! contestant to have won both the Teachers Tournament and the Tournament of Champions. Burnett, who is 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 has named December 18th as Colby Burnett day in Illinois.
Education
Colby Burnett graduated from Fenwick High School. He then went on to Northwestern in Evanston where he double majored in political science and history. He now works at his old high school, Fenwick, where he teaches several AP history courses.
Early life
Colby Burnett grew up in the Austin neighborhood of Chicago. He credits his mom 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 a better area of Chicago. Controversially, the high school teacher 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."
Colby
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Colby (RIRTR station)
Colby is a former Rochester Industrial and Rapid Transit Railway station located in Rochester, New York. It was closed in 1956 along with the rest of the line.
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Colby (surname)
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Burnett
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Burnett (surname)
Burnett is an English surname. It is derived from a nickname from the Old French burnete, brunette, which is a diminutive of brun meaning "brown", "dark brown". Another proposed origin of the name is from burnete, a high quality wool cloth originally dyed to a dark brown colour.
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Burnett, Wisconsin
Burnett is a town in Dodge County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 919 at the 2000 census. The census-designated place of Burnett is located in the town, and the unincorporated community of Rolling Prairie is located partially in the town.
The town was named for Ellsworth Burnett, a government surveyor who was killed by Indians in 1836.
Geography
According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 36.5 square miles (94.4 km²), of which 36.2 square miles (93.7 km²) is land and 0.3 square mile (0.7 km²) (0.74%) is water.
Demographics
As of the census of 2000, there were 919 people, 330 households, and 265 families residing in the town. The population density was 25.4 people per square mile (9.8/km²). There were 353 housing units at an average density of 9.8 per square mile (3.8/km²). The racial makeup of the town was 98.59% White, 0.33% African American, 0.65% from other races, and 0.44% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 0.87% of the population.
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