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15 of America's smartest 15- to 17-year-olds face each other in trivial combat for bragging rights and $75,000.
Recaps by Chico Alexander, GSNN |
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Finals: Choudhury/Cooke/Horn - Part 1 Last week, fifteen of the best and brightest high-schoolers descended upon the Jeopardy! stage to show the world who's got the best mental game. Nine of them outlasted the rest and earned the right to compete in the semis. Now we come to the climax, as three of them, Zia Choudhury, Rachel Cooke, and Rachel Horn, compete for $75,000 and the title of 2008 Jeopardy! Teen Champion, not to mention the bragging rights that go with the title. This Winter Classic is another standard two-week affair, advancing the winners of this week's games as well as four wild-cards, high scorers among non-winners. All of this week's players will receive at least $10,000 for making it this far. The first runner-up receives $25,000 at least, while the second runner-up wins at least $15,000. As always, any and all winnings accrued depends on how far up the ladder a player goes. And now, part 1...
So you're probably asking yourself... What's up with "Steve"? Well, you probably notice that there's two Rachels, so in an attempt to stave off confusion, Alex discovers that Rachel C. has a nickname... Hence, we have Zia, Rachel... and Steve. That concludes the contestant identification portion of the program. Now to the Jeopardy! round...
Daily Double: $800 Them Literature Type Facts. Zia's finding himself in unfamiliar territory... third place behind Rachel's $3000 and "Steve's" $1200. But a familiar gambit... betting everything on this: in the 1830s, he wrote, "'But he has nothing on at all,' said a little child at last." "Who is Dickens?" Nope, Hans Christian Andersen, leaving him with nothing. (C-Note: Slight nitpick on $1000 Gamers Unite!. The clue: this Japanese video game involves a sticky little ball that players roll to grow it larger by picking up things. The given correct response, "What is Katamari?", is not quite correct. The full name is "Katamari Damacy." But no one got it and Zia lost on it, so this is just my trivial mind talking.) At the end of the Jeopardy! round...
Double Jeopardy! categories:
Daily Double #1: $2000 You Do The Math. Rachel and "Steve" are making this a two-woman race with Rachel at $13,200 and "Steve" at $13,400. Zia has $3800. But it's all about Rachel now, as she bets $500 on this: an $80 shirt reduced in price by 20% would cost this. Blanks on $64, leaving her with $12,700. Daily Double #2: $1600 Class Trip to Washington. Rachel has $15,100 to "Steve's" $14,200 and Zia's $5000. She bets just $700 on this: a memorial on the National Mall bears the names of nearly 60,000 Americans who died in this war. "What is the Vietnam War?" Correct for $15,800. At the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round...
Final Jeopardy! category: FAMOUS AMERICANS
Correct response: who was Benjamin
Franklin? Rachel is playing to win. Zia and "Steve"... just playing. Both players need to put their heart into it tomorrow before Rachel comes up with her silent-wind demeanor and crushes them. Scores going into tomorrow...
We've got a trophy to give away next time. |
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