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</B></I><B>TOURNAMENT OF CHAMPIONS</B></div> <bR> <div> <I><B>Dawson Joined Top Jeopardy! Players To Battle for New $250,000 Grand Prize</B></I><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" ><I><B> </B></I></FONT></div> <bR> <div> <B>NEW YORK, NY, May 16, 2003</B><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFCC66" FACE="Arial" > </FONT>- Today, Mark Dawson from Chamblee, Georgia became the Grand Prize Champion of the prestigous Tournament of Champions on <I><B>Jeopardy!</B></I><I>.</I> Fifteen of the country’s mental elite joined Dawson, 41, for a two-week tournament which showcased the quiz show’s top players of this and past seasons. Previously, Dawson won $52,599 in September 2001. </div> <bR> <div> Dawson explains how he won the game, “I remain focused. I fall in the ballpark as a preparer, and you have to be ready to play because it takes everything you can bring to the table to win.” </div> <bR> <div> Will being a quarter million <I><B>Jeopardy!</B></I> champion change his lifestyle much? “I don’t think about it too much,” he says, “but I find myself to be more relaxed in certain situations.” “I’ve always been pretty frugal, but every day that I see my corvette from my first win on the show in 2001, is a daily affirmation that I did well,” he jokes. </div> <bR> <div> Dawson was joined by fellow <I><B>Jeopardy! </B></I>alumni including an actor, software engineer, college student, surgeon and playwright, to name a few. Prior to the 17th Annual Tournament of Champions, the fifteen contestants have cumulatively earned over $1 million in cash and prizes.</div> <bR> <div> Dawson, who has watched <I><B>Jeopardy! </B></I>since he was five years old, is a Business Manager with CNNA. He studied Biology and International Business at Georgia State, where he holds a BS and an MBA. With his prize money, he plans to travel to Europe and Central America. While abroad, he hopes to take up Latin dance and learn new languages. </div> <bR> <div> <I><B>Jeopardy!</B></I>’s Tournament of Champions featured dramatically increased cash winnings for the quiz show’s top season winners. For the first time ever, the grand prize for the prestigious two-week tournament was upped to $250,000 cash, with a minimum guarantee of $50,000 for second place and $25,000 for third place. The six players eliminated in semi-finals each pocket $10,000; players eliminated in the first round receive $5,000.</div> <bR> <div>  </div> <div> With a total of 21 Emmy awards since its debut in 1984, <I><B>Jeopardy!</B></I>, which was recently listed among “The Greatest Game Shows of All Time” by TV Guide, continues to be a ratings champion. The series is the #1-rated quiz show in syndication, and has held that title for over 1,000 weeks. It also has been the second highest-ranking series overall in syndication – beaten only by its companion series, Wheel of Fortune -- for more than 67 consecutive ratings periods. With an estimated 13 million viewers daily, <I><B>Jeopardy!</B></I> continues to attract an audience that outdelivers most of what airs on the networks in primetime.</div> <bR> <div> Merv Griffin is the creator of <I><B>Jeopardy!</B></I>. Harry Friedman is Executive Producer of both <I><B>Jeopardy! </B></I>and <I><B>Wheel of Fortune</B></I>. <I><B>Jeopardy!</B></I> is produced by Columbia TriStar Domestic Television, a Sony Pictures Entertainment Company, and is distributed domestically by King World Productions, Inc. The U.S. episodes are distributed internationally by CBS Broadcast International (CBI). King World International Productions, a subsidiary of CBI, sells and produces format versions worldwide.</div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> © 2003 King World Productions, Inc. All rights reserved.</div> <bR> </tD> </tR> </TABLE></B></div> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>