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 March 11
  

15 of the best champions of the past year face each other in trivial combat for bragging rights and $250,000.

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: International Consumer Electronics Show, Las Vegas
Website: www.jeopardy.com
Airs: Check local listings
 

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Preliminaries: Kelly/Kohlstedt/Morris
March 12

All the drama of a high stakes poker match.

All the excitement of a big jackpot win.

All the tension of a blackjack double down...

... and all for $250,000.

Fifteen of the year's best champions have returned to face each other for bragging rights and the title of Jeopardy! Grand Champion. The venue: a new high-def, high-tech battle arena showcased at the International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.

Only nine will be invited to return next week to play for one of three slots in the two-day final. Those nine will include the winners of the five prelims and the four highest scorers among non-winners... the Wild Cards.

Another standard two-week affair awaits with an minimum guarantee of $100,000 for second place and $50,000 for third.

Semifinalists are guaranteed at least $10,000, while quarterfinalists are guaranteed $5000 for participation. As always, any and all winning accrued depends on how far up the ladder a player goes.

So far, Dan Pawson is the only one guaranteed in next week's semifinals. That will change as one of these three will get their tickets punched.

Larissa Kelly
El Cerrito, CA
grad student
Seven days, $223,597		 Matt Kohlstedt
La Grange, IL
grad student
Six days, $79,803		 Tom Morris
Irvine, CA
substitute teacher & grad student
Five days, $102,801

... and away we go. Jeopardy! round...

LONDON LANDMARKS STEVE WIN TECHNO LUST STATE FLAGS THEY SHOULD HAVE PLAYED VEGAS "BO"POURRI

Video Daily Double: $600 London Landmarks. Larissa has about $1200 on Matt, $4400 to his $3200. Tom has $800. She bets $2000 on this: London's first new bridge in more than 100 years, it opened to foot traffic in the historic year of 2000.

"What is the Millennium Bridge?" Correct for $6400!

At the end of the Jeopardy! round...

 

$8,200 $4,600 $2,600
Larissa Matt Tom

Double Jeopardy! categories:

LANDLOCKED UP REMEMBER THESE OSCAR NOMINEES? ALL ABOUT AUTHORS SHOW BUSINESS NATIVE AMERICAN TRIBES BEGINS & ENDS WITH "E"

Larissa sweeps All About Authors to go to $21,000.

Daily Double #1: $1200 Show Business. Larissa is on a tear again with $21,400 to Matt's $5800. But it's all about Tom with $6600. He wagers $2600 on this: in 1923 siblings Harry, Albert, Samuel & Jack established a studio under this name. "What is Warner Bros.?" Correct for $9200!

Matt goes hunting and finds...

Daily Double #2: $1200 Begins & Ends with "E". He has $900 to $9200 for Tom. Both are put to shame by Larissa's $21,000. He goes for broke with $6000 on this... Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al Thani rules one, specifically Qatar. "What is an emirate?" Correct for $15,000!

A reversal of judgment for $2000 in Begins & Ends with "E" (Correct: "Ephedrine". Given: "Epinephrine" on a clue about decongestants) gives us this board at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round...

$23,400 $13,800 $9,600
Larissa Matt Tom

Final Jeopardy! category: FRENCH CLASSICAL MUSIC

 

THIS 1928 WORK REPEATS A THEME, ALMOST ENTIRELY IN C MAJOR, IN AN UNVARYING RHYTHM & HAS A CRESCENDO LASTING 17 MINUTES

  

Correct response: what is "Bolero"?

Tom's response: what is I have no idea? WRONG. Wager: $0. Total: $9600
Matt's response: what is Nutracker Suite? (sic) WRONG. Wager: $3200. Total: $10.600.
Larissa's response: what is Bolero? CORRECT.. Wager doesn't matter..

SEMI-FINALIST: Larissa Kelly

Ladies and gentlemen, what you have just seen is a twenty-something from California putting 14 of her peers on notice. A razor-sharp mind... Flawless hand-eye coordination... a perfect Final Jeopardy! streak, and more importantly, she hates to lose. I don't think she will.

Next time, a man of the cloth and a woman of the Klink will try to oust 100K-club member Ben Bishop.

If you would like to become a contestant on Jeopardy!, go to jeopardy.com.