|
|
 |
|
|
||
|
|
|||||
| MONDAY | TUESDAY | WEDNESDAY | THURSDAY | WEEKEND | PRIMETIME | SCHEDULE | ARCHIVES: 30 90 | WLTI | STATE OF PLAY | ABOUT | |||||
|
Previous Episodes February 3 February 4 February 5 February 6 February 7 March 3 March 4 March 5 March 6 March 7 March 31 April 1 April 2 April 3 April 4 May 5 May 6 May 7 May 8 May 9 |
|||||||||||||||||||||||
|
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
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||
|
Copyright Statement Powered by 1&1 Internet |
|
Semifinals:
Jennings/Schumacher/Forrest May 12 |
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
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. Last week, the 15 preliminary match winners played in five quarterfinal matches. The winners - and four wild cards - will now return this week to play for three slots in the Million Dollar Finale. Simply put, it's win... or go home. First runner-up gets $100,000, while the second runner-up takes away $50,000. Semifinalists will be guaranteed $25,000. As always, all prize money is dependent upon how far a player proceeds. Game 1...
Ken has the honor and will pick first in the Jeopardy! round...
Daily Double: $1000 Broadway & Politics. Chuck has tried to bounce around, but Ken finds this with a $3000 lead, $4400 to his $1400. Russ is on $800. Ken bets... everything! For $8800 or nothing... it's Peter Morgan's play about a revealing series of 1977 interviews. "What is 'Frost/Nixon'?" At the end of Jeopardy!...
Double Jeopardy! round...
Daily Double #1: $1600 4-Syllable Words. Chuck can get back within striking distance with $4800 to Ken's $17,800. "I never had a chance to say this before, but let's make this a True Daily Double." For $9600... adjective for the perfect embodiment of something, or something a Dionne kid must have. "What is quintessential?" FOR THE DOUBLER, $9600! Daily Double #2: $1200 We Get Letters. Ken can pull away with $20,200 to Chuck's $11,600. He bets $6000... more or less... on this: this explorer wrote to his friend JM Barrie in 1912, "We have accomplished our object in reaching the Pole." "Who is... Amundsen?" The wrong pole. It was Robert Falcon Scott, leaving him with $14,200, and it's become a game again. At the end of Double Jeopardy!...
Unless Ken and Chuck do something incredibly foolish, Russ has ZERO chance of winning this semifinal. So let's go to the book... - RUSS WINS
IF... he bets it all and is right, while the others bet
against each other and are wrong. Final Jeopardy! category: 19th CENTURY POEMS
Correct response: what is "the white
man's burden"?
One thing we've seen a lot of this tournament: daring wagers. Ken had one today, and it nearly killed him. There's daring, but there's daring-but-not-foolish. You have to play to win in this tournament, but you also have to play wisely. Let's see if he does. Three more semifinalists tomorrow. To read all about the tournaments and the contestants, go to www.jeopardy.com. |
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
 |
FINALIST:
Ken Jennings