Jeff Xie: 2014 Jeopardy Teen Tournament Winner

Jeff Xie in the Winner’s Circle. The Edison, NJ student reacts to his $75,000 win in the 2014 Jeopardy Teen Tournament.

Jeff competed against Erin Christopher and Selena Groh in his quarter-final match where a little blip with his pen got his Final Jeopardy! question disqualified. The “L” at the end of “Eiffel” didn’t show up. It didn’t much matter because Jeff didn’t bet anything and would have ended up in the same spot, with $19,000. That won him a Wild Card position.

He played his semi-final game against William Golden and Sydney Mokel, winning the first finalist spot with $2,200 more than William in second place.

Jeff then played a 2-match final with another junior, Alan Koolik from Boca Raton, FL; and a sophomore, Cooper Lair from Little Rock, AR. At the end of the first match, Alan had a $10,000 lead over Jeff to add to his score in the second match. Jeff brought his A-game on Day 2 and wound up with a $5,000 lead over Alan going into Final Jeopardy! After they both bet everything they had and their previous day’s score was added in, that turned out to be enough to tie with Alan. A tiebreaker decided the winner and, from now on, Jeff Xie will remember the Battles of Shiloh and Colliersville in a bit of a different way than the rest of us!

Handy Jeopardy-Related Links:

Clue of the Day – Online and every day in the NY Times
Play J!6 – Get an extra clue in each category every day
Jeopardy! on Facebook and on Twitter
Jeopardy! YouTube Channel – Winner Circle chats and video clips from memorable categories
J! Archive – every clue and player in every Jeopardy game ever! (almost)

Links to help you increase your knowledge:

History Quiz Bowl Study Guides with history downloads from classes taught by Jeopardy legend, Dave Madden and other resources.
LizardPoint Quizzes – Geography, World Leaders, and more
Things You Gotta Know – National Academic Quiz Tournaments provides 10 most important things to know on many topics (thanks to Eric)
The Final Wager: Learn Betting Strategy: Bone up on the correct way to bet on Jeopardy! Keith Williams, 2003 College Championship tournament winner, has many tutorials and daily recaps to help you out. It helped Arthur Chu win almost $300K!
Memorizing the Bible Books – how hard can it be? Little kids know it by this song.
Memorizing the English Monarchs – Get your Henrys, Georges and Richards straight
Learning Some Opera – Some opera info for Jeopardy hopefuls.
Women’s Milestones in the 20th Century – a decade by decade look at women’s achievements.