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Leszek Pawlowicz

2014 Battle of the Decades semifinalist: $25,000.
2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 player: $5,000. Very narrowly defeated by Tad Carithers when Leszek accidentally named The Music Man as the musical featuring the song "Kansas City". (Correct response: Oklahoma!)
1992 Tournament of Champions winner: $100,000.
Season 8 5-time champion: $75,400 + Jeopardy! 25th Anniversary home game or computerized version.

Name pronounced like "LESHZ-ek PAHV-lo-vich."

Featured on ABC's 20/20 story on game show champions, Winter 2001.

Finalist in the History IQ $250,000 Tournament of Champions in 2001.

Won $5,000 on Win Ben Stein's Money.

Appeared on Grand Slam in 2007. Defeated in the quarterfinal round and eliminated from the tournament by Twenty One 6-time champion David Legler, who had previously defeated Jeopardy! champion Frank Spangenberg in the Sweet 16 round.

Leszek won $50,000 on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire on 2015-10-23.

Leszek won $10,000 on Master Minds on 2020-06-24.

Jeopardy! Message Board user name: leszekp
Ken Jennings Message Board user name: leszekp

Leszek appeared in the following 5 archived games:
#1638, aired 1991-10-16 Leszek Pawlowicz vs. Don Fraser Jr. vs. Bob Whalen Leszek Pawlowicz game 5.
#1637, aired 1991-10-15 Leszek Pawlowicz vs. Steve Kamin vs. Paul Redford Leszek Pawlowicz game 4.
#1636, aired 1991-10-14 Leszek Pawlowicz vs. Michele Boxberger vs. Jim Ciolek Leszek Pawlowicz game 3.
#1635, aired 1991-10-11 Leszek Pawlowicz vs. Nick Pyle vs. Vincent Soatikee Leszek Pawlowicz game 2.
#1634, aired 1991-10-10 Tim House vs. Leszek Pawlowicz vs. Ann Turnock Leszek Pawlowicz game 1.
Leszek would later appear on Jeopardy! as Leszek Pawlowicz in the following 4 archived games:
#1890, aired 1992-11-20 Jerome Vered vs. Leszek Pawlowicz vs. Bruce Simmons 1992 Tournament of Champions final game 2.
#1889, aired 1992-11-19 Jerome Vered vs. Leszek Pawlowicz vs. Bruce Simmons 1992 Tournament of Champions final game 1.
#1886, aired 1992-11-16 Leszek Pawlowicz vs. Richard Kaplan vs. April McManus 1992 Tournament of Champions semifinal game 1.
#1885, aired 1992-11-13 Leszek Pawlowicz vs. Frank Epstein vs. Billy Baxter 1992 Tournament of Champions quarterfinal game 5.

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