Jason Zuffranieri game 5.
Shari Meyer — a high school English teacher from Somerville, Massachusetts
Eric Kaplan — a retired OB/GYN physician from Long Beach, California
Jason Zuffranieri — a math teacher from Albuquerque, New Mexico (whose 4-day cash winnings total $105,300)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jason | $2,200 | $6,000 | $14,400 |
$4,400
5-day champion: $109,700 |
$18,200
18 R (including 1 DD), 2 W (including 1 DD) |
| Eric | $4,400 | $6,800 | $12,000 |
$0
2nd place: $2,000 |
$9,200
20 R (including 1 DD), 6 W |
| Shari | $2,200 | $3,200 | $6,000 |
$0
3rd place: $1,000 |
$6,000
10 R, 1 W |
| TV SPINOFFS | USELESS BODY PARTS | 3-LETTER WORDS WITH "F" | LITERARY GROUPS | MILK, THIS CATEGORY | FOR ALL IT'S WORTH |
|
$200
[15]
An episode of "Happy Days" in which an alien attempted to kidnap Richie Cunningham led to this series starring Robin Williams
Mork & Mindy
Jason
|
$200
[10]
AKA permanent maxillary third molars, these teeth can help you chew, but about 85% of us will need to get them removed
wisdom teeth
Eric
|
$200
[5]
It's found in an idiom with "No... ands, or buts"
ifs
Eric
|
$400
[16]
Gertrude Stein gave post-WWI writers like E.E. Cummings & Ernest Hemingway the group name this Generation
the Lost Generation
Shari
|
$400
[20]
From the Greek for "same kind", this process is used to distribute fat evenly through the milk
homogenization
Jason
|
$400
[25]
In 1965 the first insurance policy on one of these was arranged for Intelsat 1
a satellite
Eric
|
|
$400
[1]
This animated MTV series about 2 high school numbskulls featured a cynical female foil named Daria, who got her own series
Beavis and Butt-Head
Shari
|
$400
[11]
In animals, arrector pili muscles raise hairs, making them look larger; in humans, they only cause this "fowl" effect
goosebumps
Eric
|
$400
[6]
One of Santa's helpers, or a Keebler baker
elf
Jason
|
$600
[17]
The Knickerbockers included William Cullen Bryant, James Fenimore Cooper & this author who coined the term
(Washington) Irving
Jason
|
$600
[21]
Some jokingly say that this alternative to dairy milk is just real milk introducing itself in Spanish
soy milk
Eric
|
$600
[26]
The org. Jewelers of America says contrary to popular belief, you can easily chip one of these, even washing dishes--insure it
a diamond
Shari
|
|
$600
[2]
(Norman Lear presents the clue.) Call me the spin doctor of spinoffs! Including "Good Times" & this one all about "Movin' on up to the Eastside"
The Jeffersons
Jason
|
$600
[12]
This more common name for your coccyx tells you what useless body part it once belonged to
a tailbone
Eric
|
$600
[7]
Going back to the Bible, a minor drawback is sometimes likened to one of these "in the ointment"
a fly
Eric
|
$800
[18]
In the 1600s the fun-loving Cavalier poets included John Suckling; John Milton was part of the group with this prudish name
the Puritans
Eric
|
$800
[22]
Started in Boulder, Colorado in the '70s, this brand sells almond milk & cashew milk
Silk
Eric
|
$800
[27]
Appraisers on this PBS show often give a piece's insurance value; Spanish desk circa 1760, $10,000-$15,000
Antiques Roadshow
Jason
|
|
DD
$1,000
[3]
"Torchwood" was a spinoff of this British series; the titles of the 2 shows are anagrams of each other
Doctor Who
Jason
|
$800
[13]
Not only do men have nipples, they also have these accompanying glands that serve no male purpose
mammary glands
Eric
|
$800
[8]
Towards the rear of a ship
aft
Shari
|
$1,000
[19]
Taking their name from a London district, Lytton Strachey, Virginia Woolf & others were this group
the Bloomsbury Group
Jason
|
$1,000
[23]
Milk that has had much of its water content removed is usually called this 10-letter type
evaporated
Jason
|
$1,000
[24]
This venerable London gallery lost 2 Turners to theft, collected $38 million in insurance, then got the paintings back
the Tate
Eric
|
|
$1,000
[4]
Here's a bit of truthiness: this show started as a bit on "The Daily Show" that parodied Bill O'Reilly
The Colbert Report
Shari
|
$1,000
[14]
We can't use it to detect pheromones like other animals, but we have a vestigial version of Jacobson's organ in this body part
the nose
Eric
|
$1,000
[9]
A dandy dude
a fop
Eric
|
— | — | — |
| GATES | KANGAROO WORDS | JULIANNE MOORE DOESN'T SEE THE END OF THE FILM | INVENTORS & INVENTIONS | LEFT ON THE BOARD | SECRETARIES OF WAR |
|
$400
[24]
This alliterative strait was once called Boca del Puerto de San Francisco
Golden Gate
Eric
|
$400
[1]
Old Mother Hubbard found that the cupboard was this, not its kangaroo word "barren"
bare
Shari
|
$400
[26]
In "Mockingjay--Part 2", this actress found a new way into Julianne's heart--with an arrow
Jennifer Lawrence
Eric
|
$400
[16]
Imperial court official Tsai Lun produced the first rolls of this in China around 105 A.D.
paper
Eric
|
$400
[9]
A saying about this empire's vastness in the 18th to the 20th century was that "the sun never sets" on it
the British Empire
Shari
|
$800
[15]
Last name of Alphonso & son William Howard, both Secretaries of War
Taft
Eric
|
|
$1,200
[21]
When John F. Kennedy visited this gate in 1963, East Germans put upred curtainsso he couldn't see into East Berlin
Brandenburg Gate
Jason
|
$800
[2]
Some said the debutante "blossomed" at the ball; others used this word
bloomed
Shari
|
$1,600
[27]
Oh, it was definitely "The End of the Affair" for Julianne with this actor who also played "The English Patient"
Ralph Fiennes
Eric
|
$800
[6]
Louis Daguerre got photography started & William Fox Talbot helped by making & printing photos using reverse images called these
negatives
Jason
|
$800
[10]
Luke 6:13: Jesus "called unto him his disciples: and of them he chose twelve, whom also he named" these
apostles
Shari
|
$1,600
[18]
This Christmas plant with red leaves was named for Martin van Buren's Secretary of War
a poinsettia
Eric
|
|
$1,600
[22]
Hell Gate, from a Dutch word, connects this "directional" river to Long Island Sound
the East River
Eric
|
$1,200
[3]
You "indolent" lazybones! Stop being so this
idle
Jason
Eric
|
$2,000
[25]
Ms. Moore's car ride came to a very sudden end in this film set in 2027 about a world ravaged by infertility
Children of Men
Jason
|
$1,200
[7]
In 1901thisphysicist & inventor sent the first radio message across the Atlantic, from England to Canada
Marconi
Eric
|
$1,200
[11]
In a 2019 movie this superhero punched an elderly woman on a train (but she had a really good reason)
Captain Marvel
Shari
|
$2,000
[19]
How awkward! John Floyd, this president's Secretary of War, resigned & quickly joined the Confederacy
Buchanan
Jason
Eric
|
|
$2,000
[23]
The Donuimun Gate in this capital was dismantled during Japanese occupation in 1915, so now it's called the Invisible Gate
Seoul, South Korea
|
$1,600
[4]
You're safe to leave that precious item in my "charge", or in my this
care
Jason
|
— |
$1,600
[8]
In 1898 Maria Beasley patented a device for preventing trains from doing this
derailing
Shari
|
$1,600
[12]
In September 1882 thousands of workers held a march in NYC & this holiday was born
Labor Day
Jason
Eric
|
DD
$4,000
[17]
In early 1801 Sec. of War Samuel Dexter found himself acting as Sec. of Treasury & State for the last weeks of this president's term
John Adams
Eric
|
|
DD
$4,000
[20]
The name of this ancient city, home to the Ishtar gate, means "gate of the gods"
Babylon
Jason
|
$2,000
[5]
She led him down the path to "destruction", aka the road to this
ruin
Jason
|
— |
$2,000
[14]
In a movie Greg Kinnear played Robert Kearns, who fought Detroit over this drizzly day innovation of his
intermittent windshield wipers
Jason
Eric
|
$2,000
[13]
The subject of "A Beautiful Mind", in 2015 he won the Abel Prize for his work on partial differential equations
(John) Nash
Jason
|
— |
Rolling Stone said this 1976 album had "the best & worst tendencies of L.A.-situated rock" & was an "unflattering portrait of the milieu"
Hotel California