Jason Zuffranieri game 8.
Valerie Nolan — an office manager from Tonawanda, New York
Sean Melody — a chief technologist from Raleigh, North Carolina
Jason Zuffranieri — a math teacher from Albuquerque, New Mexico (whose 7-day cash winnings total $166,500)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jason | $4,000 | $9,000 | $25,300 |
$25,600
8-day champion: $192,100 |
$21,400
27 R (including 3 DDs), 1 W |
| Sean | $1,200 | $1,400 | $6,600 |
$0
3rd place: $1,000 |
$6,600
9 R, 3 W |
| Valerie | $4,400 | $5,800 | $12,200 |
$24,200
2nd place: $2,000 |
$12,200
14 R, 1 W |
| FASHION FROM HEAD TO TOE | MUSICAL STYLES | 36 TIMES THE FUN | PIG LATIN | I GRANT YOU 5 FISHES | NAME-CALLING IN POLITICS |
|
$200
[6]
Hey there, fancy (above the) pants! The name of this tuxedo staple comes from the Hindi for a waist band
a cummerbund
Valerie
|
$200
[15]
This "colorful" genre has subgroups named for Chicago & Memphis
blues
Jason
|
$200
[13]
The pointed angles of this ancient mystical symbol are each 36 degrees
a pentagram
Sean
|
$200
[5]
Word maven Richard Lederer points out that this is Pig Latin for "trash", but it's also an (apt) English word
ashtray
Valerie
|
$400
[27]
Sharing a name with a colorful bird, this fish can change its sex during its life, but talking?--not so much
parrot
Jason
|
$400
[24]
Critics call GOP members who have gotten too liberal RINOs, short for this
Republican In Name Only
Jason
|
|
$400
[7]
Keep your eye on the prize... one of these aids is held in place by your forehead & cheek muscles
a monocle
Sean
Valerie
|
$400
[25]
Lil Nas X made waves in 2019 with his crossover song "Old Town Road" in the genre known as "country" this
rap
Jason
|
$400
[21]
A perfect 3-game series in bowling will require you to throw 36 strikes in a row, yielding you this total score
900
Jason
Sean
|
$400
[28]
In a Three Stooges short, trying to explain Pig Latin, Arrylay & this guy tell Urlycay he's umbday
Oemay
Jason
|
$600
[26]
Here's this fish doing its thing; stronger ones can cover 600 feet in a single glide
a flying fish
Valerie
|
$600
[22]
Paintingsby George Rodrigue help provide this colorful nickname for conservative Democrats
Blue Dog
Jason
|
|
$600
[8]
This tall spiked heel ends in a tiny base, & here's a metal tip for you--1950s women rocked 'em
a stiletto
Sean
|
$600
[23]
Britannica calls this 3-letter genre "Jamaica's first indigenous urban pop style"
ska
Jason
|
$600
[16]
As a young man, this 36th president taught debate & public speaking at Sam Houston High School
LBJ
Sean
|
$600
[18]
The OED defines this Pig Latin word as "no; not possibly" & has citations back to around 1930
ixnay
|
$800
[10]
The silvery gleam of this fish gives it the same name as something you might get from a punch in the eye
a shiner
Valerie
|
$800
[2]
The Progressive Party was also called this male deer
Bull Moose
Jason
|
|
$800
[11]
Princess Jasmine in the animated "Aladdin" wore these pants that get their name from a grouping of women
harem
Sean
|
$800
[20]
This Louisiana style follows "Buckwheat" in the name of one of its popular performers
zydeco
Valerie
|
$800
[4]
A 36 is a perfect score on this college admissions test
the ACT
Valerie
|
$800
[17]
The "Historical Dict. of American Slang" defines this Pig Latin word as "to clear out" & has citations back to around 1930
amscray
Jason
|
$1,000
[9]
Note the super-sharpschnozof this fish
the sawfish
Jason
|
$1,000
[1]
Northerners against the Civil War embraced this beastly nickname & cut the heads out of Liberty pennies to wear as badges
Copperhead
Jason
|
|
$1,000
[12]
As well as French, these shirt features can be fringed or hounds' ears
cuffs
Valerie
|
$1,000
[19]
In Britain, Dave Clark's Tottenham Sound competed with the "Beat" named for this river that's in a song by Gerry & the Pacemakers
Mersey
Jason
|
DD
$1,000
[3]
A famous series of prints by the Japanese artist Hokusai is called the "36 Views of" this landmark
Mount Fuji
Jason
|
$1,000
[14]
Pig Latin cheered up the Depression--in 1933 a popular song debuted with a Pig Latin segment, "e'reway inay the" this
"oneymay"
Valerie
|
— | — |
| LITERARY LADIES | TITL"ING" THE MOVIE | THE 20th CENTURY | PIG ENGLISH | RAINFORESTS | PSYCHOLOGY |
|
$400
[25]
1944's "Absent in the Spring" is one of the non-mystery novels she wrote under the name Mary Westmacott
(Agatha) Christie
Jason
|
$400
[26]
In the titles of a cinematic "Part 1" & "Part 2", it followed "The Twilight Saga"
Breaking Dawn
Jason
|
$400
[23]
In the early 20th century, he introduced a concept of nonviolent resistance called satyagraha
Gandhi
Jason
|
$400
[9]
This is an old word for a sack; buy "a pig in" one & you don't really know what you're getting
a poke
Jason
|
$1,200
[18]
The only close relative of the giraffe is this rainforest-dweller of central Africa
the okapi
Sean
|
$1,200
[20]
G. Stanley Hall, the 19th C. founder of child psychology, said, "men grow old because they stop" doing this, not the other way around
playing
Sean
|
|
$800
[24]
On Ursula Le Guin's passing, George R.R. Martin called her one of the great writers of these paired genres of the past century
science fiction & fantasy
Jason
|
$800
[22]
In 1980 it starred Jack Nicholson
The Shining
Sean
|
$800
[21]
1902 saw the end of this conflict known to Afrikaners as the Second War of Independence
the Boer War
Jason
|
$800
[15]
In 1901 John Moore-Brabazon strapped a shoat named Icarus into a basket on the wing of his Voisin, & this impossibility was a reality
pigs flying
Jason
|
$1,600
[17]
With about 225 million acres of coverage, this Asian island nation is third to Brazil & the Congo in rainforest area
Indonesia
Sean
|
$1,600
[19]
In 1938 Kurt Schneider defined hearing these as a first-rank symptom of schizophrenia
auditory hallucinations (or voices)
Valerie
|
|
$1,200
[7]
It's the first name shared by bestselling authors Delinsky, Tuchman & Kingsolver
Barbara
Jason
|
$1,200
[11]
1981 movie about werewolves & the noise they made
The Howling
|
$1,200
[8]
That's the Exxon Baton Rouge in 1989 trying to capture oil from this tanker that ran aground--it would spill 11 million gallons
the Exxon Valdez
Valerie
|
$1,200
[14]
The first recorded use of "in a" this as an exclamation of derision dates to 1847
pig's eye
Valerie
|
$2,000
[16]
The ipe tree was harvested from rainforests for its wood, durable enough to last 25 years as this path on Coney Island
the boardwalk
Valerie
|
$2,000
[6]
Freud distinguished "real" fear from this kind of fear, such as phobias; now it's an adjective for anyone anxious or just high-strung
neurotic
Sean
|
|
$1,600
[3]
During the Harlem Renaissance, she wrote "Their Eyes Were Watching God"
(Zora Neale) Hurston
Jason
|
$1,600
[10]
In a comedy Jason Segal went to Hawaii so he could be doing this
Forgetting Sarah Marshall
Jason
|
$2,000
[1]
In 1933 & in 1952 this Cuban toppled the regimes of other leaders; he himself was deposed in 1959
(Fulgencio) Batista
Jason
|
$1,600
[13]
An 1824 London news report on a boxing match said that one of the fighters did this like a pig
sweat
Jason
Sean
Valerie
|
— | — |
|
$2,000
[2]
At 15 she wrote a satirical "History of England" by "a partial, prejudiced, & ignorant historian"
Jane Austen
|
$2,000
[5]
In 1991 Julia Roberts was doing this before faking her own death
Sleeping with the Enemy
Valerie
|
DD
$5,000
[4]
In the 1930s Mustafa Kemal made Kemal his first name & took this last name
Ataturk
Jason
|
DD
$2,500
[12]
Completes a quote from Matthew 7:6: "Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast ye your..."
pearls before swine
Jason
|
— | — |
The 1967 finale of "The Fugitive" drew in 78 million viewers, surpassing the 73 million who tuned into this show Sunday, February 9, 1964
The Ed Sullivan Show