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

2023 Jeopardy! Masters quarterfinal game 12.

Contestants

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Amy Schneider, a writer from Oakland, California

Matt Amodio, a postdoctoral researcher from Cambridge, Massachusetts

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

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Jeopardy! Round

POSSESSIVE GEOGRAPHY
HOBBIES & PASTIMES
COMMUNICATION
12-LETTER WORDS
EPISODE IV
(Ken: You'll name the TV series.)
A NEW HOPE
    200 27
Lookout Mountain, Georgia has one of these tragically romantic & alliterative spots
    200 25
Intentional dwarfing is the goal of this hobby that takes its name from the Japanese for "tray planting"
    200 28
Aircraft using special gear can mix paraffin oil into the exhaust to create this type of expression
    200 30
It's totally tubular & produces patterns like those seen here
    200 19
Season 8, 1993:
"Luck of the Bundys"
    200 16
New hope in 1954: in a successful transplant of this, living donor Ronald Herrick gave one to his identical twin brother Richard
    400 26
This resort island is named for a daughter of 17th century colonist Bartholomew Gosnold
    400 24
Twist & fold your fabric, bind it with rubber bands & then color with groovy pigments in this activity
    400 21
If you've got a comment for the President or for your senator, start by dialing this area code
    400 29
A real humdinger of a word, in 1991 it became a music festival, now held annually in Chicago
    400 18
Season 2, 1961: "Mayberry Goes Bankrupt"
    400 15
Setting up a soup kitchen in Golden Gate Park, Anna Holshouser gave people hope & food after this 1906 event
    600 22
Platform 9¾ in the "Harry Potter" books is located at this London train station
    600 23
Best known for these collectibles, the Steiff company has made them for more than 100 years & adorns each one with an ear tag
    600 20
MLB's Matt Williams has moved just a few feet from his old playing position to this job that involves relaying signals to players
    600 9
It's now pretty much lights out for this once-standard type of light bulb, as its filament is less efficient
    600 17
2022:
"King of the Narrow Sea"
    600 14
Similar to the men's group, it's the "timely" nickname of Prudence Wright's inspiring all-female Revolutionary War militia
    DD: 1,000 2
This Midtown Manhattan neighborhood extends from 8th avenue to the Hudson
    800 4
When one team in bridge takes all 13 tricks, the feat is known by this 2-word term
    800 6
Clyde, a stylized blue game controller, represents this popular chatting app
    800 8
It's the formal term for a mapmaker
    800 11
2008:
"Cancer Man"
    800 13
In 1848, crickets swarmed Salt Lake Valley's crops but these birds miraculously showed up, saving the day
    1000 1
Around 1830 Felix Mendelssohn composed an overture about this Scottish grotto
    1000 3
In 1981 this European puzzlemaster introduced his Snake, with 24 segments
    1000 5
This alliterative system began in London in 1680; in 1801, the name went out of date as the price doubled to twopence
    1000 7
From Latin & Greek for "flow", it's the medical specialty for conditions of the joints & connective tissues like arthritis
    1000 10
Season 3 in 2007:
"Sokka's Master"
    1000 12
Subject of the bio "Man of Hope", Padre Pio received these holy wounds not once but twice in his life, attracting numerous pilgrims

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

James Matt Amy
6,600 800 3,000

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

James Matt Amy
9,800 1,600 3,400

Double Jeopardy! Round

NEW WORLD EXPLORATION
INTERNATIONAL LIT
16th & 17th CENTURY ART
GO TO YOUR ROOM
BRITISH MUSICAL GEOGRAPHY
ENDS IN A DOUBLE VOWEL
    400 30
Bernal Díaz, who sailed on the voyage that discovered the Yucatan, was a soldier who witnessed this Aztec leader's death
    400 29
Proust's "À la recherche du temps perdu" has been published as "In Search of" this
    400 28
Vermeer was obviously a fan of this gem, featuring it in an earring & in a necklace, both around 1665
    400 27
Theater audiences would retire to this 5-letter room for warmth between acts; now it refers to any entrance hall or lobby
    400 23
John Lennon said this port is "where the sailors would come home with the blues records from America"
    400 21
Witty banter full of clever & funny comments
    800 3
In 1673 these 2 men, one a missionary, sought the mouth of the Mississippi but turned back at Arkansas
    800 7
He wrote more than 50 plays, but his most famous is "Six Characters in Search of an Author"
    800 12
The Duke of Ferrara commissioned Titian to spend the early 1520s on this boozy title Roman god "& Ariadne"
    800 26
Children can go wild in a rec room or this other alliterative one whose name suggests it need not be quiet
    800 22
The guitarists of Big Country couldn't stand the regular comparison of their guitar sound to this national instrument of their country
    800 20
Musical instrument you play by humming into it
    1200 2
After failing to establish a permanent colony in North Carolina, he led an expedition to Venezuela & wrote a 1595 book about it
    1200 5
For her stand against apartheid, many of her novels, including "Burger's Daughter", were banned in her native South Africa
    1200 11
In 1519 this German painter the elder dipped into the "Fountain of Life", which depicts the Virgin & child
    DD: 4,200 8
This room gave its name to an official art exhibition sponsored by the French government & once held at the Louvre
    1200 17
The lead singer is seen here in 2022 when this band performed back home in Birmingham at the Commonwealth Games closing ceremonies
    1200 19
An authoritative command backed by the force of law
    1600 1
When Columbus arrived at the island he named this on October 12, 1492, he wrote that it was green & a pleasure to see
    1600 6
Made into a tasty 1992 film, it's Laura Esquivel's "Novel in Monthly Installments, with Recipes, Romances, and Home Remedies"
    1600 10
Where have you gone, this man born Michelangelo Merisi who did "Martyrdom of St. Matthew", a nation turns its lonely eyes to you
    1600 25
Seen here, the chashitsu is the room designed for this tradition
    1600 16
From this isle off southern England, the duo Wet Leg has said their name is a nickname for visitors from the mainland
    1600 9
Woody growth of the Phyllostachys genus
    2000 4
In 1500 this sailor headed to India but made a right turn & landed in Brazil, claiming it for Portugal
    DD: 3,200 13
This Russian author & founder of literary socialist realism adopted a surname meaning "bitter"
    2000 14
It takes a genius like this German painter & printmaker to get people excited about a work called "The Large Piece of Turf"
    2000 24
Get thee to this little room next to the pantry & the kitchen where its maids clean dishes & the like
    2000 15
Swindon, often the butt of jokes, produced Andy Partridge & this "Senses Working Overtime" band
    2000 18
Marking the transition to the sacred, it's the gate of a Shinto shrine

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

James Matt Amy
30,200 12,800 10,000
(lock game)

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Final Jeopardy! Round

LANDMARKS
For more than a millennium, a huge embroidered work known as the Kiswa has been used to adorn & protect this structure

Final scores:

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:

Game dynamics graph

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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