Familiar faces in ‘Jeopardy!’ tourney
High School Reunion features several locals, including 2 from Yale
The new “Jeopardy!” High School Reunion Tournament begins this month, with several players who go to school in, or grew up in, Connecticut.
The tournament was announced in December. The complete schedule has now been released, with nine quarterfinal games Feb. 20 through March 2, three semifinals on March 3, 6 and 7 and two finals games on March 8 and 9. The 27 contestants in the tournament all competed in “Jeopardy!” Teen Tournaments and are now all in college.
Claire Sattler, who studies molecular, cellular, and developmental biology and has also been involved with over a dozen student theater productions at Yale as a performer, director, producer, designer or dramaturg, will compete on Feb. 27 at the beginning of the second week of the quarterfinals.
If she wins that game, she will return for the semifinals. When Sattler was a senior in high school, she was a wildcard semifinalist in the 2018 “Jeopardy!” Teen Tournament, moving on to the finals and winning that tournament and its $100,000 prize.
Lucas Miner, a history major in his junior year at Yale, has his first game on Feb. 28. He came in third place in the 2019 Teen Tournament.
Both the Yale students are from Florida: Sattler is from Bonita Springs and Miner is from Miami.
Besides the two Yale students, Stamford resident Hannah Nekritz, who is a senior at Brandeis University in Massachusetts, will be competing on March 2. She was a semifinalist in the 2019 Teen Tournament. One of the teens she competed against was Miner.
“Jeopardy!” airs locally on weeknights at 7 p.m. on WTNH.