Berkeley 20-year old advances to Jeopardy! quarterfinals

February 8, 2012 3:30 pm by Frances Dinkelspiel

Anyone who watched Berkeley native Matt Olson on Jeopardy’s College Championship Tuesday night was amazed at the 20-year old’s performance. He raked up $40,000 in winnings (Jeopardy! dollars, unfortunately) answering questions ranging from fashion design to literature to what looked like a very difficult math problem.

Olson, shown above in an interview with KGO, now moves on to the quarterfinals. The winner of the College Championship will take home $100,000 (real dollars). Jeopardy! airs weeknights at 7 pm on KGO Channel 7.

Twitter went wild as Olson started to rake up the points.

 

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  • joan winnek

    Finally someone was able to spell Stanford.

  • Anonymous

    What are Jeopardy dollars?

  • Frances Dinkelspiel

    It wasn’t real money

  • Anonymous

    I remember watching the college jeopardy series when I was in high school. In fact, I think Stanford has won it twice since I started watching (I went to school with Nico, who won last time) and been to the finals more than that (maybe wikipedia might have the exact answer).