{"id":921,"date":"2019-11-07T20:59:16","date_gmt":"2019-11-07T20:59:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/2019\/11\/07\/2019117jeopardy-teen-champ-donates-10k-to-cancer-research-in-honor-of-alex-trebek\/"},"modified":"2020-09-05T19:24:33","modified_gmt":"2020-09-05T19:24:33","slug":"2019117jeopardy-teen-champ-donates-10k-to-cancer-research-in-honor-of-alex-trebek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/2019\/11\/07\/2019117jeopardy-teen-champ-donates-10k-to-cancer-research-in-honor-of-alex-trebek\/","title":{"rendered":"Jeopardy Teen Champ Donates $10K to Cancer Research in Honor of Alex Trebek"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\"><strong>By: Dan Bahl<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">As we enter the season of giving, a former Jeopardy teen champion is going the extra mile.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Avi Gupta, a freshman at Columbia University, donated $10,000 to cancer research in honor of longtime Jeopardy host, Alex Trebek, during Pancreatic Cancer Awareness Month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Gupta, who won $100,000 on the game show over the summer, told USA Today that he has looked up to Trebek his whole life.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">The OSHU Knight Cancer Institute, a leader in cancer research, tweeted a video of Gupta making his donation. Gupta then quote-tweeted the institute\u2019s message, and said: \u201cWorking with Alex on&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Jeopardy\">@Jeopardy<\/a>&nbsp;was an honor, and I hope the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Jeopardy?src=hash\">#Jeopardy<\/a>&nbsp;community will join me in honoring him.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Teen Jeopardy! champion Avi Gupta donated $10K to honor his hero, Alex Trebek. Join him this <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/PancreaticCancer?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#PancreaticCancer<\/a> Awareness Month by making a donation to honor someone you&#39;re <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/InspiredBy?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#InspiredBy<\/a>: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/otf5yeZCVV\">https:\/\/t.co\/otf5yeZCVV<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/qtGdMvr6k6\">pic.twitter.com\/qtGdMvr6k6<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; OHSU Knight (@OHSUKnight) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/OHSUKnight\/status\/1190357536286760960?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 1, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">This donation comes on the heels of an announcement from Trebek, saying that his cancer had returned, and that he would be returning to chemotherapy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Avi Gupta, a freshman at Columbia University and former Jeopardy champion, donated $10,000 to cancer research in honor of longtime host, Alex Trebek, during Pancreatic Cancer Awareness Month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":116,"featured_media":922,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[236],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-qnn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/116"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=921"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1587,"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921\/revisions\/1587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}