Arlington resident Luigi de Guzman is back on Jeopardy! following his five-game winning streak in 2022.
The local attorney will compete against a trail planner from Silver Spring and a psychiatrist from Canada — each a returning champion — in an episode airing next Thursday, Feb. 29.
It’s a quarterfinal match of the quiz show’s Tournament of Champions, which will crown an ultimate champion in mid-March.
“Kevin Belle, a trail planner from Silver Spring, Md., and Luigi de Guzman, an attorney from Arlington, Va., are set to compete in the most prestigious JEOPARDY! event in syndication: the Tournament of Champions,” the show said in a press release.
More from the release:
The roster of competitors features the players who won the most games since the last Tournament of Champions in 2022, plus six players who advanced out of the Season 37/38 and Season 39 Champions Wildcard competitions, as well as the winners of the JEOPARDY! High School Reunion Tournament and Season 1 of “Celebrity Jeopardy!” on ABC.
These 27 players will compete across nine quarterfinal games, three semifinals, and a “best of seven” finals series: the first champion to win three games claims the $250,000 grand prize and an invitation to compete in the upcoming “Jeopardy! Masters” primetime event on ABC.
The last reported Arlington resident on the show was Alice Ciciora, a political scientist and researcher. Nearly a dozen Arlingtonians have competed on the show since 2010.
Among the other locals to win at least one episode of the show are journalist Roey Hadar, social worker Blair Moorhead, and foreign service officer Liz Murphy, who also appeared on the show’s Tournament of Champions in 2010 after racking up $121,302 in winnings.
Jeopardy! airs locally at 7:30 p.m. on WJLA (ABC 7).