Show #8044 2019-07-25 (taped 2019-04-06) Regular

Jason Zuffranieri game 5.

Contestants

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)

Scores

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

Jeopardy! Round

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

Double Jeopardy! Round

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

Final Jeopardy!

1970s ALBUM REVIEWS

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

Shari "What is ?" — wagered $6,000
Eric "What is Rumors" — wagered $12,000
Jason "What is Exile on Main Street?" — wagered $10,000

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