{"id":80308,"date":"2026-11-04T11:11:48","date_gmt":"2026-11-04T18:11:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/?p=80308"},"modified":"2026-11-04T11:11:48","modified_gmt":"2026-11-04T18:11:48","slug":"featured-spotlight-niemi-jeopardy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/featured-spotlight-niemi-jeopardy\/","title":{"rendered":"Featured Spotlight: Erika Niemi on Jeopardy!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>NAU alumna and Flagstaff resident <strong>Erika Niemi<\/strong> appeared on &#8220;Jeopardy!&#8221; on Oct. 5 alongside two other trivia enthusiasts from New York and Ottawa. While Niemi didn&#8217;t win the night, she bet big on a Daily Double and answered correctly, putting her in a strong position heading into Double Jeopardy. Niemi graduated from NAU at age 19 with degrees in mathematics and chemistry and a minor in statistics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"search-results-excerpt-link\" href=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/featured-spotlight-niemi-jeopardy\/\">&nbsp; NAU alumna and Flagstaff resident Erika Niemi appeared on &#8220;Jeopardy!&#8221; on Oct. 5 alongside two other trivia enthusiasts from New York and Ottawa. While Niemi didn&#8217;t win the night, she bet big on a Daily Double and answered correctly, putting her in a strong position heading into Double Jeopardy. Niemi graduated from NAU at&hellip;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2880,"featured_media":80309,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-spotlights"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2880"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80308"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80312,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80308\/revisions\/80312"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}