{"id":8153,"date":"2025-09-21T01:32:19","date_gmt":"2025-09-21T01:32:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/princetonillinois.com\/?p=8153"},"modified":"2025-09-21T01:32:19","modified_gmt":"2025-09-21T01:32:19","slug":"princeton-il-band-teacher-dethrones-jeopardy-champion-kwqc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/princetonillinois.com\/?p=8153","title":{"rendered":"Princeton IL band teacher dethrones \u2018Jeopardy!\u2019 champion &#8211; KWQC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"robot-feature-image\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gray-kwqc-prod.gtv-cdn.com\/resizer\/v2\/CX5YOLSL3ZEYJONBJTE4A47IBY.png?w=860&#038;ssl=1\" \/><br \/>PRINCETON, Ill. (KWQC) &#8211; This longtime band teacher at Princeton High School and Logan Jr. High made his national television debut as a contestant on<i> &#8220;<\/i>Jeopardy!\u201c \u2014 and won.<br \/>Who is Steven Olson?<br \/>The lifelong fan of the iconic quiz show taped his episode in August in Los Angeles, and family and friends finally got a chance to see his success when it aired Friday on KWQC.<br \/>He appeared on Quad Cities Live ahead of the broadcast and viewers can catch the guest interview in the attached video. <br \/>Getting on \u201cJeopardy!\u201d is no small feat \u2014 Olson completed a multi-step audition process that included online testing, live proctoring, and a Zoom audition before being selected for the contestant pool.<br \/>Olson says the experience was fast-paced and far more intense than playing along at home. He spent weeks preparing, studying past clues and practicing buzzer timing.<br \/>The episode will be available for streaming on Hulu and Peacock the following day, Sept. 20.<br \/><i>Copyright 2025 KWQC. All rights reserved.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMifEFVX3lxTE1XV0tSUVlOQUF4VzY3c0tTbWhoWGx1ZDhNbnRVRFdrdm5mNEVBcUItdlZ2Z1R3UVZ6eFU1dmtmNEdqQ0JrQUxZVGhjZ2QwYnRkOVVCTHZHTDQ1VUhxWWNEa3l5OFJuM255NTd4UGZRUGp6TGRYdURJM2NNRjPSAZABQVVfeXFMTktKVTBLUDZ0VXh1dTdmUnlZMW1SMHdvamFiMkxqR21na3ZqZm9zSG5rVThVY2NWVG54Y295WjUzY3l1dW13dzZ2Q25DX0NZWnhnWW1HV0tIaEFyTkxLeDVfVjM3a2wtQUt6ZlFOZlJrTGlXdVNiM0dnV20xN1ppYmQtTkZKZW51VzdEMnJfNGdn?oc=5\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PRINCETON, Ill. (KWQC) &#8211; This longtime band teacher at Princeton High School and Logan Jr. High made his national television debut as a contestant on &#8220;Jeopardy!\u201c \u2014 and won.Who is Steven Olson?The lifelong fan of the iconic quiz show taped his episode in August in Los Angeles, and family and friends finally got a chance to see his success when<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/princetonillinois.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/princetonillinois.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/princetonillinois.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/princetonillinois.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/princetonillinois.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/princetonillinois.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8153\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/princetonillinois.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/princetonillinois.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/princetonillinois.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}