Jeopardy! Masters game #8 - Friday, May 12, 2023

2023 Jeopardy! Masters quarterfinal game 8.

Contestants

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Matt Amodio, a postdoctoral researcher from Cambridge, Massachusetts

Mattea Roach, a writer and podcaster from Toronto, Ontario, Canada

James Holzhauer, a self-described game show villain from Las Vegas, Nevada

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Jeopardy! Round

AUTHORS' PRETTY DECENT REVIEWS
W-2
(Ken: There are two "W"s in each response.)
PHYSICS CHECKUP
WORLD COINS
CLASSIC MOVIES
GROWING UP X
(Ken: These are clues relating to an exhibit about Gen X at the Illinois State Museum.)
    200 26
The Seattle Times declared 1996's "The Runaway Jury" by this man to be his "most addictive courtroom thriller"
    200 9
To literally or figuratively cover over the flaws, perhaps not in a good way
    200 19
It was the first of the fundamental forces to be systematically described
    200 28
In 2022 Samoa honored "Sesame Street" with a $5 coin featuring this Muppet popping out of his trash can
    200 29
"No man is a failure who has friends" is just one of the lessons George Bailey learns in this Christmas classic
    200 30
Of course there's a video case dating back to 1993 from this rental chain; let's make it a this night!
    400 25
"A milestone in the chronicling of the black experience", wrote Publishers Weekly about this author's "Beloved"
    400 8
A highlight of New Zealand's Waitomo caves is a boat ride to a grotto lit by these creatures
    400 18
The brightest explosions ever observed, GRBs are mysterious "burst"s of these
    400 27
In 2023, to celebrate the current lunar new year, the Solomon Islands issued 3 coins featuring this animal
    400 15
Residents of a small town are replaced by soulless alien duplicates in this 1956 sci-fi classic
    400 23
Boasting 64 kb worth of pure computing power, this company's 64 personal computer went for $595 in '80s money
    600 24
The Detroit Free Press said "The Mummy" was "vintage" this novelist; "elegantly erotic & full of enchanting terror"
    600 7
If you want to be fancy about it, a tailcoat can have this longer name that fits the category
    600 17
It's the measure of the randomness, or molecular disorder, of a system; the universe's is said to be increasing
    600 11
Some coins in this Argentine currency feature trees, including the jacaranda & the myrtle
    600 14
"I coulda had class, I could've been a contender", said Marlon Brando in his Oscar-winning role in this film
    600 22
Cooler, Nose Marie & Whopper were some of these alliterative dogs created by Tonka
    800 4
The New York Times said she created "an indelible portrait of loss & grief" after the passing of her husband John Gregory Dunne
    800 6
It's the name for that extra toenail on your dog's foot
    800 16
Newton's second law is commonly summarized as this simple 3-letter equation
    800 10
Cameroon is one of several countries that use a currency called the CFA this; coins come in values from 1 to 500
    800 13
This 1979 film about a small group of friends who cycle to victory was ranked by AFI as one of the most inspiring of all time
    800 21
This type of printer from Apple that used pins hitting an inked ribbon?
You bet it's on display!
    1000 3
Can you pass the test? Entertainment Weekly called her comic "Fun Home" witty & mordant (morbid might be more fitting)
    1000 5
Peter Buxtun vis-à-vis the Tuskegee syphilis study
    1000 1
According to this cosmologist's law, redshift in light coming from a galaxy is directly proportional to its distance from us
    DD: 1,000 2
Though Mount Ararat is in Turkey, this neighboring country issued a 500-dram coin featuring the mountain along with Noah's Ark & a dove
    1000 12
In this silent film, Charlie Chaplin is a starving prospector who boiled & ate his own boot, which was actually black licorice
    1000 20
On the serious side, the exhibit includes a button bearing this equation that protested the lack of action or even talk about AIDS

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

James Mattea Matt
5,800 1,600 2,600

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

James Mattea Matt
8,200 4,200 2,800

Double Jeopardy! Round

WORLD FACTS
MASTERPIECES
GAMES, OLD & NEW
2-LETTER RESPONSES
TV TITLE REFERENCES
I'M LATE, I'M GREAT, I WAS SECRETARY OF STATE
    400 28
This Syrian capital is often cited as being the oldest continuously inhabited city in the world
    400 27
Frank Lloyd Wright's spiral design of the Guggenheim in New York City is said to evoke the shell of this chambered mollusk
    400 26
Named for a historic trek, there's now an online version of this game from 1971 in which death from typhoid & snakebite are commonplace
    400 23
He's not the 11th general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party since Mao, but the 6th
    400 25
It's when James & Margaret claimed the Dutton Ranch
    400 30
Serving under Andrew Jackson, I gained the U.S. greater trading access; later I succeeded AJ as president
    800 8
Istanbul is divided into European & Asian sections by this strait
    800 4
Some argue that Verdi's masterpiece is "Don Carlos", based on a 1787 play by this German writer
    800 13
The 1981 edition of Trivial Pursuit has this name that you may be familiar with from binomial nomenclature
    800 22
A 1979 paper by Sandra Schecter argued that this interjection is a central part of Canadian identity
    800 24
A karate dojo in the San Fernando Valley
    800 29
I was "the Great Pacificator" & in 1852 was the first man to lie in state in the Capitol rotunda, then went back to Kentucky
    1200 1
It's the only country in Africa that's completely surrounded by another country
    1200 3
Ernest Pontifex in "The Way of All Flesh" is a stand-in for this author of the posthumously published masterpiece
    1200 11
Around 1870 the Tenth Hussars faced the Ninth Lancers in this game that's been around for 2,000 years or so
    1200 14
The first patriarch's first home
    1200 18
Last name of a family including Daphne & Hyacinth in Regency England
    1200 21
As an investor who didn't want to hear bad things about Theranos, I was played by Sam Waterston in "The Dropout"
    1600 7
Denmark's parliament has 179 seats, including 2 from Greenland & 2 from these islands in the North Atlantic
    1600 5
Before dying at 51, this Frenchman wrote masterpieces including "Le Père Goriot", part of his series "La Comédie humaine"
    1600 10
This gaming company that had a splashy IPO in 2021 gets "virtual explorers" to create worlds by themselves or with friends
    1600 20
The arboreal aerialist seen here gets this alternate name from its high-pitched cry
    DD: 9,600 15
Slang meaning undergoing the terrible agony of withdrawal from opiates like Oxycontin
    DD: 9,400 2
I messed up saying I was "in control" in the White House, but earlier I really was as a shaky Richard Nixon's last Chief of Staff
    2000 9
The Kamchatka Peninsula separates the Bering Sea from this one that has ports in eastern Russia & on Hokkaidō
    2000 6
This Philadelphia painter depicted a surgical operation in "The Gross Clinic", deemed too bloody to display in public in 1876
    2000 12
Aperture Science Laboratories is the setting of this classic that's among Steam's top-ranked games
    2000 19
Signifying negation or absence, it's the response to the famous koan "Does a dog have Buddha nature?"
    2000 17
A small Canadian town filled with "skids, hockey players & Christians"
    2000 16
My brother said "war is hell" & I quit as Secretary of State 4 days into the Spanish-American War, which I had opposed

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

James Mattea Matt
24,800 5,800 -2,000
(lock game)

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Final Jeopardy! Round

FICTIONAL PLACES
The dominions of this land "extend five thousand blustrugs (about twelve miles in circumference)"

Final scores:

James Mattea Matt
23,678 5,958 -2,000
Winner: 9 match points 2nd place: 7 match points 3rd place: 3 match points

Game dynamics:

Game dynamics graph

Coryat scores:

James Mattea Matt
17,000 5,800 7,600
25 R
(including 1 DD),
3 W		 11 R,
1 W		 14 R
(including 1 DD),
6 W
(including 1 DD)

Combined Coryat: 30,400

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Game tape date: 2023-03-15
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