Show #8050 2019-09-13 (taped 2019-07-22) Regular

Jason Zuffranieri game 11.

Contestants

Tabitha Walker — a gallery assistant from New York, New York

Jack Gutshall — a college student from Hoover, Alabama

Jason Zuffranieri — a math teacher from Albuquerque, New Mexico (whose 10-day cash winnings total $273,843)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Jason $10,000 $12,800 $44,400 $58,400
11-day champion: $332,243
$33,200
38 R (including 3 DDs), 1 W
Jack $-1,000 $400 $5,600 $3,600
2nd place: $2,000
$5,600
10 R, 1 W
Tabitha $1,400 $2,600 $1,400 $2,799
3rd place: $1,000
$1,400
8 R, 4 W

Jeopardy! Round

FANTASY ISLAND MOTTOES LIVE ENTERTAINMENT OFFICIAL LANGUAGES HUNTING & FISHING ANTONYMS
$200 [27]
Peter Pan can bring visitors to this island, home to the Lost Boys
Never-Never Land
Jason
$200 [28]
This full Latin motto of the U.S. Marine Corps symbolizes its members' lifelong commitment
" Semper Fidelis "
Jack
$200 [26]
A group of street performers in Quebec became this circus troupe that puts on shows like Mystère
Cirque du Soleil
Jason
$200 [29]
In Cuba
Spanish
Tabitha
$200 [25]
Also a poker hand, in hunting this word means to cause game birds to break cover or take flight
flush
Jason
$200 [30]
This verb, the opposite of "succeed" , has made a comeback as a noun, especially following "epic"
fail
Jason
$400 [19]
This title character travels to the islands of Laputa & Lilliput
Gulliver
Jack
$400 [21]
When asked "For what?" with regard to this motto of the Boy Scouts, Robert Baden-Powell said, "Why, for any old thing"
"Be Prepared"
Jack
$400 [20]
The Bruise Brothers are a Chicago-based men's team in this contact sport on wheels
roller derby
Jason
$400 [23]
In Egypt
Arabic
Tabitha
$400 [22]
Make sure all flesh is removed from the hide before you begin this process of turning it to leather or things will get smelly
tanning
Jack
$400 [24]
PC Magazine's online encyclopedia uses these 2 antonyms for hard-to-figure-out & easy-to-figure-out passwords
strong & weak
Jason
$600 [18]
This titular tank engine & his friends inhabit the island of Sodor
Thomas
Tabitha
$600 [17]
Like Truman, Carter had a sign with this motto in the Oval Office
"The Buck Stops Here"
Jason
$600 [16]
Want to see this PBS music series live? Head to Texas' Moody Theater
Austin City Limits
Jason
$600 [9]
In Benin
French
Jason
$600 [15]
In Florida, the bag limit for the largemouth type of this is 5 a day, so don't get greedy
bass
Jason
$600 [14]
Katy Perry's opposites primer "Hot n Cold" rhymes, "we fight, we break up, we kiss, we" do this
make up
Jason
$800 [2]
The temple of Poseidon was on this legendary island that was said to lie west of the Strait of Gibraltar
Atlantis
Jason
$800 [4]
"God, Home and Country" is the motto of this patriotic group, DAR for short
Daughters of the American Revolution
Jason
$800 [7]
Woody Harrelson & Jamie Foxx were in the casts of these 2 Norman Lear shows performed live on ABC in 2019
The Jeffersons & All in the Family
Jason
$800 [8]
On Cyprus, these 2 languages
Turkish & Greek
Tabitha
$800 [11]
This style of fishing means to tow a baited line, not a net, behind a slow-moving boat
trolling
Tabitha
$800 [13]
This adjective is the opposite of "attentive"; legally, it refers to one who fails to use "due care" & "ordinary prudence"
negligent (negligence accepted)
Tabitha
$1,000 [1]
In one version of the legend, King Arthur was offered Excalibur when Merlin brought him to this island
Avalon
Jason Tabitha
DD $1,800 [3]
The New York Times has used this 7-word motto on its front page since 1897
"All the News That's Fit to Print"
Jason
$1,000 [6]
The UCB is this "Brigade" that does improv shows 7 nights a week
Upright Citizens Brigade
Jason Jack Tabitha
$1,000 [5]
In Brunei, this language of a nearby peninsula
Malay
Jason
$1,000 [10]
In Maryland, there are 3 seasons for deer: regular firearms, muzzle-loaded firearms & this non-firearm activity
archery
Tabitha
$1,000 [12]
Leptodermous means having a thin skin--elephants know this similar word means the opposite
pachydermous
Jason

Double Jeopardy! Round

SAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE CROSSWORD CLUES "O" SURNAMES INTERNATIONAL LITERATURE THEIR ENTIRE OSCAR SPEECH GET HIM TO THE ANCIENT GREEK
$400 [30]
Railing against these machines, philosopher C.E.M. Joad said, "The only way to see the country is to walk in it"
cars (automobiles)
Jason
$400 [27]
A person in their 80s(12)
octagenarian
Jason
$400 [29]
It's the occupational surname shared by Plymouth Colony governor John & scientist George Washington
Carver
Jack
$400 [26]
The novel titled this "Patient" is set in Italy & was written by Sri Lankan-Canadian Michael Ondaatje
The English
Jason
$400 [22]
Not opening with "Good even-ing", this thriller director took the Thalberg in 1968 with "Thank you... very much indeed"
Hitchcock
Jason
$400 [28]
The 60 or so works bearing the name of this "Father of Medicine" likely weren't written by him, nor was his oath
Hippocrates
Jack
$800 [25]
His "Das Kapital" says that a machine " immediately becomes a competitor of the workman"
Marx
Jason
$800 [10]
To swing back & forth(9)
oscillate
Jack
$800 [24]
Reasonably enough, this last name of Canadian author Margaret refers to one who lives in or near a forest
Atwood
Jack
$800 [21]
Born off Queensland, Kath Walker, aka Oodgeroo Noonuccal, wrote "We Are Going", the 1st book of poems by a person of this ethnicity
Aboriginal
Jason
$800 [14]
Music Score winner Dimitri Tiomkin, for this Cooper-Kelly western: "Thank you very much. Thank you"; now give us the time of day!
High Noon
Jason
$800 [23]
After Ptolemy I wished for an easier way to study it, Euclid said, "there is no royal road to" this branch of math
geometry
Jason
$1,200 [9]
Some cybersecurity experts warn about Russian-developed Face App, best known for virtually doing this to people's faces
aging them
Jack
$1,200 [4]
A musical composition(4)
opus
Tabitha
$1,200 [15]
In the names Kirkman & Kirkland, Kirk refers to one of these
church
Jason Tabitha
$1,200 [6]
Gabriel Sundukian wrote this language's greatest dramas in what's now the country of Georgia
Armenian
Tabitha
$1,200 [13]
"Thank you. Thank you very much. Appreciate it", said Delbert Mann, who directed this actor as 1955's "Marty"
Borgnine
Jason
$1,200 [20]
He said, "The unexamined life is not worth living", so let's examine it--he wed Xanthippe & was an Athenian Hoplite soldier
Socrates
$1,600 [17]
This author's 1952 novel "Player Piano" deals with a man rebelling against a machine-filled dystopia
(Kurt) Vonnegut
Jason
$1,600 [3]
Spanish stew pot(4)
olla
Jason
$2,000 [7]
Horvat & Knezevic are common surnames in this country; Horvat comes from the country's name for itself in its own language
Croatia
Jason
$1,600 [1]
This poet told the Nobel Banquet, "Our Irish theatre could (never) have come into existence but for" Henrik Ibsen
(William Butler) Yeats
Jason
$1,600 [12]
This Viennese-Amer. Best Director for "The Apartment": "Thank you so much, you lovely discerning people. Thank you"
(Billy) Wilder
Jason
$1,600 [19]
Aeschylus penned the tale of this title Titan, visited by Oceanus & Io... c'mon, you're bound to remember him!
Prometheus
Jack
DD $8,000 [16]
In 1816 Lord Byron penned a "Song for" these loom-smashing rioters who were being displaced by new technology
Luddites
Jason
$2,000 [2]
Hatred(5)
odium
DD $6,000 [8]
In Vietnam, an estimated 40% of the population answer to this last name, the country's most popular
Nguyen
Jason
$2,000 [5]
Son of a Polish patriot, he was born in what's now Berdychiv, Ukraine & wrote works like "Typhoon" in English
(Joseph) Conrad
Jason
$2,000 [11]
Best actor William Holden, for this "numeric" 1953 film set in a German P.O.W. camp: "Thank you. Thank you"
Stalag 17
Jason
$2,000 [18]
We can give you at least 300 reasons you should know this king of Sparta who headed the Persians off at the pass in 480 B.C.
Leonidas
Jason

Final Jeopardy!

PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES

This is the most recent presidential election year when both major presidential candidates were residents of the same state

2016

Tabitha "What is 2016?" — wagered $1,399
Jack "What is 1996" — wagered $2,000
Jason "What is 2016?" — wagered $14,000

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