BY BOB HOLT

NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM

A 19-year old English major from the university of Princeton has won this year’s Jeopardy! College Championship.

Bridgewater native Terry O’Shea answered the Final Jeopardy question on the second half of a two-day tournament that aired Friday night to earn the $100,000 grand prize.

Bridgewater Patch reported that the final Jeopardy! question (or answer) was: "1713's Treaty of Utrecht concluding the War of the Spanish Succession granted this small 2.3 square-mile area to Great Britain."

The correct answer, (as long as it is phrased in the form of a question) was: "What is Gibraltar?"

O’Shea said she was lucky to get the question correct. “The night before the finals, I was reviewing in my room, and I happened to go on the Wikipedia page for Gibraltar,” O’Shea said, according to The Daily Princetonian. “It was fresh in my mind. Then I went into Final Jeopardy! and the answer was Gibraltar. It was just a weird kind of coincidence.”

O’Shea said it was hard to keep quiet about her Jeopardy! win because it was taped about a month ago. She next moves on to the Jeopardy! Tournament of Champions.

She told the Princetonian of her plans for her current $100,000 winnings: “I know I want to buy a Roomba vacuum cleaner because my carpet is really dirty. I’ll probably donate some portion of it to Doctors Without Borders, and I’ll save a good portion of it in an IRA.”

Terry O’Shea is a graduate of Bridgewater-Raritan Regional High School. Mycentraljersey.com reported that she qualified for the College Championship by taking a 50-question online test; then being selected at random after passing it to attend in-person auditions that consisted of another 50-question test, mock game play, and a short interview.