Jeopardy! Masters game #29 - Monday, May 13, 2024

2024 Jeopardy! Masters quarterfinal game 9.

Contestants

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

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

(Ken: As my kids often say to me...)
THAT'S A DATED REFERENCE
LEGAL ABBREVIATIONS
I WANT CANDY
SPORTS JEOPARDY! LIVES AGAIN!
OVER THE HILLS
& FAR AWAY
    200 26
On Jan. 4, 1958 this 184-pound man-made object burned up in Earth's atmosphere
    200 20
The ADA, short for this, was signed into law by George H.W. Bush
    200 27
The Cactus Candy Company of Arizona is famous for its candy flavored with the juice of this fruit
    200 19
Ralph Kiner: "The reason the Mets have played so well at" this stadium "is they have the best home record in baseball"
    200 29
Like the cliffs of Dover, the Chiltern Hills of the London basin are composed of this type of soft limestone
    200 30
This alliterative hyphenated word uses a synonym for tossed
    400 25
Centuries after her death, she was canonized on May 16, 1920, & a French national holiday for her is on the 2nd Sunday in May
    400 21
An option for those who have not incorporated is filing a DBA, meaning this
    400 17
Popular in the South, this old-fashioned meringue-based, nougat-like candy sounds heaven sent
    400 18
In 1979 Paul Newman finished second in this long auto race that's been held in France since 1923; come on, we haven't got all day
    400 4
The Siebengebirge in Germany can translate to this in English, more famously a set "of Rome"
    400 28
If you're out of this, the distance within which a voice can be heard, you're not going to be much good as a snoop
    600 7
On Oct. 15, 1858 he debated his opponent for the 7th & last time; on Jan. 5, 1859 he was named the winner in the Illinois Senate race
    600 22
Federal tax law is enacted in this, IRC for short
    600 12
Consisting of a variety of chocolate-covered nuts, fruits, caramels & more, this candy takes the trick
    600 14
"Wide World of Sports" opened with ski jumper/crasher Vinko Bogataj, symbolizing this phrase
    600 3
In 1983 Pontiac Township merged with another locality to become this "colorful" place
    600 10
This 6-letter word is used for work done from home & of a TV broadcast done outside of the studio
    800 6
On June 22, 1611 mutineers put him, his son & 7 others off the discovery & onto a small boat in what would be named his bay
    800 23
Abbreviated POA, it's a document that allows one person to make legal decisions for another
    800 15
Jelly Belly puts out Every Flavour Beans, including earthworm & earwax, under the name of this Harry Potter confectioner
    800 13
In the 1979-80 NHL season, he scored 15 goals & had 26 assists for the Hartford Whalers; not a bad season... for a 51-year-old
    800 1
Kenya's Cherangany Hills form the western edge of this vast valley that's volcanically active
    800 9
The U.S. Air Force song says, "Off we go into" this place, "climbing high into the sun"
    1000 5
On August 15, 1947 he became the first prime minister of India, a job he held until his death 17 years later
    1000 24
Abbreviated SJ, it means the judge rules in a case without a full trial
    1000 16
Often flavored with rosewater, lokum is another name for this jelly confection
    1000 8
After grabbing 20 rebounds vs. Iowa & Caitlin Clark in 2024, this LSU star used her Vogue photo shoot to declare for the WNBA draft
    1000 2
A plateau of Balochistan, the largest province in this country by area, includes the Chagai Hills on its northern border
    DD: 4,200 11
It can mean an island far removed from others in its archipelago as well as something atypical in any group

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Victoria James Matt
13,600 6,200 -200

Double Jeopardy! Round

SPEAKING MY LANGUAGE
IF YOU BUILD IT
NATIVE AMERICAN HISTORY & CULTURE
THAT'S RIGHT, 16-LETTER WORDS
LOOKING FOR SOMETHING TO READ
BLAXPLOITATION FILMS
    400 13
This nation's 12 official languages include Ndebele, Sotho, Xhosa & Zulu
    400 16
If one of these structures is formed by 2 symmetrical double curves ending in a point at the top, its called an ogee
    400 18
This 1811 battle ended Tecumseh's plans for a confederacy of tribes
    400 30
An M.D. who specializes in putting you under
    400 20
Chess, reverse imagery & the poem "Jabberwocky" appear in this sequel from the 1870s
    400 21
This title character from a 1972 film was an 18th century African prince before his monstrous transformation
    800 10
Cryptophasia is the term for this unusual type of language that only its pairs of speakers understand
    800 15
Around 1175 William of Sens copied elements from Notre Dame in the rebuilding of this English cathedral after a fire
    800 8
Under federal law, members of the Native American church are allowed to ingest this hallucinogenic cactus in ceremonies
    800 29
It's how you're speaking when you talk on the spur of the moment
    DD: 7,400 4
Miles Halter heads to boarding school in this young adult novel whose title refers to a girl, not a state
    800 22
Gordon Parks was a photographer for Life magazine before directing Richard Roundtree in this 1971 film
    1200 7
This fictional language in "Game of Thrones" has more than a dozen different words for horse
    DD: 20,800 12
Trained in the Georgian style, James Hoban won a contest & the commission to build this, beginning construction in 1792
    1200 5
Quanah Parker was a leader of this Western tribe, perhaps the greatest horsemen of all native peoples
    1200 28
A military attack undertaken in response to a prior attack by a foe
    1200 3
Released posthumously, "Look at the Birdie" collected 14 of his previously unpublished stories
    1200 23
AKA "the Hammer", this actor & ex-Kansas City Chief starred with fellow football player Jim Brown in "Three the Hard Way"
    1600 6
Spoken by millions in Southeast Asia, it follows "Mon" in the name of a language family
    1600 11
Buildings designed by this Chicago "Father of Skyscrapers" include one at State & Madison that now bears his name
    1600 19
In 1998, this first woman to become principal chief of the Cherokee Nation was awarded a Presidential Medal of Freedom
    1600 27
Stalin-era policy that forced peasants onto big farms
    1600 2
Altamont stands in for Asheville, North Carolina in this book, Thomas Wolfe's first novel
    1600 24
This 1974 film had Pam Grier in the title role; Tarantino paid homage to it with a similarly named film also starring Pam
    2000 9
"The Epic of Gilgamesh" was written in Akkadian, which supplanted this, considered the world's oldest written language
    2000 14
With a name from a village in Greece, it's a supporting column sculpted in the form of a draped female figure
    2000 17
The Iroquois League of New York was originally composed of the Cayuga, Mohawk, Seneca & these 2 "on" the list
    2000 26
It's the science of charges & their associated fields & forces
    2000 1
Published in the 1880s, his utopian novel "Looking Backward" was set in the year 2000
    2000 25
A 2019 biopic included the making of this 1975 comedy about a pimp settling scores

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Victoria James Matt
46,000 19,600 2,200
(lock game)

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round

AROUND THE WORLD
Almost twice the size of Texas but with the population of Lubbock, this part of Australia rejected statehood in a 1998 referendum

Final scores:

Victoria James Matt
50,000 31,514 2,200
Winner: 13 match points 2nd place: 6 match points 3rd place: 1 match point

Game dynamics:

Game dynamics graph

Coryat scores:

Victoria James Matt
23,200 13,000 2,200
28 R
(including 2 DDs),
1 W		 21 R
(including 1 DD),
4 W		 5 R,
3 W

Combined Coryat: 38,400

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Game tape date: 2024-04-18
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