Jeopardy! College Championship
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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. The presence of this tournament does not discourage college students from auditioning for the regular shows.
Format
The format for the College Championship is similar to the format for the Tournament of Champions as well as the Teen Tournament.Origins during Fleming era
The first college tournaments were held during the original version with Art Fleming as host.Prizes
From its beginnings in 1989, all eliminated in the first week received $1000 ($2500 from 1998-2003, $5000 from 2004 to date), while semifinalists received $5000 ($10,000 from 2004 to date). The minimum guarantee for a third place finalist was $7500 ($10,000 from 1998-2002, $15,000 in 2003, and $25,000 from 2004 to date), while a second place finalist's minimum guarantee was $10,000 ($15,000 from 1998-2002, $25,000 in 2003, $50,000 from 2004 to date), and the winner's minimum guarantee was $25,000 ($50,000 from winter 2000-2003, $100,000 from 2004 to date). Any finalist who exceeds their minimum guarantee is awarded a cash prize equivalent to their 2-game finals score. From 1993-2004, the winner also won a new car (Dodge from 1993-1995, Volvo from 1996-2003, and Volkswagen in 2004), and the company who manufactured the car matched each finalists' totals and set up scholarships in those amounts earned for the finalists' schools.List of winners
The following list denoted the winners and the players they defeated.
- 1989-Tom Cubbage (Southern Methodist University, $26,600)
- 1990-Michael Thayer (Rutgers University)
- 1991-Scott Gillispie (Georgia Institute of Technology, $27,400), def. Andre DuVoisin (University of New Orleans) and Tim Lakin (Northwestern University)
- 1992-Billy Baxter (College of William & Mary, $26,200), def. Nick Jungman (University of Oklahoma) and Stephanie Leveene (University of Delaware)
- 1993-Phoebe Juel (Grinnell College, $28,000), def. Eric Biber (Harvard College) and John van deWeert (Princeton University)
- 1994-Jeff Stewart (Brigham Young University)
- 1995-Ben Lyon (University of Oklahoma)
- 1996-Shane Whitlock (University of Arkansas, $32,800)
- 1997-Craig Barker (University of Michigan)
- 1998-Andrew Hutchings (Harvey Mudd College, def. Alex Weathers (Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Shane Underwood (University of Alabama), taped at Zellerbach Hall on the campus of the University of California at Berkeley
- 1999-Carolyn Cracraft (University of Chicago), def. Katie King (University of Kentucky) and Josh Levy (University of Pennsylvania), taped at the Rosemont Theater in Rosemont, IL)
- Winter 2000-Janet Wong (Drew University), def. Adam Canter (Georgetown University) and Greg Hodgin (Emory University)
- Fall 2000-Pam Mueller (Loyola University Chicago), taped at Meany Hall on the campus of the University of Washington
- 2001-Vinita Kailasanath (Stanford University), def. Matt Schnippert (Florida State University) and Thomas Zamora (University of Southern California), taped at Pauley Pavillion on the campus of UCLA
- 2002-Kyle Hale (Texas A&M University, $51,300), def. Mark Kehres (Ohio State University) and Jara Dorsey (Carnegie Mellon University), taped at Value City Arena on the campus of The Ohio State University
- 2003-Keith Williams (Middlebury College), def. Grant Hutchinson (University of West Florida) and Josh Perkins (Rice University), taped at Payne Whitney Gymnasium on the campus of Yale University
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- 2004-Kermin Fleming (Carnegie Mellon University), def. Ari Schoenholtz (Williams College) and Rachel McCool (Dickinson College), taped at the Petersen Events Center on the campus of the University of Pittsburgh
- 2005-Nico Martinez (Stanford University, def. Adam Pinson (University of Alabama at Birmingham) and Jayanth Iyengar (Washington University in St. Louis), taped at the RBC Center on in Raleigh, NC
External links
- [link]-The official website of Jeopardy!
- [link]-An archive of Jeopardy! games past and present, including some from the College Championship
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