Show #8052 2019-09-17 (taped 2019-07-23) Regular

Jason Zuffranieri game 13.

Contestants

Colin Kennedy — a museum educator from Washington, D.C.

Helen Lyons — a classical radio host and opera singer from Ferrisburgh, Vermont

Jason Zuffranieri — a math teacher from Albuquerque, New Mexico (whose 12-day cash winnings total $356,643)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Jason $8,200 $11,800 $23,000 $5,300
13-day champion: $361,943
$23,000
29 R (including 1 DD), 1 W
Helen $1,800 $3,400 $5,400 $0
3rd place: $1,000
$5,400
9 R, 1 W
Colin $2,400 $2,600 $20,300 $101
2nd place: $2,000
$15,000
15 R (including 2 DDs), 1 W

Jeopardy! Round

VERBS HELPING THE ENVIRONMENT LET'S HAVE A BALL BURGERS CAL. "A" HALLEY'S COMET IN HISTORY
$200 [23]
To identify the nature of a person's illness
diagnose
Jason
$200 [21]
In 2019 Germany announced it would phase out power plants that use this fossil fuel
coal
Colin
$200 [27]
3 inches in diameter, 108 double stitches
a baseball
Jason
$200 [29]
Hamburger U.'s main campus is a sprawling Illinois facility that trains this company's employees
McDonald's
Jason
$200 [28]
The name of this city near Los Angeles is from the German for "home" on the Santa "Ana" River
Anaheim
Helen
$400 [3]
It's been speculated that Halley's Comet in 12 B.C. was this star from Matthew 2:2
the Star of Bethlehem (the star that the Magi followed accepted)
Jason
$400 [22]
It can mean to work jointly on a scientific activity; or in wartime, to cooperate traitorously with an enemy
collaborate
Helen
$400 [20]
Airborne wind energy systems use drones or these tethered playthings like the diamond or sled kind
a kite
Helen
$400 [24]
Long axis 11 to 11 1/4 inches, inflated to (important!) at least 12.5 pounds per square inch
a football
Jason
$400 [25]
The first hamburger chain in the U.S. was this one that sounds like it could've benefitted from a moat
White Castle
Jason
$400 [26]
AKA "The Rock", this island is a prime stop on your San Francisco tour schedule
Alcatraz
Jason
$600 [17]
When the comet showed up in 451, it added to the "Scourge of God" reputation for this invader of Europe
Attila the Hun
Jason
$600 [18]
It can mean to present the way something works, or to publicly protest
demonstrate
Jason
$600 [19]
Proceeds from this Ben & Jerry's flavor inspired by a Vermont band benefit environmental causes
Phish Food
Helen
$600 [13]
Wilson makes the official AVP one
a volleyball
Jason
$600 [16]
Not seen on In-N-Out's drive-thru menu is the "Protein Style" burger, which uses this instead of a bun
lettuce
Jason
$600 [8]
This street intersects with Haight Street to create the name of a San Francisco neighborhood
Ashbury
Colin
$800 [10]
A probe designed to study Halley's Comet was one of the many casualties of this 1986 space program disaster
the Challenger disaster
Jason
$800 [15]
Samuel Taylor Coleridge defended this then-new verb, saying that to "render intense" just didn't work
intensify
Jason
$800 [14]
Worried about pollution, in 2019 residents of Toledo, Ohio voted to give personhood status to this lake
Erie
Colin
$800 [12]
The yellow ones were introduced for TV in 1972
tennis balls
Jason
$800 [11]
Hamburger is sometimes turned into this kind of "steak", as in the name of a British city
Salisbury
Jason
$800 [7]
This Spanish word refers to a deep gully & precedes "Grande" in the name of a cute village on the Central Coast
Arroyo
Helen
DD $1,000 [4]
This author can't have been surprised to die April 21, 1910, the day after Halley's Comet reached perihelion
(Mark) Twain
Jason
$1,000 [2]
This 4-letter verb means "to beget"; use it as a noun when addressing a king
sire
Colin
$1,000 [6]
Preserving outdoor America is the goal of the league named for this author of "The Compleat Angler"
(Izaak) Walton
Jason
$1,000 [1]
Babe Ruth worked out--yes he did!--with one of these
a medicine ball
Helen
$1,000 [9]
The Fleur Burger 5000 is a $5,000 burger with black truffles & foie gras, made from wagyu, a type of beef originally from this country
Japan
Jason
$1,000 [5]
It's paired with Oakland in the name of a coliseum in the Bay Area
Alameda
Jason

Double Jeopardy! Round

ACTOR-DIRECTORS NEVER TO RETURN CENTER FOR THE INTREPID AWARDS & HONORS FROM C TO D SHAKESPEARE'S EXIT LINES
$400 [25]
His career as an actor-director has been largely a "rocky" one but also includes "The Expendables"
(Sylvester) Stallone
Colin
$400 [26]
This 3-named naval hero sailed from America in 1787 & died bitter in Europe in 1792
John Paul Jones
Colin
$800 [21]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew delivers the clue.) At the center'sdedicationin 2007, this veteran & senator said, "The [Iraq] War", in which many of thesoldiers & attendants were injured, had "divided" the nation, but not in its "admiration for you"
(John) McCain
Jason
$800 [20]
Cardi B won Best New Artist at these MTV awards in 2018
the VMAs (Video Music Awards)
Jason
$800 [19]
koa.com helps you find this type of place to put up your tent
campground
Colin
$800 [24]
"My kingdom for a horse!"
Richard III
Jason
$800 [18]
Clint Eastwood transports cartel drugs in this 2018 film he also directed
The Mule
Jason
$800 [22]
In 1194 Richard I left England to fight for disputed land in this country, where he caught an arrow 5 years later
France
Helen
$1,200 [17]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from the Center for the Intrepid in San Antonio, Texas.) An advanced alternative to mechanically controlled prosthetic arms are ones that pick up signals of this type of activity in muscle contractions & in nerves & convert them intomovementsof the artificial limb
electrical impulses
Colin
$1,200 [1]
The MacArthur Fellows Program gives out what are nicknamed these Grants, though IQs are not measured
Genius
Jason
$1,200 [12]
In a 1982 no. 1 hit The J. Geils Band sang, "My blood runs cold, my memory has just been sold, my angel is" this
centerfold
Jason
$1,200 [23]
"O true apothecary! Thy drugs are quick. Thus with a kiss I die"
Romeo
Jason Helen
$1,200 [13]
He directed "Tropic Thunder"; Steve Coogan directed the film within that film
(Ben) Stiller
Jason
$1,600 [9]
Pablo Picasso, who died in 1973, last set foot in Spain in this decade, not long before the Fascist takeover
the '30s
Colin
$1,600 [16]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from the Center for the Intrepid in San Antonio, Texas.) People "say, ... 'He lost a leg.' ... I object... you gave a leg" was said by General Peter Pace of these patients at the Center, an alliterative phrase for injured soldiers that became common during the USA's 21st century conflicts
wounded warriors
Jason
$1,600 [4]
It's the French military award seen here
the Croix de Guerre
Colin
$1,600 [8]
Motion picture film substance
celluloid
Colin
$1,600 [10]
"Then fall", me
Caesar
$1,600 [7]
As Variety would say, he toplined & helmed 2014's "A Million Ways to Die in the West"
Seth MacFarlane
Colin
$2,000 [6]
In December 1949 this man who had led China for 20 years left the mainland forever
Chiang Kai-shek
Jason
$2,000 [15]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from the Center for the Intrepid.) The rehabilitation system CAREN gives therapists vast amounts of data because the readjusting patient is reacting to challenges in this type of environment, a term in virtual reality & gaming meaning it completely involves the senses
immersive
Colin
$2,000 [3]
Sylvia Plath was awarded one of these scholarships whose name contains a synonym for "smart"
a Fulbright Scholarship
Helen
DD $2,500 [5]
Goods imported or exported illegally
contraband
Colin
$2,000 [14]
"I kiss'd thee ere I kill'd thee: no way but this; killing myself, to die upon a kiss"
Othello
Helen Colin
$2,000 [2]
"You should lay off those candy bars", Marlene Dietrich tells this great film auteur in "Touch of Evil"
(Orson) Welles
Jason
DD $6,000 [11]
Local boy made good Napoleon paid a sentimental visit to this island in 1799 & never saw it again
Corsica
Colin

Final Jeopardy!

NATIONAL ANTHEMS

With lyrics by Sir Adolphe-Basile Routhier, it debuted on June 24, 1880, at a celebration of St. Jean Baptiste Day

"O Canada"

Helen "What is the Marseillaise?" — wagered $5,400
Colin "What is La Marseillaise?" — wagered $20,199
Jason "What is La Marseillaise?" — wagered $17,700

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