Preliminaries: Dantzler/Jain/Lever
November 2
They haven't gotten their high school
diplomas... They aren't gainfully employed... But they're going for big
money in this season's Teen Tournament.
Teenagers from across the country have tried out by the boatload by
taking "The Test" online at Jeopardy.com. Now the best 15 of them have
come together at the Sony stages in Los Angeles to compete for $75,000
and the right to be called this season's Teen Champion. Second place
gets $25,000. Third gets $15,000. 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...
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Will Dantzler
Mount Pleasant, SC
senior |
Bonny Jain
Moline, IL
senior |
Emily Lever
Chevy Chase, MD
junior |
It's time to dance up in
here... Jeopardy! round..
BOOK ENDS |
THE MOVIE'S
CHARACTERS |
iPHONE
APPS |
EXPLORATION |
HOW MANY
YEARS? |
TEEN
RHYMES |
Daily Double #1: $800 Exploration. Will
finds it out of the TV time out with $5000 to Bonny's $400 and Emily's
$2200. Will bets $3000 on this: Lewis & Clark began their expedition on
May 14, 1804 by traveling up this river on a keelboat. "What is the
Missouri?" Correct for $8000!
$9,800 |
$3,200 |
$2,600 |
Will |
Bonny |
Emily |
Double Jeopardy! categories:
"C"
CREATURES |
POP
CULTURE |
ALSO
A CHESS
PIECE |
OBJECTS IN
MYTHOLOGY |
A WORLD OF
PLACES |
STARTS WITH
A PAST
TENSE VERB |
Daily Double #1: $2000 Objects in
Mythology. Will has $12,600 to $4400 and Emily's $2600. He bets $4000 on this:
memory-erasing fruit eaten by Odysseus' men. "What is... the mole plant?" No, it
was the lotus, leaving him with $8600.
Daily Double #2: $800 Also a Chess
Piece. Bonny has been making a game of it with $10,000 to Emily's $3400, but
this belongs to Will and his $13,400. He bets $5000 on this: 2 historical books
in the Old Testament. "What are Kings?" Correct for $18,400!
At the end of Double Jeopardy!...
$20,000 |
$10,400 |
$8,600 |
Will |
Bonny |
Emily |
Final Jeopardy! category:
HISTORIC AMERICANS
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ON JULY 11, 1804 HE GASPED TO HIS
DOCTOR, "THIS IS A MORTAL WOUND"; HE DIED THE NEXT DAY |
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Correct response: who was Alexander
Hamilton?
Emily's response: who was Alexander Hamilton? CORRECT. Wager:
$3000. Total: $11,600.
Bonny's response: who is Sean Connery Burr? WRONG. Wager: $6266. Total:
$4134. And yes, that said "Sean Connery".
Will's response: who was Alexander Hamilton? CORRECT. Wager doesn't matter.
SEMI-FINALIST:
Will Dantzler
Will was playing 30 minutes
of game, and it shows. Of course it helped matters immensely that he
controlled all three Daily Doubles. Can he keep the momentum up during
the semis? We'll see next week.
Meanwhile, we have three
more players tomorrow.
To read all about the tournament
and the contestants, go to
www.jeopardy.com.
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