“We did a lot of individual preparation because we weren’t all in the same area. Tournament preparation by the numbers: Mueller is on a team with Chicagoan Colby Burnett and Alan Lin. Game show experience: Mueller also earned $25,000 on “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire” in 2012, and she competed on the short-lived ABC game show “500 Questions,” but didn’t win anything. Now 37, she lives in California and works as a policy researcher at the Rand Corporation. She graduated from Harvard Law School and Princeton University, where she got her PhD in social psychology. Mueller said she also used her winnings to pay for school. It's actually at my mom’s” in the Edgewater Beach neighborhood. I didn't realize I would keep getting invited back so I was like, this is clearly a once-in-a-lifetime memory, opportunity, so I’m just going to buy one of the podiums that they’re auctioning off. They were auctioning off the ‘Jeopardy’ set the year after I was on. Memorable purchase: Mueller earned $182,201 and a Volvo on “Jeopardy.” “Out of that first set of winnings, the weirdest thing I bought was. She was a semifinalist in the 2001 Tournament of Champions, 2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions and 2014 Battle of the Decades tournament.
“Jeopardy” resume: The Rogers Park native won the 2000 College Championship as a student at Loyola University Chicago. “I mean, I’ll just say it - Brad (Rutter) and Ken (Jennings) everyone considers the top dogs, and for good reason, rightly so, but we’re not here to try to get third place behind Ken and Brad. We prepared well, and I think we’re going to surprise some people,” he said. Team confidence: “I feel like we want this bad, and we have studied hard. We played a little over 50 games of ‘Jeopardy’ that weekend together.” We had a ‘Jeopardy’ bootcamp type thing, where we actually hired somebody to host games for us. Jennifer lives in Colorado, and Buzzy is in L.A. First of all, I made over 25,000 flashcards for myself and the team,” he said, comparing himself to a “caged animal just feeding on these facts.” “We did manage one meetup together in Denver. “Jeopardy” resume: The former Chicago currency trader, who now lives in North Carolina, won the 2015 Tournament of Champions.Ĭareer shift: Jacob, a 34-year-old Yale University graduate, became a freelance trivia writer for apps and bar trivia companies after earning $401,802 on “Jeopardy.” “My wife and I took the last year and traveled, which was really amazing, probably the best year of my life,” he said, adding that they visited Australia, South America, New Zealand, Hawaii, Costa Rica and other spots.Īll-stars preparation: Jacob was the first player drafted, by Buzzy Cohen. 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.”
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