Jeopardy! Masters game #21 - Wednesday, May 1, 2024

2024 Jeopardy! Masters quarterfinal game 1.
Ken Jennings hosts.

Contestants

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Victoria Groce, a writer and television personality from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Matt Amodio, a quantitative researcher from New York, New York

Mattea Roach, a writer and podcast host from Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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Jeopardy! Round

THERE ONCE WAS THIS MAN FROM...
INTERNET SLANG
HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES
AMERICAN FICTION
4-LETTER TV
YOU'RE REPEATING YOURSELF
    200 27
...Down Under / Who looked at a mountain with wonder As high as can be / May 29th, '53 / Sadly, above Mallory's blunder
    200 29
Slang like "fanum tax" & "skibidi" baffle many; it's associated with this generation, a name that unfittingly follows Gen Z
    200 30
Jamaican jerk chicken & candied sweet potatoes can be part of a feast called Karamu, held on Dec. 31, the sixth day of this
    200 20
In a John Grisham book, there's Supreme murder & a New Orleans law student prepares this title document
    200 25
First name of Walter White's brother-in-law & one of the title "Venture Bros."
    200 23
Born to Chinese parents, he made his Carnegie Hall recital debut as a teen & would go on to create the Silk Road Project
    400 26
...Chile / Due to him, human rights went away / Prez in '74 / & for 16 years more / Times were rough under...
    400 28
In classical music an op. is an opus, but over on Reddit, an O.P. is an abbreviation for this
    400 12
California has a state holiday honoring this labor leader, observed around his March 31 birthday
    400 19
In 2022's "Remarkably Bright Creatures", Tova, the main character, forms an unusual friendship with one of these
    400 24
Not a feline bone in his body, or any bone for that matter, he's SpongeBob's meowing pet
    400 22
In productions of "Grease", this character, surname DiGregorio, is allegedly "the best dancer at St. Bernadette's"
    600 9
...U.K. / As prime minister, a late '30s stay / Not so powerfully built / & don't call him Wilt / Churchill's here now you go away
    600 4
If someone posts the skull emoji, it doesn't mean the user is dead inside, just dead from too much of this joyful activity
    600 11
Horse racing, wrestling & archery are part of Naadam, a 5-day festival in this country said to date to the time of Genghis Khan
    600 13
4 Chinese women meet regularly to eat, talk about their families & play mah-jong in this Amy Tan classic
    600 18
Perhaps hopped up on the drink's caffeine, Maggie Simpson memorably dances to Britney Spears after drinking this
    600 21
Along with Too-Too the owl & Chee-Chee the monkey, this duck was what one might call a known associate of Doctor Dolittle
    800 8
...Paris / A minister of war, don't you see / He drew his "line" / Around 1929 / But the Germans... they didn't agree
    800 3
NPC, short for this, can be a diss for someone you regard as one of the sheeple
    800 10
On June 7 this country remembers the Battle of Arica & celebrates the national flag, seen here
    800 7
A Yeats poem gave Cormac McCarthy the title of this novel that follows a drug deal gone wrong
    800 15
Fused organic & synthetic matter, they demanded conformity from Captain Picard
    800 17
This underwhelming squadron commander from "Catch-22" got a promotion caused by a computer with a sense of humor
    1000 6
...Maine / Speaker of the House, to be plain / Cleveland beat him for prez / So history says / & his last name, it rhymes, as it's...
    1000 2
It's a portmanteau word for someone who makes internet content with an animal, like with Esther the Wonder Pig on Instaham
    DD: 1,000 1
Held during the 5th month of the Chinese lunar calendar, this festival began as a search for poet Qu Yuan, who drowned in a Yangtze tributary
    1000 5
Ernest J. Gaines wrote about one woman's life from slavery to the civil rights movement in "The Autobiography of" her
    1000 14
"The Munsters" had a pet dragon named this who was known to scare off ne'er-do-wells
    1000 16
This author collaborated on "Romance" with Joseph Conrad

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Mattea Matt Victoria
3,400 3,200 5,000

Double Jeopardy! Round

REALLY TOUGH CAPITALS
CLASSIC MOVIES
DREAMT OF IN YOUR PHILOSOPHY
INVENTORS & INVENTIONS
NOT YOUR EVERYDAY WORDS
AARON BURR & FRIENDS
(Ken: His friends are others whose initials consist of two consecutive letters of the alphabet, and take note, we will need both names. I'm looking at you, Amodio.)
    400 27
This capital of Barbados does have the type of structure in its name, like the 1872 Chamberlain one
    400 23
This actor who starred in "Paper Moon" & "Barry Lyndon" passed away in 2023
    400 28
Edmund Burke took on aesthetics with an aptly titled "Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and" this
    400 26
DuPont chemist Stephanie Kwolek was the subject of a kids' book called "The Woman Who Invented the Thread That Stops" these
    400 29
Containing an archaic word for a wagon, it's just your basic builder of wagons
    400 30
In 1851 Ole Bull offered him a job as an in-house playwright at a theater in Bergen
    800 5
The names of these 2 Central American capitals include the full names of their countries
    800 22
He played a sinister preacher in "The Night of the Hunter" & a revenge-seeking ex-con in "Cape Fear"
    800 12
In Tokugawa Japan of the 17th to 19th c., the dominant thought was neo-this philosophy of a guy from across the Sea of Japan
    DD: 8,000 14
In 1873 Helen Blanchard received a patent for one of these that could zigzag
    800 24
It can be a noun or a verb! A shaved head of a monk, or to shave the head that way
    800 25
Adeline Stephen published novels under this name
    1200 1
Though it's in the middle of the island, not a port, Antananarivo is this country's capital
    1200 21
At the end of "My Man Godfrey", this actress surprises her man Godfrey with matrimony
    1200 4
Thomas Kuhn is known for his talk of these frameworks whose "shifts" can change our worldview
    1200 6
Known for its weird sound effects, this instrument was named for the Russian man who invented it in the 1920s
    1200 16
It means (really) fertile, but with only 6 letters, plus sounds smarter & is more fun to say
    DD: 7,000 18
In 1877 Congress commissioned the Electoral Commission after he got 184 electoral votes but needed 185; it did not end well for him
    1600 2
Alofi is the capital of this newly independent island state recognized by the U.S. in 2023
    1600 13
Woody Strode was the title "Sergeant Rutledge" in a 1960 Western courtroom drama directed by this quintessential Western auteur
    1600 9
This Scot who died in 1776 was a leader in empiricism, the belief that all knowledge is from experience
    1600 7
Widely known as the "Father of the Supercomputer", he built some of the most powerful & expensive computers of the last century
    1600 11
This odd word from astronomy also means a combination of 2 feet in one meter in poetry
    1600 15
Née Coffin, she parted with Elizabeth Cady Stanton to organize the Seneca Falls Convention
    2000 3
Bissau is the capital of Guinea-Bissau; this is the capital of regular Guinea
    2000 19
Howard Hawks said a bush pilot & a dancer who fell in love helped inspire the story of this 1939 film
    2000 10
Aristotle was known to stroll while teaching, giving us this word for his followers or walking in general
    2000 8
Missed it by that much! In 1876 Bell's application for a telephone patent beat this rival's filing by just a few hours
    2000 17
From Latin for "begin", it means just beginning or incoherent; its spelling includes a boys' school founded in 1896
    2000 20
Louis Armstrong called this Canadian "The Man with 4 Hands", while Duke Ellington nicknamed him the "Maharajah of the Keyboard"

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Mattea Matt Victoria
7,400 800 31,600
(lock game)

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round

LATIN SCIENCE TERMS
In 1694 the latest in bio-knowledge was Tournefort's "Elements of Botany" listing 698 of these, like Ambrosia & Chrysanthemum

Final scores:

Mattea Matt Victoria
7,089 800 29,867
2nd place: 1 match point 3rd place Winner: 3 match points

Game dynamics:

Game dynamics graph

Coryat scores:

Mattea Matt Victoria
8,400 8,800 25,800
11 R,
1 W
(including 1 DD)		 13 R,
2 W
(including 1 DD)		 26 R
(including 1 DD),
1 W

Combined Coryat: 43,000

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Game tape date: 2024-04-17
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