Show #8043 2019-07-24 (taped 2019-04-06) Regular

Jason Zuffranieri game 4.

Contestants

Corin Purifoy — a fiber artist from Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Michelle Bruck — an attorney from Levittown, Pennsylvania

Jason Zuffranieri — a math teacher from Albuquerque, New Mexico (whose 3-day cash winnings total $75,300)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Jason $3,000 $3,600 $18,400 $30,000
4-day champion: $105,300
$21,200
28 R (including 1 DD), 3 W (including 1 DD)
Michelle $0 $600 $3,000 $3,000
3rd place: $1,000
$5,000
7 R, 2 W (including 1 DD)
Corin $5,200 $5,800 $14,200 $6,100
2nd place: $2,000
$14,200
17 R, 0 W

Jeopardy! Round

KING JAMES BIBLE BIRDWATCHING "UN"CATEGORY NEW MUSICAL SUPERGROUPS GO, GO, GADGET... SEAS FAREWELLS
$200 [27]
In John 1:3 the spirit of God is described as descending like one of these peaceful birds upon Jesus
a dove
Jason
$200 [10]
It's a one-word exclamation meaning "I give up!"
"Uncle!"
Corin
$200 [5]
Both Rock & Roll Hall of Famers:Cheap Jam
Cheap Trick and Pearl Jam
Jason
$200 [11]
Life Straw is a drinking implement that acts as this, allowing you to drink from dubious water sources
a purifier (or filter)
Jason
$200 [28]
In ancient times it was known as Mare Hadriaticum
the Adriatic Sea
Corin
$200 [23]
On Jan. 1, 1971 during the "Tonight" show, a Virginia Slims ad became the last one for these products broadcast nationally on TV
cigarettes
Jason
$400 [25]
Ships in King Solomon's navy return home with some of these bright-feathered iridescent birds
peacocks
Jason
$400 [6]
This type of vote made George Washington president of the Constitutional Convention
unanimous
Corin
$400 [1]
Rage Against the Sabbath
Rage Against the Machine and Black Sabbath
Jason
$400 [12]
In the name of Aibo, Sony's robot dog, the "A" & "I" stand for this, but "Aibo" also means "companion" in Japanese
artificial intelligence
Corin
$600 [19]
The Bosporus Strait connects the Sea of Marmara with this other sea
the Black Sea
Jason
$400 [16]
On May 14, 1998 over 76 million viewers tuned in to say farewell to this classic sitcom about nothing
Seinfeld
Corin
$600 [26]
This bulky warrior boasts that he'll feed David's body to the birds; oops!
Goliath
Michelle
$600 [7]
At the sushi bar, freshwater eel goes by this Japanese name
unagi
Corin
$600 [2]
Smashing Blowfish
Smashing Pumpkins and Hootie and the Blowfish
Corin
$600 [13]
The Smarter Fridge Cam takes pictures every time you open your fridge, & even keeps track of these with a "best before" tracker
expiration dates
Jason
$800 [20]
The "Cradle to the Great Barrier Reef", it's home to some of the most diverse marine life in the world
the Coral Sea
Jason
$600 [17]
In 1969 the Department of the Treasury announced the end of currency above $100, including the$500 note, featuring this president
President McKinley
$800 [29]
Psalms 84 says this bird built "a nest for herself" near the temple altar, not Capistrano
a swallow
Jason
$800 [8]
By definition, it's any mammal that has hooves
ungulate
Jason
$800 [3]
My Chemical Monkeys
My Chemical Romance and Arctic Monkeys
Jason Michelle
$800 [14]
Ghost hunters would never be caught without an EMF meter, which detects these fields, EMF for short
electromagnetic fields
Michelle
$1,000 [22]
The largest ice shelf in Antarctica lies at the head of this same-named sea
Ross
Jason
$800 [18]
Initially "A Different Kind of Company" with cars built in Tennessee, it was phased out by GM beginning in 2007
Saturn
Jason
$1,000 [30]
Exodus chapter 16 recounts how flocks of these birds appeared one evening at sunset & fed the hungry Israelites
quail
$1,000 [9]
To move in waves
undulate
Corin
$1,000 [4]
Cold War Springfield
The Cold War Kids and Buffalo Springfield
Corin
$1,000 [15]
Crustaceans have hard outer shells called these; the CLOi Suit Bot is billed as one that helps you lift things
exoskeletons
Corin
DD $5,200 [21]
The ruins of Qumran, including some notable caves, overlook its northwest shore
the Dead Sea
Jason
$1,000 [24]
In November 1852 mourners lined the streets of London to bid farewell to this statesman, Britain's greatest soldier, dead at 83
(Duke of) Wellington
Jason

Double Jeopardy! Round

INFAMOUS WOMEN CANADIAN PROVINCIAL SYMBOLS POP-POURRI HISTORY BOOKS "P" IS FOR SCIENCE LETTER IMPERFECT
$400 [28]
In 1893, after a 2-week trial & just over an hour of deliberation, a jury found her not guilty of giving her dad & stepmom the ax
(Lizzie) Borden
Jason
$400 [29]
If I told you this province's flower was the dogwood, could you guess it? How about if it's the Pacific dogwood?
British Columbia
Jason
$400 [1]
This Tony winner has hosted the Tony Awards
(James) Corden
Corin
$400 [30]
"City of Dreams" is Tyler Anbinder's epic history of 400 years of this U.S. metropolis' immigrant experience
New York
Jason
$400 [5]
When an egg cell in a flower fertilizes itself, it's called "self-" this
pollinating
Jason
$400 [11]
It's the most common written letter in French, too, but Georges Perec wrote the novel "La DIsparition" without using it
E
Michelle
$800 [24]
She was Hitler's longtime mistress & for a day in 1945 his wife
(Eva) Braun
Michelle
$800 [4]
Quebec's motto is "Je me souviens", "I" do this
I remember
Corin
$800 [2]
In 2019 Christian Siriano, who won season 4 of this fashion competition, replaced Tim Gunn as its mentor
Project Runway
Michelle
$800 [16]
Anne Applebaum's "Red Famine" is a history of this Soviet leader's oppression of Ukraine in the 1930s
Stalin
Jason Michelle
$800 [6]
The mix of water & chemicals that made up Earth's oceans billions of years ago is often called this kind of "soup"
primordial (or primeval)
Jason
$800 [12]
Diddy dropped it in 2005
P
Jason
$1,200 [27]
Rhyming last names of the women seen here, both notorious in the early 1930s
Barker and Parker
$1,200 [10]
You can't sweep the category unless you know that this is the provincial sport of Saskatchewan
curling
Corin
$1,200 [3]
Guitarist Dick Dale, who died in 2019, played the iconic opening them efrom this 1994 film
Pulp Fiction
Jason
$1,200 [17]
1930s interviews with these people have been mined for books including "Life Under the 'Peculiar Institution'"
slaves
Jason
$1,200 [7]
Among species, there are brood, social & sexual types of this relationship in which someone is usually a loser
a parasitic relationship
Corin
$1,200 [13]
The old East Coast accent like Katharine Hepburn's or William F. Buckley's was marked by dropping this letter
R
Jason Corin
$1,600 [25]
Splish, splash, this French Revolution leader was taking a bath when Charlotte Corday stabbed him to death in 1793
Marat
Jason
$2,000 [23]
Alberta picked the lodgepole this as its provincial tree, as it supplied ties for the railroad
pine
$1,600 [20]
It's the 3-word punning title of the political podcast hosted by Jon Favreau, Jon Lovett, Dan Pfeiffer & Tommy Vietor
Pod Save America
$1,600 [18]
"Imperial Twilight" by Stephen Platt takes a look at the relations between Britain & this nation during the Opium Wars
China
Michelle
$1,600 [8]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew presents the clue.) School glue is made up of these long molecule chains, whose name is from the Greek for "many"--adding a water & borax solution helps link them, creating gooey kids'slime
polymers
Corin
$1,600 [14]
The Motion Picture Association of America abandoned this letter rating in 1990
X
Jason
$2,000 [26]
A character on "Black Sails", this real-life pirate escaped execution by hanging when it was discovered that she was pregnant
Anne Bonny
Corin
DD $4,000 [22]
Of course this province's flag is basically the cross of St. Andrew with reverse colors
Nova Scotia
Jason
$2,000 [21]
Jane Pauley was drawn to this"Doonesbury" cartoonist & married him in 1980
(Garry) Trudeau
Jason
DD $2,000 [19]
A look at great historic clashes, Philip Sabin's "Lost Battles" includes this 490 B.C. battle the Persians lost to the Greeks
Marathon
Michelle
$2,000 [9]
It's the astronomic term for the point in the Moon's orbit when it's nearest the Earth
perigee
Jason
$2,000 [15]
It was one of the 3 original blood groups discovered in 1900 but got changed to O
C

Final Jeopardy!

CHILDREN'S AUTHORS

This author & illustrator who won the 1964 Caldecott Medal was dubbed the "Picasso of children's books"

Maurice Sendak

Michelle "Who is Carl?" — wagered $0
Corin "Who is Carle?" — wagered $8,100
Jason "Who is Sendak?" — wagered $11,600

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