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UNC Masters Alumna Knocks Off 32-Day Jeopardy! Champion James Holzhauer


Emma Boettcher made history Monday, knocking off 32-day, $2.5 million dollar Jeopardy! champion James Holzhauer. Boettcher won $46,801, which she plans to use to pay off student loans and give back to UNC's School of Information and Library Science, where she earned her master's degree in 2016 writing about predicting the difficulty of trivia questions using “Jeopardy!” clues. (Chicago Tribune)

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