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Preliminaries: Desai/Elias-Pushett/Van Duyn
February 21

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 and Kailyn LaPorte have earned a spot in week 2. At least one of these three juniors will join them...

Nikhil Desai Fremont, CA junior	Raya Elias-Pushett Aventura, FL junior	Andrew Van Duyn Wheaton, IL junior

Jeopardy! round...

Daily Double: $800 States' First Newspapers. Andrew has only $600, but he can bet up to $1000. He does so on this: Sitka Times (1868). "What is California?" Nope, it's Alaska, dropping him to -$400.

At the end of Jeopardy!...

Double Jeopardy! round...

Daily Double #1: $1200 Old Books. Andrew's back on zero. He can wager up to $2000. He bets half of that on this: composed in Old English between 700 & 750, this epic was originally untitled, then later named for its Scandinavian hero. "What is Beowulf?" Correct for $1000!

Video Daily Double #2: $1200 The Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library & Museum. Raya is at $7800 to $13,600 for Nikhil. She bets only $4200 on this from Kelly... "Lincoln signed many important documents in his executive office, including this, which he called 'the central act of my administration and the great event of the 19th Century'." "What is the Emancipation Proclamation?" Correct for $12,000!

At the end of Double Jeopardy!...

Final Jeopardy! category: GREEK MYTHOLOGY

Correct response: who is Poseidon?

Andrew's response: who is Poseidon? RIGHT. Wager: $3000. Total: $6000.
Raya's response: who is Poseidon? RIGHT. Wager: $6130. Total: $22,530.
Nikhil's response: who is Poseidon? RIGHT. Wager: $13,601. Total: $32,801

SEMI-FINALIST: Nikhil Desai

This match could've gone to either Nikhil or Raya, both of which kept things very close. It all came down to who had the advantage of the lead going into the final. That belonged to Nikhil, and so did the game. But don't count Raya out just yet. Meanwhile, Andrew's $6000 makes the bubble picture interesting, as he ties with Raphie from the Friday show.

Tomorrow, we'll have six.

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