Jeopardy! Masters game #10 - Monday, May 15, 2023

2023 Jeopardy! Masters quarterfinal game 10.

Contestants

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Sam Buttrey, an associate professor at the Naval Postgraduate School from Pacific Grove, California

Andrew He, a software developer from San Francisco, California

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

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Jeopardy! Round

THE FRENCH REVOLUTION
WHAT A LITERARY CHARACTER!
GREAT SPORTS CALLS
MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS & ACCESSORIES
FROM THE GREEK
MY MISSED CAREER, SUBSTITUTE TEACHER
    200 30
Tuneage of the revolutionary era included this song composed by an army captain in one night in 1792
    200 28
"Could you expect me to rejoice in the inferiority of your connections?" is a zinger from this proud Jane Austen guy
    200 23
Andrés Cantor said he almost fainted while making this call after a thrilling Landon Donovan score
    200 24
Despite the rumors, David Mamet said he doesn't actually use this musical device to mark time, but does count syllables
    200 21
Zendaya is very familiar with this word from Greek that means intense happiness & well-being
    200 26
Let's take roll... A.A. Ron...? Oh, just like this composer of 1957's "Piano Fantasy"
    400 29
New names were needed for these & poet Fabre d'Églantine came up with Frimaire, Germinal, Messidor & others
    400 27
It's the first name of Ian Fleming's Mr. Goldfinger
    400 22
Howard Cosell, 1973: "Down goes" this man! "Down goes" this man! "Down goes" this man!
    400 18
The doo-hickey seen here is one of these for a cello; it limits the cello's resonance slightly
    400 20
From a Greek word for "moving", it's a type of energy as well as a type of art
    400 25
Let's bring American history class to life! Take a look at this Revolutionary group pouring tea down the throat of a Crown official
    600 15
On the eve of the revolution, Marie-Antoinette was implicated in "the Affair of" this item & reviled as deceitful & corrupt
    600 16
Walter Scott wrote of him, "conspicuous by his long gun, waving tartans, and the single plume" of "the Highland gentleman"
    600 11
Al Michaels: "It is caught by Dyson. Can he get in? No, he cannot. Mike Jones made the tackle &" they "have won the Super Bowl!"
    600 17
String players apply this sticky stuff to their bows to create friction, allowing the bows to grip the strings & make them vibrate more clearly
    600 19
This stage in the development of a butterfly is from the Greek for "gold"
    600 9
In P.E. I'll make you multi-sport stars like this decathlete who won a 1960 duel of UCLA Bruins to take Olympic gold
    800 14
Locked out of a meeting hall at Versailles in 1789, members of the Third Estate took their famous oath at this location there
    DD: 2,000 4
At the end of a Thomas Pynchon book, Oedipa Maas awaits the bidding on a stamp collection with this auction number
    800 10
"I don't believe what I just saw" & "We'll see you tomorrow night" are among the many calls of this legend & dad of a legend
    800 12
Auguste Mustel invented this keyboard instrument in 1886; its heavenly name evokes the sky
    800 7
From the Greek for "to whirl", it's another name for an equilateral parallelogram
    800 8
I love A.P. bio! Let's talk pancreas! An adult one has a million of these, named for the German doctor who noted them in 1869
    1000 13
The biggest celebration of the Revolution was held on July 14, 1790, not on the Champs-Élysées, but on this Champ
    1000 2
The title character in "Humboldt's Gift" by this author is based on his friend, poet Delmore Schwartz
    1000 1
"The slipper still fits!" as this then-Cinderella Spokane school eked out a 1999 NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament win
    1000 5
The Amati family & their pupils the Stradivari made their violins in this city in the Lombardy region
    1000 6
From Greek for "head" & "foot", it's any of the class of mollusks that includes the squid & octopus</td>
    1000 3
Geography class, China's NW corner is this "autonomous region", though it's debatable how much autonomy its Uyghur people have

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

James Andrew Sam
5,800 5,800 -200

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

James Andrew Sam
7,600 6,400 2,800

Double Jeopardy! Round

3-WORD PLACE NAMES
WHATEVER FLOATS
ESSAYS
TV THERAPISTS
ARCHAEOLOGY
GET "EM"!
(Ken: All responses will begin with the letters E-M.)
    400 24
April 23 is an annual celebration of a local hero in this Warwickshire town--& by the way, that middle word has 4 letters
    400 28
French gives us this 7-letter word for a flat-bottomed boat; it's also a type of floating bridge composed of a group of boats
    400 27
A book of essays about the "Black Panther" film & its cultural impact is called "Why" this fictional country "Matters"
    400 26
For his final sign-off to his radio audience, Frasier Crane said, "Goodnight", this city
    400 30
The Hittite Empire may have collapsed around 1200 B.C. due to a severe drought as indicated in the width of these from juniper trees
    400 29
Extremely thin, perhaps as the result of malnutrition
    800 23
Pétionville is a wealthy suburb of this Caribbean capital
    800 17
In a Police song, Sting floats one of these; later, "a hundred billion" of them show up on his shore
    800 8
Nora Ephron mentions ones that are loose, crepey, wrinkled & turkey gobbler in her essay "I Feel Bad About My" this
    800 25
Oscar-nominated for "Goodfellas", she would later receive 4 Emmy nominations for her role as a TV therapist
    800 5
Wooden furniture & a loaf of bread in an oven have been found preserved in this city 10 miles northwest of Pompeii
    800 14
To correct by altering a text or manuscript
    DD: 9,200 2
A South American cidade & estado both go by this name
    1200 15
A company's stock float is calculated by subtracting restricted stock from these, abbreviated O/S
    1200 6
In "Self-Reliance" Emerson wrote that "A foolish consistency is" this "of little minds"
    1200 19
Seen here, Marcia Wallace played feisty receptionist Carol to the psychologist on this show
    1200 4
From the Arabic for "hill", it's an artificial mound created by many generations building & rebuilding on the same spot
    1200 12
Based on observation
    1600 1
This spot northwest of Philly got its name from a tavern named for Frederick II
    1600 16
The Mayo Clinic's page on eye floaters reveals that they're commonly caused by clumps of this fibrous protein
    1600 7
In 1972 John McPhee compared Monopoly properties with a declining Atlantic City in his essay "The Search for" this property
    1600 20
Dr. Linda Martin, therapist for this title guy, worked on a book about him called "Sympathy for the Devil"
    1600 3
This culture named for a New Mexico city was known for its leaf-shaped spear points used to hunt mammoths & other big game
    1600 11
A soothing substance for the skin
    2000 9
This sun-dappled city of southern France is home to famed hot springs & the atelier of Paul Cézanne
    2000 18
This formidable New Orleans krewe that shares its name with a Keats poem built an over 300-foot-long Mardi Gras float
    DD: 5 21
This Italian's experiments with dead frogs led him to write an essay on the "Effect of Electricity in Muscular Motion"
    2000 22
This onetime shrink played by David Cross on "Arrested Development" suffers from never-nude syndrome
    2000 13
Named for a mythic place of darkness, this ship commanded by Sir John Franklin has been yielding its secrets from Arctic waters
    2000 10
A body of water that juts into land, or a window recess shaped like one

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

James Andrew Sam
24,805 8,800 8,800
(lock game)

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Final Jeopardy! Round

19th CENTURY FIRST LADIES
After her husband left office, a minister wrote the White House was "purer because" this first lady "has been its mistress"

Final scores:

James Andrew Sam
23,999 8,800 0
Winner: 12 match points 2nd place: 9 match points 3rd place: 2 match points

Game dynamics:

Game dynamics graph

Coryat scores:

James Andrew Sam
18,800 7,600 8,800
25 R
(including 2 DDs),
2 W		 11 R
(including 1 DD),
2 W		 17 R,
3 W

Combined Coryat: 35,200

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Game tape date: 2023-05-02
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