Jason Zuffranieri game 12.
Rodrigo Morante-Tirado — a financial analyst from Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Laura Majors — a retired marketing director from Denver, Colorado
Jason Zuffranieri — a math teacher from Albuquerque, New Mexico (whose 11-day cash winnings total $332,243)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jason | $8,200 | $10,000 | $34,400 |
$24,400
12-day champion: $356,643 |
$25,800
27 R (including 3 DDs), 1 W |
| Laura | $1,400 | $4,000 | $8,800 |
$16,800
2nd place: $2,000 |
$8,800
18 R, 4 W |
| Rodrigo | $-600 | $-1,000 | $200 |
$1
3rd place: $1,000 |
$200
4 R, 5 W |
| FAMILY TELEVISION | ART & ARTISTS | GIMME "5" | ACRONYMS & ABBREVS. | POPULAR INVENTION | 200 YEARS OF WALT WHITMAN |
|
$200
[24]
Judy & Elroy were (or is that will be) the kids on this visionary show
The Jetsons
Jason
|
$200
[26]
This popular name for Rembrandt's 1642 portrait of a militia group is a result of its old darkened varnish, now cleaned off
The Night Watch
Jason
|
$200
[27]
At a poker table it precedes "draw" or "stud"
five-card
Jason
|
$400
[25]
HGH stands for this hormone secreted by the pituitary
human growth hormone
Laura
|
$400
[22]
This treat was first introduced to a wide audience as Fairy Floss at the 1904 World's Fair
cotton candy
Laura
Rodrigo
|
$400
[20]
Whitman's 1865 poems "O Captain! My Captain!" & "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd" are elegies for this hero of his
Lincoln
Laura
|
|
$400
[23]
Blackmail, betrayal & bravado were always on tap for this scheming oil family on "Dallas"
the Ewings
Laura
|
$400
[13]
The pensive pose of the figure in a Rodin sculpture originally called "The Poet" earned it this name
The Thinker
Laura
|
$400
[21]
L.A. Dodgers Dusty Baker & Glenn Burke have been credited with inventing this gesture after a 1977 home run
a high five
Laura
|
$600
[17]
In business, the CFO is this job title
chief financial officer
Laura
|
$600
[18]
Around 1870 Thomas Adams was experimenting with Central Amer. tree resin to replace rubber, but instead developed this
(chewing) gum
Jason
Laura
|
$600
[19]
In an 1856 essay, Walt wrote, "You young men!...You are either to abolish" this, "or it will abolish you"
slavery
Laura
|
|
$600
[16]
On "The Simpsons" she's Bart & Lisa's pacifier-equipped baby sister
Maggie
Jason
|
$600
[2]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a painting on the monitor.) For "The Judgment of Paris", a collaboration with the engraver Raimondi, Raphaeldepictedone reclining figure by reversing the posture of this title character in a famous work by Michelangelo
Adam
Jason
Rodrigo
|
$600
[15]
shavetalks.com has tips on avoiding this
five o'clock shadow
Jason
|
$800
[7]
In the 1990s we had PDAs, "personal" these, used for organizing
digital assistants
Jason
Rodrigo
|
$800
[12]
Popularized by boxer Jack Broughton in the 18th century, the early version of these were used only in training bouts
boxing gloves
Laura
|
$800
[11]
"Every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you", wrote Walt in this groundbreaking long poem
"Song of Myself"
Laura
Rodrigo
|
|
$800
[9]
Salinger was the last name of the siblings living without parents on this 1990s TV show
Party of Five
Jason
|
$1,000
[4]
Here's "Symphony in White, No. 2" by this American who often gave musical titles to his paintings
(James Abbott McNeill) Whistler
Jason
|
$800
[14]
Omar Bradley or Dwight Eisenhower, for example
a five-star general
Jason
|
$1,000
[1]
JSYK is texting shorthand for this 4-word phrase
just so you know
Laura
|
$1,000
[3]
During WWII a fabric mesh was sandwiched between polyethylene & adhesive layers to make this sticky roll
duct tape
Laura
|
$1,000
[10]
After Walt published his first book of verse, this "Sage of Concord" wrote to him, "I greet you at the beginning of a great career"
Emerson
Jason
Laura
|
|
$1,000
[8]
This "Happy Days" family included Richie, Joanie & Chuck, who was last seen at Christmas but didn't make it to New Year's
the Cunninghams
Jason
|
DD
$2,600
[6]
Pastel colors & asymmetry are features of this style of Antoine Watteau, a reaction against Baroque art
Rococo
Jason
|
$1,000
[5]
Shoplifting is also known as this anatomical "discount"
five-finger
Jason
|
— | — | — |
| WHICH PRESIDENT? | MYTHS & LEGENDS | COMEDY: YOU DIDN'T HAVE TO BE THERE | POTPOURRI | THIS CATEGORY HAS PLATEAUED | HERE COMES THE JUDGE WORD |
|
$400
[28]
Promised "the final triumph over poverty" in accepting the 1928 nomination
Hoover
Jason
|
$400
[2]
Thought by some to be in Cornwall, it's the legendary site of King Arthur's palace & court
Camelot
Jason
|
$400
[1]
He's seenherearound the time his HBO special "Bring the Pain" brought him a new level of fame
Chris Rock
Laura
|
$400
[26]
In thefirst issueof his own comic, the Caped Crusader goes up against this "Clown Prince of Crime"
the Joker
Laura
|
$800
[25]
The Cumberland Plateau is located in the southern section of this mountain range
the Appalachians
Laura
|
$800
[27]
The person who presides over a debate, or over an ecclesiastical body in the Presbyterian Church
a moderator
Laura
|
|
$800
[21]
He was left an invalid by a paralytic stroke suffered while in office
Woodrow Wilson
Rodrigo
|
$800
[22]
This voyeur who is struck blind has been connected with the legend of Lady Godiva
Peeping Tom
Laura
|
$800
[12]
You didn't have to catch Rodney Dangerfield live--he was recorded in 1980 for an album with, of course, this 2-word title
No Respect
Jason
|
$800
[17]
Luke 11:4 says, "lead us not into" this, "but deliver us from evil"
temptation
Jason
|
$1,200
[24]
The Udi-Nsukka Plateau of this country is home to the Igbo people
Nigeria
Jason
|
$1,200
[23]
One who makes calls on taxable value
assessor
Jason
|
|
$1,200
[20]
The year he left the presidency, he became president (of the American Bar Association)
William Howard Taft
|
$1,200
[10]
Makemake is the chief god of a divine race of bird beings in the Rapa Nui mythology of this island
Easter Island
Rodrigo
|
$1,200
[11]
Samuel L. Jackson played the uncle of this comedian in a sketch from the 1987 concert film "Raw"
Eddie Murphy
Rodrigo
|
$1,200
[9]
Lying at the junction of the Bow & Elbow Rivers, this Alberta city was Canada's first to host the Winter Olympics
Calgary
Laura
|
$2,000
[4]
The Yangtze & the Mekong are 2 of the rivers emerging from the plateau named for this lofty land
Tibet
Laura
|
$1,600
[19]
AKA justice of the peace; I present the gift of the...
magistrate
Laura
|
|
$2,000
[3]
He got contract offers from the Lions & Packers to play in the NFL
(Gerald) Ford
Jason
Rodrigo
|
$1,600
[7]
For his 11th labor Hercules nabs some golden apples from the garden of these nymphs at the western edge of the world
the Hesperides
|
$1,600
[18]
Recorded in part at the San Francisco club the hungry i, his1960 "The Button-Down Mind Strikes Back!" won a Comedy Album Grammy
(Bob) Newhart
Jason
|
$1,600
[16]
In 1953 a fisherman paralleled "The Old Man and the Sea" by bringing in a 1,560-pound black one of these
a marlin
Rodrigo
|
DD
$3,000
[13]
The Saharan al-Hamra Plateau is mostly located in Tripolitania in this country
Libya
Jason
|
$2,000
[14]
Someone who knows what's good & bad is this "of taste"; author Petronius was declared to be one in Nero's court
arbiter
Jason
|
|
DD
$7,000
[8]
7 of the first 10 presidents were born south of the White House; Martin Van Buren & these 2 men were from the north
John Adams & John Quincy Adams
Jason
|
$2,000
[5]
In Norse myth, it's the rainbow bridge between the home of the gods & Earth
Bifröst
Jason
|
$2,000
[6]
Aussie comic Hannah Gadsby undermined traditional stand-up in this show on Netflix with a woman's name as the title
Nanette
|
$2,000
[15]
46,368, 75,025, 121,393 & 196,418 are specific to the work of this 12th & 13th century Italian man
Fibonacci
Jason
|
— | — |
When he didn't win the inaugural 1901 Nobel Prize, 42 of his peers apologized to him, calling him "the most revered patriarch of today's literature"
Leo Tolstoy