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TUNE IN FOR THE ‘JEOPARDY!’ COLLEGE CHAMPIONSHIP APRIL 9-20

 

 

 

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TUNE IN FOR THE ‘JEOPARDY!’ COLLEGE CHAMPIONSHIP

APRIL 9-20

 

CULVER CITY, CALIF. (April 2, 2018) ­– One week after a new NCAA Basketball champion is crowned, another exciting inter-collegiate competition will begin: the JEOPARDY! College Championship kicks off Monday, April 9 (check local listings for show times). Over the course of the two-week event, 15 of America’s sharpest students will vie for the $100,000 grand prize and a berth in the next edition of the Tournament of Champions.

 

VIDEO: Meet the 2018 JEOPARDY! College Championship contestants

 

Here are the 2018 College Championship contestants, in alphabetical order:

 

  • Josie Bianchi, a sophomore at Stanford University (Stanford, Calif.) from San Jose, Calif.

  • Thatcher Chonka, a sophomore at the University of Oklahoma (Norman, Okla.) from Tulsa, Okla.

  • Dhruv Gaur, a freshman at Brown University (Providence, R.I.) from Gainesville, Ga.

  • Jordan Goodson, a senior at Columbia University (New York, N.Y.) from McLean, Va.

  • Rishab Jain, a freshman at the Georgia Institute of Technology (Atlanta, Ga.) from Memphis, Tenn.

  • Patricia Jia, a senior at the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Penn.) from Fremont, Calif.

  • Harry Kioko, a senior at the University of Chicago (Chicago, Ill.) from Princeton, N.J.

  • Sheldon Lewis II, a sophomore at the Rochester Institute of Technology (Rochester, N.Y.) from Buffalo, N.Y.

  • Rebecca Rosenthal, a sophomore at Swarthmore College (Swarthmore, Penn.) from Ridgewood, N.J.

  • Alli Ross, a sophomore at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (Worcester, Mass.) from Shrewsbury, Mass.

  • Hannah Sage, a sophomore at the University of Central Florida (Orlando, Fla.) from Sarasota, Fla.

  • William Scott, a freshman at Tufts University (Medford, Mass.) from Los Altos, Calif.

  • Carsen Smith, a senior at Vanderbilt University (Nashville, Tenn.) from Jacksonville, Fla.

  • Eric Thorpe, a senior at Dartmouth College (Hanover, N.H.) from Laguna Niguel, Calif.

  • Caroline Trammell, a junior at Furman University (Greenville, S.C.) from Baton Rouge, La.

 

For more information, please visit Jeopardy.com.

 

JEOPARDY!, America’s Favorite Quiz Show®, and its host, Alex Trebek, are in their 34th season in syndication. With 23 million viewers each week, JEOPARDY! is the top-rated quiz show on television, and has won several awards and distinctions over the course of its 30+ years on the air, including the 2017 Emmy for Outstanding Game Show. The show holds a Guinness World Records® record for the most Emmy® Awards won by a TV game show (34 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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Director of Communications | JEOPARDY!

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Publicity Manager | JEOPARDY!

(310) 244-6517

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