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Dr. Courtney Shah, a 7-time champion of \u201cJeopardy!\u201d, has died at age 52 after a battle with brain cancer.<\/p>\n

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Shah, who was a professor at Lower Columbia College for nearly 20 years, passed away peacefully at her home on Wednesday morning, her heartbroken daughter revealed in an update on a CaringBridge page.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t know what you believe about death, but I like to think that she\u2019s at peace now. We loved her in this world, and we loved her out of this world, and we\u2019ll go on loving her,\u201d Maya Shah wrote.<\/p>\n

\u201cThank you for your grace in all of this. It hasn\u2019t been easy, it will continue not to be easy,\u201d she continued, adding, \u201cHug your loved ones.\u201d<\/p>\n

The late academic competed on \u201cJeopardy!\u201d in 2021 and earned $118,558 across a 7-game win streak \u2014 also cashing in $2,000 for her second-place finish in her eighth game, according to J! Archive.<\/p>\n

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She also competed in the 2022 Tournament of Champions.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI really never imagined I would get here,\u201d she said in a behind-the-scenes video after her fifth game. \u201cI\u2019m not quite sure that this is actually reality yet.\u201d<\/p>\n

Shah had been receiving hospice care at home and learned in March that radiation and chemotherapy treatments were not effective, her family wrote on CaringBridge.<\/p>\n

Even while battling illness, Shah was still \u201cfiring off Jeopardy answers before anyone else in the room,\u201d according to family posts on that site.<\/p>\n

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