Show #8053 2019-09-18 (taped 2019-07-23) Regular

Jason Zuffranieri game 14.

Contestants

Jon Chang — a tutor from Brooklyn, New York

Barbara Walton — a retired air traffic controller from Rockledge, Florida

Jason Zuffranieri — a math teacher from Albuquerque, New Mexico (whose 13-day cash winnings total $361,943)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Jason $600 $3,200 $33,800 $37,600
14-day champion: $399,543
$27,400
30 R (including 2 DDs), 3 W (including 1 DD)
Barbara $1,800 $2,600 $8,600 $15,599
2nd place: $2,000
$8,600
13 R, 2 W
Jon $2,800 $5,000 $7,800 $0
3rd place: $1,000
$7,800
12 R, 1 W

Jeopardy! Round

TALKING TO YOUR SPANIEL IN ESPAÑOL SCIENCE BRAND NAMES: SPELL IN THE BLANK RECENT BESTSELLERS DESCRIBING THE CASINO GAME "M" PORTS
$200 [22]
¡Buen perro!
Good dog!
Jason
$200 [28]
The greatest incidence of tornadoes is in this country, where more than 1,000 happen annually
the United States
Barbara
$200 [4]
Play-____ modeling compound
D-O-H
Jon
$200 [12]
It's a whole new world for Annie in Mitch Albom's sequel "The Next People You Meet" here
Heaven
Jason
$200 [17]
It's a wheel that can bring you fortune; bet even or odd; I'm seeing red
roulette
Jason
$200 [30]
This city's port on Biscayne Bay calls itself "Cruise Capital of the World"
Miami
Jason
$400 [29]
¡Siéntate!
Sit!
Jason Jon
$400 [25]
Similar to Jupiter's Great Red Spot, this planet once had a Great Dark Spot storm system that was about the size of Earth
Neptune
Jason
$400 [5]
Making pictures with illuminated pegs:Lite-____
B-R-I-T-E
Jon
$400 [27]
This Jr. of NASCAR probably never figured to be a N.Y. Times bestselling author, but in 2018 he was "racing to the finish"
Dale Earnhardt, Jr.
Jason
$400 [19]
There's no joy in a push; soft numbers, hard choices; a "split" personality
blackjack
Jon
$400 [26]
A peninsula in the Mississippi called Presidents Island is the center of this Tennessee city's port
Memphis
Jason
$600 [24]
¡Bájate del sofá!
Get off the couch!
Barbara
$600 [11]
In physics, it's when 2 waves meet & sometimes neutralize each other; in broadcasting, it's disturbance by outside signals
interference
Jon
$600 [6]
"Silly rabbit! ____ are for kids"
T-R-I-X
Jon
$600 [23]
As if he weren't busy enough, this Broadway musical creator provided some self-help in "Gmorning, Gnight!"
(Lin-Manuel) Miranda
Jason
$600 [20]
The stickman cometh; easy "come", easy go; get the point? Good for you!
craps
Jason
$600 [18]
It's home to the Alabama State Docks
Mobile
Jon
$800 [21]
¡Hazte el muerto!
Play dead!
Jon
$800 [10]
To make binoculars compact, they may contain these pieces of glass with precise angles & faces to "fold" the light path
a prism
Barbara
$800 [7]
____-It crackers come in flavors like Cheddar Jack, White Cheddar & Hot & Spicy
C-H-E-E-Z
Jason
$800 [14]
Readers liked this Oscar-winning actress...you liked this Oscar-winning actress! & also her memoir "In Pieces"
(Sally) Field
Jason
$800 [13]
Dressed & playing to the 9s; banker's hours; what brings you to Monaco, Mr. Bond?
baccarat
Jason
$800 [16]
In June 2018 the Ovation of the Seas, the largest cruise ship ever to dock in the Philippines, arrived in this port's South Harbor
Manila
Jon
$1,000 [9]
¡Trae el palo!
Fetch the stick!
Jason
DD $1,000 [8]
During a total solar eclipse, you can glimpse this "colorful" layer of the Sun just above the photosphere
the chromosphere
Jason
$1,000 [3]
Double ____ Oreo Cookies are twice as creme-y as the regular kind
S-T-U-F
Barbara Jon
$1,000 [2]
In "Grateful American"hetells how playing a movie lieutenant led to a mission of supporting troops & veterans
Gary Sinise
Barbara
$1,000 [1]
The joker is semi-wild & dressed as an ace; one hand becomes 2; the Asian name of the game
pai gow poker
Barbara
$1,000 [15]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a map of the Mediterranean on the monitor.) Carthaginians, Romans, Goths, Byzantines & Arabs have all occupied this ancient Sicilian port city that gives its name to an important Mediterranean strait
Messina

Double Jeopardy! Round

REAL-LIFE METAPHORS CAREER HIGHLIGHTS CLASSIC METAL BANDS ITTY BITTY CITY PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS EX-SPORTS
$400 [27]
In "Casablanca", Bogie says "the problems of three little people don't amount to"this
a hill of beans
Jason
$400 [26]
U.S. congressman & senator from Calif., vice president, president; played by Anthony Hopkins in a biopic
Richard Nixon
Barbara
$400 [5]
Megadeth founder Dave Mustaine partied so hard he got kicked out of this band whose very name says "metal"
Metallica
Jason
$400 [28]
The California studio tour where you can see King Kong & Jaws is in this "city" named for the movie studio
Universal City
Barbara
$400 [29]
As Act 1 of this Neil Simon play begins, we're told, "it is a warm summer night in Oscar Madison's apartment"
The Odd Couple
Barbara
$400 [30]
The UFC of the ancient world, pankration debuted at the XXXIIIrd of these in 648 B.C.
the Olympics
Jon
$800 [22]
A 1979 book by conservative thinker Jack Kemp popularized this term for programs like welfare
safety net
Jason
$800 [25]
U.S. congressman & senator from Massachusetts, president; played by Cliff Robertson in a biopic
John F. Kennedy
Barbara
$800 [23]
"And I want! And I need! And I lust!" are primal lyrics from this band's "Animal"
Def Leppard
Jason
$800 [21]
On Valentine's Day 2019, this company said it was breaking up with Long Island City as future home for its second headquarters
Amazon
Barbara
$800 [8]
Alfred Uhry based the character of Hoke in this play on the black chauffeur of his childhood
Driving Miss Daisy
Jason
$800 [24]
A manuscript from 16th century Mexicodepictsone of this culture's ritualistic ball games
the Aztec
Jon
$1,200 [14]
It's the brush-off you'd get from the person here
a cold shoulder
Jason
$1,200 [19]
U.S. congressman & senator from Virginia, vice president; president, 1841-45; never been played in a biopic
Tyler
Jason
$1,600 [4]
In 2010 this band's frontman Vince Neil took to the ice for ABC's "Skating with the Stars"
Mötley Crüe
Jon
$1,200 [20]
Arlington County, Virginia is home to a neighborhood called this "City", after a nearby Department of Defense building
Pentagon
Jason
$1,200 [7]
Tom Stoppard first came to Broadway with this play featuring 2 minor characters from "Hamlet"
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
Jason
$1,200 [11]
Ancient Romans rooted for the red, white, blue & green teams that raced these around the Circus Maximus
chariots
Jason
$1,600 [13]
It's the kind of political work done at the local & individual level, not through mass marketing
grassroots
Barbara
$1,600 [18]
Financier; White House director of communications, July 21-31, 2017;"Celebrity Big Brother" contestant
Anthony Scaramucci ("The Mooch" accepted)
Jason
$2,000 [3]
In the '90s singer Rob Halford told this Brit band, "You've got another thing comin'" (I'm leaving the group)
Judas Priest
Jason
$1,600 [17]
Black Rock City is created & torn down every year as part of this Nevada arts festival
Burning Man
Jason
$1,600 [1]
Parisians knew Georges Feydeau as a master of this 5-letter type of comedic play like "Keep an Eye on Amélie!"
farce
Barbara
$1,600 [10]
Playing this rough sport in 1559, France's Henry II was mortally wounded by a splintered lance
jousting
Jason
$2,000 [12]
Really, really oldexpressionmeaning that an irreversible step has been taken
the die is cast
Jason Barbara
DD $3,000 [15]
Governor, secretary of energy;"Dancing with the Stars" contestant
(Rick) Perry
Jason
DD $7,600 [6]
"We're Not Gonna Take It" by this Dee Snider band has some musical roots in "O Come, All Ye Faithful"
Twisted Sister
Jason
$2,000 [16]
Nevada City, Montana is one big historical museum; visit the area & you can learn this water-based skill & maybe get rich
panning for gold
Barbara
$2,000 [2]
In 1981 Elizabeth Taylor made her Broadway debut in a revival of this playwright's "The Little Foxes"
(Lillian) Hellman
Jason
$2,000 [9]
Inhisautobiography he described a game played with moccasins & bones called "kah", or "foot"
Geronimo

Final Jeopardy!

THE 1940s

This nickname for a history-changing weapon of 1945 came from a character in "The Maltese Falcon"

Fat Man

Jon "What is Little Boy?" — wagered $7,800
Barbara "What is Fat Man?" — wagered $6,999
Jason "What is Fat Man?" — wagered $3,800

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