Anyone who watched Berkeley native Matt Olson on Jeopardy’s College Championship Tuesday night was amazed at the 20-year old’s performance. He raked up $40,000 in winnings (Jeopardy! dollars, unfortunately) answering questions ranging from fashion design to literature to what looked like a very difficult math problem.

Olson, shown above in an interview with KGO, now moves on to the quarterfinals. The winner of the College Championship will take home $100,000 (real dollars). Jeopardy! airs weeknights at 7 pm on KGO Channel 7.

Twitter went wild as Olson started to rake up the points.

Frances Dinkelspiel, Berkeleyside and CItyside co-founder, is a journalist and author. Her first book, Towers of Gold: How One Jewish Immigrant Named Isaias Hellman Created California, published in November...