Jeopardy! Masters game #27 - Friday, May 10, 2024

2024 Jeopardy! Masters quarterfinal game 7.

Contestants

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

Amy Schneider, a writer from Oakland, California

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

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Jeopardy! Round

"M" & "M"s
FLOWERS
LIKE THERE WOULDN'T BE SHAKESPEARE
COMING TO AMERICA
PLANE TALK
(Billie Jean King: I'm Billie Jean King. 50 years ago I founded the Women's Sports Foundation, and today I have clues about...)
TRAILBLAZING WOMEN IN SPORTS
    200 27
Newspapers, radio & television, & now the internet, collectively
    200 25
Named for its foul odor, this large, rare flower blooms once every several years & lasts only a day or two
    200 26
When it comes to characters in this play, I'm savoring the flavor of Flavius, veering to Varro & Calphurnia dreamin'
    200 28
On January 1, 1892 17-year-old Annie Moore of County Cork became the first person processed here
    200 29
Tower, requesting this, permission to proceed within a controlled airspace
    200 30
(Billie Jean King delivers the clue.) One of the best female soccer players in history, she was only 15 when she became a member of the U.S. women's national team & when she retired in 2004 she held a then-record of 158 international goals
    400 22
Cash carried for impulse purchases or for emergency use, like when a date goes bad
    400 23
Sweet! Get a whiff of this flowering plant--scientific name, Cestrum nocturnum--whose fragrance permeates the neighborhood
    400 4
She tells her 2 sisters, "I know what you are; and like a sister am most loath to call your faults as they are named"
    DD: 3,000 14
From 1960 to 1962 a covert program called Operation Pedro Pan brought thousands of children to the U.S. from this country
    400 15
Last name of Bill, creator of the first mass-produced business jet in the early 1960s
    400 24
(Billie Jean King delivers the clue.) Breaking barriers & setting records, in 2008 she became the first woman to win an Indy car series race & in 2009 she raced to a historic 3rd-place finish in the Indianapolis 500
    600 11
Lactation from a female equine
    600 12
Famous in song, it's Austria's national flower
    600 7
Ain't no dinner party like a tragic Shakespeare dinner party! This title guy kills his daughter & stabs the empress
    600 13
A 1950 act named for these "persons" allowed thousands of homeless European refugees to resettle in the United States
    600 18
These flaps used to control a plane's roll & banking are located out near the tips of the wings
    600 21
(Billie Jean King delivers the clue.) Considered by many to be the greatest female athlete ever, in 1992 she became the first woman to win the heptathlon at consecutive Olympic games
    800 3
An identifying symbol stamped into a product by its creator
    800 8
Less prescribed these days but long used, a heart drug called digitalis is made from the purple variety of this flower
    800 6
Stephano says to this character, "Drink, servant monster, when I bid thee"
    800 10
Until 1952 the Japanese-born immigrants known as these were barred from U.S. citizenship
    800 17
It's the general term for a wing, fin or other airplane part that produces lift as it moves through the air
    800 20
(Billie Jean King delivers the clue.) Told she'd never walk again, this athlete overcame polio to become the first American woman to win 3 gold medals in track & field at a single Olympics
    1000 2
This Whittier poem says, "For of all sad words of tongue or pen, The saddest are these: It might have been!"
    1000 5
Blooming late summer into fall, these are the "stars" of the garden
    1000 1
The settings in this play are Milan, a forest near Milan & the title city
    1000 9
During World War II, workers from Mexico helped alleviate the U.S. labor shortage via this program, from Spanish for "arm"
    1000 16
Ideal flying conditions with no cloud layer below 10,000 feet & pilots able to see for at least 10 miles are CAVU, this a
    1000 19
(Billie Jean King delivers the clue.) The "Divine Miss M" of tennis, this trailblazer dominated the game in the 1930s, won the Triple Crown at Wimbledon in 1939, including the mixed doubles with, um... Bobby Riggs, & she was also one of my early coaches

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Matt Amy Mattea
4,800 7,400 1,600

Double Jeopardy! Round

GETTING MEDIEVAL ON YOU
IN THIS CORNER...
OH, THOSE DUTCH!
PARENTS & KIDS
OSCARS FOR MAKEUP & HAIRSTYLING
12 OR MORE LETTERS
    400 30
The Albigensian one of 1209 to 1229 & the Stedinger one of the 1230s are 2 of the lesser known of these medieval campaigns
    400 29
This state's extreme northwest is one of the four corners
    400 24
A polder is land reclaimed from the sea after the resourceful Dutch build one of these levees
    400 27
Regression in this process when you thought it was done is frustrating, but remember, no one walks down the aisle in a diaper
    400 26
Makeup artist Ve Neill used moss to make Michael Keaton look like he crawled out from underneath a rock for this 1988 film
    400 28
It's the process of getting off a plane or ship
    800 22
Everything has its season, everything has its time, like the donation of Italian land by this Carolingian king to the pope
    800 16
Part of this stretch with a colorful French name, Menton is the last town in southeast France before you reach Italy
    800 23
A remnant of the Dutch colonial empire is the southern third of this Caribbean island, the non-French part
    800 21
When a state supreme court ruling began to curtail this procedure, Alabama rammed & jammed through legislation protecting it
    800 25
Frances Hannon & Mark Coulier won the award for this 2014 Wes Anderson film set in Zubrowka
    DD: 10,600 5
Regarding his firing of Douglas MacArthur, who defied orders, Pres, Truman later wrote, "I could no longer tolerate his" this
    1200 4
The byname of this 13th century saint is Dr. Angelicus, or "angelic dr.", but doesn't that kind of sound like a Marvel villain?
    1200 15
St. Sophia Church shows the strong historic links to Russia in Harbin, a city near the northeast corner of this country
    1200 19
Ted Lasso's Richmond team plays at the stadium named for this Dutch soccer legend & Ted discovers the "total football" he played
    1200 20
In California, for a judge to declare you this kind of minor, you must be 14, not living with your parents & self-supporting
    1200 9
This man has won 7 Academy Awards for makeup, including one for his work on "An American Werewolf in London"
    1200 10
Charles Goodyear accidentally discovered this process that improves rubber's strength & elasticity
    1600 3
The 14-volume Mishneh Torah, a Talmud commentary by this man, covered ethics, civil laws & even physics
    1600 14
On a cape in the southwest corner of Portugal, this 15th c. prince set up a place for explorers & geographers to share skills
    DD: 5,200 7
In 1950 he said there's a cloud beyond Pluto where long-period comets come from
    1600 18
Really the "long" & the "short" of it, it's the parenting cliche that reigns supreme per the website The Bump
    1600 8
For this 2015 film, Lesley Vanderwalt got the idea for Furiosa's look from an image of a girl with clay across her forehead
    1600 11
Many reptiles reproduce via this 15-letter "virgin birth" method by which embryos develop from unfertilized eggs
    2000 2
Pisa's cathedral is a notable example of this architectural style that was dominant in Western Europe until Gothic came along
    2000 13
To go from southeast Angola to northwest Botswana you cross this Namibian strip named for a 19th century German leader
    2000 1
In Rembrandt's time the greatest Dutch landscape painter was this tree-loving guy named Jacob
    2000 17
The anti-affection parenting ideas of John B. Watson, the father of this -ism, chilled the youth of his grandchild Mariette Hartley
    2000 6
In her 2021 acceptance speech, hairstylist Mia Neal thanked Viola Davis & "the spirit of" this blues singer
    2000 12
If you watch "7 Little Johnstons" or "Little People, Big World", you might know that this is the most common form of dwarfism

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Matt Amy Mattea
8,000 26,400 18,000

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Final Jeopardy! Round

THE 20th CENTURY
Hearing about the speech that launched this eponymous process, the head of the CIA wondered if Nikita Khrushchev had been drunk

Final scores:

Matt Amy Mattea
16,000 36,001 18,000
3rd place: 1 match point Winner: 4 match points 2nd place: 2 match points

Game dynamics:

Game dynamics graph

Coryat scores:

Matt Amy Mattea
8,000 14,000 14,400
15 R,
3 W		 17 R
(including 2 DDs),
1 W		 21 R
(including 1 DD),
3 W

Combined Coryat: 36,400

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Game tape date: 2024-04-18
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