Jeopardy! Masters game #26 - Wednesday, May 8, 2024

2024 Jeopardy! Masters quarterfinal game 6.

Contestants

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

James Holzhauer, the self-described "final boss" of Jeopardy! from Las Vegas, Nevada

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

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Jeopardy! Round

THE COLD WAR
LETTER PERFECT
CHANGING IT UP
THE COLORS OF TELEVISION
STARTS & ENDS WITH R
CHEESING IN PUBLIC
    200 26
It was the 3-word phrase for drills in which schoolkids crawled under desks to somehow protect themselves from a nuclear blast
    200 25
Part of Marriott International, this upscale hotel chain is found in 25 countries & territories
    200 27
This FX show with Paper Boi & Earn took a break from the hip-hop world to showcase a mock doc on the making of "A Goofy Movie"
    200 28
Jennifer Coolidge has a slight problem while staying at this title place: "Please! These gays, they're trying to murder me"
    200 29
You might use this stuff to reinforce concrete
    200 30
Conrad Veidt, cheesing in "The Man Who Laughs", has been called an inspiration for this comic book character
    400 5
Numeric nickname of the group of imprisoned & blacklisted movie professionals who refused to testify to Congress
    400 24
It's the nickname of the music legend seen here
    400 18
Here I was thinking the 2nd epilogue of this Tolstoy tome would have more Pierre & Natasha, not a critique of the great man theory
    400 22
Rose, on this show: "Like we say in St. Olaf: Christmas without fruitcake is like St. Sigmund's Day without the headless boy"
    400 17
Something that goes into developing mouths, or a household servant of yore
    400 16
Back in the 1840s a British photographer instructed folks to "say" these dried fruits so people's mouths wouldn't move much
    600 2
The end of the Cold War was hastened by this 8-letter Russian policy that Mikhail Gorbachev promoted
    600 23
It's the single-letter stock symbol for U.S. Steel
    600 7
The Guardian says this song switches styles from "ballad, to operatic excess, to hard-rock, to reflective coda"
    600 21
The many physicians who have practiced on this drama include Holley Fain & James Pickens Jr. as Drs. Canner & Webber
    600 15
This type of technician might use a CT scan to make images of your body
    600 9
Pope for around 30 days in 1978, he was known as "The Smiling Pope" & was the first to choose a double name
    800 1
In 1972 the U.S. & USSR took a first step toward reducing the threat of nuclear war via these "Talks"
    800 12
Equivalent to Mr., this letter placed before a man's name is a Burmese title of respect
    800 4
Chapter 40 of this novel sails into a play format, beginning with the stage direction "Midnight, forecastle"
    800 20
In 1966 Bruce Lee fought crime as Kato on this series
    800 14
In legal terms & elsewhere, it refers to a reply or response
    800 10
The smiling subject of "The Laughing Cavalier" by this artist is thought to be an unmarried Dutch merchant
    1000 3
From the late 1940s through the 1980s, the U.S. pursued this "restrictive" strategy of curbing Soviet expansion
    1000 13
Published in 1963, it was Thomas Pynchon's debut novel
    1000 6
This author's "White Jazz" breaks from the hardboiled narrative to feature excerpts from Hush-Hush, a Tinseltown tabloid
    1000 8
Dana Carvey was Clinton "Jafo" Wonderlove on this show adapted from a 1983 film about a high-tech police helicopter
    DD: 5,800 19
This device allows air to get from a scuba diver's oxygen tanks & into the diver's lungs
    1000 11
This ancient philosopher who developed atomic theory emphasized cheeriness; many paintings show him cheesing it up

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Victoria James Mattea
6,000 1,400 1,400

Double Jeopardy! Round

CLASSICAL IS IN
THEY DID BAD
STAR WORDS
ON THE DIRECTOR'S RÉSUMÉ
PLACES
FIND THE GREEK LETTER IN...
    400 29
Early in life, Richard Strauss completed dozens of these, from the German for "song"
    400 26
The sentence of deer poacher David Berry Jr. included a monthly viewing of this movie
    400 30
Sirius B is one of these diminutive-sounding remnants of burned-out stars
    400 28
He gave us the 1979 short "Last Hustle in Brooklyn" & the 1994 semi-autobiographical "Crooklyn"
    400 23
The word vilnis meaning "surge" gives us the name of the capital of this country
    400 21
...a word describing a young woman in a sweet, innocent & sympathetic theatrical role
    800 12
His 1875 opera caused quite the stir with depictions of women smoking cigarettes, somewhat taboo at the time
    DD: 14,000 15
Though nicknamed for a lethal weapon regulated by Congress in 1934, he doesn't seem to have killed anyone; kidnapped, yes
    800 24
Most neutron stars we've found are these, named for the way they emit bursts of radiation at regular intervals
    800 27
She starred in 2008's "Nights and Weekends", her directorial debut; she's had some bigger hits since
    DD: 4,200 9
This spot in London was once where religious types grew vegetables; looks like an "N" got dropped along the way
    800 20
...the species of mushrooms that produce a hallucinogenic experience
    1200 10
Mendelssohn used sections from Psalms & 1 Kings for his oratorio about this biblical prophet
    1200 13
Plot E in a military cemetery in France holds 94 men who received this alliterative step from the U.S. Army, then execution
    1200 4
This noun is a measure of a size in Earth talk, but in star talk it's a measure of the brightness of a star
    1200 16
"The Sound Barrier" is not as famous as some of his later efforts, like "The Bridge on the River Kwai"
    1200 5
The biggest gap in the Pan-American Highway is this one, a 60-mile stretch of jungle that's treacherous for migrants
    1200 19
...another Greek letter; what we're going for is 3 of the 5 letters
    1600 11
At age 19 this virtuoso pianist won a gold medal with a one-act opera based on a poem by his countryman Pushkin
    1600 7
This German shepherd of the Bidens' has gained notoriety by biting several Secret Service agents
    1600 2
Astronomers think stars in the tightly bound groups called these clusters are some of the oldest stars in the universe
    1600 6
"Duck, You Sucker!", starring Rod Steiger & James Coburn & set in revolutionary Mexico, is one of this European's lesser-known works
    1600 8
John van Leeuwen was the first to swim 16-mile Foveaux Strait between New Zealand's South Island & this island further south
    1600 18
...the name of a wise Centaur who mentored Achilles in Greek myth
    2000 14
After writing his only opera, "Duke Bluebeard's Castle", he served in the Hungarian Soviet Republic's music directorate
    2000 25
A book called "The Wolf of Investing" offers financial tips from this man convicted of money laundering & securities fraud
    2000 3
The stage that makes up most of a star's existence, it's the two-word classification for stars undergoing nuclear fusion
    2000 1
He spoke the silent language of horror in 1922's "Nosferatu"
    2000 22
The world's biggest Buddhist shrine is near this city, once Indonesia's capital & an initial syllable longer than the current capital
    2000 17
...the word for a building like the former Tewksbury one in Massachusetts or where excess spending puts you

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Victoria James Mattea
29,600 17,600 7,000

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Final Jeopardy! Round

FAMOUS LAST WORDS
In 1530 he made his last confession & wished that "I had served God as diligently as I have done the king"

Final scores:

Victoria James Mattea
23,999 11,200 0
Winner: 9 match points 2nd place: 5 match points 3rd place: 1 match point

Game dynamics:

Game dynamics graph

Coryat scores:

Victoria James Mattea
16,400 20,000 7,000
21 R
(including 1 DD),
2 W		 22 R
(including 1 DD),
1 W
(including 1 DD)		 11 R,
1 W

Combined Coryat: 43,400

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Game tape date: 2024-04-17
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