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The Jeopardy! Teen Tournament, which began in 1987, was an annual tournament in which 15 high school students between the ages of 13 and 17 competed in a ten-episode tournament structured similarly to the Tournament of Champions. The winner receives $100,000 and entry into the Tournament of Champions.
Terry Thompson, a housewife and alumna of Swarthmore College, was the first Tournament of Champions winner. [1] She won $8,590 over the course of her run on Jeopardy!, including $5,080 during her main run and $3,510 (plus a vacation to the Virgin Islands) in the tournament.
Jeopardy! is an American television game show created by Merv Griffin. The show is a quiz competition that reverses the traditional question-and-answer format of many quiz shows. Rather than being given questions, contestants are instead given general knowledge clues in the form of answers and they must identify the person, place, thing, or ...
More than six years after winning a "Jeopardy!" Teen Tournament in dramatic fashion, contestant Sharath Narayan once again pulled off a clutch game show victory on Thursday's "The Chase" on ABC.
Durham resident Amy Bekkerman won the Thursday, Nov. 16, 2023 episode of "Jeopardy!" as she competes for a spot in the show's future "Tournament of Champions."
Here's a handy timeline of how the St. Norbert College assistant professor of philosophy has become an 11-game "Jeopardy!" champ, a fan favorite and a local celebrity. champ, a fan favorite and a ...
Mattea Roach. 23-game winning streak on Jeopardy! Mattea Roach (born October 26, 1998) is a Canadian tutor and game show contestant who held a 23-game winning streak on the game show Jeopardy! from April 5, 2022, to May 6, 2022. Roach was the most successful Canadian to play Jeopardy! and is placed in sixth for all-time regular season wins. [2]
As with all television game shows, there are rules in place for who is allowed to appear as a contestant on Jeopardy! Competitors in the regular episodes must be 18 years of age or older; contestants in the College Championship must be full-time undergraduates without any previous bachelor's degree; competitors in the Teen Tournament must be between the ages of 13 and 17 years; and, in the ...