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Jeopardy! Tournament of Champions

Index Jeopardy! Tournament of Champions

The Jeopardy! Tournament of Champions is an annual tournament featuring the longest-running champions and biggest money winners from the past season or seasons of Jeopardy! The tournament began in 1964 during Art Fleming's tenure as host, and has continued into the Alex Trebek era of the show. [1]

52 relations: Alex Jacob, Alex Trebek, American Broadcasting Company, Art Fleming, Arthur Chu, Arthur Phillips, Atlanta, Atlanta Civic Center, Bob Harris (writer), Brad Rutter, Chuck Forrest, Colby Burnett, Consumer Cellular, Consumer Electronics Show, David Madden (Jeopardy! contestant), Doug Dorst, Doug Molitor, Eddie Timanus, Frank Spangenberg, Hutton Gibson, Jay Rosenberg, Jay Wolpert, Jeopardy!, Jeopardy! Battle of the Decades, Jeopardy! College Championship, Jeopardy! Teachers Tournament, Jeopardy! Teen Tournament, Jeopardy! Ultimate Tournament of Champions, Jerome Vered, John Podhoretz, Julia Collins (Jeopardy! contestant), Ken Jennings, Larissa Kelly, Las Vegas, Las Vegas Convention Center, Library of Congress, List of Jeopardy! contestants, List of Scripps National Spelling Bee champions, Mark M. Lowenthal, Matt Jackson (Jeopardy! contestant), Merv Griffin, Michael George Dupée, New York City, Nielsen ratings, Playoff format, Prudential Financial, Radio City Music Hall, Richard Cordray, Roger Craig (Jeopardy! contestant), September 11 attacks, ..., Tom Nichols (academic), Two-legged tie. Expand index (2 more) »

Alex Jacob

Alex Jacob (born October 27, 1984) is a former professional poker player and game show contestant.

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Alex Trebek

George Alexander Trebek (born July 22, 1940) is a Canadian-American television personality.

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American Broadcasting Company

The American Broadcasting Company (ABC) is an American commercial broadcast television network that is a flagship property of Disney–ABC Television Group, a subsidiary of the Disney Media Networks division of The Walt Disney Company.

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Art Fleming

Arthur Fleming Fazzin (May 1, 1924 – April 25, 1995), better known as Art Fleming, was an American actor and television host.

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Arthur Chu

Arthur Chu (born January 30, 1984) is an American columnist and former contestant on the syndicated US game show Jeopardy!.

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Arthur Phillips

Arthur Phillips (born April 23, 1969) is an American novelist.

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Atlanta

Atlanta is the capital city and most populous municipality of the state of Georgia in the United States.

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Atlanta Civic Center

The Boisfeuillet Jones Atlanta Civic Center was a theater located in Atlanta, Georgia.

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Bob Harris (writer)

Bob Harris (born October 15, 1963) is an American radio commentator, writer, comedian, and former Jeopardy! champion.

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Brad Rutter

Bradford Gates Rutter (born January 31, 1978) is the highest-earning contestant on the U.S. syndicated game show Jeopardy! and also the highest-earning American game show contestant of all time.

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Chuck Forrest

Charles "Chuck" Forrest (born June 3, 1961) is an American game show contestant who at one time held the record for the largest non-tournament cash winnings total on the syndicated game show Jeopardy! The Los Angeles Times called him "the Alexander the Great of Jeopardy! players." The producers of the show regarded him as one of the best and most memorable contestants of the 1980s.

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Colby Burnett

Colby Burnett is the first Jeopardy! contestant to have won both the Teachers Tournament and the Tournament of Champions.

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Consumer Cellular

Consumer Cellular is an American postpaid mobile virtual network operator founded by John Marick and Greg Pryor in October 1995.

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Consumer Electronics Show

CES (formerly an acronym for Consumer Electronics Show but now the official name) is an annual trade show organized by the Consumer Technology Association.

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David Madden (Jeopardy! contestant)

David Madden (born June 13, 1981) is an American game show contestant, academic competition organizer, and art historian.

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Doug Dorst

Doug Dorst is an American novelist, short story writer, and creative writing instructor.

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Doug Molitor

Doug Molitor (born 8 July 1952) is an American television screenwriter.

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Eddie Timanus

Eddie Timanus (born August 9, 1968 in St. Joseph, Missouri) is a Jeopardy! champion and USA Today sportswriter who grew up in Reston, Virginia, then graduated from Wake Forest University.

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Frank Spangenberg

Lieutenant Frank Spangenberg (born July 26, 1957) garnered fame in 1990 when he set the five-day cumulative winnings record on the game show Jeopardy!, becoming the first person to win more than $100,000 in five days on the show.

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Hutton Gibson

Hutton Peter Gibson (born August 26, 1918) is an American writer on Sedevacantism, a World War II veteran, the 1968 Jeopardy! grand champion and the father of 11 children, one of whom is the actor and director Mel Gibson.

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Jay Rosenberg

Jay Frank Rosenberg (April 18, 1942, Chicago – February 21, 2008, Chapel Hill, North Carolina) was a Professor of Philosophy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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Jay Wolpert

Jay Wolpert (born in The Bronx, New York) is an American television producer and screenwriter.

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Jeopardy!

Jeopardy! is an American television game show created by Merv Griffin.

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Jeopardy! Battle of the Decades

The Jeopardy! Battle of the Decades was a special 5-week tournament airing throughout the 30th season of the television game show Jeopardy! to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the daily syndicated version of the show, hosted by Alex Trebek.

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Jeopardy! College Championship

The Jeopardy! College Championship is one of the traditional tournaments held each season on the TV quiz show Jeopardy! Contestants in this tournament are full-time undergraduate college students with no prior degrees and traditionally wear a sweater bearing the name of their college or university during their appearances.

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Jeopardy! Teachers Tournament

The Jeopardy! Teachers Tournament is one of the traditional tournaments held each season on the TV quiz show Jeopardy! Contestants in this tournament are full-time teachers of students in grades kindergarten through twelve.

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Jeopardy! Teen Tournament

The Jeopardy! Teen Tournament is one of the traditional tournaments held each season on the TV quiz show Jeopardy! Contestants in this tournament are primarily high school students, and between the ages of thirteen and seventeen.

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Jeopardy! Ultimate Tournament of Champions

The Jeopardy! Ultimate Tournament of Champions was a special 15-week single-elimination tournament that aired during the 21st season of the syndicated game show Jeopardy! that began airing on February 9, 2005 and concluded on May 25, 2005, covering 76 shows in total.

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Jerome Vered

Jerome Vered (born March 13, 1958) is a Studio City, California writer, publicly known for his record-setting success as a contestant on the U.S. television game show Jeopardy!.

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John Podhoretz

John Mordecai Podhoretz (born April 18, 1961) is an American writer.

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Julia Collins (Jeopardy! contestant)

Julia Collins (born November 10, 1982) is a former champion on the quiz show Jeopardy! who had the show's second-longest winning streak after Ken Jennings's 74-game record.

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Ken Jennings

Kenneth Wayne Jennings III (born May 23, 1974) is an American game show contestant and author.

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Larissa Kelly

Larissa Kelly (born February 10, 1980) is an American multiple Jeopardy! winner, currently resident in Richmond, California.

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Las Vegas

Las Vegas (Spanish for "The Meadows"), officially the City of Las Vegas and often known simply as Vegas, is the 28th-most populated city in the United States, the most populated city in the state of Nevada, and the county seat of Clark County.

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Las Vegas Convention Center

The Las Vegas Convention Center (commonly referred to as LVCC) is a government building in Winchester, Nevada.

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Library of Congress

The Library of Congress (LOC) is the research library that officially serves the United States Congress and is the de facto national library of the United States.

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List of Jeopardy! contestants

Jeopardy! is an American television game show.

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List of Scripps National Spelling Bee champions

The Scripps National Spelling Bee is a competition held annually in the Washington, D.C. area in the United States over a two-day period at the end of May or beginning of June.

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Mark M. Lowenthal

Mark M. Lowenthal PhD, is an author and Adjunct Professor at the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences at Johns Hopkins University in Washington, D.C. He has written five books and over 90 articles or studies on intelligence and national security.

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Matt Jackson (Jeopardy! contestant)

Matthew Barnett Jackson (born June 24, 1992) is a former contestant on the syndicated game show Jeopardy! who had the show's 4th-longest winning streak, surpassed only by Ken Jennings, Julia Collins, and David Madden.

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Merv Griffin

Mervyn Edward Griffin Jr. (July 6, 1925 – August 12, 2007) was an American television host and media mogul.

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Michael George Dupée

Michael George Dupée (born October 23, 1966) is an American game show contestant and author who played on the U.S. syndicated game show Jeopardy! At the time that he won the 1996 Jeopardy! Tournament of Champions, he was the 4th biggest winner in Jeopardy! history.

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New York City

The City of New York, often called New York City (NYC) or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States.

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Nielsen ratings

Nielsen ratings are the audience measurement systems operated by Nielsen Media Research that seek to determine the audience size and composition of television programming in the United States.

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Playoff format

There are a number of formats used in various levels of competition in sports and games to determine an overall champion.

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Prudential Financial

Prudential Financial, Inc. is an American Fortune Global 500 and Fortune 500 company whose subsidiaries provide insurance, investment management, and other financial products and services to both retail and institutional customers throughout the United States and in over 30 other countries.

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Radio City Music Hall

Radio City Music Hall is an entertainment venue located at 1260 Avenue of the Americas at Rockefeller Center in Midtown Manhattan, New York City.

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Richard Cordray

Richard Adams Cordray (born May 3, 1959) is an American lawyer and politician who served as the first Director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau from 2012 to 2017.

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Roger Craig (Jeopardy! contestant)

Roger Alan Craig (born 1977) is an American game show contestant who held the record for highest single-day winnings on the quiz show Jeopardy!, set on September 14, 2010.

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September 11 attacks

The September 11, 2001 attacks (also referred to as 9/11) were a series of four coordinated terrorist attacks by the Islamic terrorist group al-Qaeda against the United States on the morning of Tuesday, September 11, 2001.

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Tom Nichols (academic)

Tom Nichols (born 1960) is a professor at the U.S. Naval War College, at the Harvard Extension School, a Sovietologist, and a five-time undefeated Jeopardy! champion.

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Two-legged tie

In sports (particularly association football), a two-legged tie is a contest between two teams which comprises two matches or "legs", with each team as the home team in one leg.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeopardy!_Tournament_of_Champions

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