Preliminaries: Craig/Meacham/Spak
November 3
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.
Tom Nissley won the first game by a hair
or two. Who'll win the second?
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Roger Craig
Newark, DE
computer scientist
six days, $231,200 |
Brian Meacham
orig.
Anchorage, AK
film preservationist
four days, $92,500 |
Kara Spak
Chicago
newspaper reporter
five days, $85,401 |
Jeopardy! round...
I HAVE
A PREPOSITION
FOR YOU |
2011 MOVIES |
GOING
TO PIECES |
GROUP
COUNTDOWN |
THE LAST
BATTLE |
THE NOBEL
PEACE PRIZE |
Daily Double: $800 The Last Battle.
Kara was looking for it, but Brian found it with $1000 to her $1800. He can't
catch Roger's $3800, but he can pass Kara. He bets it all on the Battle of
Chapultepec. "What is the Mexican American War?" FOR THE DOUBLER!
A propos of nothing, but this clue
was a real moment... $600 Group Countdown: If Andy yearns for Brenda & Brenda
cares about Charlene who pines for Andy, the 3 of them form one of these.
Kara: "What is a threesome?"
TECHNICALLY correct. But it was "What is a love triangle?". At the end of Jeopardy!...
$7,600 |
$3,200 |
$4,000 |
Roger |
Brian |
Kara |
Double Jeopardy! round...
WHO'S AFRAID
OF VIRGINIA
WOOLF? |
CARBON
CREDITS |
THEIR 4th
TOP 40 HIT
OF THE '60s |
19th CENTURY
PRESIDENTS |
IT CAME FROM
THE
NEW WORLD |
TRANSLATION
EXERCISES |
Daily Double #1: $1200 Who's Afraid
of Virginia Woolf? Roger has $10,000 and the lead over Kara ($7200) and Brian
($4400). He bets $6000 on this: this 1928 title character begins as a man &
ends, almost 400 years later, as a young woman (but not in Florida). "Who is
'Orlando'?" Correct for $16,000!
Daily Double #2: $2000 It Came from
the New World. Roger's running away with it with $23,600. He bets $5000 on this:
also known as butter beans, they were, prior to being exported to Europe, a diet
staple of the Inca. "What are lima beans?" Correct for $28,600
At the end of Double Jeopardy!, it's
not even a contest...
$39,800 |
$8,800 |
$6,000 |
Roger |
Brian |
Kara |
Final Jeopardy! category:
COUNTRIES' HIGHEST PEAKS
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THESE 2 NATIONS,
ON AN ISLAND, HAVE HIGHEST PEAKS WITH THE SAME NAME; THEY ALSO SHARE A
COMMON EUROPEAN CULTURE |
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Correct response: what are Greece &
Cyprus?
Kara's response: what are Greece & Cyprus? RIGHT. Wager:
$12. Total: $2012.
Brian's response: what are ____ & ____? WRONG. Wager: $8800. Total: $0.
Roger's response: what are Australia & Poland? WRONG. Wager: $20,200.
Total: $19,600.
SEMI-FINALIST:
Roger Craig
Roger had this game in the
bucket at the outset. Kara knew it and bet as such. Brian tried to be a
pig about it, but he forgot the main rule: the point of week one is to
make it to week two. Now Kara has a good enough shot at wild-card as
long as her score holds.
We end the week by cutting
the field by the two who definitely will NOT move on to week 2.
To read all about the tournaments
and the contestants, go to
www.jeopardy.com.
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