Show #8054 2019-09-19 (taped 2019-07-23) Regular

Jason Zuffranieri game 15.

Contestants

Adam Clark — a police officer from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Nilla Sivakumar — a college student from Dublin, California

Jason Zuffranieri — a math teacher from Albuquerque, New Mexico (whose 14-day cash winnings total $399,543)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Jason $5,800 $8,400 $16,800 $18,800
15-day champion: $418,343
$16,800
22 R, 1 W
Nilla $-1,000 $-200 $3,400 $130
3rd place: $1,000
$4,400
9 R, 5 W (including 1 DD)
Adam $4,400 $5,000 $6,667 $6,533
2nd place: $2,000
$15,800
16 R, 2 W (including 2 DDs)

Jeopardy! Round

THE HINTING OF HULL HOUSE FERDINAND THE U.S. WOMEN'S NATIONAL SOCCER TEAM A "DROP" NEWSPAPERS & MAGAZINES IN THE OCEAN
$200 [28]
Founded in 1889 on Halsted St. in this city, Hull House was the most famous settlement house, kind of an immigrant community center
Chicago
Jason
$200 [23]
This explorer was joined on his 4th voyage in 1502 by illegitimate son Ferdinand, who later wrote dad's biography
Columbus
Jason Nilla
$200 [27]
All red, white & blue with a dash of purple (hair), this star did it all at the 2019 World Cup, winning the Golden Boot & Golden Ball
Megan Rapinoe
Jason
$200 [24]
Ricola makes them
cough drops
Jason
$400 [5]
"The Family Circus" is a comic strip; this is the similar name of the magazine founded by Charles Merrill of Merrill Lynch
Family Circle
Adam
$400 [13]
The Kuroshio Current
Pacific
Jason
$400 [26]
Hull House did political work, starting with lobbying for a max 48-hour work week for women in these "shops"
sweat shops
Jason
$600 [17]
Judge Ferdinand Pecora led a 1933 Wall Street investigation & later served on this newly created federal commission
SEC (Securities and Exchange Commission)
Adam
$400 [25]
In 2019 Jessica Chastain tweeted, "Guys, I just met" this same-surnamed hero of the '99 tournament
Brandi Chastain
Jason
$400 [22]
This onstage action has become a metaphor for a stylish ending
mic drop
Nilla
$600 [16]
In 2018 billionaire Patrick Soon-Shiong bought this newspaper & moved its headquarters to El Segundo, California
L.A. Times
Nilla
$600 [10]
The Sunda Double Trench
Indian
Jason
$600 [20]
Immigrants from all over lived in the area; a group from this country put on "Ajax" in the original on the Hull House stage
Greece
Nilla
$800 [8]
Before he became pres., he argued his way out of a murder conviction with an appeal to the Philippine Supreme Court
(Ferdinand) Marcos
Adam
$600 [15]
As we taped in 2019, Jon Hamm had not tweeted, "Guys, I just met" this same-surnamed legend who scored 158 intl. goals for the team
Mia Hamm
Adam
$600 [18]
In 2006 Doug Flutie made one of these for an extra point, the first time that had been done in the NFL since 1941
drop kick
Jason
$800 [12]
Henry Windsor founded this "Popular" magazine in 1902 for laymen interested in emerging technologies
Poplular Mechanics
Adam
$800 [9]
The Bismarck Archipelago
Pacific
Nilla Adam
$800 [19]
Hull House was a center of the Arts & Crafts movement & in 1901 this architect spoke there on "the art & craft of the machine"
(Frank Lloyd) Wright
Jason
DD $1,000 [21]
With a pickaxe blow in 1859 Ferdinand de Lesseps began construction of this
Suez Canal
Nilla
$800 [14]
The 2015 World Cup titlists were the first women's sports team honored with this NYC tradition featuring obsolete paper
ticker tape parade
Jason
$800 [6]
3-verb advice for what to do if your clothing catches fire
stop, drop & roll
Nilla
$1,000 [11]
In 1906 H.L. Mencken joined the staff of this Maryland newspaper that's still around today
The Baltimore Sun
Jason
$1,000 [7]
The Lomonosov Ridge
Arctic
Nilla
$1,000 [1]
Hull House is now a museum named for her, its founder & the first American woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize
(Jane) Addams
Jason
$1,000 [3]
This German count spent his retirement & fortune developing rigid airships
(Ferdinand von) Zeppelin
Jason
$1,000 [2]
Here's this woman enjoying a lovely spot of imaginary tea after scoring the deciding goal in the 2019 World Cup semis vs. England
(Alex) Morgan
Jason
$1,000 [4]
When you read in an old book about a death from this, it means what we now call edema
dropsy
Adam

Double Jeopardy! Round

MOVIES ABOUT GEOGRAPHY ONE-WORD BOOK TITLES TRANSPORTATION 16-LETTER WORDS WE INTERRUPT THIS PROCESS BRITISH NICKNAMES
$400 [22]
The 1857 search by Richard Burton & John Speke for the source of this river plays out in "Mountains of the Moon"
Nile
Adam
$400 [21]
This book by Malcolm Gladwell subtitled "The Power of Thinking Without Thinking" is a real eye-opener
Blink
Jason Nilla
$400 [24]
You don't have to be an athlete to get around in one of these
golf cart
Nilla
$400 [26]
A toast of grog to Sir Francis Drake, who completed this type of round-the-world voyage on Sept. 26, 1580
circumnavigation
Adam
$800 [25]
(Sarah of the Clue Crews presents by a video monitor.) Bacteria will burst apart if the work of constantly renewing their cell walls is interrupted like by this first antibiotic discovered in 1928
penicillin
Jason
$1,200 [3]
A 17th century writer: "The Blind Poet"
Milton
Jason
$800 [10]
After a plane crash in "Alive", a Rugby team stranded in these snow-swept peaks struggles to survive
Andes
Jason
$800 [14]
Born a slave, Sethe escapes to Ohio but is haunted by memories of a lost baby in this Toni Morrison novel
Beloved
Adam
$1,200 [19]
In March 2019, following 2 recent crashes, this company's 737 Max planes were grounded
Boeing
Jason
$800 [15]
Made popular in a 1982 Spielberg film, this word means "originating outside of the Earth"
extraterrestrial
Adam
$1,200 [23]
Boron is used in control rods to interrupt fission in reactors, as it's good at capturing these subatomic particles
neutrons
Jason Nilla
$1,600 [1]
The "Nine Days' Queen"
Lady Jane Grey
Nilla
$1,200 [6]
A treasure map takes Kathleen Turner to Colombia & into the arms of Michael Douglas in this 1984 adventure
Romancing the Stone
Jason
$1,200 [9]
2 psychics have a pyrokinetic child in this Stephen King work
Firestarter
Adam
$1,600 [18]
The theft of this Southern locomotive by Northern spies during the Civil War inspired a classic Buster Keaton film
The General
Nilla
$1,200 [13]
Type of coordinated activity designed to prevent or thwart groups like ISIS that use violence for political aims
counterterrorism
Adam
$2,000 [20]
In your home, GFCI stands for this circuit interrupter; it makes sure the electricity doesn't go through you
ground fault
$2,000 [2]
Lived in the 1400s: "The Father of English Printing"
William Caxton
$1,600 [5]
2017's "Queen of the Desert" is the story of Gertrude Bell, a British writer & explorer on this peninsula in the early 20th century
Arabian Peninsula
Nilla
$2,000 [7]
In this 1984 William Gibson cyberpunk classic, a data thief matches wits with a powerful artificial intelligence
Neuromancer
Adam
$2,000 [17]
As well as a naval lock-up this word is short for the kind of vesselherenow mostly seen at tall ship festivals
brig (brigantine)
Adam
$1,600 [12]
Regarding a new business, it means having insufficient funds for effective operation
undercapitalized
Jason
DD $5,000 [16]
Interruptions at work make you constantly do this, the more technical name for switching between computer windows
toggle
Adam
$2,000 [4]
He played a cartographer in the 1995 film "The Englishman who Went up a Hill but Came down a Mountain"
Hugh Grant
Adam
DD $4,133 [8]
This 1974 James Michener novel covers centuries, not just 1 significant year, in the history of Colorado
Centennial
Adam
$2,000 [11]
This method of cooling your home is pretty simple: open windows on opposite walls
crossventilation

Final Jeopardy!

TOYS & GAMES

Invented in 1974 as a model to teach 3-D problems, it became one of the bestselling toys of all time

Rubik's Cube

Nilla "What is Play-doh???" — wagered $3,270
Adam "What is Lego?" — wagered $134
Jason "What is Rubik's Cube?" — wagered $2,000

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