Show #8046 2019-09-09 (taped 2019-07-22) Regular

Jason Zuffranieri game 7.First game of Season 36.New opening graphics.

Contestants

Victor C. Li — an advanced analytics developer from Jacksonville, Florida

Holly Palmer — a nurse from Colorado Springs, Colorado

Jason Zuffranieri — a math teacher from Albuquerque, New Mexico (whose 6-day cash winnings total $137,300)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Jason $2,500 $5,500 $29,600 $29,200
7-day champion: $166,500
$28,600
29 R (including 2 DDs), 2 W (including 1 DD)
Holly $1,600 $3,000 $7,800 $2,800
2nd place: $2,000
$7,800
11 R, 0 W
Victor $600 $400 $400 $1
3rd place: $1,000
$400
6 R, 4 W

Jeopardy! Round

MOTOR TRENDCAR OF THE YEAR HEALTH WATCH FROM PAGE TO SCREEN KITCHEN ORIGINS GREEK & LATIN PREFIXES PARTS OF SPEECHES
$200 [29]
2004:This pioneering Toyota model
the Prius
Victor
$200 [22]
Short periods in the sun provide this vitamin AKA cholecalciferol
D
Jason
$200 [25]
This Spielberg Holocaust film was based on a book by Thomas Keneally
Schindler's List
Victor
$200 [6]
Reinhold Burger held a contest to name his insulated container based on the Dewar flask--this word, Greek for "hot", won
Thermos
Jason
$200 [20]
When it comes to Latin prefixes, 3 letters = this one meaning "one"
uni-
Jason
$400 [23]
Douglas MacArthur, 1951:"I now close my military career and just..."
fade away
Jason
$400 [28]
2018:This maker's Giulia was the alfa dog
Alfa Romeo
Victor
$400 [21]
Regular exercise can raise this "good" type of cholesterol
HDL
Holly
$400 [24]
A novel by Chuck Palahniuk was the basis for this film starring Brad Pitt & Edward Norton
Fight Club
Jason
$400 [17]
This appliance was invented in the 1940s; the Radarange was one of the first commercial ones
a microwave
Jason
$400 [19]
Vincent van Gogh's brother knows this 4-letter combining form is built like a Greek "god"
theo-
Holly
$600 [3]
Lou Gehrig, 1939:"Today, I consider myself..."
the luckiest man on the face of the Earth
Jason
$600 [27]
1984:This Chevy sports car, about 30 years overdue
the Corvette
Victor
$600 [14]
Abbreviated O.T., it's designed to maintain &/or improve a patient's living skills
occupational therapy
Victor
$600 [11]
She stars as literary forger Lee Israel in "Can You Ever Forgive Me?", based on the memoir of the same name
Melissa McCarthy
$600 [16]
The Oster company created recipes so that this appliance would be used in the kitchen as well as the bar
a blender
Holly
$600 [18]
From the Latin for "around", it can precede -navigation & -locution
circum-
Jason
$800 [2]
MLK, 1963:"They will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of..."
their character
Jason
$800 [26]
In 2001:This Chrysler "tall sedan"
PT Cruiser
Jason
$800 [13]
In public showers you're advised to wear shower shoes to prevent this condition, tinea pedis
athlete's foot
Holly
$800 [10]
This film with Ray Liotta & Joe Pesci was based on the book "Wiseguy: Life in a Mafia Family"
Goodfellas
Jason
$800 [8]
This man based his airtight plastic tops on inverted paint can lids
(Earl) Tupper
Jason
$800 [5]
Mal- is from Latin for "bad"; the Greeks used this prefix to indicate something bad, like when used before -function
dys-
Holly
$1,000 [1]
William Faulkner at the Nobel banquet: "I believe that man will not merely endure: he will..."
prevail
$1,000 [15]
1958:This sporty pre-Mustang Ford
Thunderbird
$1,000 [12]
Sudden fever & neck stiffness could signal this serious inflammation of the membranes that surround the brain & spinal cord
meningitis
Jason
DD $2,700 [9]
Emma Stone played aspiring writer Skeeter Phelan in this '60s-set film based on the novel of the same name
The Help
Jason
$1,000 [7]
Peter Schlumbohm used a Pyrex glass carafe when he invented the Chemex brand of this
a coffee pot
$1,000 [4]
This near-the-end-of-the-alphabet prefix often paired with "phobia" is from the Greek for "alien"
xeno-
Jason

Double Jeopardy! Round

BROADWAY MUSICALS BY CHARACTER THE 1820s WORLD CURRENCY LAST NAME FLOW-TOGETHERS THE "BEAN" STALK JACK LONDON
$400 [27]
Fraulein Schneider & the Master of Ceremonies
Cabaret
Holly
$400 [28]
Better known to us as an inventor, Samuel F.B. Morse pursued art in the 1820s & painted portraits, like of this lexicographer
Webster
Jason
$400 [29]
After the U.S. pulled out of the 2015 nuclear deal with this country in 2018, its currency plunged
Iran
Victor
$400 [23]
Leonard, a conductor & piano player "on the town" in 1944, & Henry, who made his first grand piano in 1856
Bernsteinway
Holly
$400 [26]
3-word phrase meaning to divulge confidential information or secrets
spill the beans
Holly
$800 [25]
"The Star Rover" of 1915 revolves around this concept of rebirth as a man on death row recounts his past lives
reincarnation
Victor
$800 [19]
Velma Kelly & her lawyer Billy Flynn
Chicago
Jason
$800 [20]
In 1824thissymphony premiered at the Theater am Kärntnertor in Vienna
Beethoven's Ninth Symphony
$800 [21]
ISK is the currency code for this country's krona
Iceland
Jason
$800 [22]
Lena, one of TV's "Girls", & Dashiell, who wrote about hard-boiled men
Dunhammett
Holly
$800 [24]
Scientifically known as Glycine max, this member of the pea family is native to Asia
the soybean
$1,200 [16]
In London's early novel "A Daughter of the Snows", a young woman seeks adventure in the Klondike region of this territory
the Yukon
Jason
$1,200 [4]
Laurey, Curly, Jud Fry
Oklahoma!
Jason
$1,200 [18]
"Sacr" bleu! French king Charles X's law named for this sinful crime, like stealing communion wafers, could impose the death penalty
sacrilege
Jason Holly Victor
$1,600 [13]
In 2018 this country introduced the sovereign bolívar, dropping 5 zeroes so something that cost 5 mil. old bolívars is now just 50
Venezuela
Jason
$1,200 [17]
Journalist Ted, who brought us the news late at night, & politician Nancy, who makes news on many days
Koppelosi
Jason
$1,200 [15]
The pope's is white & called a zucchetto
beanie
$1,600 [10]
In "The Game", a man shows his fiancee the brutality of this sport in which he competes
boxing
$1,600 [3]
Danny, Sandy, Rizzo
Grease
Holly
$2,000 [5]
British surgeon Thomas Wakley founded this "incisive" medical journal that's still published today
Lancet
Jason
$2,000 [1]
Nicaragua's currency is the cordoba, equal to 100 of these, from the Spanish for "100th part"
centavo
Jason
$1,600 [12]
Edwin, husband of Caroline Kennedy, & Ingrid, wife of Roberto Rossellini
Schlossberg & Bergman
$1,600 [8]
In Del Rio, Texas you can find the grave of this notorious frontier judge
Roy Bean
Jason
$2,000 [9]
The title of this novel refers to the brutality of ship's captain Wolf Larsen
The Sea-Wolf
Jason
$2,000 [2]
Max von Mayerling, Norma Desmond
Sunset Boulevard
Jason
DD $4,000 [6]
In 1828 explorer René Caillié became the first European to visit this city now in central Mali & to survive to tell the tale
Timbuktu
Jason
DD $2,500 [14]
In 2018 its pres. Erdogan urged his people to take euros & dollars from under their pillows & convert them to the native lira
Turkey
Jason
$2,000 [11]
Jesse, who created a Rainbow Coalition, & Barry, who directed "Addams Family Values"
Jacksonnenfeld
Jason Victor
$2,000 [7]
In 2019 Northeastern beat Boston College to win this venerable hockey tourney
the Beanpot
Victor

Final Jeopardy!

BIBLICAL ARCHAEOLOGY

A site excavated since 1899, Tell es-Safi has been identified as this Philistine city, home to a giant warrior

Gath

Victor "What is Baghdad?" — wagered $399
Holly "What is Goliathtown" — wagered $5,000
Jason "What is Goliath?" — wagered $400

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