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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
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Preliminaries: Kursky/McLean/Wright
November 7

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.

So far, it's two monsters and a Tom Nissley in the final. Today, three will join them.

Paul Kursky
San Francisco
online marketing producer
four days, $110,411
Erin McLean
Danvers, MA
junior at Boston University
2011 College Champion
Buddy Wright
Ft. Worth, TX
operations engineer
five days, $89,804

Jeopardy! round...

ON A U.S.
POSTAGE STAMP
SPORTS
NUMBERS
HOMOPHONIC
PAIRS
PLANET OF
THE CORGIS
THE
CARIBBEAN
SCIENCE
"K"LASS

Daily Double: $600 Science "K"lass. Buddy's the only one in money with $800, so he'll bet it and $200 on top of it on this: this noble gas used in high-speed photography lamps takes its name from the Greek for "hidden". "What is krypton?" CORRECT for $1800!

At the end of Jeopardy!...

$1,600 $4,800 $8,000
Paul Erin Buddy

Double Jeopardy! round...

VERSE CASE
SCENARIO
CHARACTERS
FROM MOVIES
WHAT'D
YOU CATCH?
9-LETTER
WORDS
NOTABLE
WOMEN
TREASURES OF
THE NEW-YORK
HISTORICAL SOCIETY

Daily Double #1: $2000 Verse Case Scenario. Erin has $8000 to Buddy's $12,000. She wagers $2200 on this from Longfellow: "Behind the clouds is the sun still shining; thy fate is the common fate of all into each life" these 4 words. "What is 'the son also rises'?" No, it was "some rain must fall". She drops to $5800.

Daily Double #2: $2000 Notable Women. Buddy has $13,600 to Erin's $7400. He bets $1600 on this: piloting Vostok 6, she orbited the Earth 48 times during her trip into space in 1963. "Who is Tereshkova?" Correct for $15,200!

Paul finally has betting money at the end of Double Jeopardy!...

$1,200 $8,600 $16,800
Paul Erin Buddy

Final Jeopardy! category: FROM THE GREEK

 

THE WORD FOR A SONG ELEMENT YOU WON'T FIND IN INSTRUMENTALS COMES FROM THE NAME OF THIS INSTRUMENT

 

Correct response: what is a lyre?

Paul's response: what is a lyre? RIGHT. Wager: $1200. Total: $2400.
Erin's response: what is a lyre? RIGHT. Wager: $7403. Total: $16,003.
Buddy's response: what is a lyre? RIGHT. Wager doesn't matter.

SEMI-FINALIST: Buddy Wright

It was all Buddy all the time today, as he led all the way through. The question is can he sustain that momentum into the semis? That remains to be seen. Meanwhile Erin made it a close match, and she'll be rewarded as such with a place in the semis. Also clinching, Jay Rhee with $16,401.

Tomorrow night, we'll have your final nine.

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