Jeopardy! Teen Tournament

The Jeopardy! Teen Tournament is a special 2 week event that features up to 15 high school students who are between the ages of 15-18. The layout is the same as the Tournament of Champions and other 2 week tournaments. They are 5 quarter-final rounds in the 1st week. The winners move on into the semi-finals on the 2nd week and the 4 high-scorers among non-winners will advance as well. The winner of the semi-finals advance to participate in a 2-day final. The Teen Tournament has been held every season since it's 1987 debut, including two installments in season 23 except for season 31 and season 32. The teen tournament returned into rotation starting in season 33. On top of that, the cash payout will be just like the college championship that was in existence since 2004.

In November 1998, Jeopardy! held a special Teen Reunion Tournament in Boston featuring 12 contestants from the inaugural three Teen Tournaments. In a unique format for a Jeopardy! tournament, the three highest earners in the four semifinal games played in the one-day final on Friday, similarly to Wheel of Fortune's then-Friday Finals format. 1989 Teen champion Eric Newhouse (the only winner in the field) won the $50,000 top prize over 1988 finalist David Javerbaum and semi-finalist Chris Cappozola, while 1987 finalist Dana Venator was the lowest earning semi-finalist and did not qualify for the finals.

Until 2000, Teen Tournament winners were invited to the Tournament of Champions, where 8 of 14 advanced to the semifinals, including 4 (Eric Newhouse, Matthew Zielenski, Sahir Islam, and Chacko George) who won their quarterfinal game. However, none of them ever advanced to the final round.

Eric Newhouse was also a semi-finalist in 1990's Super Jeopardy! tournament and a finalist in 2002's Million Dollar Masters tournament. Every Teen Tournament winner to that point (save for Michael Block & Amanda Goad) competed in 2005's Ultimate Tournament of Champions, where 1992 winner April McManus and 1995 winner Matthew Zielenski made the quarterfinals. Newhouse received a bye to the second round, though did not advance further. 1991 winner Andrew Westney also competed in 2014's Battle of the Decades tournament as a fan favourite qualifier for the "1980s decade" round, but did not advance.

Season	Airdate	Finale	Winner
3	February 16, 1987	February 27, 1987	Michael Galvin
4	February 8, 1988	February 19, 1988	Michael Block
5	February 6, 1989	February 17, 1989	Eric Newhouse
6	February 5, 1990	February 16, 1990	Jamie Weiss
7	February 11, 1991	February 22, 1991	Andy Westney
8	February 24, 1992	March 6, 1992	April McManus
9	February 1, 1993	February 12, 1993	Fraser Woodford
10	February 7, 1994	February 18, 1994	Matt Morris
11	February 6, 1995	February 17, 1995	Matthew Zielenski
12	May 6, 1996	May 17, 1996	Amanda Goad
13-A	February 3, 1997	February 14, 1997	Josh DenHartog
14-B	November 3, 1997	November 14, 1997	Sahir Islam
15†	November 16, 1998	November 20, 1998	Eric Newhouse
15-A	February 22, 1999	March 5, 1999	Melissa Sexstone
16-B	November 1, 1999	November 12, 1999	Chacko George
17	April 30, 2001	May 11, 2001	Graham Gilmer
18	February 4, 2002	February 15, 2002	Bernard Holloway
19	February 3, 2003	February 14, 2003	John Zhang
20	February 9, 2004	February 20, 2004	Jennifer Wu
21	January 26, 2005	February 8, 2005	Michael Braun
22	February 6, 2006	February 17, 2006	Papa Chakravarthy
23	February 5, 2007	February 16, 2007	David Walter
23*	July 16, 2007	July 27, 2007	Meryl Federman
24-A	February 11, 2008	February 22, 2008	Rachel Horn
25-B	November 10, 2008	November 21, 2008	Anurag Kashyap
26	November 2, 2009	November 13, 2009	Rachel Rothenberg
27	February 17, 2011	March 2, 2011	Raynell Cooper
28	April 30, 2012	May 11, 2012	Elyse Mancuso
29	January 30, 2013	February 12, 2013	Leonard Cooper
30	July 21, 2014	August 1, 2014	Jeff Xie
33	November 9, 2016	November 22, 2016	Sharath Narayan

†There was a one-week Teen Tournament Reunion that took place on the 15th season.

Trivia

• There was no Teen Tournament Logo for the show's 14th season.
• There was a 2nd Teen Tournament that took place on the 23rd Season to start the Summer Games.
• The B-Tournament in 2008 uses the Rock & Roll Jeopardy! Final Jeopardy music
• Because of the Battle of the Decades, the 2014 Teen Tournament took place after the regular games, and thus Season 30 became the first season to stretch through August.
• The teen tournament returned into action on November 9, 2016.
  • On top of that, the teen tournament finals will have $100,000 for 1st place, $50,000 for 2nd place and $25,000 for 3rd place. Eliminated semi-finalists will get $10,000 and eliminated quarter-finalists will get $5,000. This was the same cash payout format used since 2004 for the College Championship.

Gallery

Season 3-6

Season 7-8

Season 9

Season 10

Season 12

Season 13

Season 15 as Teen Tournament Reunion

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Season 15

Season 16 for the original studio

Season 16 recorded in New York

Season 17

Season 18

Season 19

Season 20

Season 21

Season 22

Season 23

Season 23 as the Teen Tournament Summer Games

Season 24

Season 25-26

Season 27

Season 28

Season 29

Season 30