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Austinite on ‘Jeopardy’
Elyssa Browning, a 2006 graduate of Westlake High School, is one of 15 students selected to participate on “Jeopardy!” as part of the television game show’s 2009 College Championship series. Browning will represent St. John’s College in Annapolis, Md., where she is a junior.
The championship, which began Monday, runs through May 15. The first-round segment featuring Browning (who competes against students from Vassar and Emory) airs in Austin at 4:30 p.m. Wednesday (May 6) on KXAN. The semifinal and final rounds air next week.
Browning, whose passions include literature, history and foreign languages, won an individual gold medal in “Literary Criticism” in the 2006 UIL State Academic Meet with a record-setting score as a Westlake senior. In a video posted on the “Jeopardy!” website, Browning remarked that her dream category would be Texas History: “If every category was about Texas, that would be good.” In the response to the question: “Do you remember how old you were when you first started watching ‘Jeopardy!’?” Browning answered, “Probably in the womb.”
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