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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:
Nosek/Mueller/Schumacher May 6 |
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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. Roger Craig has earned the first spot in the semifinals on the road to the million and the title of Champion of Decades. Today, these three hope to meet him...
Leszek has the honor and will pick first in the Jeopardy! round...
Daily Double: $400 The Missing Man. Tom has $5600, a $600 lead on Pam. He bets $3000 on this: aboard Apollo 11: Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin. "Who is ... Collins?" Michael Collins is right for $8600! At the end of Jeopardy!...
Double Jeopardy! round...
Daily Double #1: $800 French Poets. Pam has just taken the lead with $8200 over Tom's $8000. She bets $5000 on this: also a novelist, he began an 1839 poem, "The Church is vast; its towering pride, its steeples loom on high." "Who is Victor Hugo?" RIGHT for $13,200! Daily Double #2: $2000 Yucky History. Pam has the lead with $15,600. She bets $3000 on this: as in the western "Flesh & the Spur", Indians used staking people to these as a torture--or at least white settlers said so. "What are... horses?" No, they're anthills, leaving her with $12,600. At the end of Double Jeopardy!...
An impressive showing by all three players. I would not be surprised if they ALL were to resurface next week. Final Jeopardy! category: US STATES
Correct response: what is
North Dakota?
Scratch that. No way Tom comes back. Not with that score. But a good play in final for both Pam and Russ. For Russ, it means a guaranteed trip to next week. For Pam... she'll have to sit and wait it out. Next time, it's Brad Rutter, Mark Lowenthal, and Dan Pawson hoping the odds are ever in his favor in semifinal action! To read all about the tournaments and the contestants, go to www.jeopardy.com. |
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SEMIFINALIST:
Russ Schumacher