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15 STUDENTS TO COMPETE FOR $75,000 IN

‘JEOPARDY!’ TEEN TOURNAMENT, AIRING JULY 21 – AUGUST 1

CULVER CITY, CALIF. (July 9, 2014) – The 29th edition of the JEOPARDY! Teen Tournament is set to begin on July 21. 15 students (aged 13 to 17) will compete for the $75,000 grand prize over the course of the two-week event, which concludes with a two-day final airing July 31 and August 1.  

“The Teen Tournament is the last event of JEOPARDY!’s 30th anniversary season, which has been filled with wonderful, exciting moments,” said JEOPARDY! host Alex Trebek. “You’ll certainly want to tune in to this final event to see what this group of young, sharp contestants has in store for you.”

The full contestant field is as follows:

Name  Age Grade  School    City

Nikki Airi  15 11th  Thomas Worthington High School Worthington, Ohio

Eileen Bunch  14 9th  Villa Madonna Academy   Villa Hills, Ky.

Erin Christopher 16 10th  Tates Creek High School  Lexington, Ky.

Kat Deabill  16 11th  Goffstown High School   Goffstown, N.H.

William Golden  13 7th  Harmony School of Excellence  Houston, Texas

Selena Groh  16 11th  Buffalo Grove High School  Buffalo Grove, Ill.

Kevin Huang  17 12th  University High School   Irvine, Calif.

Alan Koolik  17 11th  Pine Crest School   Boca Raton, Fla.

Cooper Lair  15 10th  Little Rock Christian Academy  Little Rock, Ark.

Sam Lerner  15 10th  North Central High School  Indianapolis, Ind.

Sydney Mokel  17 12th  South Windsor High School  South Windsor, Conn.

Ananya Nrusimha 16 10th  Williamsville East High School  East Amherst, N.Y.

Joe Taglic  17 12th  Regis High School   New York, N.Y.

Josiah Takang  16 11th  Douglas County High School  Douglasville, Ga.

Jeff Xie   17 11th  John P. Stevens High School  Edison, N.J.

To qualify for the tournament, prospective contestants were selected from those who passed a 50-question online test. A select group was then invited to attend regional in-person auditions consisting of a second 50-question test, an interview and mock game play. For more information about the tournament, please visit jeopardy.com/minisites/teentournament/.

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JEOPARDY!, America’s Favorite Quiz Show® and its host, Alex Trebek, are celebrating 30 years of “answers and questions.” The top-rated quiz show in syndication, JEOPARDY! has become a pop culture phenomenon and has received many awards and honors. It holds the Guinness World Records® title for the most Emmy® Awards won by a TV game show (31 Emmys), including the 2014 Emmy® for Outstanding Game Show. In 2014, JEOPARDY! won the inaugural Writers Guild of America award for Outstanding Writing for Quiz and Audience Participation; it is also the recipient of a 2011 Peabody Award. JEOPARDY! is produced by Sony Pictures Television, a Sony Pictures Entertainment Company; it is distributed domestically by CBS Television Distribution and internationally by CBS Television International, both units of CBS Corp. For more information, please visit Jeopardy.com.