Show #8051 - Monday, September 16, 2019

Jason Zuffranieri game 12.

Contestants

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Rodrigo Morante-Tirado, a financial analyst from Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Laura Majors, a retired marketing director from Denver, Colorado

Jason Zuffranieri, a math teacher from Albuquerque, New Mexico (whose 11-day cash winnings total $332,243)

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Jeopardy! Round

FAMILY TELEVISION
ACRONYMS & ABBREVS.
POPULAR INVENTION
ART & ARTISTS
GIMME "5"
200 YEARS OF WALT WHITMAN
    $200 24
Judy & Elroy were (or is that will be) the kids on this visionary show
    $200 26
This popular name for Rembrandt's 1642 portrait of a militia group is a result of its old darkened varnish, now cleaned off
    $200 27
At a poker table it precedes "draw" or "stud"
    $400 23
Blackmail, betrayal & bravado were always on tap for this scheming oil family on "Dallas"
    $400 25
HGH stands for this hormone secreted by the pituitary
    $400 22
This treat was first introduced to a wide audience as Fairy Floss at the 1904 World's Fair
    $400 13
The pensive pose of the figure in a Rodin sculpture originally called "The Poet" earned it this name
    $400 21
L.A. Dodgers Dusty Baker & Glenn Burke have been credited with inventing this gesture after a 1977 home run
    $400 20
Whitman's 1865 poems "O Captain! My Captain!" & "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd" are elegies for this hero of his
    $600 16
On "The Simpsons" she's Bart & Lisa's pacifier-equipped baby sister
    $600 17
In business, the CFO is this job title
    $600 18
Around 1870 Thomas Adams was experimenting with Central Amer. tree resin to replace rubber, but instead developed this
    $600 2
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a painting on the monitor.) For "The Judgment of Paris", a collaboration with the engraver Raimondi, Raphael depicted one reclining figure by reversing the posture of this title character in a famous work by Michelangelo
    $600 15
shavetalks.com has tips on avoiding this
    $600 19
In an 1856 essay, Walt wrote, "You young men!...You are either to abolish" this, "or it will abolish you"
    $800 9
Salinger was the last name of the siblings living without parents on this 1990s TV show
    $800 7
In the 1990s we had PDAs, "personal" these, used for organizing
    $800 12
Popularized by boxer Jack Broughton in the 18th century, the early version of these were used only in training bouts
    DD: $2,600 6
Pastel colors & asymmetry are features of this style of Antoine Watteau, a reaction against Baroque art
    $800 14
Omar Bradley or Dwight Eisenhower, for example
    $800 11
"Every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you", wrote Walt in this groundbreaking long poem
    $1000 8
This "Happy Days" family included Richie, Joanie & Chuck, who was last seen at Christmas but didn't make it to New Year's
    $1000 1
JSYK is texting shorthand for this 4-word phrase
    $1000 3
During WWII a fabric mesh was sandwiched between polyethylene & adhesive layers to make this sticky roll
    $1000 4
Here's "Symphony in White, No. 2" by this American who often gave musical titles to his paintings
    $1000 5
Shoplifting is also known as this anatomical "discount"
    $1000 10
After Walt published his first book of verse, this "Sage of Concord" wrote to him, "I greet you at the beginning of a great career"

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

Jason Laura Rodrigo
$8,200 $1,400 -$600

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Jason Laura Rodrigo
$10,000 $4,000 -$1,000

Double Jeopardy! Round

WHICH PRESIDENT?
THIS CATEGORY HAS PLATEAUED
MYTHS & LEGENDS
COMEDY: YOU DIDN'T HAVE TO BE THERE
POTPOURRI
HERE COMES THE JUDGE WORD
    $400 28
Promised "the final triumph over poverty" in accepting the 1928 nomination
    $400 2
Thought by some to be in Cornwall, it's the legendary site of King Arthur's palace & court
    $400 1
He's seen here around the time his HBO special "Bring the Pain" brought him a new level of fame
    $400 26
In the first issue of his own comic, the Caped Crusader goes up against this "Clown Prince of Crime"
    $800 21
He was left an invalid by a paralytic stroke suffered while in office
    $800 25
The Cumberland Plateau is located in the southern section of this mountain range
    $800 22
This voyeur who is struck blind has been connected with the legend of Lady Godiva
    $800 12
You didn't have to catch Rodney Dangerfield live--he was recorded in 1980 for an album with, of course, this 2-word title
    $800 17
Luke 11:4 says, "lead us not into" this, "but deliver us from evil"
    $800 27
The person who presides over a debate, or over an ecclesiastical body in the Presbyterian Church
    $1200 20
The year he left the presidency, he became president (of the American Bar Association)
    $1200 24
The Udi-Nsukka Plateau of this country is home to the Igbo people
    $1200 10
Makemake is the chief god of a divine race of bird beings in the Rapa Nui mythology of this island
    $1200 11
Samuel L. Jackson played the uncle of this comedian in a sketch from the 1987 concert film "Raw"
    $1200 9
Lying at the junction of the Bow & Elbow Rivers, this Alberta city was Canada's first to host the Winter Olympics
    $1200 23
One who makes calls on taxable value
    DD: $7,000 8
7 of the first 10 presidents were born south of the White House; Martin Van Buren & these 2 men were from the north
    DD: $3,000 13
The Saharan al-Hamra Plateau is mostly located in Tripolitania in this country
    $1600 7
For his 11th labor Hercules nabs some golden apples from the garden of these nymphs at the western edge of the world
    $1600 18
Recorded in part at the San Francisco club the hungry i, his 1960 "The Button-Down Mind Strikes Back!" won a Comedy Album Grammy
    $1600 16
In 1953 a fisherman paralleled "The Old Man and the Sea" by bringing in a 1,560-pound black one of these
    $1600 19
AKA justice of the peace; I present the gift of the...
    $2000 3
He got contract offers from the Lions & Packers to play in the NFL
    $2000 4
The Yangtze & the Mekong are 2 of the rivers emerging from the plateau named for this lofty land
    $2000 5
In Norse myth, it's the rainbow bridge between the home of the gods & Earth
    $2000 6
Aussie comic Hannah Gadsby undermined traditional stand-up in this show on Netflix with a woman's name as the title
    $2000 15
46,368, 75,025, 121,393 & 196,418 are specific to the work of this 12th & 13th century Italian man
    $2000 14
Someone who knows what's good & bad is this "of taste"; author Petronius was declared to be one in Nero's court

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Jason Laura Rodrigo
$34,400 $8,800 $200
(lock game)

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round

EUROPEAN AUTHORS
When he didn't win the inaugural 1901 Nobel Prize, 42 of his peers apologized to him, calling him "the most revered patriarch of today's literature"

Final scores:

Jason Laura Rodrigo
$24,400 $16,800 $1
12-day champion: $356,643 2nd place: $2,000 3rd place: $1,000

Game dynamics:

Game dynamics graph

Coryat scores:

Jason Laura Rodrigo
$25,800 $8,800 $200
27 R
(including 3 DDs),
1 W		 18 R,
4 W		 4 R,
5 W

Combined Coryat: $34,800

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Game tape date: 2019-07-23
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