‘JEOPARDY!’ ANNOUNCES FIRST-EVER

PROFESSORS TOURNAMENT

10-DAY EVENT BEGINS MONDAY, DECEMBER 6

CULVER CITY, CALIF. (November 11, 2021) – It’s time to graduate to a new level of competition. In the first-ever JEOPARDY! Professors Tournament, instructors from 15 colleges and universities will face the ultimate test in higher education when they step away from their classrooms and onto the JEOPARDY! stage. Hosted by Mayim Bialik, the tournament begins Monday, December 6, and airs on consecutive weeknights until a champion is crowned on Friday, December 17.

“It was an unbelievable thrill to see so many brilliant professors from all kinds of schools and backgrounds come together on the JEOPARDY! stage,” Bialik said. “There was a sense of kinship and academic camaraderie among the group, along with a healthy dose of competitiveness. That energy made this inaugural Professors Tournament incredibly special.”

These elite educators will compete for a $100,000 grand prize and a spot in the upcoming Tournament of Champions. The roster of competitors is as follows:

• J.P. Allen, a Professor of Business at the University of San Francisco in San Francisco, Calif.

• Hester Blum, a Professor of English at Penn State University in University Park, Pa.

• Sam Buttrey, a Professor of Operations Research at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, Calif.

• Marti Canipe, a Professor of Elementary Science at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff, Ariz.

• Lisa Dresner, an Associate Professor of Writing at Hofstra University in Hempstead, N.Y.

• Ramón Guerra, a Professor of English, Literature, and Latino Studies at the University of Nebraska-Omaha in Omaha, Neb.

• Gautam Hans, an Associate Clinical Professor of Law at Vanderbilt Law School in Nashville, Tenn.

• John Harkless, an Associate Professor of Chemistry at Howard University in Washington, D.C.

• Ed Hashima, a Professor of History at American River College in Sacramento, Calif.

• Gary Hollis, a Professor of Chemistry at Roanoke College in Salem, Va.

• Alisa Hove, a Professor of Botany at Warren Wilson College in Asheville, N.C.

• Ashleigh Lawrence-Sanders, an Assistant Professor of U.S. and African American History at University of Colorado-Boulder in Boulder, Colo.

• Katie Reed, an Associate Professor of Musicology at California State University Fullerton in Fullerton, Calif.

• Deborah Steinberger, a Professor of French Literature at the University of Delaware in Newark, Del.

• Julia Williams, a Professor of English at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology in Terre Haute, Ind.

For more information, please visit jeopardy.com/contestant-zone/2021/professors-tournament. Check local listings for show times and stations.

JEOPARDY!, America’s Favorite Quiz Show™, is in its 38^th season in syndication. With a weekly audience over 20 million viewers,* JEOPARDY! is the top-rated quiz show on television. The show has won a total of 42 Emmy^® Awards, holds the Guinness World Records^® title for the most Emmy^® Awards won by a TV game show, and received a Peabody Award for “celebrating and rewarding knowledge.” JEOPARDY! is produced by Sony Pictures Television, a Sony Pictures Entertainment Company; it is distributed domestically by CBS Media Ventures and internationally by ViacomCBS Global Distribution Group, both units of ViacomCBS. For more information, please visit Jeopardy.com.

* Source: Nielsen NPower, 2020/21 (9/14/20-7/4/21)

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