Preliminaries: Chaffee/Murphy/Tucker
May 10
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!
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Ryan Chaffee
Los Angeles
tutor
$92,900, five games |
Liz Murphy
orig. Scranton, PA
foreign service officer
$123,302, six games |
Patrick Tucker
St. Louis
graduate student of public policy
2009 College Champion |
Jeopardy! round ...
NONFICTION |
TV SHOWS
BY GROUPS |
WHOSE DISH
IS IT ANYWAY? |
4 SCORE & 7 |
"TOC" |
A VISIT TO
ANTARCTICA |
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...
$1,400 |
$7,400 |
$1,600 |
Ryan |
Liz |
Patrick |
Double Jeopardy! categories:
BAYS |
DIRECTORS &
THEIR FILMS |
CARRIAGES |
LET'S
GET DRESSED
IN THE 1920s |
INTERNATIONAL
ORGS. |
11-LETTER
WORDS |
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...
$7,800 |
$17,400 |
$2,400 |
Ryan |
Liz |
Patrick |
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
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IMMEDIATELY BEFORE THE CAROLINE
ERA CAME THIS ONE, ALSO FROM THE MONARCH'S LATIN NAME |
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Correct response: what is the
Jacobean?
Patrick's response: what is Jacobean? CORRECT. Wager:
$2300. Total: $4700.
Ryan's response: what is Elizabethan? WRONG. Wager: $6000. Total:
$1800.
Liz's response: what is is Augustan? WRONG. Wager: $0. Total: $17,400
SEMI-FINALIST:
Liz Murphy
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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