A Malden native is currently kicking butt on Jeopardy
Brennan Bushee is heading for a six-game winning streak.
Malden’s own Brennan Bushee is on a Jeopardy! tear right now, and won his fifth straight show on Friday night, the ninth contestant this season to accomplish such a feat.
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Here’s what we know about Bushee, thanks mostly to those ever-awkward mid-show contestant interviews:
– Bushee is a 2011 graduate of Mystic Valley Regional Charter School. He played hockey and in one particular game, he lost his pants after his belt came loose.
– He “got his game show start a few years ago appearing on High School Quiz Show with Billy Costa as a member of the Mystic Valley team,’’ according to the Mystic Valley Regional Charter School’s site.
– He’s an operations analyst. He was inspired by a robotics course he took in college.
– Canada is the only foreign country he has ever travelled to.
– He owns a baseball signed by the 1967 Red Sox. His favorite player from that team is Carl Yastrzemski.
– He is a 2015 graduate of Skidmore College, receiving degrees in mathematics and computer science.
– The mayor of Malden is a fan:
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Bushee has won more than $128,000 so far, and will go for his sixth straight victory tonight at 7:30 p.m. on CBS. We wish Bushee all the best, and hope that at the very least, his stories won’t be as bad as the one that fellow local Dan Tran told.
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