Preliminaries: Audi/Kahloon/Thiesfeld
February 22
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, Kailyn LaPorte,
and Nikhil Desai have earned a spot
in week 2. At least one of these three will join them...
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Cosi Audi
North Canton,
OH
junior |
Idrees Kahloon
Lexington, KY
junior |
Lindsey Thiesfeld
Clarendon
Hills, IL
sophomore |
Jeopardy! round...
BIBLICAL
PEOPLE |
POP
CULTURE |
JUMPING
JUPITER! |
WE
MAKE THAT |
VAMPIRE
DIARIES |
COMBINED
STATE ABBREV. |
Daily Double: $1000 Jumping Jupiter!
Late in the round, and Idrees has $6200 all over Cosi's and Lindsey's total
combined. He doubles the level on this: appropriately, a NASA probe that orbited
Jupiter for more than 8 years was named for this astronomer. "Who is Galileo?"
CORRECT FOR $8200.
One clue later, at the end of Jeopardy!...
$2,400 |
$8,800 |
$2,600 |
Cosi |
Idrees |
Lindsey |
Double Jeopardy! round...
CRIME
DETECTION |
WINTER
SPORTS |
HOMECOMING
KINGS &
QUEENS |
COUNTRIES'
LOWEST
POINTS |
RED THINGS |
CROSSWORD
CLUES "D" |
Daily Double #1: $2000 Crossword
Clues "D". Idrees has $15,200, but Lindsey is hot on his heels with $12,200.
What will Idrees do? He will bet... $3000 on this: pre-Christian Celtic priest
(5). "What is a druid?" He pronounced it "drood", but we'll take it for $18,200.
Video Daily Double #2: $2000
Countries' Lowest Points. Idrees at $25,000 can lock it here. He bets the level
on this: for Russia: this "sea". "What is the Caspian Sea?" CORRECT for $27,000!
Looks like the ladies are competing
for a wild card at the end of Double Jeopardy!...
$4,400 |
$27,000 |
$13,400 |
Cosi |
Idrees |
Lindsey |
Final Jeopardy! category: 19th CENTURY
NAMES
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IN AN 1845
AUTOBIOGRAPHY, HE WROTE, "YOU HAVE SEEN HOW A MAN WAS MADE A SLAVE; YOU
SHALL SEE HOW A SLAVE WAS MADE A MAN" |
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Correct response: who was Frederick
Douglass?
Cosi's response: who is Douglas? RIGHT. Wager:
$3399. Total: $7799.
Lindsey's response: who was Frederick Douglass? RIGHT. Wager: $2001.
Total: $15,401.
Idrees' response: who is Frederick Douglass? RIGHT. Wager doesn't matter.
SEMI-FINALIST:
Idrees Kahloon
Idrees played as strong a
game as one could. Never mind the semis, this is a guy who could
theoretically take the whole shoot and match. Lindsey also has reason to
celebrate, as does Raya from yesterday, because both will return as
well.
Tomorrow, your final nine
will be revealed.
To read all about the tournaments
and the contestants, go to
www.jeopardy.com.
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