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Jeopardy!
Tournament of Champions 2009
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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
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Semifinals: Kelly/Peck/Simpson
March 19

A beat is when a good hand is beaten by a lucky hand... A Bad Beat is when it happens to you. And at a new high-def, high-tech battle arena showcased at the International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, it's happened to six $5000 winners so far on the Jeopardy! Tournament of Champions, leaving just the final nine. Now they will take on each other for one of only three seats in our version of the final table. At stake, $250,000 and the title of Jeopardy! Grand Champion.

Wild cards... Gone. Second chances... Gone. For these nine people, it's WIN... OR GO HOME.

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. As always, any and all winning accrued depends on how far up the ladder a player goes.

So far, Dan Pawson is awaiting two more people. One of them.... one of these three.

Larissa Kelly El Cerrito, CA grad student Won Game 2	Cora Peck Aliso Viejo, CA high school teacher & grad student Wild Card from Game 1	Dave Simpson Belcamp, MD pastor Wild Card from Game 3

Two Wild Cards against the winningest contestant of the 15. The Jeopardy! round...

For category #6, every response will be a word you can make out of the letters in "tournament".

Daily Double: $600 Writers on Film. Larissa finds it early with only $400 to Cora's $200. She bets the max of $1000 on this: "In Love and War" showed this author as an ambulance driver wounded in WWI & falling for his nurse. "Who is Ernest Hemingway?" Correct for $1400!

At the end of the Jeopardy! round...

Double Jeopardy! categories:

Dave is hunting for a miracle... and he finds it.

Daily Double #1: $1200 The Crusades. Dave has been answering and fishing at the same time and as a result, he has $7000 to Larissa's $10,800. Cora has $1800. "I promised myself I'd do this, but it's a little different here." Go big or go home. For $14,000 and the lead... After this wife of Louis VII took part in the second Crusade, the church forbade women to join future Crusades. "Who is Eleanor of Aquitaine?" ..... IS RIGHT for $14,000!

Dave goes BACK fishing... but someone else finds it... Someone else who hates to lose... Someone who might have her own Wikipedia entry, perhaps.

Daily Double #2: $1600 The River Rhine. Larissa turned an auto-pilot moment into $18,800, while Dave went southward to $12,000. Cora has $6200. Larissa wagers $4000 on this: Switzerland's third-largest city, this port on the Rhine handles much of the country's cargo. "What is Zurich?" Nope, it was Basel, dropping her to $14,800.

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

Unlike yesterday, all three are very much alive.

- Cora wins if she bets everything, while Larissa and Dave bet over $7201 and over $3601 respectively and lose.
- Dave wins if he bets $3600 or LESS and Larissa bets to lock Dave out... and of course gets it wrong.
- Larissa wins if she bets $10,801 or more and is correct. But really, she only needs to bet a dollar or two since Dave's optimal move would be to tie her.

Final Jeopardy! category: GODS OF ANCIENT EGYPT

Correct response: who is Anubis?

Cora's response: who is no idea? WRONG. Wager: nothing Total: $5400.
Dave's response: who is Sirius? WRONG. Wager: $3600. Total: $10,800.
Larissa's response: who is Anubls? CORRECT. Wager doesn't matter... only it does. Read on.

FINALIST: Larissa Kelly

This could've gone either way if Larissa didn't know what she was doing. Unfortunately, it was a case of your brain writing a check that your hand may not have been able to cash. She bet $12,000 when she would've been better off betting $2. If she is to win a quarter million dollars, she literally can't afford to make that mistake again.

Semifinal #3 next time.

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