Contestant who ended ‘Jeopardy!’ player’s streak has a North Carolina connection

“Jeopardy!” contestant James Holzhauer has been a force to be reckoned with on the show.

But his 32-game win streak came to an end on Monday’s show.

Emma Boettcher, a 27-year-old librarian from Chicago and graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, beat Holzhauer in the episode by $22,002, according to The New York Times.

The UNC School of Information and Library Science tweeted about her win.

“Wowza! Congratulations to @uncsils alumna Emma Boettcher (MSIS ‘16), who just beat James Holzhauer on “Jeopardy!” Watch her win on tonight’s show,” the school tweeted.

According to Boettcher’s LinkedIn page, she earned a master’s degree of Information Science, graduating in 2016. Boettcher also worked as a library account manager at UNC, the Chicago Tribune reported. She was an intern at Duke University Libraries, according to her LinkedIn page.

Holzhauer won a total of $2,464,216 and came close to surpassing the $2,520,700 won by Ken Jennings during his 74-game win streak in 2004, according to the New York Post.

This story was originally published June 3, 2019 at 7:13 PM with the headline "Contestant who ended ‘Jeopardy!’ player’s streak has a North Carolina connection."