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Teen Tournament 2012
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Preliminaries: Flood/Olson/Yang
May 3

It's perhaps the hardest part-time job that any teenager could have... but at the same time, it's the most lucrative. Instead of enough for a used car and some gas to put in it, we're talking $75,000.

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 and the all new edition of Classroom Jeopardy! for their schools. 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.

But this season's Teen Tournament comes with a twist. The quarterfinals will be held in home base in Culver City, while the semifinalists will not only win $10,000, but also a trip to compete across the country... in WASHINGTON, DC!

So far, we have three on the plane to our Nation's Capital. In 30 minutes, we'll have six.

Jeopardy! round...

Daily Double: $800 Beastly Business. Caleb is out in front with $3000. Morgan is his closest rival with $1600. He fronts $2000 on this: a supercolony of an invading Argentine species of this insect stretches almost 4000 miles from Italy to Portugal. "What are ants?" Thanks, ants... Thants. He's up to $5000.

At the end of Jeopardy!...

Double Jeopardy! round...

Daily Double #1: $2000 4-Letter Verbs. Kevin is back in the lead with $12,400 to Caleb's $11,400. Kevin bets $2000 on this: as a noun, it's a building where grain is ground into flour; as a verb, it means to do the grinding. "What is mill?" CORRECT FOR $14,400!

Daily Double #2: $1200 Oh So Very Literary. Kevin is still in the lead with $20,400. He fronts $4000 on this: unrhymed poetry of irregular meter & rhythm is known by this 2-word term. "What is blank verse?" No, it was free verse, dropping him to $16,400, still leading.

At the end of Double Jeopardy!... A really tight game!

Final Jeopardy! category: MEDICINE

Correct response: what are antibiotics?

Morgan's response: what is an antidote? WRONG. Wager: $5042. Total: $8358.
Caleb's response: what is antiseptic? WRONG. Wager: $6600. Total: $6800.
Kevin's response: what are antibiotics? CORRECT. Wager doesn't matter.

Semifinalist: Kevin Yang

Kevin's another one of those late-game bloomers that took a Daily Double win and ran with it. He was held up for a spell thanks to an incorrect Daily Double, but he ended up with the deciding Final Jeopardy! response to clinch the victory. Also clinching seats on the plane to DC: Catherine from the Wednesday show and Anshika from Tuesday's. On the bubble: Krishna Bharatala with $15,001 and Rose Schaefer with $15,400.

In 24 hours, we'll have your final nine.

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