#9009, aired 2024-01-04 | GAME SHOW $600: In 1959 this show with contestants from higher ed had "GE" in the title; more recently, "Capital One" College Bowl |
#8996, aired 2023-12-18 | COLORFUL SPORTS $600: Hard Rock Stadium in Florida is home to the Miami Dolphins & this college bowl game the Orange Bowl |
#8933, aired 2023-09-20 | THE SPORTING NEWS $200: New Orleans is home to this "sweet" bowl game, one of 6 in the College Football Playoff the Sugar Bowl |
#8814, aired 2023-02-23 | COLLEGE FOOTBALL $200: On Jan. 1, 1920 Harvard beat Oregon 7-6 in this annual game in Pasadena; you may be shocked to learn Harvard has not been back since the Rose Bowl |
#8771, aired 2022-12-26 | REMEMBER THE ALAMO BOWL $200: College football's Alamo Bowl is held annually at the Alamodome in this city San Antonio |
#8758, aired 2022-12-07 | COLLEGE FOOTBALL BOWL BIZ $200: "What's in your wallet?" Oh, it's a ticket to the Orange Bowl sponsored by this bank Capital One |
#8758, aired 2022-12-07 | COLLEGE FOOTBALL BOWL BIZ $400: Baylor ended up in better hands than Ole Miss in the 88th Sugar Bowl underwritten by this insurance company Allstate |
#8758, aired 2022-12-07 | COLLEGE FOOTBALL BOWL BIZ $600: The 2021 Famous Idaho Potato Bowl got served up in this state capital Boise |
#8758, aired 2022-12-07 | COLLEGE FOOTBALL BOWL BIZ $800: In 2022 Bad Boy Mowers kicked off its sponsorship of the Pinstripe Bowl in this stadium that's a bit better known for baseball Yankee Stadium |
#8758, aired 2022-12-07 | COLLEGE FOOTBALL BOWL BIZ $1000: The 2021 TransPerfect Music City Bowl was held in this city, y'all Nashville |
#8688, aired 2022-07-20 | QUIZ BOWL $200: Part of a tea set, or a college football game first played in 1935 a sugar bowl |
#8598, aired 2022-03-16 | BOWL-O-RAMA $200: In 2021 NBC rebooted "College Bowl" with this former Colts quarterback as the host Peyton Manning |
#8594, aired 2022-03-10 | SPORTS $600: The oldest postseason college football game, the Rose Bowl is played in this city Pasadena |
#8016, aired 2019-06-17 | PEACHY $600: The Chick-Fil-A Peach Bowl is a college football game played in this state capital Atlanta |
#7553, aired 2017-06-14 | COLLEGE HIJINKS $1600: At the 1984 Rose Bowl in Pasadena, the scoreboard got hacked so it read this nearby school 38, M.I.T. 9 Caltech |
#7447, aired 2017-01-17 | COLLEGE FOOTBALL HISTORY $200: Doubtful we'll see a rematch of the 1919 version of this "Granddaddy of Them All" bowl game: Great Lakes 17, Mare Island 0 the Rose Bowl |
#7356, aired 2016-09-12 | COLLEGE FOOTBALL $600: In 2013 the Military Bowl moved from Washington, D.C. to the home field of this nearby military academy the Naval Academy |
#7278, aired 2016-04-13 | RADIO & TV GAME SHOWS $1600: College teams including Columbia & Notre Dame faced off on this show that moved from radio to television College Quiz Bowl |
#7042, aired 2015-04-07 | FILM SCHOOL $400: As "The Waterboy", this actor is a tackling machine who leads his college team to the Bourbon Bowl Adam Sandler |
#6892, aired 2014-07-29 | "MAC" OR "P.C." $800: This Seattle mastermind is one of the three coaches to win a college national championship and a Super Bowl Pete Carroll |
#6867, aired 2014-06-24 | COLORFUL SPORTS $600: Sun Life Stadium in Florida is home to the Miami Dolphins & this college bowl game the Orange Bowl |
#6453, aired 2012-10-10 | TRAVEL TEXAS $400: Say howdy to 52-foot Big Tex at the state fair of Texas, a stone's throw from this college football stadium the Cotton Bowl |
#6041, aired 2010-12-13 | 1901-1910 $600: On Jan. 1, 1902 the first postseason college football game was played in this city; Michigan beat Stanford, 49-0 Pasadena |
#5745, aired 2009-07-24 | TOUGH-POURRI $400: This last Ivy-League school to win this college football bowl game was Columbia University in 1934 the Rose Bowl |
#5496, aired 2008-06-30 | COLLEGE FOOTBALL $800: The BCS, created to pit the top teams in the nation against each other, stands for this Bowl Championship Series |
#5496, aired 2008-06-30 | COLLEGE FOOTBALL $1000: Ian Johnson's 2-pt. conversion won the '07 Fiesta Bowl for this school, then his on-field wedding proposal won his GF's heart Boise State |
#5462, aired 2008-05-13 | COLLEGE FOOTBALL GEOGRAPHY $400: 2007 Cotton Bowl champion Auburn is located in this state Alabama |
#5122, aired 2006-12-12 | COLLEGE SPORTS $600: Since 1966 this Big 10 football coach has won a record 21 Bowl games, including the 2006 Orange Bowl against Fla. State Joe Paterno |
#4957, aired 2006-03-14 | COLLEGE SPORTS RIVALRIES $1000: The "Iron Bowl" is between these 2 "Heart of Dixie" teams Alabama & Auburn |
#4919, aired 2006-01-19 | COLLEGE ATHLETICS $200: The Liberty Bowl moved to this Tennessee city in 1965 after being held in Philadelphia & Atlantic City Memphis |
#4677, aired 2004-12-28 | COLLEGE BOWL $200: When completed in 1923, this Ann Arbor school's Yost Field House was the first field house on a college campus the University of Michigan |
#4677, aired 2004-12-28 | COLLEGE BOWL $400: From 1953 to 1991 the University of Leipzig was named for this co-founder of scientific socialism Karl Marx |
#4677, aired 2004-12-28 | COLLEGE BOWL $600: The athletic teams of Brown are known by this nickname; the ones at Berkeley are "golden" bears |
#4677, aired 2004-12-28 | COLLEGE BOWL $1000: In 1893 the Columbia Institution for the Instruction of the Deaf, Dumb & Blind became this Gallaudet |
#4677, aired 2004-12-28 | COLLEGE BOWL $1,500 (Daily Double): Noah Webster was a co-founder of this Mass. college that administers the Folger Shakespeare Library Amherst |
#4645, aired 2004-11-12 | COLLEGE FOOTBALL $1600: This bowl game has been held in Jacksonville, Florida since January 1, 1946 the Gator Bowl |
#4553, aired 2004-05-26 | "E" MALE $600: This Super Bowl MVP quarterback who retired in 1999 played his college football at Stanford John Elway |
#4525, aired 2004-04-16 | ARE YOU READY FOR SOME FOOTBALL? $200: This important college football game is played each year in Tempe, Arizona around New Year's Day the Fiesta Bowl |
#4509, aired 2004-03-25 | PEABODY AWARD WINNERS $800: The Program for Youth Award for 1960 went to this game show sponsored by GE College Bowl |
#4445, aired 2003-12-26 | "O" MY! $400: (Hey, this is Wayne Brady and this is your clue.) This city, my hometown, is home to Sea World of Florida & college football's annual Citrus Bowl Orlando |
#4344, aired 2003-06-19 | FOOTBALL $400: In the 2003 Fiesta Bowl, this team defeated Miami in double overtime, 31-24, to win the college championship Ohio State University |
#4265, aired 2003-02-28 | OLD GAME SHOWS $1200: Pat Sajak & Art Fleming have hosted special versions of this long-running quiz show sponsored by GE College Bowl |
#4089, aired 2002-05-16 | MATCH GAME '73 $800: Notre Dame won college football's nat'l title after a 24-23 Sugar Bowl win over this school's Crimson Tide University of Alabama |
#4063, aired 2002-04-10 | COLLEGE FOOTBALL $600: Since 1996 this bowl game's corporate sponsor has been Frito-Lay Tostito chips the Fiesta Bowl |
#4063, aired 2002-04-10 | COLLEGE FOOTBALL $800: In a 2002 bowl game, QB Joey Harrington threw for 350 yards & 4 TDs at this school defeated Colorado, 38-16 Oregon |
#4028, aired 2002-02-20 | PEACHES & HERB $200: Appropriately, this city is home to college football's Peach Bowl Atlanta |
#3954, aired 2001-11-08 | COLLEGE FOOTBALL 2000 $200: This school's Huskers set a college bowl record by scoring 66 points against Northwestern in the Alamo Bowl the University of Nebraska |
#3954, aired 2001-11-08 | COLLEGE FOOTBALL 2000 $300: The USA's only major undefeated team, it won the national title by beating Florida State in the Orange Bowl Oklahoma |
#3711, aired 2000-10-23 | THE "HALL"S $500: It's the former name of the college football bowl game now known as the Outback Bowl the Hall of Fame Bowl |
#3582, aired 2000-03-14 | U.S. GEOGRAPHY $400: (Hi, I'm Jason Elam of the Denver Broncos.) In 1998 I earned a trip to the NFL's Pro Bowl, held each year in this city where I played college ball Honolulu |
#3544, aired 2000-01-20 | QUIZ SHOW $200: This scholarly quiz show "Bowl" was originally hosted by Allen Ludden & sponsored by General Electric College Bowl |
#3508, aired 1999-12-01 | COLLEGE FOOTBALL $200: From 1935 through 1974, this bowl game was played in New Orleans' Tulane Stadium Sugar Bowl |
#3413, aired 1999-06-09 | LEGENDS OF SPORTS $200: This former 49ers QB who holds many Super Bowl records almost played college basketball instead of football Joe Montana |
#3372, aired 1999-04-13 | THE BAD OLD DAYS $100: It wasn't a college football game, it was the Great Plains area racked by drought in the 1930s the Dust Bowl |
#3343, aired 1999-03-03 | COLLEGE FOOTBALL $200: This Dallas bowl game has been played at the same site consecutively longer than any other major bowl game Cotton Bowl |
#3343, aired 1999-03-03 | COLLEGE FOOTBALL $400: In the 1999 Fiesta Bowl, quarterback Tee Martin led this school to the national title by defeating Florida State, 23-16 Tennessee |
#3320, aired 1999-01-29 | COLLEGE SPORTS $300: This Penn State legend is the only coach to win all 4 traditional bowl games Joe Paterno |
#3274, aired 1998-11-26 | COLLEGE FOOTBALL $200: Nickname of Alabama coach Paul Bryant, who won 15 bowl games "Bear" |
#3274, aired 1998-11-26 | COLLEGE FOOTBALL $500: The last major bowl without a corporate sponsor, it struck an agreement with AT&T in 1998 The Rose Bowl |
#3096, aired 1998-02-02 | COLLEGE BOWL $100: The term "campus" began at Princeton to distinguish its grounds from this school's "yard" Harvard |
#3096, aired 1998-02-02 | COLLEGE BOWL $200: The colors of Notre Dame's athletic teams are blue & this Gold |
#3096, aired 1998-02-02 | COLLEGE BOWL $300: Sports teams from Grambling, Clemson & Auburn share this nickname Tigers |
#3096, aired 1998-02-02 | COLLEGE BOWL $400: Following the Civil War, the University of Florida moved from Ocala to this city Gainesville |
#3096, aired 1998-02-02 | COLLEGE BOWL $500: College Station, home to this Texas school, got its name from the railroad station built to serve the college Texas A&M |
#3064, aired 1997-12-18 | COLLEGE FOOTBALL $100: It's the only bowl game whose attendance regularly exceeds 100,000 Rose Bowl |
#2957, aired 1997-06-10 | SPORTS $500: This Dolphins coach has a yacht named Three Rings for his 2 Super Bowl titles & 1 college championship Jimmy Johnson |
#2829, aired 1996-12-12 | SPORTS $200: This school's Cornhuskers won the 1995 college football title by overwhelming Florida in the Fiesta Bowl Nebraska |
#2533, aired 1995-09-13 | SPORTS $400: In January 1995 this team won the Rose Bowl & made Joe Paterno the winningest coach in college bowls Penn State |
#2238, aired 1994-05-04 | SPORTS $300: In the 1994 Orange Bowl, this team won the college football title by defeating Nebraska, 18-16 Florida St. |
#1983, aired 1993-03-31 | SPORTS $400: In 1975 this college football bowl game moved from Tulane Stadium to the Louisiana Superdome the Sugar Bowl |
#1967, aired 1993-03-09 | U.S.A. $200: In college football, Florida has its Orange Bowl & this state has its Peach Bowl Georgia |
#1958, aired 1993-02-24 | JANUARY 1, 1993 $600: This college team became No. 1 by defeating the Miami Hurricanes 34-13 in the Sugar Bowl the University of Alabama |
#1534, aired 1991-04-11 | THE 20th CENTURY $200: This, the oldest post-season college bowl game, was first played in Pasadena, January 1, 1902 the Rose Bowl |
#1239, aired 1990-01-11 | STATE FLOWERS $400: If you know college football bowl games, you'll know the bluebonnet is its state flower Texas |
#1222, aired 1989-12-19 | SPORTS $500: This college conference provides the host team for the Sugar Bowl the Southeast Conference |
#1169, aired 1989-10-05 | SPORTS CITIES $200: Tempe, Arizona is the site of this annual college bowl game Fiesta Bowl |
#1094, aired 1989-05-11 | COLLEGE SPORTS $500: School that has won 5 of the last 11 Orange Bowl games Oklahoma |
#1077, aired 1989-04-18 | HAWAII $600: Name of the college all-star football game held annually in Hawaii the Hula Bowl |
#808, aired 1988-02-24 | BRITISH TV $200: The British quiz show "University Challenge" was based on this American game show College Bowl |
#522, aired 1986-12-09 | FOOTBALL $800: The Raisin, Grape, Oil, Alamo, Mercy, Delta, Bacardi, Aviation & Gotham college bowl games no longer being played |
#521, aired 1986-12-08 | SPORTS $300: College football's 2 major annual bowl games played in Florida Gator Bowl & Orange Bowl |
#277, aired 1985-10-01 | GAME SHOWS $200: Game in which toss-up questions were thrown to campus combatants by Allen Ludden (G.E.) College Bowl |
Jay Rosenberg, a college professor from Chapel Hill, North Carolina
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\"After winning 5 times in 1985, he became the moderator for...
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Adam Pinson, a senior at the University of Alabama at Birmingham from Pinson, Alabama
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2005 College Championship 1st runner-up: $50,000. Won $100,000 on Who Wants...
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Erin McLean, a sophomore from Boston University from Danvers, Massachusetts
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2011 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 2010-B College Championship winner:...
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Craig Barker, an Advanced Placement history teacher from Livonia, Michigan
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"In 1997 he won the College Championship. Today he's an Advanced...
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Amanda Walker, a junior at Gonzaga University from East Wenatchee, Washington
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2005 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user name:...
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Chris Matthews, a TV host from Hardball and The Chris Matthews Show
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"He served as a speechwriter for Jimmy Carter, and later as...
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Ari Schoenholtz, a senior at Williams College from Bethesda, Maryland
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2004 College Championship 1st runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $50,000. Jeopardy! Message...
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Prashant Raghavendran, a sophomore from the University of Texas, Dallas
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2010-A College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. Hometown: Austin, Texas. Prashant Raghavendran Blog...
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Surya Sabhapathy, a senior from the University of Michigan
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2010-A College Championship 2nd runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $26,600. Hometown: Northville,...
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Jen McFann, a Peace Corps recruiter from Astoria, New York
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Season 26 1-time champion: $19,410 + $2,000. Jen McFann Astoria, New...
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Hans von Walter, a junior from Southern Adventist University from Avon Park, Florida
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2010-B College Championship 2nd runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $25,000 + a...
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Robbie Berg, a freshman from the University of Pennsylvania
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2010-A College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. Hometown: Davie, Florida. Robbie Berg Blog...
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Larissa Charnsangavej, a senior from Rice University
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2009 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 21 and from Houston, Texas at...
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Danny Devries, a junior from the University of Michigan
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2008 College Championship semifinalist: $10,000. 21 and from West Bloomfield, MI...
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Kyle Kahan, a senior from Texas A&M University from Houston, Texas
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2010-B College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000 + a Nintendo Wii +...
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Lyndsey Romick, a sophomore from Lewis & Clark College
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2010-A College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. Hometown: Grants Pass, Oregon. Lyndsey Romick...
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Christine Valada, a photographer and attorney originally from Walton, New York
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2010 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 26 4-time champion: $68,703...
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Lindsay Eanet, a senior from the University of Missouri
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2010-A College Championship semifinalist: $10,000. Hometown: Deerfield, Illinois. Last name pronounced...
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Tim Relihan, a senior from the University of Nebraska from Stromsburg, Nebraska
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2010-B College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000 + a Nintendo Wii + the...
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Malisha Butts, a senior at North Carolina Central University from Durham, North Carolina
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2005 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000.
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Bob McGreevy, an attorney from South Salem, New York
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Season 3 1-time champion: $11,150. Bob, being from New York, declined...
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Chelsea He, a sophomore at Duke University from Raleigh, North Carolina
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2005 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000.
Last name pronounced like "HEE".
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Rebecca Maxfield, a freshman from Brown University
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2010-A College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. Hometown: New Rochelle, New York. Rebecca...
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Danny Vopava, a sophomore from the University of Wisconsin–River Falls
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2010-A College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. Hometown: New Brighton, Minnesota. [No contestant...
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Carl Brandt, an investor originally from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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2009 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 25 4-time champion: $70,799...
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Steve Newman, a partner in a small computer company from Rockville, Maryland
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"He was the first player to win 5 games in the...
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Amanda Nowotny, a sophomore at the University of Pittsburgh from New Castle, Pennsylvania
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2004 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000.
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Jean Cui, a student originally from Garden City, New York
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Season 25 2-time champion: $14,200 + $2,000. Last name pronounced like...
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Michael Braun, a junior from Silver Spring, Maryland
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2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 player: $5,000. 2005 Teen...
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Andy Srinivasan, a high school science teacher from Garner, North Carolina
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2010 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 26 4-time champion: $69,600...
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Tom Toce, an actuary from New York, New York
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Season 26 2-time champion: $39,200 + $2,000. Last name pronounced like...
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Eliza Scruton, a junior from Louisville, Kentucky
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2012 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $10,000.
16 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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Brandon Hensley, a sophomore from Caltech
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2008 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 19 and from Huntington, WV at...
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Jennifer Duann, a senior from the Ohio State University
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2009 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 21 and from Worthington, Ohio at...
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Sid Chandrasekhar, a senior from the University of Pennsylvania from Saratoga, California
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2010-B College Championship semifinalist: $10,000 + a Nintendo Wii + the...
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A.J. Schumacher, a radio show production intern from St. Paul, Minnesota
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Season 25 1-time champion: $10,800 + $2,000. AJ Schumacher Saint Paul,...
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Jove Graham, a biomedical engineer from Lewisburg, Pennsylvania
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Season 26 1-time champion: $34,401 + $1,000. Jove's second contestant interview...
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Caitlin Cook, a sophomore from Arden, North Carolina
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2005 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $5,000.
16 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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Carlee Jensen, a senior from Santa Monica, California
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2011 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000.
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Justin Bernbach, a lobbyist from Brooklyn, New York
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2010 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 25 7-time champion: $155,001...
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Liz Murphy, a foreign service officer originally from Scranton, Pennsylvania
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2010 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 25 5-time champion: $121,302...
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David Hoffelmeyer, a senior from St. Joseph, Missouri
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2006 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $10,000.
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Papa Chakravarthy, a sophomore from Lexington, Kentucky
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2006 Teen Tournament champion: $75,000.
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Ben Chuchla, a senior from Calabasas, California
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2008-B Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Last name pronounced like "HOO-kla"....
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Injee Hong, a 12-year-old from Metairie, Louisiana
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"If her dreams of becoming a lawyer don't come true, she...
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Kailyn LaPorte, a sophomore from Decatur, Georgia
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2011 Teen Tournament 1st runner-up: $42,600. 15 at the time of...
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Hank Robinson, a senior from Lithia Springs, Georgia
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2007 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $10,000. 17 at the time of the...
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George Nelson, a senior from Montgomery, Alabama
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2002 Teen Tournament 1st runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $29,497. George was...
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Saad Hasan, a nanotechnology scientist from Nashville, Tennessee
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Season 26 1-time champion: $22,700 + $2,000. Saad Hasan Nashville, TN...
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Robert Knecht Schmidt, a patent agent from Cleveland, Ohio
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Season 26 1-time champion: $12,799 + $1,000. Middle name pronounced like...
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Rebecca Drinnon, an English teacher from Morristown, Tennessee
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Season 25 player (2009-01-02).
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Fred Beukema, a structural engineer from Minneapolis, Minnesota
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Season 25 3-time champion: $69,401 + $2,000. Last name pronounced like...
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Iddoshe Hirpa, a junior from Louisville, Kentucky
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2006 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $10,000.
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