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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: Carbery/Chuchla/Malone 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, six people have won their way to next week. Will one, two, or perhaps all three of these people join them?
Jeopardy! round has these six...
Daily Double: $1000 Anagrammed Presidential Last Names. The only one in money, Charlie may sweep the category if he's right. He bets $1000 on this: "Wiener shoe". He blanks on Eisenhower to drop to $1000, still leading. At the end of the Jeopardy! round...
Double Jeopardy! categories:
Note about category five: each response is palindromic. Daily Double #1: $800 Montana. shelby currently leads with $5800 to Ben's $5200 and Charlie's $3800. She bets $1500 on this: one of the 3 Canadian provinces that border Montana. "What is Alberta?" The other two: British Columbia and Saskatchewan. She's got $7300. Daily Double #2: $2000 Aquatic Mammals. Shelby is blowing everyone away with $11,300 to Ben's $400 and Charlie's $2600. She bets $3000 on this: its population has grown the past few years, but this state marine mammal of Florida is still endangered. "What is the manatee?" Correct for $14,300! And then... Ben showed up.
Final Jeopardy! category: HIGHER EDUCATION
Correct response: what is a
community college or a junior college?
Shelby managed to stay ahead of the pack, but she can't afford another one of those close shaves such as the one Ben gave her in the last moments of the show. Basically put, she has to find the Daily Doubles and act on them if she's to continue that momentum into next week. Ben, on the other hand, just needs to remember to show up to play. He'll have another go at it, though. Here are your final nine.
No more second chances after today. The truth is simply this: WIN... or go home. See you Monday! |
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SEMI-FINALIST:
Shelby Malone
