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Preliminaries: Casavant/Crosby/Shoe
May 2

It's been said that teachers rank among the best Jeopardy! players ever. To that end, fifteen of them have been chosen from all across the nation to do battle at Sony Pictures Studios for a shot at $100,000 and the title of the first ever Jeopardy! Teachers Champion. Second place gets $50,000. Third gets $25,000. Semifinalists who make it to week 2 will receive $10,000. All of this week's players will receive $5000. All money will be determined, as always, by how far the players go in the tournament.

This is a standard two-week affair, meaning that all 15 will play this week, with the five game winners joining the four highest-scoring non-winners in a win-or-go-home race to the two-day final.

But first, we start with game 1...

Kathy Casavant Oxford, MA Oxford HS	Dan Crosby Santa Monica, CA Maimonides Academy	John Shoe Lakewood, CO Logan School for Creative Learning

After a message from President Obama, class is in session. Open your textbooks to page 1... the Jeopardy! round...

Daily Double: $1000 State Name Origins. Dan and John are tied at $1200 to Kathy's $200. Dan makes it true on this: this state was named for an island in the English Channel. "What is New Hampshire?" Somewhere, Gordon Pepper is cursing your very name, because the correct response is "What is New Jersey?".

At the end of Jeopardy!...

Double Jeopardy! categories are...

Daily Double #1: $1200 Dead Lines. John has $9800 to Kathy's $10,600 and Dan's $11,600. He bets $3200 for the lead on this: John Donne wrote that "any man's death diminishes me... Therefore, never send to know" this Hemingway title. "What is 'For Whom The Bell Tolls'?" CORRECT for the lead with $13,000!

Daily Double #2: $1600 Cornerstones. Dan trails John by only $200. Kathy is now down to $9400. Dan bets $2000 on this: the cornerstone for this Virginia school's first building, the Wren Building, was laid in 1695. "What is the College of William & Mary?" CORRECT FOR $14,800!

At the end of Double Jeopardy!...

Final Jeopardy! category: CANADA

Correct response: what is Prince Edward Island?

Kathy's response: what is Newfoundland Prince Edward Island? RIGHT. Wager: $10,000. Total: $21,400.
John's response: what is Nunavut Prince Edward Is.? RIGHT. Wager: $3801. Total: $17,201.
Dan's response: what is Prince Edward Island? RIGHT. Wager: $3800. Total: $21,000.

SEMIFINALIST: Kathy Casavant

Chalk it up to Kathy going for the win, while Dan and John go for the wild card. Even if they do make it, they'd be wise to play to win the game, as Kathy did in the Final. Because we've said it time and time again, if you play to not lose, eventually, you will.

Another quarterfinal tomorrow.

To read all about the tournament and the contestants, go to www.jeopardy.com.