It is an honor and a privilege as the NC delegate to GSNN to welcome you back to my neck of the woods, Raleigh, North Carolina, for week two of Jeopardy!'s 2005 College Championship. We started with 15, whittled it to nine, and finally, we have the final three. At the end of Friday's show, there will only be one. That one will win a nice trophy, an even nicer check, $100,000, and an even nicer than that berth in the next Tournament of Champions for a quarter-mill. No more wild cards or second chances this go around... It's win... or go home.

The second place winner is guaranteed at least $50,000 and third-place is ensured $25,000. Any and all monies, as always, depend on how far the player moves up the bracket.

Tonight, the deciding game...

JAYANTH IYENGAR Madison, WI Junior, Washington-St. Louis $399	NICO MARTINEZ Bloomfield Hills, MI Junior, Stanford $29,000	ADAM PINSON Pinson, AL Senior, Alabama-Birmingham $14,800

Jeopardy! categories: Hello, Alex; College Football, US History: The Early 1800s, Kiss My Grits!, Early Youth, Rhyme Time.

Daily Double: $1000 Partying. Jayanth ($5400 over Nico's $1000 and Adam's $2800) bets $1600. The clue: mitral valve or ventricle. Jayanth's response: "What is a right... err, vent?" Correct response: What is a heart part? Jayanth drops to $3800.

End of round:
Jayanth - $3800
Nico - $3200
Adam - $3800

Double Jeopardy! categories: Lesser-Known Explorers, I Need More Cowbell, Math; Gold, Silver, Bronze; Fictional Women, Foreign Words & Phrases

Daily Double #1: $1600 Lesser-Known Explorers. Jayanth ($5000 over Adam's $4200 and Nico's $4000) fronts $2500. The clue: Hernando de Alarcon sailed up this river a few months before Cardenas made his "grand" discovery. Jayanth's response: "What is the Colorado River?" Correct for $7500.

Daily Double #2: $1600 Math. Nico ($8800 over Jayanth's $7500 and Adam's $4600) fronts $2200. The clue: the per in miles per hour signifies this math process. Nico's response: "What is division?" Right on for $11,000.

End of round:
Jayanth - $8300
Nico - $14,600
Adam - $10,200

Okay, let's think about this... The magic number is $8600. Nico wins if he bets below that and Adam bets everything. Adam wins if he bets more than that and Nico bets everything AND loses on the Final. Jayanth... can't win.

Final Jeopardy! category: World Capitals. The clue: Pizarro founded this city whose present name is from a Quechua word meaning "talker". Correct response: What is Lima?

Jayanth's question: What is Lima? (RIGHT) Wager: $8300. Final score: $16,600.
Adam's question: What is Lima? (RIGHT) Wager: $6500. Final score: $16,700.
Nico's question: What is Lima? (RIGHT) Wager: $1. Final score: $14,601.

Adam may have won this game, but it was not enough...

JAYANTH IYENGAR $399	NICO MARTINEZ $29,000	ADAM PINSON $14,800
$16,600	$14,601	$16,700
$16,999	$43,601	$31,500
$25,000	$100,000	$50,000

The man from Stanford has done it! That gives him $100,000 and it also gives Stanford its second Jeopardy! College Championship. But props to all 15 players for giving it their best shot, and a special thanks to ABC11 in Durham for bringing Jeopardy! to our neck of the woods.

For now, though, we wait until the next TOC to see if he can add $250,000 to that.