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The best players from the past year return to the stage where they made their mark for one more run. At the end of the rainbow, a pot of gold... $250,000. Recaps by Chico Alexander, GSNN
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Preliminaries: Chaffee/Murphy/Tucker This year has produced many a memorable player, but now it all comes to a head, as 15 of said memorable players return to Sony Pictures Studio for another big money run. Fourteen of them will fall by the wayside. One will rise to the ranks of the greatest who ever played the game and inherit the title of Jeopardy! Grand Champion. And with it, riches in the amount of $250,000. Second best: $100,000. Third... $50,000. This is the ultimate showdown of mind against mind, mettle against mettle, buzzer against buzzer. This is the Jeopardy! Tournament of Champions. 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. Two weeks of mental mayhem await our chosen 15 as the players match wits with the mighty game board that has fallen to them before. 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. Who has the knowledge? Who has the stamina? Who has the killer instinct? Who dares to be great? It all goes down... right now!
Jeopardy! round ...
Category #6 is presented by Sarah & National Geographic's Tom Ritchie. Daily Double: $800 Nonfiction. Liz gets out of the hole in time and can bet up to $1000 against Patrick's $1000. She does. The clue: the 2009 Pulitzer for history went to Annette Gordon-Reed for "The Hemingses of" this home." "What is Monticello?" Correct for $1200! At the end of the Jeopardy! round...
Double Jeopardy! categories:
Daily Double #1: $1600 Bays. Liz can put a lot of pressure on Ryan ($3000) and Patrick ($2000) with her $9400. She bets $3200 on this: during one tide cycle, more than 1000 billion tons of seawater flow in & out of this bay between New Brunswick & Nova Scotia. "What is the Bay of Fundy?" Correct for $12,600! Daily Double #2: $1600 International Orgs. Liz is back in this with a shot to increase her $13,000 bank. She bets $2000 on this: BSEC is the economic cooperation zone named for this body of water; its 12 members include Bulgaria. "What is the Black Sea?" Correct for $15,000! End of the round scores after a line ruling reversed a correct answer on Patrick's end...
The first spot in the Tournament semi is Liz's to lose. Ryan & Patrick are hoping for a wild card. Final Jeopardy! category: ENGLISH LITERARY HISTORY
Correct response: what is the
Jacobean?
Liz took control and did NOT want to give it up to anybody. Her run was so large... no room in the quarterfinals for it. Who'll join her? Stay tuned... To read all about the tournament and the contestants, go to www.jeopardy.com. |
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SEMI-FINALIST:
Liz Murphy