University of Chicago student racks up wins on ‘Jeopardy!’ and gains fans online

A 20-year-old Barrington High School alum has been ringing up victories on “Jeopardy!” and is headed to a showdown with other top players.

Liam Starnes’ fifth consecutive win in Thursday’s episode advanced him to next season’s Tournament of Champions, in which the best players from the previous season compete for a $250,000 prize. He also won the episode that aired Friday.

The episodes were filmed in March, Starnes told the Daily Herald by phone Friday. As of his victory in the episode that aired Friday, Starnes’ “Jeopardy!” winnings totaled about $123,000.

“I had so much fun,” Starnes said. He isn’t allowed to talk about how he performed on future yet-to-air episodes of the show but would say that his favorite categories were sports, geography and history.

“Those are things I’m really interested in,” said Starnes, a member of Barrington High’s class of 2021 who in June will graduate from the University of Chicago with a degree in data science and statistics.

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