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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
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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...

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

 

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"

 

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.