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HMB grad wins $100,000 on TV's 'Jeopardy'

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Published/Last Modified on Friday, May 11, 2007 - 03:15:15 pm PDT

Twenty-year-old Half Moon Bay High School graduate Cliff Galiher has won the $100,000 first prize in television's 2007 "Jeopardy! College Championship." The taped program aired Friday evening.

Galiher graduated from Half Moon Bay in 2005. He is currently a history major at UCLA.

Galiher emerged victorious after a two-week competition by outscoring 14 undergraduates from across the country, including contestants from Harvard, Yale, Stanford and USC. The special series of episodes were taped at the recently completed Galen Center on the campus of the University of Southern California.

"I still can't believe I won at USC! Go Bruins!" said Galiher. "It was tough to compete with Tommy Trojan staring at me from across the stage. I was so afraid of embarrassing myself and facing a hostile crowd, but I was thrilled and encouraged by all the UCLA students and alumni who came out to support me!"

Galiher is an aspiring filmmaker and a devoted San Francisco Giants fan and also enjoys playing a variety of video games during his leisure time. When asked what he'll do with his winnings, Galiher told the show's producers, "I promised my roommate that, no matter how much (or little) I won, I'd be getting us a nice big TV for our apartment. Also, I'm set on becoming a filmmaker, so I'll be setting the lion's share of my winnings aside for some day in the future when I'm a starving artist in need of capital."

Craig Boge, a senior at Stanford University, finished second in the tournament, winning $50,000.

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