{"id":17374,"date":"2014-08-01T04:08:48","date_gmt":"2014-08-01T04:08:48","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2025-10-15T14:16:21","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T14:16:21","slug":"jeff-xie-wins-teen-jeopardy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/?p=17374","title":{"rendered":"Jeff Xie wins ‘Teen Jeopardy’"},"content":{"rendered":"

J.P Stevens High School student Jeff Xie won this year’s “Teen Jeopardy” tournament in dramatic fashion, answering a tiebreaker question correctly and walking away with $75,000.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Xie and Alan Koolik of Boca Raton, Fla. each accumulated $54,200 after a two-day final, forcing a tiebreaker to decide the champion. A tiebreaker clue was presented, Xie rang in first and responded correctly to win.<\/strong>
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\nThe episode, recorded in early March, aired tonight.<\/strong> Xie plans to use the money to travel and pay for college.<\/strong><\/p>\n

“I knew that I had to get the Final Jeopardy! clue right, and when Alan also gave the correct answer, my jaw dropped because I knew we were tied,” Xie said. “When the tiebreaker category ‘The Civil War’ was announced, I was excited because history is a strength of mine. When I saw ‘Shiloh’ I knew the answer.”<\/p>\n

Xie, who will be a senior when school starts next month, was one of 15 students from among 8,574 hopefuls across the country who qualified to be on “Teen Jeopardy.”<\/strong><\/p>\n

He earned a spot on the show through a multi-step process.<\/strong> First, he completed a 50-question online test. That earned him one of 250 places in regional auditions across the country, where prospective contestants took part in a second 50-question test, an interview and mock game play. Xie, 17, navigated that hurdle in New York City in November and received a spot on the 29th edition of “Teen Jeopardy.”<\/p>\n

Xie placed second in his first-round match, aired last week, to earn one of four wild-card berths in the semifinals.<\/strong> On Monday’s semifinal episode, he beat two contestants who won their previous match to reach the two-day final.<\/p>\n

He is the first New Jerseyan to win the tournament since Meryl Federman of Livingston in 2007.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Congrats!<\/strong><\/p>\n

Source AP<\/em>
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