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Teen Tournament 2009
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Host	Alex Trebek
Clue Crew	Jimmy McGuire Kelly Miyahara Sarah Whitcomb
Announcer	Johnny Gilbert
Creator	Merv Griffin
EP	Harry Friedman
Packager	Jeopardy Productions & Sony Pictures TV for CBS Television Distribution
Origins	Sony Pictures Studios, Los Angeles
Web	www.jeopardy.com
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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...

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..

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!

Double Jeopardy! categories:

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!...

Final Jeopardy! category: HISTORIC AMERICANS

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.