Just a couple of weeks ago, New York City bartender and Macalester College grad Austin Rogers won $411,000 over 12 games on “Jeopardy!”

He gained a cluster of online fans drawn by his quirkiness and his miming, as well as his willingness to make big bets.

When Rogers was defeated by a Tennessee woman on Oct. 12, longtime “Jeopardy!” host host Alex Trebek said: “Austin was outside the box … completely different from what many viewers expect a ‘Jeopardy!’ contestant to be. He was fun to be with and slightly irreverent.”

Lucky for Trebek and Rogers’ fans, he’s back behind the buzzer during the Tournament of Champions. Fifteen champions from the past two seasons will battle it out starting Monday. Rogers has won the most prize money in the group.

Contestants are 11 players who won the most games since the last Tournament of Champions in November 2015. The final four spots will be filled by the two most recent Teachers Tournament and College Championship winners, according to a “Jeopardy!” news release.

During a “Jeopardy!” interview in early October, Rogers said his knowledge spans history, music and “general nerdery.”

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Minnesotans can audition online Friday for the 19th season of ‘American Idol’ “My education was a little on the specialized side, so I don’t think it really affects my results other than encouraging a curious nature. If I don’t know the answer to something, I immediately look it up and usually don’t forget it. So I guess I got a good learning regimen from college, but the specific information utilized in answering correctly is mostly from my extracurricular reading, documentary watching and general nerdery.

“I graduated from Macalester College in St. Paul with a B.A. in history. I would’ve ended up with a music major as well, but I slept through my final piano test and when they offered to let me reschedule it, I thought, ‘Eh, it’s the end of school. I’ve already got one major. I’m getting the diploma anyway. Do I really need the other major?’ So yeah, one real major, one minor that could’ve been a major if I cared. But I didn’t.”

“Jeopardy!” airs on KARE-11 at 4:30 p.m. Mondays through Fridays.

For more on the Tournament of Champions, go to Jeopardy.com.