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Buffalo Grove High School Grad Competes on Jeopardy
Jerry Slowik has won nearly $100,000 on the show - and he's not done yet.
A Buffalo Grove High School graduate is racking up some cash as a contestant on Jeopardy.
Jerry Slowik was $98,800 richer after his fourth day on the game show, which aired Tuesday.
Slowik is a 2004 graduate of Buffalo Grove High School where he competed on the Scholastic Bowl team, according to the Daily Herald.
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He now lives in Arlington Heights and he works as a writer, according to Jeopardy. During his short interview with host Alex Trebek during Tuesday’s show, Slowik said his mother taught him to drive in a cemetery, where “you couldn’t hurt anybody.”
“You see the kind of contestants we’re attracting these days?” Trebek replied.
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Intelligent ones, apparently.
Slowik had the lead going into Final Jeopardy on Tuesday with $16,400 when the three contestants were asked to provide the question for this answer: “Woodrow Wilson said this man had enough genius to be immortal & “unschooled passion enough to have made him infamous.
He was the only one who came up with the correct response (“Burr”), adding $10,500 to his game-day total.
His fifth appearance on the show will air at 2:30 p.m. Wednesday on ABC.
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