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Jeopardy!
Teen Tournament Fall 2008
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Recaps by Chico Alexander, GSNN

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Host: Alex Trebek
Clue Crew: Jon Cannon, Jimmy McGuire, Kelly Miyahara, Sarah Whitcomb
Announcer: Johnny Gilbert
Creator: Merv Griffin
EP: Harry Friedman
Packager: Jeopardy Productions & Sony Pictures Television for CBS Television Distribution
Origin: Sony Pictures Studios, Los Angeles
Website: www.jeopardy.com
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Preliminaries: Houghton/Kashyap/Weis
November 10

So you want to play some J!, but you're not yet the 18-year-old that is required to do so? NO PROBLEM! That's where the Teen Tournament comes in.

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.

But first, we start with game 1...

Katie Houghton Ewing, NJ senior	Anurag Kashyap Poway, CA senior	Christopher Weis Pittsburgh sophomore

And the categories for the Jeopardy! round are...

Daily Double: $800 You're Such an Animal! Anurag is on $3800 to Katie's $2600 and Christopher's $1000. He bets $1200 on this: in Europe, the moose goes by this 3-letter name. "What is an elk?" Correct for $5000!

At the end of the Jeopardy! round...

Double Jeopardy! categories:

Daily Double #1: $800 Museums. The second clue in play in this round, and it's Katie's ($3200). She bets $2000 on this: this museum at the Smithsonian originated with a group of kites obtained from the Chinese Imperial Commission in 1876. "What is the Air & Space Museum?" Correct for $5200!

Daily Double #2: $1200 Bestsellers: 2006. Anurag has more than twice the money of his opponents, with $15,800 to Katie's $7600 and Christopher's $7200. He'll just wager $1200 on this: this national newspaper based in McLean, Virginia led all others in daily circulation with almost 2.3 million. "What is US Today?" Close, it was USA Today, leaving him with $14,600.

At the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round...

Final Jeopardy! category: 19th CENTURY INVENTIONS

Correct response: what is the telegraph?

Christopher's response: what is barbed wire? WRONG. Wager: $7199. Total: $1
Katie's response: what is Mors...? WRONG. Wager: $7500. Total: $6100.
Anurag's response: what is the telephone? WRONG. Wager: $3400. Total: $13,200.

SEMI-FINALIST: Anurag Kashyap

This wasn't a case of Anurag beating his opponents - Christopher, namely - but his opponents beating themselves. The point of week one is not so much to win as it is to get enough money so you can be assured of a spot next week. By the time Christopher realized that, it was too late.

As for the game as a whole, it was very tight from start to finish, and if Anurag (or Katie) makes it into the final, they'll have to get out of this thinking and pull out a stop or two.

Second quarterfinal tomorrow.