Jason Zuffranieri game 3.
John Myers — a financial trader from Chicago, Illinois
Peggy Robin — a publisher and chief moderator from Washington, D.C.
Jason Zuffranieri — a math teacher from Albuquerque, New Mexico (whose 2-day cash winnings total $45,200)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jason | $5,800 | $8,200 | $18,600 |
$30,100
3-day champion: $75,300 |
$18,600
26 R (including 1 DD), 2 W |
| Peggy | $2,000 | $7,200 | $12,400 |
$12,400
3rd place: $1,000 |
$11,400
13 R (including 1 DD), 1 W |
| John | $-1,000 | $1,000 | $15,000 |
$29,998
2nd place: $2,000 |
$11,800
12 R (including 1 DD), 1 W |
| BRITISH LITERATURE | STARTS WITH A SILENT "K" | COMPANY ADS & SLOGANS | LIFE IN ANCIENT TIMES | AMETHYST | THE POWERS THAT BE |
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$200
[5]
Better known for his "Tales", in the 1390s he wrote a "Treatise on the Astrolabe"
Chaucer
Jason
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$200
[11]
It's a canvas bag for hikers to carry supplies
knapsack
Jason
|
$200
[17]
"What's in your wallet?"
Capital One
Jason
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$200
[10]
The Babylonians controlled rivers by building a barrage of barrages, a term for a small type of this
dam
Jason
|
$200
[26]
Amethysts are traditionally used in the ecclesiastical ring of this head of a Catholic diocese
bishop
Jason
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$200
[16]
This character remarked to Elizabeth Hurley in a 1997 movie, "Danger's my middle name", baby
Austin Powers
John
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$400
[1]
Benjamin Bunny convinces this other Beatrix Potter bunny to go back to Mr. McGregor's garden
Peter Rabbit
Jason
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$400
[6]
A slow, tricky pitch on the baseball diamond
knuckleball
Jason
|
$400
[18]
A classic car ad:"See the USA in your..."
Chevrolet
Peggy
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$400
[12]
One of the 3 festivals that summoned Israelites to Jerusalem was Shavuot, celebrating the start of this agricultural event
harvest
Jason
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$400
[27]
Richard Burton liked to give her amethyst jewelry--it was her birthstone & matched her eyes
Elizabeth Taylor
Peggy
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$400
[22]
Austin Stowell played U2 pilot Francis Gary Powers in this movie, a 2015 Best Picture Oscar nominee
Bridge of Spies
|
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$600
[2]
Homophonic last names of Samuel & Ben, whom Samuel wrote about in "Lives of the Poets"
Johnson/Jonson
Jason
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$600
[7]
Machirology is the study of these, perhaps a boning one
a knife
|
$600
[19]
For 40 years:"Have it your way"
Burger King
Jason
|
$600
[13]
Chinese emperors dictated the color of clothes, so Tang dynasty commoners stripped down to their funky-colored this
underwear
|
$600
[28]
Don't heat up amethysts too much or they turn this color & become citrines
orange (or orange-yellow)
Jason
|
$600
[23]
Here's Stefanie Powers showing a lot of heart with this actor in a 1980s TV series
Robert Wagner
Peggy
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|
$800
[3]
This "Vanity Fair" author quarreled with Dickens but was able to "Makepeace" with him
(William Makepeace) Thackeray
Jason
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$800
[8]
The "Marble City" on the Tennessee River
Knoxville
Jason
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$800
[20]
First used in the '50s:"It takes a licking and keeps on ticking"
Timex
Peggy
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$800
[14]
The Roman valued this art of persuasive speech, a necessary skill for great oratory
rhetoric
Jason
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$800
[30]
This radiation helps silica-enriched water & iron crystalize as amethysts, so why isn't the Incredible Hulk purple?
gamma rays
John
|
$800
[24]
Powers Boothe won an Emmy for portraying this man in "Guyana Tragedy"
(Jim) Jones
Jason
|
|
$1,000
[4]
Set in the 12th c. Middle East, "The Wondrous Tale of Alroy" is a novel about a Jewish conqueror by this author/politician
Disraeli
Jason
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$1,000
[9]
Often following the word "death", it's a special tolling of abellto signal a funeral
knell
Peggy
John
|
DD
$2,000
[21]
This bank was "Established 1852. Re-established 2018"
Wells Fargo
Peggy
|
$1,000
[15]
An ostrakon was a piece of pottery with a name on it; if your name was on enough ostraka, you got this punishment for a 10-year term
exile (or banishment)
Peggy
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$1,000
[29]
This Greek god of wine couldn't always hold his wine--Rhea gave him an amethyst to keep him from getting too drunk
Dionysus
John
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$1,000
[25]
Tom Powers plays the doomed hubby of scheming Barbara Stanwyck in this 1944 Billy Wilder classic
Double Indemnity
Peggy
|
| THE 40-YEAR-OLD GERMAN | GRAMMY FOR SONG OF THE YEAR | THAT PLACE SOUNDS LEGENDARY | SPURN NOTICE | STATE OF THE ART | THE "B" THAT POWERS |
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$400
[30]
His work got a good review in the Times of London in 1919:"New Theory of the Universe--Newtonian Ideas Overthrown"
Einstein
Peggy
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$400
[10]
The only Beatles tune ever to win, this song is a woman's first name
"Michelle"
Jason
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$400
[12]
Casinos in Reno & Shreveport named for this lost city seem like the perfect place to pick up some gold
El Dorado
Jason
Peggy
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$400
[17]
This directional phrase means to reject or something done to prepare a bed
turn down
John
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$400
[2]
Lucy the Elephantin Margate, formerly known as South Atlantic City
New Jersey
Jason
|
$400
[23]
7-letter word for a renewable energy source made from algae, plants or animal waste
biofuel
Jason
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$1,200
[26]
20-year-old Dirk Nowitzki began playing for this NBA team in 1998 & was still with them 20 years later
the Mavericks
John
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$800
[6]
This Bruce Springsteen tune from a Tom Hanks film won Grammy Song of the Year & the Oscar for Best Original Song
"Streets Of Philadelphia"
Jason
|
$800
[13]
Danny Kaye & Ayn Rand went to this Norse hall of heroes, or at least a cemetery in a New York hamlet named for it
Valhalla
John
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$800
[21]
This adjective for something short, like a cute li'l nose, can also mean to spurn or ignore
snub
|
$800
[1]
The 50-foot Picasso sculpture in Daley Plaza
Illinois
John
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$800
[11]
NASA uses "solid rocket" these to help the main engines in the early going; they fall back to Earth & are reused
boosters
Peggy
|
|
$1,600
[28]
In 1725, 3 years after Book I of the "Well-Tempered Clavier", this 4-decades-old man composed his "Easter Oratorio"
(Johann Sebastian) Bach
Jason
|
$1,200
[7]
This soulful ballad by Sam Smith won for 2014
"Stay With Me"
John
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$1,200
[14]
Thisrealm of legend has resurfaced in the Bahamas
Atlantis
Peggy
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$1,200
[18]
The Discover card website lists 7 reasons why your credit card might suffer this rejection
being declined
|
$1,200
[3]
Band name inspiration "A Sound Garden"
Washington
Jason
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$1,200
[22]
It gets up to about 3,000 degrees in this kind of furnace used to make pig iron
blast furnace
Jason
Peggy
|
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$2,000
[29]
Vroom! He showed off his 25-HP, 4-stroke, single vertical cylinder compression engine on the cusp of 40 in 1897
Rudolf Diesel
|
$1,600
[8]
It's what "he" is doing "With His Song" in a Roberta Flack hit
"Killing Me Softly"
Jason
|
$1,600
[15]
In 1942 FDR gave this name to what's now called Camp David; the old moniker is lost over the horizon
Shangri-La
Jason
|
$1,600
[19]
This adjective meaning trivial is also a verb meaning to spurn with pointed indifference
to slight
|
$1,600
[4]
"The Hacienda Horse & Rider" in neon
Nevada
|
$1,600
[24]
Many of the torch lighters you find available at your local liquor store use this type of colorless gas
butane
John
|
|
DD
$4,000
[27]
After the 1994 election, she became Germany's Minister of Environment, Conservation & Reactor Safety, but a promotion awaited
(Angela) Merkel
John
|
$2,000
[9]
In 1962 the Grammys honored the tune heard here& this man who composed it
(Henry) Mancini
Jason
|
$2,000
[16]
This 1972 book is named for an actual hill in Hampshire, England; in the novel it's a utopia sought by rabbits
Watership Down
Peggy
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$2,000
[20]
Putting "re-" in front of a 4-letter slang word meaning muscular gets you this word for to spurn
rebuff
John
|
DD
$2,000
[5]
The Crazy Horse memorial
South Dakota
Jason
|
$2,000
[25]
The Clean Air Act helped to reduce pollution from this, the most abundant type of coal
bituminous
John
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The prototype for this game that was introduced in 1948 was called Lexiko
Scrabble