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February 15
February 16

Fifteen teachers are about to try and school each other for $100,000 in the newest of Jeopardy! grand challenges.

Recaps by Chico Alexander, GSNN

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Alex Trebek

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Jimmy McGuire
Kelly Miyahara
Sarah Whitcomb

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Johnny Gilbert

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Merv Griffin

Harry Friedman

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Jeopardy Productions & Sony Pictures TV for CBS Television Distribution

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Preliminaries: Johnston/Rice/Whitten
February 17

Last year, Jeopardy! began an interesting experiment. The show sees a lot of teachers as contestants, so what would happen if we took 15 of them and let them look in a tournament setting? The end result was an astounding success, so for the second year in a row, J! is saluting the educators and molders of young minds by inviting another fifteen to compete for $100,000 and a guaranteed slot in the next Tournament of Champions.

Second place is guaranteed $50,000, while third will get $25,000 in a standard two-week event. Semifinalists are guaranteed at least $10,000, while quarterfinalists are guaranteed $5000 for participation. As always, any and all winning accrued depends on how far up the ladder a player goes.

Only nine of the fifteen that compete week one will be invited to return in week two, however, the five winners this week and four wild card top-scorers.

Patrick Quinn and Brooks Humphreys brought their A-game, but now we move to third period...


Lisa Johnston East Boston, MA Sacred Heart School	Nate Rice Catlettsburg, KY Boyd County HS	Catherine Whitten Plano, TX Jasper HS

Jeopardy! round...

BORN IN 1912

NAME
THE NETWORK

QUEEN Bs

STATE FARM

BEAUTY &
MAKEUP

LANGUAGE
LESSONS

Daily Double: $1000 Born in 1912. Nate has $4000 to Lisa's $5000. He fronts $1500 on this: born in Italy in 1912, he chose a papal name that honored his 2 immediate predecessors. "Who is Pope John Paul I?" Correct for $5500!

At the end of Jeopardy!...

$5,600	$6,700	$3,200
Lisa	Nate	Catherine

Double Jeopardy! round...

PIRATES

THAT'S NOT
GNEISS

RELIGION

I BEFORE E,
AFTER C

A
WELL-STOCKED
LIBRARY

LAST MAJOR
MOVIE ROLE

Daily Double #1: $1600 Pirates. It's a close game with Lisa at $10,400 to Catherine's $10,800 and $12,700 for Nate. She fronts $3000 on this: the first Barbary Coast Wars fought on the "shores of Tripoli" against pirates occurred under this president. "Who is Monroe?" No, it was Thomas Jefferson, leaving her with $7400.

Video Daily Double #2: $1600 That's Not Gneiss. Lisa has $8600, trying again for $3000 on this: this porous volcanic rock floats. After the eruption of Krakatoa, banks of it covered the ocean for miles. "What is pumice?" That... would've been right, but tufa drops her further to $5600.

At the end of Double Jeopardy!...

$6,800	$19,500	$14,000
Lisa	Nate	Catherine

Final Jeopardy! category: LITERARY CHARACTERS

THE ONLY TITLE CHARACTER IN HER CREATOR'S 6 MAJOR NOVELS, SHE WAS PORTRAYED IN A 1996 FILM & A 2009 MINISERIES

Correct response: who is Emma Woodhouse (of "Emma")?

Lisa's response: who is Emma? CORRECT. Wager: $6800. Total: $13,600.
Catherine's response: who is Emma? CORRECT. Wager: $7173. Total: $21,173.
Nate's response: who is Jane Eyre? WRONG. Wager: $3000. Total: $16,500

Semifinalist: Catherine Whitten

A Double Jeopardy! rally set the stage for Catherine to play catchup, and a wrong response on the part of Nate gives her the W. Now if she can play like that ALL the time, she could easily be a threat. She's already taken down two people - the losers of yesterday's match.

Next week, we start building your final nine...

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