This is Jeopardy!

On Wednesday Chase participated in a school Jeopardy contest. The entire school was invited to participate, but there was one catch: you had to read ten specific books that the librarian chose to be able to play. Chase started in early October and finished his tenth book on Tuesday afternoon. Ten of the 755 students enrolled at his school read all of the books and played the game. They broke the kids into two groups to play. The first five played Single Jeopardy while the other five stayed in another room. Then they came back and played the same exact board with the same exact questions. The six students with the top scores went on to Double and Final Jeopardy. Chase was in the second group and almost didn't make it to Double Jeopardy! There was a kid in his group that was insanely fast with the buzzer. When the very last question came up on the screen that kid buzzed in. If he had answered correctly Chase would have been in 7th place of the ten kids. Luckily, he didn't answer correctly. Chase buzzed in, got the right answer and moved on to the next round. That other kid made it into the next round as well because his score was a few hundred points higher than Chase's. During Double Jeopardy the game stayed pretty fair. All six kids were answering questions ... although some with more right answers than others. When Final Jeopardy began Chase was in 2nd place. He made a good wager, answered correctly and won the entire game!

The prizes were crazy good. I have heard that the librarian uses all of the book fair money for prizes, but I am not sure if that is correct. The first place winner was able to choose whichever prize he/she wanted from the table. Then the second place winner chose, etc. There were ten kids and ten great prizes. They also won some books and posters.



Here's Chase with his librarian and the prize he selected: a 16 GB ipod touch!!!!: