Show #8058 2019-09-25 (taped 2019-08-06) Regular

Jason Zuffranieri game 19.

Contestants

Gairen Wallace — a technology consultant from Goffstown, New Hampshire

Ted Berg — a sportswriter from New York, New York

Jason Zuffranieri — a math teacher from Albuquerque, New Mexico (whose 18-day cash winnings total $502,096)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Jason $6,000 $7,800 $30,400 $30,400
19-day champion: $532,496
$25,000
26 R (including 2 DDs), 0 W
Ted $1,400 $8,000 $13,200 $2,799
2nd place: $2,000
$10,600
15 R (including 1 DD), 0 W
Gairen $3,400 $3,800 $11,800 $1
3rd place: $1,000
$11,800
15 R, 2 W

Jeopardy! Round

NEW DINER SLANG FOR SANDWICHES GETTING TO THE AIRPORT STADIUM STUFF THE FRENCH & INDIAN WAR YOU DID IT! "MAN" UP
$200 [18]
Gimme a meatball "U-boat", extra provolone
a sub
Jason
$200 [28]
Green Ride Boulder will shuttle you to this international airport
Denver
Gairen
$200 [26]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew stands outside the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, CA.) For the 1932 Olympics, the Rose Bowl hosted the cycling events; it's expected to be a soccer venue at the Los Angeles games in this year
2028
Jason Gairen
$200 [29]
The 1754-63 French & Indian War was the North American phase of this global conflict that was 2 years shorter
Seven Years' War
Ted
$200 [30]
In 2010 she launched Let's Move!, a campaign to fight childhood obesity
Michelle Obama
Gairen
$200 [27]
This gentle giant is Florida's state marine mammal
a manatee
Gairen
$400 [17]
Table 5 wants a "rotary" or a "glee", hold the Bacon
a club
Ted
$400 [23]
In San Francisco's International Terminal there's a station for this train service with a male first name
the BART
Ted
$400 [15]
This Windy City mainstay was named for World War I veterans
Soldier Field
Jason
$400 [12]
Fort Ligonier was built in SW Pennsylvania to enable the Brits to capture France's Fort Duquesne, now this city
Pittsburgh
Ted
$400 [24]
Sergey Brin & Larry Page officially founded it on September 4, 1998; look it up!
Google
Ted
$600 [22]
It's the unlawful killing of another person without malice
manslaughter
Ted
$600 [14]
A "Dumas count" & a root beer, & hurry it up
Monte Cristo
Jason
$600 [3]
You can take the T to Logan from State Street Station in this city
Boston
Jason
$600 [11]
Valhalla IP is a soccer stadium fit for the gods in Gothenburg in this country
Sweden
Gairen
$600 [20]
The British deported French-speaking settlers from Acadia in Nova Scotia; many went south, where their descendants became these people
the Cajuns
Ted
$600 [21]
In 2019, in an incredible comeback, he won his fifth Masters title & his first major since 2008
(Tiger) Woods
Jason
$800 [4]
Almost all of the world's production of this metallic element is used in the iron & steel industry
manganese
Jason
$800 [13]
"Brother of Joseph" in the Bible
a Reuben
$800 [10]
From The Strip, take Tropicana Avenue to Paradise Road to 5757 Wayne Newton Boulevard, this facility
McCarran Airport
Jason
$800 [8]
Clemson's & LSU's stadiums both use this nickname, also a very dry region in California
Death Valley
Gairen
$800 [19]
Algonquian-speaking peoples took France's side; this 6-nation confederacy was allied with the British
Iroquois
Jason
$800 [6]
A professor & New York Times columnist, Paul Krugman won a Nobel Prize in this category in 2008
Economics
Jason
$1,000 [1]
It's the style ofroofon the house seen here
mansard
Ted
$1,000 [2]
"Mayflower colonist", lean turkey, easy cranberry
Pilgrim
Gairen
$1,000 [9]
It's 28 miles south of London between Povey Cross & Lowfield Heath, & it's not Heathrow
Gatwick
Gairen
$1,000 [7]
This stade, or stadium, hosts tennis' French Open
Roland-Garros
Jason
$1,000 [16]
This European power came in on the losing side late in the war & lost Florida as a result
Spain
Ted
$1,000 [5]
This renowned architect designed the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain & the Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles
(Frank) Gehry
Jason
DD $3,000 [25]
It's the last word of a historic utterance made July 20, 1969
mankind
Ted

Double Jeopardy! Round

SWEAR IN THE BIBLE SIGNS & SYMBOLS BOOKS ABOUT CHINA WORLD CAPITAL BIRTHPLACES WORDS FROM NATIVE AMERICAN LANGUAGES NON-GENEVA CONVENTIONS
$400 [30]
This man tells Esau that he must "swear to me this day" to sell his birthright
Jacob
Jason
$400 [29]
Seen here is this chess piece as represented in the Unicode system for electronic communication
the bishop
Ted
$400 [28]
Published soon after he came to power, Robert Payne's 1950 study of this leader is subtitled "Ruler of Red China"
Mao
Jason
$400 [23]
Yoko Ono
Tokyo
Gairen
$400 [26]
The name of this pungent striped mammal comes from the Massachusett language
skunk
Ted
$400 [27]
Since 1995 the Schengen Convention has allowed free movement among 26 member countries on this continent
Europe
Gairen
$800 [15]
In Isaiah 45:23 the Lord says, "unto me every knee shall bow, every" this body part "shall swear"
tongue
Jason Gairen
$800 [13]
In the 1960s & '70s, signs with 3 triangles indicated that a building had one of these nuclear war sanctuaries
fallout shelter
Gairen
$800 [22]
Not "Hidden Dragon" but this is the title of a study by Peter Navarro of China's growing militarism
Crouching Tiger
Jason
$800 [4]
Giada De Laurentiis
Rome
Jason
$800 [25]
This word for a fierce tropical storm comes from the Taino name for a turbulent god
hurricane
Ted
$800 [24]
The Berne Convention protects these for the life of the author plus 50 years
copyrights
Jason
$1,200 [9]
Denying Jesus for the third time, he "began to curse and to swear, saying, I know not this man of whom ye speak"
Peter
Gairen
$1,200 [7]
In white, the flower known as the calla this is a symbol of purity
lily
Gairen
$1,200 [21]
"Empress Dowager Cixi" is a bio of a 19th c. mother of emperors who began as a low-ranking one of these mistresses
concubine
Jason
$1,200 [3]
Placido Domingo
Madrid
Gairen
$1,200 [12]
The high-flying condor gets its name from the word for that bird in this Inca language
Quechua
Jason
$1,200 [16]
Banning trade in many plants & animals, CITES is the Convention on International Trade in these
Endangered Species
$1,600 [8]
Hebrews 6 says that when God made a promise to this patriarch, "because he could swear by no greater, he sware by himself"
Abraham
Gairen
$1,600 [6]
A symbol of the Mormon faith is the angel Moroni with one of these in his mouth
horn (trumpet)
$1,600 [20]
In "The Great Walk of China", Graham Earnshaw describes a journey on foot from this massive seaport to Tibet
Shanghai
Jason
$1,600 [1]
Arianna Huffington
Athens
Jason
$1,600 [14]
Zucchini & pumpkins are both types of this vegetable, a gourd family from a Narragansett name
squash
Ted
$2,000 [17]
This pro-central-government party conducted the secret antiwar Hartford Convention of 1814-15
Federalist Party
$2,000 [10]
The book of Jeremiah asks, "Will ye steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and burn incense unto" this Canaanite god?
Baal
Jason
$2,000 [5]
With one serpent, the rod of Asclepius can be confused with the Caduceus, a twin-serpent symbol of peace belonging to this messenger
Hermes
Ted
DD $5,000 [11]
Nixon's famed trip is covered in "On China", a look at Sino-U.S. relations by this former Secretary of State
Kissinger
Jason
$2,000 [2]
Natalie Portman
Jerusalem
Gairen
$2,000 [19]
From Salish, it can be a type of salmon of the Pacific Northwest, or a warm, dry wind
Chinook
Jason
DD $4,000 [18]
The 1786 Annapolis Convention on Interstate Commerce pointed up the weakness of these, leading to another convention next year
the Articles of Confederation
Jason

Final Jeopardy!

NATURAL GEOGRAPHIC FEATURES

Timely for 2018, in 1866 Mark Twain wrote of this landmark's "sputtering jets of fire" & "heat from Pele's furnaces"

Mount Kīlauea

Gairen "What is Old Faithful?" — wagered $11,799
Ted "What is Mt. Vesuvius" — wagered $10,401
Jason "What is Old Faithful?" — wagered $0

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