Jaskaran Singh is a student at the University of Texas at Austin and a Plano native, and he is the latest national champion to be born and raised in North Texas!
Singh recently won the finals of the Jeopardy! National College Championship, defeating 35 different students from 35 different schools across the country.
Singh told WFAA his parents have been encouraging him to try out for the game show since he was "12 or 13," and practiced for the tournament at home by routinely clicking a pen, working on his timing.
Singh won the Feb. 11 quarterfinals with a question about Ukraine and earned $19,900, advancing to the final round on Feb. 18, earning $24,000 total after betting, and winning, ALL of his $12,200 total at the end of the Double Jeopardy round!
Dallas native Toussaint Pegues also competed in the quarterfinals! Pegues started school at The Lamplighter School before moving over to St. Mark’s. He’s now a senior at Cal Tech.
He went into Final Jeopardy! in second place with $5,000, though he gave the wrong answer with his final wager of $4,999, which brought him down to $1.
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