Responses for Show #8053 - Wednesday, September 18, 2019

Jason Zuffranieri game 14.

Contestants

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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)

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Jeopardy! Round responses

TALKING TO YOUR SPANIEL IN ESPAÑOL
SCIENCE
BRAND NAMES: SPELL IN THE BLANK
RECENT BESTSELLERS
DESCRIBING THE CASINO GAME
"M" PORTS
    $200 22
Good dog!

Jason
    $200 28
the United States

Barbara
    $200 4
D-O-H

Jon
    $200 12
Heaven

Jason
    $200 17
roulette

Jason
    $200 30
Miami

Jason
    $400 29
(Jason What is "Be quiet!"?)
(Jon: What is "Stay!"?)

Sit!

JasonJon
Triple Stumper
    $400 25
(Alex: That's the planet. Less than a minute.)

Neptune

Jason
    $400 5
B-R-I-T-E

Jon
    $400 27
Dale Earnhardt, Jr.

Jason
    $400 19
blackjack

Jon
    $400 26
Memphis

Jason
    $600 24
Get off the couch!

Barbara
    $600 11
interference

Jon
    $600 6
T-R-I-X

Jon
    $600 23
(Lin-Manuel) Miranda

Jason
    $600 20
craps

Jason
    $600 18
Mobile

Jon
    $800 21
Play dead!

Jon
    $800 10
a prism

Barbara
    $800 7
C-H-E-E-Z

Jason
    $800 14
(Sally) Field

Jason
    $800 13
baccarat

Jason
    $800 16
Manila

Jon
    $1000 9
(Jason: Oh, gosh. Umm, what is "Get the ball!"?)

Fetch the stick!

Jason
Triple Stumper
    $1,000 8
(Jason: What is the corona?)
...
(Alex: So you're at -$200. Have you ever been in the red before?)
(Jason: I don't think so.)
(Alex: No! Well, get out of it quickly. Make a selection.)

the chromosphere

Jason
    $1000 3
(Barbara: What is S-T-U-F-F?)

S-T-U-F

BarbaraJon
    $1000 2
Gary Sinise

Barbara
    $1000 1
pai gow poker

Barbara
    $1000 15
Messina

Triple Stumper

Scores at the first commercial break (after clue 15):

Jason Barbara Jon
$600 $1,800 $2,800

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Jason Barbara Jon
$3,200 $2,600 $5,000

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

REAL-LIFE METAPHORS
CAREER HIGHLIGHTS
CLASSIC METAL BANDS
ITTY BITTY CITY
PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS
EX-SPORTS
    $400 27
a hill of beans

Jason
    $400 26
Richard Nixon

Barbara
    $400 5
Metallica

Jason
    $400 28
Universal City

Barbara
    $400 29
The Odd Couple

Barbara
    $400 30
the Olympics

Jon
    $800 22
safety net

Jason
    $800 25
John F. Kennedy

Barbara
    $800 23
Def Leppard

Jason
    $800 21
Amazon

Barbara
    $800 8
Driving Miss Daisy

Jason
    $800 24
the Aztec

Jon
    $1200 14
a cold shoulder

Jason
    $1200 19
Tyler

Jason
    $7,600 6
(Jason: I'm gonna wager it all.)
(Alex: You're gonna wager it all--all $7,600. You feel comfortable with metal bands.)
(Jason: Maybe.)

Twisted Sister

Jason
    $1200 20
(Jason: What is [*] City?)

Pentagon

Jason
    $1200 7
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

Jason
    $1200 11
chariots

Jason
    $1600 13
grassroots

Barbara
    $1600 18
Anthony Scaramucci ("The Mooch" accepted)

Jason
    $1600 4
Mötley Crüe

Jon
    $1600 17
Burning Man

Jason
    $1600 1
farce

Barbara
    $1600 10
jousting

Jason
    $2000 12
(Barbara: What is "the dice have been thrown"?)
...
(Alex: There's a single die there, not two.)

the die is cast

JasonBarbara
    $3,000 15
[Jason chuckles halfway through the clue.]

(Rick) Perry

Jason
    $2000 3
Judas Priest

Jason
    $2000 16
panning for gold

Barbara
    $2000 2
(Lillian) Hellman

Jason
    $2000 9
(Alex: And that Apache Indian is [*].)

Geronimo

Triple Stumper

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Jason Barbara Jon
$33,800 $8,600 $7,800
(lock game)

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

THE 1940s
(Alex: [Revealing Jon's response] Oh, you picked the wrong one of the two.)
[Jon snaps his finger.]
(Alex: You went for Little Boy. Uh, also inspired by Dashiell Hammett.)
...
(Alex: [Revealing Barbara's response] Yes, we're talking about the atom bombs dropped in 1945.)
JonWhat is Little Boy?
$7,800
BarbaraWhat is Fat Man?
$6,999
JasonWhat is Fat Man?
$3,800
Fat Man

Final scores:

Jason Barbara Jon
$37,600 $15,599 $0
14-day champion: $399,543 2nd place: $2,000 3rd place: $1,000

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Jason Barbara Jon
$27,400 $8,600 $7,800
30 R
(including 2 DDs),
3 W
(including 1 DD)		 13 R,
2 W		 12 R,
1 W

Combined Coryat: $43,800

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Game tape date: 2019-07-23
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