FIFTEEN OF JEOPARDY!'S TOP PLAYERS COMPETE
FOR A QUARTER MILLION DOLLARS IN 2011 TOURNAMENT OF CHAMPIONS

EPISODES TO AIR NOVEMBER 2-15

CULVER CITY, CALIF. (Oct. 26, 2011) -- "Jeopardy!," America's favorite quiz show®, is reuniting 15 of its recent champions for a head-to-head competition for a chance to win a quarter million dollars. The 2011 Tournament of Champions, beginning Nov. 2, will feature the show's recent highest money earners, including the winners of last season's College Championship and Teachers Tournament.

This year's competitors include:

Name	Occupation	City
Brian Meacham	Film Preservationist	Anchorage, Alaska
Buddy Wright	Operations Engineer	Fort Worth, Texas
Charles Temple	High School English Teacher	Ocracoke, N.C..
Christopher Short	Editor of Trivia Games	Crawfordsville, Ind.
Erin McLean	Junior at Boston University	Danvers, Mass.
Jay Rhee	Oncologist	Annapolis, Md.
John Krizel	Writer	Oceanside, N.Y.
Joon Pahk	Physics Teacher at Harvard University	Somerville, Mass.
Justin Sausville	Urologist	Baltimore, Md.
Kara Spak	Reporter at the Chicago Sun-Times	Chicago, Ill.
Mark Runsvold	Student and Waiter	Moscow, Idaho
Paul Kursky	Online Marketing Producer	San Francisco, Calif.
Roger Craig	Computer Scientist	Newark, Del.
Tom Kunzen	Geotechnical Engineer	Orlando, Fla.
Tom Nissley	Writer	Seattle, Wash.

The second place winner will earn a minimum of $100,000 and third place $50,000. Semifinalists receive $10,000, and contestants eliminated in the first round receive $5,000.

Since 1985, more than 300 contestants have competed in the tournament, with nearly $5.4 million in cash prizes awarded to the participating players. The featured champs for the upcoming 2011 Tournament of Champions have accumulated more than $1.9 million in cash prizes in their initial appearances on the show.

"Jeopardy!," the winner of 29 Emmy awards, including the 2011 Emmy for Outstanding Game/Audience Participation Program, was inducted into the Guinness Book of World Records for the most awards won by a TV Game Show. The series is the #1-rated quiz show in syndication with nearly 9 million daily viewers. "Jeopardy!" 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.