{"id":3927,"date":"2010-11-30T13:07:47","date_gmt":"2010-11-30T21:07:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiken.wpengine.com\/news\/kentridge-high-school-student-to-compete-on-jeopardy-teen-tournament\/"},"modified":"2016-10-23T20:15:26","modified_gmt":"2016-10-24T03:15:26","slug":"kentridge-high-school-student-to-compete-on-jeopardy-teen-tournament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/kentridge-high-school-student-to-compete-on-jeopardy-teen-tournament\/","title":{"rendered":"Kentridge High School student to compete on ‘Jeopardy!” Teen Tournament"},"content":{"rendered":"

Christian Ie, a senior at Kentridge High School from Renton, is one of 15 players selected to compete in this year\u2019s \u201cJeopardy!\u201d<\/a> Teen Tournament. The tournament will broadcast nationally beginning Thursday, Feb. 17 through Tuesday, March 2.<\/p>\n

Ie first learned he was selected to compete when a crew from KOMO 4 showed up at his high school library with his parents and told him the news. \u201cI was lost for words. All I could do was smile and laugh,\u201d he explained. \u201cMy friends and family are excited to see what’s coming.\u201d<\/p>\n

If Ie wins the grand prize, he will receive $75,000. The second-place winner receives a minimum of $50,000, and the third place winner receives a minimum of $25,000. Semifinalists receive $10,000, and contestants eliminated in the first round receive $5,000.<\/p>\n

The episodes will be taped on the Sony Pictures Television lot in Culver City, Calif., Dec. 6-7. Ie will be also be joined by his parents who will be watching from the live studio audience. Ie has been preparing for the competition by reading a variety of books that cover many subjects. \u201cI\u2019ve also been eating mints before watching \u2018Jeopardy!.\u2019 It seems to help my reaction time,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Ie is involved with his high school\u2019s key club and Junior State of America chapter. Ie is planning to attend the University of Washington to study bioengineering and would eventually like to attend medical school.<\/p>\n

\u201cJeopardy!,\u201d the winner of 28 Emmy awards since its debut in 1984, was inducted into the Guinness Book of World Records for the most awards won by a TV Game Show. The series is the No. 1-rated quiz show in syndication with nearly 9 million daily viewers. \u201cJeopardy!\u201d 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Christian Ie, a senior at Kentridge High School from Renton, is one of 15 players selected to compete in this year\u2019s \u201cJeopardy!\u201d Teen Tournament. The tournament will broadcast nationally beginning Thursday, Feb. 17 through Tuesday, March 2.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-3927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3927"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3927\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3927"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=3927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}