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 February 17
  

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

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
Airs Weeknights, check local listings
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Preliminaries: Cantor/Ho/LaPorte
February 18

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.

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.

So far, Brandon Welch has earned a spot in week 2. Game 2 of Week 1 features...

Raphie Cantor
San Diego
sophomore		 Steven Ho
Pittsburgh
junior		 Kailyn LaPorte
Decatur, GA
sophomore

Jeopardy! round...

FIRST LADIES'
MAIDEN NAMES		 2010
MOVIES		 TONS OF FUN CATS &
DOGS		 LAND "HA"! ODD WORDS

Daily Double: $1000 Land "Ha"! Close game as Kailyn has $2200 and this clue against Raphie's $2800 and Steven's $1000. She bets $1400 on this: the Potomac River meets the Shenandoah at this West Virginia village famed for an abolitionist's Civil War raid. "What is Harpers Ferry?" CORRECT for $3600!

At the end of Jeopardy!...

$4,400 $3,000 $6,000
Raphie Steven Kailyn

Double Jeopardy! round...

4-LETTER
COUNTRIES		 SINGLE-NAMED
SINGERS		 THAT'S AN
UNDERSTATEMENT		 "OP" CULTURE THEY COME
IN THREES		 CUBE IT!

Daily Double #1: $1200 4-Letter Countries. Raphie trails Kailyn by the amount of this clue. He bets $1600 on this: in September 1980 war broke out between these 2 countries & world last for 8 years. "What are Iraq & Iran?" That's the right response, but Raphie blanks to drop to $3600.

Daily Double #2: $2000 "Op" Culture". Kailyn can put it away here with $10,800. She bets $2100 on this: the mistaken use of a word in place of a similar-sounding one, often with humorous effect. "What is... a slip?" Malaprop drops her to $8700, still leading, but just.

At the end of Double Jeopardy!...

$12,000 $12,600 $15,100
Raphie Steven Kailyn

Final Jeopardy! category: LITERARY CHARACTERS

 

HIS "STORY WAS SOON TOLD, FOR THE WHOLE TWENTY YEARS HAD BEEN TO HIM BUT AS ONE NIGHT"

  

Correct response: who is Rip Van Winkle?

Raphie's response: who is Dr. Jekyll/Mr. Hyde? WRONG. Wager: $6000. Total: $6000.
Steven's response: who is Tom Sawyer? WRONG. Wager: $6000. Total: $6600.
Kailyn's response: who is Rip Van Winkle? RIGHT. Wager doesn't matter.

SEMI-FINALIST: Kailyn LaPorte

This is turning into a Georgia thing. First Brandon, now Kailyn. The difference here is that she had command of the game from start to finish with no intention on giving it up. Such tenacity will serve her well in week two.

We begin cutting the field with our next three next week.

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