Preliminaries: Byju/Crouch/Hummer
February 1
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.
So far, Kelton Ellis and Nilai Sarda are
making it an all-male, all-Georgia affair. One of these three can give
them a run for their money.
Arjun Byju
Sarasota, FL
senior |
William Crouch
Warner Robins, GA
sophomore |
Olivia Hummer
Covina, CA
senior |
Jeopardy! round...
WORDS
CONTAINING
SILENT LETTERS |
MYTHOLOGY |
IT'S
ELEMENTAL! |
DISNEY MOVIES
BY VILLAIN |
NOT TO BE
CONFUSED |
HOMECOMING |
Daily Double: $600 Homecoming.
Olivia has $1600 to William's $3000. She bets $600 on this: before he had to
sell it, this author enjoyed coming home to his Chateau de Monte-Cristo outside
of Paris. She blanks on Alexandre Dumas, dropping her to $1000.
At the end of Jeopardy!...
$3,400 |
$4,200 |
$2,200 |
Arjun |
William |
Olivia |
Double Jeopardy! round...
AMERICAN
NOVELISTS |
TV SHOW
SUM-UP |
"Y" IS THE
ONLY VOWEL |
WORLD
RIVERS |
THE 113TH
CONGRESS |
BAD LUCK? |
Daily Double #1: $1200 "Y" Is The
Only Vowel. The game is a lot closer now with Olivia on $3000 to William's
$4600. She bids $1000 on this: an ancient traditional story of a people. "What
is a myth?" CORRECT for $4000!
Daily Double #2: $2000 World Rivers.
In the last clue of the round, William has $10,600 to Olivia's $14,400. He bets
$3000 on this: this river that rises in the Black Forest flows through Germany &
on into Austria. "What is the Danube?" Correct for $13,600 to end the round...
$7,400 |
$13,600 |
$14,400 |
Arjun |
William |
Olivia |
Final Jeopardy! category: THE PLANETS
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TO THE ANCIENT
GREEKS & ROMANS, IT WAS THE SLOWEST-MOVING PLANET SEEN FROM EARTH |
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Correct response: what is Saturn?
Arjun's response: what is Neptune? WRONG. Wager: $2600. Total: $4800.
William's response: what is Neptune? WRONG. Wager: $2800.
Total: $10,800.
Olivia's response: what is Mars Jupiter? WRONG. Wager:
$6600. Total: $7800.
Semifinalist:
William Crouch
It was a seesaw match
between William and Olivia, but the wagering in the final decides it.
William plays it conservatively, and will get another shot at it.
Meanwhile, the male Georgian demographic gets ever stronger. Also, with
today's game, Brittany Poppen and Lila Anderson are eliminated from
further play.
Next week, two more prelims,
and a semi to decide who plays for $75,000.
To read all about the tournaments
and the contestants, go to
www.jeopardy.com.
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