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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: Krizel/Kunzen/Pahk
November 4

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.

Roger Craig makes it a bloodbath in game 2, as he joins Tom Nissley in the next round. Up next...

John Krizel
orig. Oceanside, NY
writer
four days, $107,204
Tom Kunzen
Orlando
geotechnical engineer
four days, $133,402
Joon Pahk
Somerville, MA
college physics teacher
seven days, $201,000

Jeopardy! round...

LITERARY
TITLE
OCCUPATIONS
REAL PEOPLE
ON FILM
THAT'S
THE CHICAGO
WAY!
BIBLICAL
RELATIONS
WEBSITES RHYME-BOT

Daily Double: $600 Literary Title Occupations. Too early for Joon, as he bets $1000 on this: it's the occupation mentioned in a 1916 James Joyce book title. "What is artist?" For "Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man", giving him $1600.

At the end of Jeopardy!...

$1,600 $600 $6,800
John Tom Joon

Double Jeopardy! round...

MAPMAKER,
MAPMAKER
MTV VIDEO
OF THE YEAR
ARTISTS
BALLET CALCULATING
THE
MEASUREMENTS
CANADIAN
HSITORY
GIMME AN "H"

Daily Double #1: $800 Mapmaker, Mapmaker. Tom is way behind with $1000 to John's $1600 and Joon's $6800. He goes the max for $2000 on this: however you draw the border between Nicaragua & this 2-named country, somebody gets mad, huh? "What is Costa Rica?" That.... would've gotten him the money. Instead, El Salvador leaves him $1000 down.

Video Daily Double #2: $2000 Gimme an "H". Joon is giving his competitors what for with John on $2400 and Tom on -$200. Joon bets $4000 on this: anglers & crafters, not just surgeons, use this instrument, whose name means "blood stop". "What is a hemostat?" Correct for $15,200!

Tom's back in the money, but the best he can do is wild card at the end of Double Jeopardy!...

$2,000 $4,200 $20,800
John Tom Joon

Final Jeopardy! category: NOTABLE GROUPS

 

HARPO MARX WAS AMONG THIS GROUP WHEN IT MET IN NYC's ROSE ROOM FOR ITS FINAL TIME, IN 1943, & FOUND THERE WAS NOTHING LEFT TO SAY

 

Correct response: what is the Algonquin Round Table?

John's response: what is I have no idea? WRONG. Wager: $1986. Total: $14.
Tom's response: what is (aggravated face)? (THUMBS DOWN). Wager: $4200. Total: $0.
Joon's response: what is the Algonquin Round Table? RIGHT. Wager doesn't matter.

SEMI-FINALIST: Joon Pahk

What does it say that John Krizel has $14 and can still pick up a wild-card?

... I have to say something. Joon is making this a crazy semifinal.

Next week, the first two wild cards clinch.

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