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15 of America's smartest collegians face each other in trivial combat for bragging rights and $100,000.
Recaps by Chico Alexander, GSNN |
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Preliminaries: Hensley/Johnson/McMahan College. The best time of your life. College Jeopardy! The best two weeks of your life. Fifteen of the nation's best and brightest have descended upon the campus of the University of Wisconsin at Madison to prove who's the best of the best. At stake, $100,000, the title of 2008 College Champion, bragging rights, and the right to compete amongst the best of the best in the next Tournament of Champions. Rivalries will be hard fought, upsets are certain, and any one move can spell either certain glory or certain failure. This Spring Classic is another standard two-week affair, advancing the winners of this week's games as well as four wild-cards, high scorers among non-winners. All of this week's players will receive $5000, while the semifinalists will be guaranteed $10,000 for their participation. The first runner-up receives $50,000 at least, while the second runner-up wins at least $25,000. As always, any and all winnings accrued depends on how far up the ladder a player goes. And it all starts... RIGHT NOW!
... and away we go. Jeopardy! round...
*responses will be homophones, one word with two letters and another with three
At the end of the Jeopardy! round...
Double Jeopardy! categories:
Daily Double #1: $2000 Countries in Other Words. Gabrielle leads it with $9800 to Brandon's $6600 and Meredith's $6000. She bets the level on this: pachyderm dentin seaside land? "What is ... Camel?" Pachyderm dentin is ivory. Seaside land is coast. Put it together... Ivory Coast, though it's officially known as Cote d'Ivoire now. She drops to $7800, still leading. Daily Double #2: $2000 Annual
Events. Brandon's $400 behind the leader, Gabrielle ($9000). Meredith,
meanwhile, has $7200. He goes $2400 on this: this corporation is the engine
behind the first National Train Day, May 10, 2008, remembering the Golden Spike
of May 10, 1869. "What is ... Pacific Union?" It was Amtrak, leaving him with
$6200.
Final Jeopardy! category: AMERICAN THINKERS
Correct response: who was Henry
David Thoreau?
Usually the first game sets the tone for the rest of the series. This one put out the message that it's not going to be about how much money you have, but what you do with what you have. Brandon did the only thing he could have, and Meredith held back. Time will tell whether or not they will join Gabrielle next week. Second quarterfinal tomorrow. |
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Video Daily Double: $1000
Around the World. Gabrielle is tied for second with Brandon, $800 against
Meredith's $1800. She risks $1000 to tie Meredith. The clue, given by Jimmy: the
waterway that separates South America from Antarctica is known as this passage,
for an explorer who may have navigated it in 1578. "What is the Strait of
Magellan?" Close, but it was the Drake Passage, leaving her $200 down.
SEMI-FINALIST:
Gabrielle McMahan