Plot Synopsis

Hosted by Mayim Bialik, JEOPARDY! NATIONAL COLLEGE CHAMPIONSHIP is a primetime event series that features 36 undergraduate students -- each from a different college and university from across the country -- battling head-to-head for the $250,000 grand prize. Second place earns $100,000, while the third-place winner takes home $50,000. Other prizes include: $35,000 for fourth place, $20,000 for each player eliminated in the semifinals, and $10,000 for each player eliminated in the quarterfinals. Each one-hour episode features two half-hour contests, with the tournament taking place over nine nights from 8-9pm ET/PT on ABC:

Tuesday, February 8: Quarterfinals #1 & 2 (Catherine Zhang vs. Gus Guszkowski vs. Isaac Applebaum; Stephen Privat vs. Jasmine Manansala vs. Ella Feiner)

Wednesday, February 9: Quarterfinals #3 & 4 (Mehek Boparai vs. Emmey Harris vs. Toussaint Pegues; Joey Kornman vs. Mitch Macek vs. Yejun Kim)

Thursday, February 10: Quarterfinals #5 & 6 (Neha Seshadri vs. Chance Persons vs. Pauline Bisaccio; Elijah Odunade vs. Matt Downing vs. Lauren Rodriguez)

Friday, February 11: Quarterfinals #7 & 8 (Kaden Lee vs. Liz Feltner vs. Jess Agyepong; Sarah Salisbury vs. Max Niles vs. Jaskaran Singh)

Tuesday, February 15: Quarterfinals #9 & 10 (Jeric Brual vs. Raymond Goslow vs. Lucy Greenman; Kristin Donegan vs. Anna Muthalaly vs. Sebastian Torres)

Wednesday, February 16: Quarterfinals #11 & 12 (Claire Jackson vs. Nam Vu vs. Fiona Hellerman; Megan Sullivan vs. Ani Dehadrai vs. Sam Blum)

(One winner from each quarterfinal advances to the semifinals.)

Thursday, February 17: Semifinals #1 & 2

Friday, February 18: Semifinals #3 & 4

(Of the four semifinal winners, the three with the highest semifinal total advance to the finals.)

Tuesday, February 22: Finals #1 & 2

(The winner is the contestant with the highest two-game total in the finals.)

The 36 participants are (in alphabetical order by last name):

Jess Agyepong (college: Howard University; year/major: senior majoring in Biology; hometown: Silver Spring, MD)
Isaac Applebaum (Stanford University; junior majoring in Computational Biology; Bethesda, MD)
Pauline Bisaccio (Clemson University; junior majoring in Biochemistry and Psychology; Fort Mill, SC)
Sam Blum (Vanderbilt University; senior majoring in Engineering Science; Aventura, FL)
Mehek Boparai (University of Pennsylvania; senior majoring in English; Hanford, CA)
Jeric Brual (NYU; senior majoring in Film and TV; Union, NJ)
Ani Dehadrai (MIT; senior majoring in Chemistry and Biology; Norman, OK)
Kristin Donegan (Carnegie Mellon University; senior majoring in Biological Sciences; Towson, MD)
Matt Downing (University of Notre Dame; senior majoring in Marketing and Applied Mathematics; Ronkonkoma, NY)
Ella Feiner (Princeton University; senior majoring in Chemical Engineering; Ridgewood, NJ)
Liz Feltner (Northeastern University; senior majoring in Political Science and Business Administration; Baton Rouge, LA)
Raymond Goslow (Kennesaw State University; senior majoring in Geospatial Sciences; Austell, GA)
Lucy Greenman (College of William & Mary; senior majoring in Health Analytics; Sterling, VA)
Gus Guszkowski (Dartmouth College; senior majoring in Classics; Pomfret Center, CT)
Emmey Harris (University of Minnesota; sophomore majoring in History; Lincoln, NE)
Fiona Hellerman (Tulane University; senior majoring in International Relations and Philosophy; Glenview, IL)
Claire Jackson (Spelman College; sophomore majoring in English and Spanish; Oakland, CA)
Yejun Kim (Northwestern University; senior majoring in Chemical Engineering; Naperville, IL)
Joey Kornman (Brandeis University; junior majoring in Classical Studies; West Hartford, CT)
Kaden Lee (University of Washington; junior majoring in Aeronautical/Astronautical Engineering; Medical Lake, WA)
Mitch Macek (Villanova University; sophomore majoring in Mathematics; Felton, PA)
Jasmine Manansala (Rice University; junior majoring in Computer Science and Cognitive Science; San Antonio, TX)
Anna Muthalaly (Duke University; junior majoring in Public Policy; Hoover, AL)
Max Niles (Brown University; senior majoring in History and Public Policy; Washington, D.C.)
Elijah Odunade (University of Georgia; junior majoring in Political Science; Norcross, GA)
Toussaint Pegues (Caltech; senior majoring in Mechanical Engineering; Dallas, TX)
Chance Persons (Creighton University; sophomore majoring in Physics and Chemistry; Burnsville, MN)
Stephen Privat (Louisiana State University; junior majoring in Political Science; Lafayette, LA)
Lauren Rodriguez (Pomona College; senior majoring in Public Policy and Sociology; Moraga, CA)
Sarah Salisbury (University of Southern California; sophomore majoring in English; La Mesa, CA)
Neha Seshadri (Harvard University; senior majoring in Economics; Ann Arbor, MI)
Jaskaran Singh (University of Texas at Austin; senior majoring in Finance and Economics; Plano, TX)
Megan Sullivan (University of Virginia; junior majoring in Classics; Burke, VA)
Sebastian Torres (Yale University; junior majoring in Ethics, Politics, and Economics; Tampa, FL)
Nam Vu (Georgetown University; senior majoring in Environmental Biology; Farmingdale, NJ)
Catherine Zhang (Cornell University; senior majoring in Computer Science and Sociology; Pennington, NJ)
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On Tuesday, February 22, 2022 from 8-9pm ET/PT, ABC premiered the finale of the JEOPARDY! NATIONAL COLLEGE CHAMPIONSHIP. In the tournament's finale, Liz Feltner (Northeastern), Jaskaran Singh (UT Austin) & Raymond Goslow (Kennesaw) compete in two half-hour games. The player with the highest combined total wins the $250,000 grand prize. Second place earns $100,000, while the third-place winner takes home $50,000.