He’s a cool guy, and it’s nice to have a new friend in Chicago.” And that was a nice thing for team-building. Seth also lives here in Chicago, so I had the chance to get to know him a little bit better in the months between when we chose teams and now. Ben and I were in our Tournament of Champions together … and stayed in close touch,” she said. She chose Ben Ingram and Chicagoan Seth Wilson. Team strategy: Collins, 36, is the only female team captain. “I thought I would see what else might be out there for me, and I haven’t gone back to (supply chain management) yet.” “I talk to women about what they were like growing up, what their interests were, how those interests may or may not have translated into things they do professionally,” she said. I didn't make really major purchases, but it’s given me the gift of being able to say yes to a lot of smaller things … without doing a lot of budget calculations.”Ĭareer change: Collins, who graduated from Wellesley College and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, worked in supply chain management before she competed on “Jeopardy.” She has since started. “I live in the same place, I drive the same car as I did before I went on the show. “Who wouldn't want to go to Paris? That was my biggest special thing that I did with the prize money,” she said. She won 20 consecutive games in 2014 and placed third in the 2014 Tournament of Champions.įrench escape: She used some of her $479,100 “Jeopardy” earnings to go to Paris for a month. “Jeopardy” resume: The Wilmette resident, who grew up in north suburban Kenilworth, has the second-longest “Jeopardy” win streak. So three teams are playing each other, the other three teams, their entire performance is completely unbeknownst to you, so it’s an unnerving experience, I will give you that,” he said. “Unnerving experience”: “The other individuals you do not see half of the competition. Given what we had and given how we were going to play, I thought I picked particularly well, given the circumstances, because I think the fifth spot was indeed the most difficult to pick.” And of course the first four went in, not necessarily the order that I would have chosen, but the first four went exactly how I imagined,” Burnett said. And I believed that the fifth and sixth positions were the worst, and I wound up picking fifth. “I believed that the top four were pretty much set in stone, and then after that, it would get murky. He got to pick fifth and eighth during the “Jeopardy” player draft, and chose Chicago native Pam Mueller and Alan Lin, respectively. Tough picks: Burnett, 35, is a team captain. I’ve been to Bermuda and am trying to make my way to the opening ceremonies of the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo.” “I have used some of that money to travel the world, maybe not to places too terribly exotic, but since I've been on ‘Jeopardy,’ I’ve been on or planned three European vacations. Burnett taught world history at Fenwick High School in Oak Park when he competed in the Teachers Tournament, and now he’s a college counselor at Speer Academy in the Belmont Cragin community on the Northwest Side.Ģ020 plan: Burnett earned $375,000 on “Jeopardy” and purchased homes for his mother and himself.
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