Colby Burnett
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| Current Team Coached | Fenwick (2011-present) | |
| College | Northwestern (2001-2005) | |
| High School | Fenwick | |
| Stats | HDWhite NAQT page | |
Colby Burnett is a current coach (since 2012) at Fenwick High School, where he played quizbowl as an HS teammate of Mike Sorice. In college, he played for Northwestern.
As a player, Burnett was good enough to earn all-Conference honors, and in the first year of its inception, was named Second Team All-State as part of the IHSSBCA All-State program.
Burnett is also known for winning the inaugural Jeopardy! Teachers Tournament in 2012 and is currently one of the largest winners on the show due to success on later tournaments.
As representative of the human race
Colby was one of four people (Ben Ingram, Alex Jacob, and Kristin Sausville being the other three) asked to represent the human race in a quizbowl match against QANTA, a computer with some degree of artificial intelligence. The match took place as an exhibition at the 2015 HSNCT. The carbon-based units played the silicon-based unit to a 200-200 tie. After going out to an unanswered lead, it was Colby who began the rally against our computer overlords, making him the first real life John Connor (if there had been more TRASH, Colby would have utterly dissected this thing's circuit boards).