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45 of the game's greatest return for a shot at $1 million and the title of Champion of the Decades as Jeopardy! celebrates 30 years on the air. Recaps by Chico Alexander, GSNN
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Quarterfinals:
Pawlowicz/Carroll/Craig May 5 |
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In 1984, "Jeopardy!", the
Merv Griffin creation that provided the answers and
asked for the questions, returned to the airwaves in
first-run syndication. Thirty years and more than 6000
episodes later, it stands as the gold standard for quiz
shows today, and this year, we celebrate with a
year-long tournament featuring some of the greatest
champions to ever play the game: The Battle of the
Decades.
Over the past season, we've seen 45 of the game's greatest go head-to-head-to-head in preliminary win-or-go-home matchups. Now the winners of those games return for a two-week tournament. The winner takes home $1,000,000. First runner-up gets $100,000. Second-runner up gets $50,000. Semifinalists will be guaranteed $25,000. All of this week's participants will go home with $10,000. As always, all prize money is dependent upon how far a player proceeds. All this week, we will have one player from the first decade, one from the second, and one from the third. Our first three...
Leszek has the honor and will pick first in the Jeopardy! round...
Daily Double: $600 A Brief Time of History. Leszek is the only one in money, having responded to the game's first three clues. He bets all of his $2000 on this: Israeli forces destroyed all of Egypt's air force on the ground on June 5, 1967, the first day of this war. "What is the Six-Day War?" FOR THE DOUBLER, $4000! At the end of Jeopardy!...
Double Jeopardy! round...
Daily Double #1: $1600 A Brief History of Time. Roger has $3400 to Leszek's $7400. Robin has the difference, $4000. Roger bets it all on this: following Einstein, in 1908 Hermann Minkowski proposed the idea of 4-dimensional this hyphenated term. "What is space-time?" FOR THE DOUBLER, $6800! Daily Double #2: $1200 Lesser-Known Americans. Roger has $9200 to $13,400 for Leszek. He bets $5000 for the lead on this: with a mark of 5'6" in this event, in 1948 5'7" Alice Coachman became the first African-American woman to win Olympic gold. "What is high jump?" RIGHT for $14,200! At the end of Double Jeopardy!...
This is a two-week tournament, so there will be nine qualifiers - the five winners and the four wild-cards. Final Jeopardy! category: WORD ORIGINS
Correct response: what is
milquetoast?
Props to Leszek. He knows that the point of this week is to get to next week, so it would behoove him to have as much money as possible. But Roger kept pace and bet big when he had to to make it to the next round. Next time, it's Pam Mueller, Tom Nosek, and Russ Schumacher in semifinal action! To read all about the tournaments and the contestants, go to www.jeopardy.com. |
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SEMIFINALIST:
Roger Craig