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Fifteen of the best Jeopardy! contestants from the past year compete against each other for $250,000.

Recaps by Chico Alexander, GSNN

Host Alex Trebek
Clue Crew Jimmy McGuire
Kelly Miyahara
Sarah Whitcomb
Announcer Johnny Gilbert
Creator Merv Griffin
EP Harry Friedman
Packager Jeopardy Productions & Sony Pictures TV for CBS Television Distribution
Origins Sony Pictures Studios, Los Angeles
Web www.jeopardy.com
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Preliminaries: Nissley/Rhee/Temple
November 2

An incredible year of champions has led to this moment, where fifteen of the best have returned to Sony Pictures for a shot at $250,000 and the right to be called a superchampion. Among them, a College Champion, a Teachers' Champion, and the person who has logged in the most money ever won in a single game.

Second place will be awarded $100,000, while third gets $50,000. Semifinalists who make it to week 2 will receive at least $10,000. Everyone will receive at least $5000. In total, a prize pool of almost half a million dollars will be awarded over the next two weeks. 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.

But first, we start with game 1...

Tom Nissley
Seattle
writer
nine days, $236,405
Jay Rhee
Annapolis, MD
oncologist
six days, $109,203
Charles Temple
Ocracoke, NC
high school English teacher
Teachers Tournament Champion

Jeopardy! round...

THE
RECONSTRUCTION
ERA
PAY BALL! RANKS &
TITLES
LITTLE PEOPLE
IN LIT
AIRPORT
CODES
YOU'RE
A "CHAMP"!

Daily Double: $1000 The Reconstruction Era. Tom has $4400 to Jay's $1400 and Charles' $1800. He bets $3000 on this: Charles Sumner & Thaddeus Stevens were leaders of this "extreme" Republican group. "Who are the Radicals?" Correct for $7400!

At the end of Jeopardy!...

$8,000 $4,800 $2,000
Tom Jay Charles

Double Jeopardy! round...

MEN OF
SCIENCE
TV WHO AM I BAD HEIR DAY THEIR ROMAN
EQUIVALENTS
NOT OF GOOD
CHARACTERS
2011 NATIONAL
SPELLING BEE
WORDS

Note for category 6, they will not have to be spelled.

Daily Double #1: $1200 Men of Science. Jay went fishing and found it with $4800 to Charles' $1600. Tom still leads with $10,800. He bets $2000 on this: an institute of physical science at the University of Copenhagen is named for this physicist. "Who is Bohr?" Correct for $6800!

Daily Double #2: $1600 Bad Heir Day. Jay goes fishing again and comes up with it at $6800 to Tom's $9200. Charles is on zero. Jay bets $2000 again on this: June 28, 1914 was the last day for this heir tot he a European throne. "Who was Archduke Ferdinand?" ... Count it for $8800!

At the end of Double Jeopardy!...

$16,400 $12,000 $400
Tom Jay Charles

Final Jeopardy! category: WORLD CITIES

 

A MEMBER OF THE HANSEATIC LEAGUE, THIS CITY WITH A 4-LETTER NAME WAS ONCE KNOWN AS THE "PARIS OF THE BALTIC"

 

Correct response: what is Riga, Latvia?

Charles' response: what is Oslo? WRONG. Wager: $115. Total: $285.
Jay response: what is Riga? RIGHT. Wager: $4401. Total: $16,401.
Tom's response: what is Riga? RIGHT. Wager: $3. Total: $16,403.

SEMI-FINALIST: Tom Nissley

Tom started out strong, but allowed Jay a chance to play catch-up. If he wants to win the quarter-mill, he has to play even stronger and not allow such things to happen. As for Jay, keep an eye out for him, as he could prove to be a dark horse in this tournament.

But the tournament is still young. Come back tomorrow to see what happens with three more players.

To read all about the tournaments and the contestants, go to www.jeopardy.com.