Naperville Native on Jeopardy!
“I was just in shock because I love Jeopardy!, I love the show. I keep up with news on it. But I never thought that I would actually get the chance to be on it,” said Yejun Kim.
One Naperville native will be putting her trivia skills to the test when she appears on the Jeopardy! National College Championship next week. Kim, who is a District 204 and Waubonsie Valley High School alumna, is currently a student at Northwestern University.
How it Happened
In late 2020, she and her roommate decided to take the college online test that is a part of the application process. “We took it for fun in the living room. We didn’t actually think anything would come of it,” said Kim.
But something did. In early 2021 she went through two rounds of virtual auditions in a mock game with other students and the producers of the game show. “We thought that was just like crazy to begin with,” said Kim. Finally in September of last year, Kim received the news that out of 24,000 student applicants nationwide, she was one of 36 who would be flown out to Los Angeles to try and ask all the right questions.
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