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Previous Episodes November 10 November 11 |
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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 |
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Preliminaries: Hosford/Scheeler/Takhar 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. So far, Anurag Kashyap and Bradley Silverman have a return ticket to play again. By the end of the half-hour, we'll know who definitely WON'T be joining them.
Karan was a runner-up in a National Geography Bee... three times... Drew's looking to be the second famous Drew from Ohio... ... and Audrey looks like she's related to Bob Saget. Jeopardy! round has these six...
Daily Double: $600 The World Almanac and Book of Facts. Karan has $800 to Drew's and Audrey's $400 a piece. Karan bets the lot on this: it's the only country listed that starts with a "Q". "What is Qatar?" Correct for $1600. At the end of the Jeopardy! round, the line producers have to review the tape... and the news it not good for Drew.
Double Jeopardy! categories:
Daily Double #1: $1600 I'm So Hot. Drew's on $6800 with Audrey at $5200 and Karan way out in front with $15,600. Drew bets $5000 on this: though it bears the name of a state in Mexico, this pepper sauce was invented in Louisiana. "What is Tabasco?" That... would've been right. Cayenne drops him to $1800. "Pico de Gallo" one clue later drops him further. Daily Double #2: $800 Literary Hodgepodge. Audrey's moved up a bit to $5600 to try and catch Karan. She bets just $2000. The clue: flappers loved F. Scott Fitzgerald's "Flappers and Philosophers", published in this decade. "What is the 20s?" Correct for $7600! News is not good for Drew, because as he's in the red, this is as far as he goes. At the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round...
Final Jeopardy! category: WORD ORIGINS
Correct response: what is algebra?
With Drew a non-issue, Audrey was free to play to "not lose", as the point of this week is to survive to next. Karan, on the other hand, is emerging as one to watch next week due to his never-say-die attitude during the course of the game. Unfortunately for Christopher from Monday, Audrey's strategy has knocked him out of further competition, though you have to admit, with a dollar to his name, you kinda saw it coming. Fourth quarterfinal tomorrow. |
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SEMI-FINALIST:
Karan Takhar