A sophomore from Bethesda, Maryland...

Samantha Reback

Are you the best Jeopardy! player at your house?
Hm, who's the--I would say that I'm becoming the best Jeopardy! player at my house. My whole family really likes to watch it together, and it gets pretty competitive. But I'm definitely learning.

What do you do for fun?
In my free time, I really like to do tae kwon do, which I've been doing for 8 1/2 years, and I'm also pretty involved with the Drama Club and Shakespeare Club at my school, as well as It's Academic, and I play the trumpet.

How will you celebrate if you win the tournament?
If I win the tournament, I'm just going to want to have fun. I think that with my winnings I would really like to do something called "indoor skydiving", which I just heard about. It's kind of weird, but it sounds like it would be really fun to just sort of be in this wind tunnel.

2009 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000.