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Two of the best Jeopardy! contestants to ever play the game go up against a literal answer-questioning machine for a $1 million showdown. Recaps by Chico Alexander, GSNN
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Preliminaries: Ie/Wadman/Welch Today belongs to a deep question-answering machine named Watson... but the future belongs to 15 of the sharpest minds out of high-school today. Together, they're going for a prize pool of over $200,000 in this year'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.
Jeopardy! round...
Daily Double: $1000 Chemistry. The round belongs to Kate with $6600, but the clue belongs to Christian with $1200... and he's going for it on this: olympiadane is a molecule so-named because it's composed of this many interlocking rings. "What is five?" That would've been right, but Christian loses everything on four. At the end of Jeopardy!...
Double Jeopardy! round...
Daily Double #1: $2000 History. Brandon has $6000. He can get close to Kate's $14,600. He's going for it on this: as vice admiral, this circumnavigator helped command the fleet that beat the Spanish Armada in 1588. "Who is Drake?" Sir Francis Drake doubles him to $12,000! Daily Double #2: $1200 Words & Phrases. Kate can pull away with $15,800. She'll try with $5000 on the line for this: meaning to be skeptical, to take something "with" this comes from an old Roman recipe for a poison antidote. "What is a grain of salt?" CORRECT for $20,800! At the end of Double Jeopardy!...
Final Jeopardy! category: EVENTS OF 2010
Correct response: what is Chile?
Brandon is not one to play lightly. He could emerge as a threat early on, as can Kate, who also plays heavy-handed and heavy-headed, as only the Final determined her fate today. But the tournament is still young. Come back tomorrow to see what happens with three more players. To read all about the tournaments and the contestants, go to www.jeopardy.com. |
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SEMI-FINALIST:
Brandon Welch