What started with 15 collegians from the
US and Canada ends today and tomorrow with the final three in the finals
of the Jeopardy! College Championship. At stake: the honor of their
institutions of higher learning, the glory of a nation, bragging rights,
$100,000, a guaranteed slot in the next Tournament of Champions, a
trophy, and the title of Jeopardy!'s 2014 College Champion - a title
that comes with immortality on the trophy that sits in the Jeopardy!
Hall of Fame.
Will it be the lady from Princeton who
upset the favorite? Or two others who kept it close in their semifinal
matches? 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.
We are 30 minutes away from a big money
moment.
Round 1... Ready? GO!
Kevin
Shen
Cupertino, CA
junior, UC Berkeley
WILD CARD |
Tucker Pope
Lubbock, TX
junior, Texas A&M
FINALIST |
Terry O'Shea
Bridgewater, NJ
sophomore, Princeton
FINALIST |
$8,765 |
$14,800 |
$19,800 |
Kevin has the honor, and
will start the Jeopardy! round...
NO COOKING
REQUIRED |
GLOBAL
STUDIES |
"H"OMONYMS |
MONEY
TALKS |
NOTABLE
NAMES |
JOHNNY GILBERT
PERFORMS
TODAY'S HITS |
Daily Double: $600 "H"omonyms.
Tucker has $2200 and the lead over $1800 for Terry and $1400 for Kevin. He bets
$1200 on this: a big basket, or to impede. "What is stall?" Remember the clue,
Tucker. It was "hamper", leaving him with $1000.
At the end of Jeopardy!...
$3,400 |
$2,800 |
$4,600 |
Kevin |
Tucker |
Terry |
Double Jeopardy! round...
FICTIONAL
COLLEGES &
UNIVERSITIES |
PUT IT THERE |
WHAT'S YOUR
MAJOR? |
COUPLING
ON TV |
"ONY" BALONEY |
FIGURING OUT
THE UNIVERSE |
Category #6 is delivered
by Sarah from the Sanford Underground Research
Facility in South Dakota's Black Hills.
Daily Double #1: $1600
Put It There. Kevin has $4600 to Tucker's $3600 and
Terry's $5000. Kevin bets $2000 on this: TARP
programs: this Cabinet department. "What is the
Department of Defense?" No, it's the Treasury,
leaving him with $2600.
Video Daily Double #2: $2000
Figuring Out the Universe. After Terry gets up to $9000 thanks to a line ruling,
Kevin gets to play with his $7000. He's going for it! Here's Sarah... "Doing
physics experiments deep in the earth protects the results from being
contaminated by these rays, from the Greek for 'universe'." "What is gamma?" No,
it's cosmic, leaving him with zero.
At the end of Double Jeopardy!...
$0 |
$13,200 |
$13,000 |
Kevin |
Tucker |
Terry |
With no money to play with
in Final Jeopardy!, it means that Kevin is pretty much out of it with
$25,000.
Tucker and Terry are
deadlocked right now. The magic number for Terry.... $8401. She can bet
that much and still win it provided that Tucker doubles up and is
correct. But she has to be right as well.
Final Jeopardy! category: THE BRITISH
EMPIRE
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1713's TREATY OF
UTRECHT CONCLUDING THE WAR OF THE SPANISH SUCCESSION GRANTED THIS SMALL 2.3
SQUARE-MILE AREA TO GREAT BRITAIN |
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Correct response: what is Gibraltar?
Terry's response: what is Gibraltar? CORRECT. Wager: $5000. Total: $18,000.
Tucker's response: what is Hong Kong? CORRECT. Wager: $13,200. Total: $0.
All Tucker had to do was be
correct... and he wasn't.
Kevin
Shen
Cupertino, CA
junior, UC Berkeley
FINALIST |
Tucker Pope
Lubbock, TX
junior, Texas A&M
FINALIST |
Terry O'Shea
Bridgewater, NJ
sophomore, Princeton
FINALIST |
$8,765 |
$14,800 |
$19,800 |
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+18,000 |
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$37,800 |
$25,000
2nd RUNNER-UP |
$50,000
1st RUNNER-UP |
$100,000
CHAMPION |
Congratulations to TERRY
O'SHEA, this year's College Champion! She will compete for $250,000 in
the next Tournament of Champions!
... where she will
undoubtedly run into the champion of Monday's match. Stay tuned.
To read all about the tournaments
and the contestants, go to
www.jeopardy.com.
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