{"id":8161,"date":"2025-09-25T02:53:59","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T02:53:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/princetonillinois.com\/?p=8161"},"modified":"2025-09-25T02:53:59","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T02:53:59","slug":"princeton-band-teacher-steven-olson-a-3-day-champ-on-jeopardy-shaw-local","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/princetonillinois.com\/?p=8161","title":{"rendered":"Princeton band teacher Steven Olson a 3-day champ on \u2018Jeopardy!\u2019 &#8211; Shaw Local"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"robot-feature-image\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.shawlocal.com\/resizer\/Xg9vmfBVjpSviJTsj4lgFjy1n90%3D\/1200x630\/filters%3Aformat%28jpg%29%3Aquality%2870%29%3Afocal%28486x169%3A496x179%29\/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com\/shawmedia\/KKHW7NEZYFHTFAW4GVU3G363NU.jpg?w=860&#038;ssl=1\" \/><br \/><span>Steven Olson, band teacher at Princeton High School and Logan Junior High, met Jeopardy host Ken Jennings (left) when he taped a show in August in Los Angeles. Olson is a 3-day champ heading into the airing of the Wedensday&#8217;s Sept. 24 show.  <\/span>(Photo provided by Steven Olson)<br \/>Steven Olson, a band instructor from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shawlocal.com\/tags\/princeton\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"\" title=\"https:\/\/www.shawlocal.com\/tags\/princeton\/\">Princeton<\/a> High School and Logan Junior High School, has won his first three games on the popular TV game show \u201cJeopardy!\u201d<br \/>Olson fulfilled a lifelong dream to be invited to appear on \u201cJeopardy\u201d in Los Angeles, which Shaw Local News Network <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shawlocal.com\/illinois-valley\/2025\/09\/09\/princeton-band-teacher-steven-olson-plays-on-jeopardy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"\" title=\"https:\/\/www.shawlocal.com\/illinois-valley\/2025\/09\/09\/princeton-band-teacher-steven-olson-plays-on-jeopardy\/\">was first to report Sept. 9.<\/a><br \/>He first appeared Friday, Sept. 19, winning $19,602. The PHS band surprised him by playing a rendition of the \u201cJeopardy!\u201d theme song at halftime of Friday\u2019s football game. <br \/>On Monday\u2019s show, he finished first with a winning prize of $26,849.<br \/>In his latest show, on Tuesday, Olson ran his total up to $27,800 before settling for a first-place prize of $10,638 after losing out on $17,162 in the Final Jeopardy round.<br \/>His three-day cash prize total stands at $57,089.<br \/>Olson was scheduled to appear at 4:30 p.m. Wednesday on KWQC Channel 6 on the Princeton Comcast network.<br \/>Kevin has been sports editor of the BCR since 1986 and is Sports Editor of Putnam County Record. Was previously sports editor of the St. Louis Daily News and a regular contributor for the St. Louis Cardinals Magazine. He is a member of the IBCA and Illinois Valley Hall of Fames. He is one of 4 sportswriters from his tiny hometown Atlanta, IL<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMitgFBVV95cUxQZk53N3VqV1Q0QmZjVkp6UUFUaEE5RWFEeHRMSW9EblJxWklraXdiUHFwOW1JZ0JjaFc1UERxUkt6LUpvUjVScE9XWmRlYThPcDFYdk9uSGp5SHpSdUphdXZYQU9NbENyal9KQ1lYdU5KcjV0TlJHcmhZQnV1VkE5NEZFSWZvdkVOSFRuby1udG9DM1VoMmxDUUh1NzNRWEoyZFJIY1Rpc0dtWHBOdEIwUUFtNHFoUQ?oc=5\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steven Olson, band teacher at Princeton High School and Logan Junior High, met Jeopardy host Ken Jennings (left) when he taped a show in August in Los Angeles. Olson is a 3-day champ heading into the airing of the Wedensday&#8217;s Sept. 24 show. (Photo provided by Steven Olson)Steven Olson, a band instructor from Princeton High School and Logan Junior High<\/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-8161","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\/8161","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=8161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/princetonillinois.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8161\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/princetonillinois.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/princetonillinois.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/princetonillinois.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}