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Class is now in session as 15 of the best students face each other in trivial combat for bragging rights and $100,000.

Recaps by Chico Alexander, GSNN

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Host: Alex Trebek
Clue Crew: Jon Cannon, Jimmy McGuire, Kelly Miyahara, Sarah Whitcomb
Announcer: Johnny Gilbert
Creator: Merv Griffin
EP: Harry Friedman
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Semifinals: Menke/Goldstein/Betts
May 11

Fifteen of the best college students to play the game this year met on a common battlefield. Only nine survive to compete this week for one of three spots in the two-part final. Up for grabs: $100,000, the 2009 Jeopardy! College Championship, and perhaps a berth in the next Tournament of Champions.

This is the second week for the tournament, with a minimum guarantee of $50,000 for second place and $25,000 for third.

Semifinalists are guaranteed at least $10,000. As always, any and all winning accrued depends on how far up the ladder a player goes.

It's win or go home for these nine. Semifinal #1 starts... right now.

Scott Menke
Johns Hopkins University
senior
Game 2 Winner		 Ariella Goldstein
Muhlenberg College
junior
Wild Card		 Eric Betts
Emory University
senior
Wild Card

Jeopardy! round..

THE 21st CENTURY WITH
 NAME THAT GAME SHOW HODGEPODGE CLIFF NOTES SWEET STUFF TAKE A "SHOT

Video Daily Double: $800 The 21st Century with CNN. Scott has $1600 to Eric's $1800. Ariella has $600. It's still early in the game, so he goes for $1000 on this clue: the Doomsday Vault in arctic Norway preserves these in case of a disaster affecting the world's food supply. "What are fish?" Nope, they're fish, leaving him with $600.

At the end of the Jeopardy! round...

$2,600 $400 $7,200
Scott Ariella Eric

Double Jeopardy! categories:

WORLD CAPITALS BROADWAY REVIVALISM TECH TALK SCRAMBLED MAMMALS AFRICAN AMERICANS "COL"LEGE

Daily Double #1: $800 World Capitals. Ariella finds this on the second clue of the round with $800. She bets the max of $2000 to move into second place on this: this European capital lies on a plain near the southern end of the Attic Peninsula. "What is Athens?" Correct for second place and $2800!

Daily Double #2: $1600 Scrambled Mammals. Scott and Eric have been see-sawing. Currently, Scott has $13,800 to Eric's $12,800. Ariella has $8000. He's not going to risk putting his end game (cheap shot coming) in jeopardy, so he only risks $1000 on this: a little monkey: more mast. "What is a marmoset?" Correct for $14,800!

At the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round...

$15,200 $8,000 $13,600
Scott Ariella Eric

Now here's what needs to happen, courtesy our friends at J-Archive.com:

- Ariella needs to think about wagering $4800 or less if she suspects that a triple stumper is coming, should Scott wager to cover Eric's doubled score. If so and both guys are wrong, she's in the final.

- Eric wins if he is correct and bets between $2401 and $5599 (to cover Ariella either way) and Scott is wrong.

- Scott wins if he bets $12,001 and is correct.

Final Jeopardy! category: WORD ORIGINS

 

BEFORE ITS USE IN JOURNALISM, IT MEANT A BOUNDARY BEYOND WHICH STRAYING PRISONERS WOULD BE SHOT

  

Correct response: what is a deadline?

Ariella's response: what is headlines? WRONG. Wager: $8000. Total: $0.
Eric's response: what is a deadline? CORRECT. Wager: $10,399. Total: $23,999.
Scott's response: what is headline? WRONG. Wager doesn't matter.

FINALIST: Eric Betts

Just when you think it was going to be an easy win for Scott Menke, he ends up screwing it in the final. Eric just kept pouring on the pressure and made this match a very interesting affair. If he can do that on Thursday and Friday, then Emory may have a Jeopardy! champion in their midst.

Semifinal #2 tomorrow.

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