| Juveria Zaheer | |
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| Birth Hometown: | Whitby, Ontario, Canada |
| Occupation: | Psychiatrist |
| Years active: | 2023-2025 |
| Known for: | 2023-2024 Jeopardy! SC week 1 Winner and 2024 Champions Wildcard Group 1 winner |
Juveria Zaheer is a psychiatrist from Whitby, Ontario, Canada.
Jeopardy! run[]
Regular season[]
In her first game, she ended up being defeated by Hannah Wilson but performed well enough to be granted an entry into Jeopardy! Second Chance.
Second Chance[]
In her 2-day final, she scored a total of $70,800 over two days and advanced to the 2024 Jeopardy! Champions Wildcard (including a new one day record for Canadians of $51,200 on the first day of the final, breaking the previous record of $42,800 set by Ray Lalonde in 2022).[1]
Invitational Tournament[]
Trivia[]
- She is the fourth woman to break $50,000 in a single game of Jeopardy!, after Elyse Mancuso, Amy Schneider, and Jackie Kelly.
- She is the only Canadian to break $50,000 in a single game of Jeopardy!.
- She is the sister of Survivor 42 contestant Omar Zaheer.
- She is the first tournament winner from Canada and the first participant from SC to advance to ToC through CWC.
References[]
- ↑ Taking doubled dollar values into account, the one-day record appears to be $55,600, set by Bob Blake on September 7, 1989 (Bob’s record was also the only case in Jeopardy history where there was a tie for the overall one-day record).