Preliminaries: Runsvold/Sausville/Short
November 8
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.
Four winners and two wild cards have
their tickets punched to the week 2 shows. One, two, or perhaps all
three of these players will join them.
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Mark
Runsvold
Moscow, ID
student & waiter
five days, $154,800 |
Justin
Sausville
Baltimore
urologist
seven days, $136,000 |
Christopher Short
Crawfordsville,
IN
pub trivia editor
seven days, $96,752 |
Jeopardy! round...
IT'S
YES-VEMBER |
CLASSIC
COUNTRY
MUSIC |
BOOK 'EM! |
ALL SAINTS
DAYS |
ABBREV. |
TAKE A DRIVE
ON I-65 |
Daily Double: $1000 It's Yes-Vember.
Last clue in the round goes to Christopher, who's on $2600 to Justin's $5600 and
Mark's $6200. He bets $1500 on this: in 1848 ladies said "Yes!" when the USA's
first medical school for women opened in this state capital. "What is Trenton?"
No, it was Boston, dropping him to $1100.
At the end of Jeopardy!...
$6,200 |
$5,600 |
$1,100 |
Mark |
Justin |
Christopher |
Double Jeopardy! round...
INSIDE
THE COUNTRY |
CURRENT
TV SHOWS
BY EPISODES |
OOO, SORRY |
KING OF
QUEEN |
TURTLES &
TORTOISES |
MAKE YOUR OWN
SPY NOVEL
TITLES |
Daily Double #1: $1600 King of
Queen. Justin leads by $1800, $6800 to Mark's $5000 and Christopher's $1100.
Justin bets $2200 on Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, formerly Duchess of York. "Who is
George VII?" One off, George VI, dropping him to $4600.
Daily Double #2: $1600 Turtles &
Tortoises. Justin's back up to $6600, betting $1400 on this: the genus Kinixys
includes the only turtles with a hinge on this, the upper shell. "What is the
carapace?" Correct for $8000!
At the end of Double Jeopardy!...
$12,200 |
$15,200 |
$5,900 |
Mark |
Justin |
Christopher |
Final Jeopardy! category: 18th
CENTURY AUTHORS
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IN A POEM HE
NAMED HIMSELF CADENUS, AN ANAGRAM OF DECANUS, OR "DEAN" |
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Correct response: who is Jonathan
Swift?
Christopher's response: who is Tennyson? WRONG. Wager: $5900.
Total: $0.
Mark's response: who is Swift? RIGHT. Wager: $11,800.
Total: $24,000.
Justin's response: who is Swift? RIGHT. Wager: $3399. Total: $18,599
SEMI-FINALIST:
Mark Runsvold
It was a very good game all
around, but the final decided who was going to take that fifth seat for
automatic winners. Not even finding the two late round Daily Doubles
could put this away for Justin. But he will get another shot at it in
the semis. The question now, do either one of them have what it takes to
take down two people who are seen as heavy favorites?
Here now, your final nine...
Game 2 Winner |
Wild Card |
Game 1 Winner |
Game 3 Winner |
Wild Card |
Game 5 Winner |
Wild Card |
Wild Card |
Game 4 Winner |
Tomorrow night, it begins...
Three games, three winners, one $250,000 final. It's win... or go home.
To read all about the tournaments
and the contestants, go to
www.jeopardy.com.
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