J! Archive - Jeopardy! Masters game #12, aired 2023-05-16

>1>>Jeopardy! Masters game #12 - Tuesday, May 16, 2023>div>

>2023 Jeopardy! Masters> quarterfinal game 12.

Contestants

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> href="showplayer.php?player_id=15711" rel="external">Amy Schneider>, a writer from Oakland, California

> href="showplayer.php?player_id=15710" rel="external">Matt Amodio>, a postdoctoral researcher from Cambridge, Massachusetts

> href="showplayer.php?player_id=15714" rel="external">James Holzhauer>, a self-described game show villain from Las Vegas, Nevada
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Jeopardy! Round
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>POSSESSIVE GEOGRAPHY>tr> <tr> >td>tr> able> <tr>

>HOBBIES & PASTIMES>tr> <tr> >td>tr> able> <tr>

>COMMUNICATION>tr> <tr> >td>tr> able> <tr>

>12-LETTER WORDS>tr> <tr> >td>tr> able> <tr>

>EPISODE IV>tr> <tr> >(Ken: You'll name the TV series.)>tr> able> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> able> >Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

>A NEW HOPE>tr> <tr> >td>tr> able> <tr> <td>

>    >200 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=464087" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">27>td>

>Lookout Mountain, Georgia has one of these> tragically romantic & alliterative spots >m class="correct_response">Lover's Leap>r />
>able width="100%">>d class="right">James>tr>>td> </tr> able> <tr> <td>

>    >200 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=464092" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">25>td>

>Intentional dwarfing is the goal of this> hobby that takes its name from the Japanese for "tray planting" >m class="correct_response">bonsai>r />
>able width="100%">>d class="right">Matt>tr>>td> </tr> able> <tr> <td>

>    >200 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=464097" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">28>td>

>Aircraft using special gear can mix paraffin oil into the exhaust to create this type of expression >m class="correct_response">skywriting>r />
>able width="100%">>d class="right">James>tr>>td> </tr> able> <tr> <td>

>    >200 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=464102" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">30>td>

>It's totally tubular & produces patterns like those seen here>td> >m class="correct_response">kaleidoscope>r />
>able width="100%">>d class="right">James>tr>>td> </tr> able> <tr> <td>

>    >200 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=464107" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">19>td>

>Season 8, 1993:
"Luck of the Bundys" >>Married... with Children>r />
>able width="100%">r>d class="right">Amy>tr>>td> </tr> able> <tr> <td>

>    >200 16>td>

New hope in 1954: in a successful transplant of this, living donor Ronald Herrick gave one to his identical twin brother Richard a kidney>r />
>able width="100%">>d class="right">James>tr>>td> </tr> able> <tr> <td>

>    400 26>td>

This resort island is named for a daughter of 17th century colonist Bartholomew Gosnold Martha's Vineyard>r />
>able width="100%">r>d class="right">Amy>tr>>td> </tr> able> <tr> <td>

>    400 24>td>

Twist & fold your fabric, bind it with rubber bands & then color with groovy pigments in this activity tie-dyeing>r />
>able width="100%">>d class="right">James>tr>>td> </tr> able> <tr> <td>

>    400 21>td>

If you've got a comment for the President or for your senator, start by dialing this area code 202>r />
>able width="100%">r>d class="right">Amy>tr>>td> </tr> able> <tr> <td>

>    400 29>td>

A real humdinger of a word, in 1991 it became a music festival, now held annually in Chicago Lollapalooza>r />
>able width="100%">>d class="right">James>tr>>td> </tr> able> <tr> <td>

>    400 18>td>

Season 2, 1961: "Mayberry Goes Bankrupt" >>The Andy Griffith Show>r />
>able width="100%">>d class="right">James>tr>>td> </tr> able> <tr> <td>

>    400 15>td>

Setting up a soup kitchen in Golden Gate Park, Anna Holshouser gave people hope & food after this 1906 event (James: No relation. Uh, what is [*]?)
>r />the San Francisco earthquake>r />
>able width="100%">>d class="right">James>tr>>td> </tr> able> <tr> <td>

>    600 22>td>

>Platform 9¾ in the "Harry Potter" books is located at >this London train station King's Cross>r />
>able width="100%">>d class="right">Matt>tr>>td> </tr> able> <tr> <td>

>    600 23>td>

Best known for these collectibles, the Steiff company has made them for more than 100 years & adorns each one with an ear tag teddy bears>r />
>able width="100%">>d class="right">James>tr>>td> </tr> able> <tr> <td>

>    600 20>td>

MLB's Matt Williams has moved just a few feet from his old playing position to this job that involves relaying signals to players third base coach>r />
>able width="100%">>d class="right">James>tr>>td> </tr> able> <tr> <td>

>    600 9>td>

It's now pretty much lights out for this once-standard type of light bulb, as its filament is less efficient [James's response was initially accepted, then reversed before Double Jeopardy!, after it was ruled that he said "incandescence".]
>r />incandescent>r />
>able width="100%">r> James>tr>>able width="100%">r>d class="wrong">Triple Stumper>tr>>td> </tr> able> <tr> <td>

>    600 17>td>

2022:
>"King of the Narrow Sea" >(Amy: What is, uh, Black Sails?)
>r />m class="correct_response">>House of the Dragon>r />
>able width="100%">r>d class="wrong">Amy>tr>>able width="100%">r>d class="wrong">Triple Stumper>tr>>td> </tr> able> <tr> <td>

>    600 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=464114" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">14>td>

>Similar to the men's group, it's the "timely" nickname of Prudence Wright's inspiring all-female Revolutionary War militia >m class="correct_response">Minutewomen>r />
>able width="100%">>d class="right">James>tr>>td> </tr> able> <tr> <td>

>    DD: 1,000 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=464090" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">2>td>

>This Midtown Manhattan neighborhood extends from 8th avenue to the Hudson >m class="correct_response">Hell's Kitchen>r />
>able width="100%">>d class="right">James>tr>>td> </tr> able> <tr> <td>

>    800 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=464095" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">4>td>

>When one team in bridge takes all 13 tricks, the feat is known by this 2-word term >(James: [Rejoicing at winning the buzz] Yes! What is [*]?)
(Ken: You don't play any bridge, do you, James?)
>r />grand slam>r />
>able width="100%">>d class="right">James>tr>>td> </tr> able> <tr> <td>

>    800 6>td>

Clyde, a stylized blue game controller, represents this popular chatting app Discord>r />
>able width="100%">>d class="right">James>tr>>td> </tr> able> <tr> <td>

>    800 8>td>

It's the formal term for a mapmaker cartographer>r />
>able width="100%">>d class="right">James>tr>>td> </tr> able> <tr> <td>

>    800 11>td>

2008:
>"Cancer Man" >m class="correct_response">>Breaking Bad>r />
>able width="100%">>d class="right">Matt>tr>>td> </tr> able> <tr> <td>

>    800 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=464115" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">13>td>

>In 1848, crickets swarmed Salt Lake Valley's crops but these birds miraculously showed up, saving the day >m class="correct_response">seagulls>r />
>able width="100%">>d class="right">James>tr>>td> </tr> able> <tr> <td>

>    1000 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=464091" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">1>td>

>Around 1830 Felix Mendelssohn composed an overture about this Scottish grotto >(Ken: For those of you at home who care to know where the Daily Double is found on this board, take a look--everyone else, look away! [Beep boop])
>r />m class="correct_response">Fingal's Cave>r />
>able width="100%">>d class="right">James>tr>>td> </tr> able> <tr> <td>

>    1000 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=464096" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">3>td>

>In 1981 this European puzzlemaster introduced his Snake, with 24 segments >m class="correct_response">Rubik>r />
>able width="100%">>d class="right">James>tr>>td> </tr> able> <tr> <td>

>    1000 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=464101" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">5>td>

>This alliterative system began in London in 1680; in 1801, the name went out of date as the price doubled to twopence >m class="correct_response">the Penny Post>r />
>able width="100%">r>d class="right">Amy>tr>>td> </tr> able> <tr> <td>

>    1000 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=464106" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">7>td>

>From Latin & Greek for "flow", it's the medical specialty for conditions of the joints & connective tissues like arthritis (Matt: What's... rheumology?)
>r />m class="correct_response">rheumatology>r />
>able width="100%">r> >Matt>d class="right">Amy>tr>>td> </tr> able> <tr> <td>

>    1000 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=464111" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">10>td>

>Season 3 in 2007:
"Sokka's Master" >m class="correct_response">>Avatar: The Last Airbender>r />
>able width="100%">r>d class="right">Amy>tr>>td> </tr> able> <tr> <td>

>    1000 12>td>

Subject of the bio "Man of Hope", Padre Pio received these holy wounds not once but twice in his life, attracting numerous pilgrims stigmata>r />
>able width="100%">>d class="right">Matt>tr>>td> </tr> able>

>James >Matt >Amy

>9,800 >1,600 >3,400

>Double Jeopardy! Round ble class="round">
<tr>d class="category_name">NEW WORLD EXPLORATION>tr> <tr>

>td>tr> able> <tr>d class="category_name">INTERNATIONAL LIT>tr> <tr>

>td>tr> able> <tr>d class="category_name">16th & 17th CENTURY ART>tr> <tr>

>td>tr> able> <tr>d class="category_name">GO TO YOUR ROOM>tr> <tr>

>td>tr> able> <tr>d class="category_name">BRITISH MUSICAL GEOGRAPHY>tr> <tr>

>td>tr> able> <tr>d class="category_name">ENDS IN A DOUBLE VOWEL>tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> able> >Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

>td>tr> able> <tr> <td>

>    400 30>td>

Bernal Díaz, who sailed on the voyage that discovered the Yucatan, was a soldier who witnessed this Aztec leader's death Moctezuma>r />
>able width="100%">>d class="right">James>tr>>td> </tr> able> <tr> <td>

>    400 29>td>

Proust's "À la recherche du temps perdu" has been published as "In Search of" this (James: [Selecting the last clue] Bring it!)
>r />m class="correct_response">>Lost Time>r />
>able width="100%">>d class="right">James>tr>>td> </tr> able> <tr> <td>

>    400 28>td>

Vermeer was obviously a fan of this gem, featuring it in an earring & in a necklace, both around 1665 a pearl>r />
>able width="100%">r>d class="right">Amy>tr>>td> </tr> able> <tr> <td>

>    400 27>td>

Theater audiences would retire to this 5-letter room for warmth between acts; now it refers to any entrance hall or lobby the foyer>r />
>able width="100%">r>d class="right">Amy>tr>>td> </tr> able> <tr> <td>

>    400 23>td>

John Lennon said this port is "where the sailors would come home with the blues records from America" Liverpool>r />
>able width="100%">>d class="right">James>tr>>td> </tr> able> <tr> <td>

>    400 21>td>

Witty banter full of clever & funny comments (Ken: That's correct. You ran that category.)
[Applause]
>r />m class="correct_response">repartee>r />
>able width="100%">>d class="right">James>tr>>td> </tr> able> <tr> <td>

>    800 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=464147" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">3>td>

>In 1673 these 2 men, one a missionary, sought the mouth of the Mississippi but turned back at Arkansas >m class="correct_response">Marquette & Joliet>r />
>able width="100%">>d class="right">Matt>tr>>td> </tr> able> <tr> <td>

>    800 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=464152" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">7>td>

>He wrote more than 50 plays, but his most famous is "Six Characters in Search of an Author" >m class="correct_response">Pirandello>r />
>able width="100%">r>d class="right">Amy>tr>>td> </tr> able> <tr> <td>

>    800 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=464157" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">12>td>

>The Duke of Ferrara commissioned Titian to spend the early 1520s on this boozy title Roman god "& Ariadne" >m class="correct_response">Bacchus>r />
>able width="100%">>d class="right">Matt>tr>>td> </tr> able> <tr> <td>

>    800 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=464162" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">26>td>

>Children can go wild in a rec room or this other alliterative one whose name suggests it need not be quiet >(Matt: What's [**]?)
[Originally rejected; reversed before Final Jeopardy!]
>r />rumpus room (or romp room)>r />
>able width="100%">>d class="right">Matt>d class="right">Amy>tr>>td> </tr> able> <tr> <td>

>    800 22>td>

The guitarists of Big Country couldn't stand the regular comparison of their guitar sound to this national instrument of their country (Ken: Big Country is Scottish, but that doesn't mean they want you to compare them to [*].)
>r />the bagpipes>r />
>able width="100%">r>d class="wrong">Triple Stumper>tr>>td> </tr> able> <tr> <td>

>    800 20>td>

Musical instrument you play by humming into it a kazoo>r />
>able width="100%">>d class="right">James>tr>>td> </tr> able> <tr> <td>

>    1200 2>td>

After failing to establish a permanent colony in North Carolina, he led an expedition to Venezuela & wrote a 1595 book about it Raleigh>r />
>able width="100%">>d class="right">James>tr>>td> </tr> able> <tr> <td>

>    1200 5>td>

For >her stand against apartheid, many of her novels, including "Burger's Daughter", were banned in her native South Africa Gordimer>r />
>able width="100%">>d class="right">James>tr>>td> </tr> able> <tr> <td>

>    1200 11>td>

In 1519 this German painter the elder dipped into the "Fountain of Life", which depicts the Virgin & child Holbein>r />
>able width="100%">>d class="right">James>tr>>td> </tr> able> <tr> <td>

>    DD: 4,200 8>td>

This room gave its name to an official art exhibition sponsored by the French government & once held at the Louvre salon>r />
>able width="100%">r>d class="right">Amy>tr>>td> </tr> able> <tr> <td>

>    1200 17>td>

The lead singer is seen >here in 2022 when this band performed back home in Birmingham at the Commonwealth Games closing ceremonies (Ken: Yeah, that's Ozzy.)
>r />Black Sabbath>r />
>able width="100%">>d class="right">James>tr>>td> </tr> able> <tr> <td>

>    1200 19>td>

An authoritative command backed by the force of law a decree>r />
>able width="100%">>d class="right">James>tr>>td> </tr> able> <tr> <td>

>    1600 1>td>

When Columbus arrived at the island he named this on October 12, 1492, he wrote that it was green & a pleasure to see (Ken: Here's where the Daily Doubles are located on this board. [Beep boop] Of course, the three of you don't know. Matt, you select first.)
>r />San Salvador>r />
>able width="100%">>d class="right">James>tr>>td> </tr> able> <tr> <td>

>    1600 6>td>

Made into a tasty 1992 film, it's Laura Esquivel's "Novel in Monthly Installments, with Recipes, Romances, and Home Remedies" >m class="correct_response">>Like Water for Chocolate>r />
>able width="100%">>d class="right">James>tr>>td> </tr> able> <tr> <td>

>    1600 10>td>

Where have you gone, this man born Michelangelo Merisi who did "Martyrdom of St. Matthew", a nation turns its lonely eyes to you Caravaggio>r />
>able width="100%">>d class="right">James>tr>>td> </tr> able> <tr> <td>

>    1600 25>td>

Seen >here, the chashitsu is the room designed for this tradition tea ceremony>r />
>able width="100%">>d class="right">Matt>tr>>td> </tr> able> <tr> <td>

>    1600 16>td>

From this isle off southern England, the duo Wet Leg has said their name is a nickname for visitors from the mainland the Isle of Wight>r />
>able width="100%">>d class="right">James>tr>>td> </tr> able> <tr> <td>

>    1600 9>td>

Woody growth of the Phyllostachys genus bamboo>r />
>able width="100%">>d class="right">James>tr>>td> </tr> able> <tr> <td>

>    2000 4>td>

In 1500 this sailor headed to India but made a right turn & landed in Brazil, claiming it for Portugal Cabral>r />
>able width="100%">>d class="right">James>tr>>td> </tr> able> <tr> <td>

>    DD: 3,200 13>td>

>This Russian author & founder of literary socialist realism adopted a surname meaning "bitter" Gorky>r />
>able width="100%">>d class="right">Matt>tr>>td> </tr> able> <tr> <td>

>    2000 14>td>

It takes a genius like this German painter & printmaker to get people excited about a work called ">The Large Piece of Turf" Dürer>r />
>able width="100%">>d class="right">Matt>tr>>td> </tr> able> <tr> <td>

>    2000 24>td>

Get thee to this little room next to the pantry & the kitchen where its maids clean dishes & the like scullery>r />
>able width="100%">>d class="right">Matt>tr>>td> </tr> able> <tr> <td>

>    2000 15>td>

Swindon, often the butt of jokes, produced Andy Partridge & this "Senses Working Overtime" band (Ken: Ah, one of my favorite bands>--[*].)
>r />XTC>r />
>able width="100%">r>d class="wrong">Triple Stumper>tr>>td> </tr> able> <tr> <td>

>    2000 18>td>

Marking the transition to the sacred, >it's the gate of a Shinto shrine a torii>r />
>able width="100%">>d class="right">James>tr>>td> </tr> able>

>James >Matt >Amy

>30,200 >12,800 >10,000

>(<a href="help.php#lock">lock game>)</td> >td> >td>

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>Final Jeopardy! Round

</tr> <tr> able> >Final scores:

>LANDMARKS

>td>tr> </table> <tr> <td id="clue_FJ" class="clue_text">For more than a millennium, a huge embroidered work known as the Kiswa has been used to adorn & protect this structure

(Ken: Yes, the shrine in Mecca that's the destination of the Muslim hajj.)
>...
(Ken: [To James] Other than you, I assume?)
>(James: [Shouting, arms outstretched] Is there no one else?>)<br />(Ken: Humble, as always.)>r> >Amy What is the Qaaba?>tr>r> 3,000>tr>r> >Matt What Wailing Wall>tr>r> 7,201>tr>r> >James >Is there NO> <u>ONE> <u>ELSE>td>tr>r> 310>tr>table>the Kaaba>td> </tr>
r id="clue_FJ_stuck">

>James >Matt >Amy

>29,890 >5,599 >13,000

>Winner: 15 match points >3rd place: 6 match points >2nd place: 5 match points

>Game dynamics:
>Coryat scores:

>James >Matt >Amy

30,000 11,600 7,000

35 R
>(including 1 DD),
1 W 11 R
>(including 1 DD),
1 W 11 R
>(including 1 DD),
1 W

>Combined Coryat: 48,600

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Game tape date: 2023-05-02

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