THE ‘JEOPARDY!’ TEEN TOURNAMENT IS BACK;

TWO-WEEK EVENT KICKS OFF MONDAY, JUNE 17

CULVER CITY, CALIF. (June 10, 2019) ­– School’s out for summer, but the JEOPARDY! Teen Tournament is in session. Starting Monday, June 17, fifteen of America’s sharpest students aged 14-17 will compete over the course of the two-week event; only one will claim the $100,000 grand prize.

Here is the complete roster of Teen Tournament contestants, in alphabetical order:

Justin Bolsen, a freshman from Canton, Ga.

Avi Gupta, a senior from Portland, Ore.

Jackson Jones, a junior from Louisville, Ky.

Rohit Kataria, a junior from Wheelersburg, Ohio

Sreekar Madabushi, a junior from Basking Ridge, N.J.

Lucas Miner, a junior from Miami, Fla.

Hannah Nekritz, a senior from Stamford, Conn.

Teagan O’Sullivan, a freshman from Charlotte, N.C.

Stephanie Pierson, a junior from Macon, Ga.

Ryan Presler, an eighth-grader from Sioux Falls, S.D.

Alison Purcell, a senior from Bellaire, Texas

Audrey Sarin, a senior from Redmond, Wash.

Eesha Sohail, a senior from Bakersfield, Calif.

Sophia Weng, a junior from Chevy Chase, Md.

Shriya Yarlagadda, a sophomore from Grand Blanc, Mich.

To learn more about the JEOPARDY! Teen Tournament, please visit the Teen Tournament mini-site.

JEOPARDY! and its host Alex Trebek are celebrating their 35^th anniversary season. With a weekly audience of 23 million viewers, JEOPARDY! is the top-rated quiz show on television, and has received numerous awards and honors, including the 2019 Emmy for Outstanding Game Show Host. The show holds the Guinness World Records® title for the most Emmy® Awards won by a TV game show (35 Emmys); 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.

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