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...
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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
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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 |
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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.
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