{"id":786224,"date":"2026-07-26T22:38:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-26T22:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/786224\/"},"modified":"2026-07-26T22:38:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T22:38:11","slug":"courtney-shah-dead-seven-time-jeopardy-champion-was-52","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/786224\/","title":{"rendered":"Courtney Shah Dead: Seven-Time &#8216;Jeopardy&#8217; Champion Was 52"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/courtney-shah\/\" id=\"auto-tag_courtney-shah\" data-tag=\"courtney-shah\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Courtney Shah<\/a>, the seven time <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/jeopardy-2\/\" id=\"auto-tag_jeopardy-2\" data-tag=\"jeopardy-2\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jeopardy<\/a>! winner who went on to compete in the show\u2019s Tournament of Champions, died at home on Tuesday after a battle with brain cancer. That, according to local radio station, KLOG, which cited confirmation from the college where Shah taught. She was 52.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tRelated Stories\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a tabindex=\"0\" href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/gallery\/2026-hollywood-media-deaths-photo-gallery-obituaries\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img class=\"c-lazy-image__img lrv-u-background-color-grey-lightest lrv-u-width-100p lrv-u-display-block lrv-u-height-auto\" src=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/wp-content\/themes\/pmc-deadline-2019\/assets\/public\/lazyload-fallback.jpg\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Obituary-placeholder-color-featured.jpg\" alt=\"Diego Borella dies on 'Emily in Paris' set\" data-lazy- data-lazy- height=\"\" width=\"\" decoding=\"async\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a tabindex=\"0\" href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2025\/11\/jeopardy-ken-jennings-apology-john-pork-backlash-ai-generated-1236607534\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img class=\"c-lazy-image__img lrv-u-background-color-grey-lightest lrv-u-width-100p lrv-u-display-block lrv-u-height-auto\" src=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/wp-content\/themes\/pmc-deadline-2019\/assets\/public\/lazyload-fallback.jpg\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/ken-jennings-jeopardy-john-pork.jpg\" alt=\"Ken Jennings\" data-lazy- data-lazy- height=\"\" width=\"\" decoding=\"async\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tShah was best-known for her seven-game run on the show in 2021 during which she amassed a war chest of $118,558. The next year, she was a contestant in its Tournament of Champions, where she made it to the quarterfinals before being eliminated.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tSee below for a snippet of Final Jeopardy from her seventh win.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tShah taught U.S. and World History at Lower Columbia College in Longview, Washington.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tA service celebrating Shah\u2019s life will be held August 10, from 1 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. at the Rose Center for the Arts on the college\u2019s campus.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tDEADLINE RELATED VIDEO:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Courtney Shah, the seven time Jeopardy! winner who went on to compete in the show\u2019s Tournament of Champions,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":786225,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[334470,88,62978],"class_list":["post-786224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-courtney-shah","tag-entertainment","tag-jeopardy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=786224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786224\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/786225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=786224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=786224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=786224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}