Second-year Engineering student Amanda Ray will appear in the first round of the Jeopardy College Championship Friday evening. The competition includes 15 competitors from universities across the country and continues until Nov. 19. The winner will be awarded $100,000.
Ray began the show's selection process in January, when she took a 50-question test online. In June, Ray received an e-mail from Jeopardy officials notifying her that she had made the next cut. In Raleigh, N.C., Amanda took another test, played a mock game and interviewed with "Jeopardy" staff. Ray, a biomedical engineering and computer science major, was among the students selected to appear on the show and flew to California in September for the taping.
"We shot the entire tournament in two days," she said. "Five episodes a day."
Ray, who was unable to disclose how she did in the competition, said she was surprised in September to hear she had made the final cut and would appear on the show.\n"They told us at the audition that we would know by late summer, so when classes started I just sort of assumed that was it," Ray said.
The hardest questions Ray said she remembers facing were "a whole category about Indian history and Hinduism that was really difficult for everybody."
Ray called her time on the show one of the most exciting experiences of her life.
"I had a really great time and met 14 really awesome people from colleges all over the country," she said.
-compiled by Rebecca Rubin
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