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Fifteen of the game's best return for a shot at a quarter-million and the right to be called a Jeopardy! super champion. Recaps by Chico Alexander, GSNN
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Preliminaries: UCO/Baylor/MIT It's that time of the year again, when many a college senior is ready to take on the world. Today, and every day for the next two weeks, 15 college students are going to take each other on for $100,000 and a possible $250,000 seat in the next Tournament of Champions in Jeopardy's Spring Classic, the College Championship. What challenges await the brightest collegians in the country? How will they rise to meet them? The answers to these questions could be worth $100,000 for the winner, $50,000 for the first runner-up, and $25,000 for the second runner-up. Semifinalists are guaranteed $10,000, while everyone who competes gets $5000. Any and all prizes depend on how far up a player moved in the standings. Hannah Shoenhard and Jim Coury are in for week 2. One of these three will also be in.
Jeopardy! round...
Daily Double: $800 Yes, They Will. Taylor trails both Paige & Trevor by $1000. She just bets the level on this: his 1821 will, written on St. Helena, stipulated that his ashes be scattered "on the banks of the Seine". "Who is Napoleon?" CORRECT for $2600! At the end of Jeopardy!...
Double Jeopardy! round...
For category 6, all of the responses will be five-letter words starting with J.
Daily Double #2: $800 The First Millennium. Trevor has the lead with $9000 to Taylor's $5600. He bets $2000 on this: Pliny the younger wrote that fumes from its eruption probably killed his uncle "by blocking his windpipe". "What is Mount Vesuvius?" RIGHT for $11,000! At the end of Double Jeopardy!, it's Trevor's game to lose.
Wagering will determine whether Taylor returns next week. Right now, the cutoff is $9199, so even if Paige went all-in, she couldn't make up the difference.. Final Jeopardy! category: FAMOUS ENGLISHMEN
Correct response: who was Charles
Darwin?
Bill MacDonald said it best... "Even bad Jeopardy! is better than no Jeopardy!." Nowhere is this more evident than today's match, which had a relatively-low-by-tournament-standards scoring affair culminating in a triple stumper in the final. If Trevor wants to find himself on Finalists' Row, he's gonna have to step his game up, step his chain up. Tomorrow, we clinch. To read all about the tournaments and the contestants, go to www.jeopardy.com. |
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Daily Double #1: $1200 Transportation. Paige bets
just $800 of her $1800 on this: you can see Mount
Fuji in the background as one of these with a
ballistic name speeds by. "What is a bullet train?"
Right for $2600!
Semifinalist:
Trevor Walker