Jeopardy! Masters game #30 - Monday, May 13, 2024

2024 Jeopardy! Masters quarterfinal game 10.

Contestants

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

Amy Schneider, a writer from Oakland, California

Yogesh Raut, a cognitive and behavioral scientist from Vancouver, Washington

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Jeopardy! Round

MIDDLE NAME, PLEASE
MAIS OUI, FRENCH LIT
HAVING AN IN-OF-BODY EXPERIENCE
WHAT MONTH IS IT?
3-WORD PHRASES
I'M CHRIS PRATT
(Chris Pratt: ...with clues about my career.)
    200 26
Of
James Cagney,
Jimmy Durante &
Robert Kennedy
    200 30
A crowd lets this Parisian character hear it, calling him "the one-eyed!... the bandy-legged!"
    200 29
This lymphatic system organ is on the left side of the abdominal cavity under the diaphragm, & I'll vent mine if you don't know it
    200 23
A growing trend started in 2011 when a British woman named Emily Robinson stopped drinking for this month
    200 21
If you don't win, perhaps you'll at least go out in one of these luminous conclusions
    200 20
(Chris Pratt delivers the clue.) Technically, I could show up in pajamas when I do voice work for characters like Super Mario, Emmet Brickowski & this lasagna-loving feline created by Jim Davis... but I don't
    400 25
Of President James Polk
    400 27
The narrator of this children's book believes the title royal is from out of town... asteroid B-612, to be precise
    400 28
A growth hormone secreting adenoma in this gland on the brain's underside is the most common cause of gigantism
    400 24
Winston Churchill & his Cabinet are seen celebrating victory in this month
    400 22
The opposite of dead & buried, this 3-word phrase was the title of a 1985 hit by Simple Minds
    400 16
(Chris Pratt delivers the clue.) My character Andy Dwyer was only supposed to be in a few episodes of this sitcom, but the level of goofball was so enjoyable that he became a series regular
    600 3
Of author Erich Remarque & Supreme Court justice Sonia Sotomayor
    600 9
Subtitled "The Impostor", this comedy by Molière has the title scoundrel making Orgon's life miserable
    600 15
If someone says you're getting long in the tooth, they're probably looking at these 8 front teeth
    600 14
On a cool day in this month, Jackie Robinson broke the MLB color line; his wife got a hot dog vendor to warm Jackie Jr.'s formula
    600 13
Riders on the London underground are familiar with this equivalent of "watch your step"
    600 19
(Chris Pratt delivers the clue.) In "Moneyball", Brad Pitt bets on statistics like on-base percentage & a big test case is playing my real-life character, the journeyman Major Leaguer Scott Hatteberg, on this team
    800 2
Of inventor Samuel Morse--one of the 2
    800 8
A stay in a chateau? Sounds lovely! But not for the Abbe Faria, "imprisoned as you know in this Château... since the year 1811"
    DD: 1,600 11
Alphabetically, the brain's main lobes are frontal, occipital, parietal & this one responsible for hearing & memory
    800 10
A set of early 1500s tapestries in a Milan castle has one for each month; the old man represents Saturn, whose -alia was in this month
    800 12
From Mercury Control in 1962: "Pilot John Glenn is reporting" this; "He is giving routine reports reading off his instruments"
    800 18
(Chris Pratt delivers the clue.) I worked hard to lose 60 pounds to play Peter Quill, also known by this name in "Guardians of the Galaxy"; the toughest part--brace yourselves--I quit drinking beer
    1000 1
Of Charles Lindbergh, a name fit for a Roman emperor
    1000 4
After running off with Paul Verlaine in 1872, he had some "Illuminations", those being a group of prose poems
    1000 5
Pain in your pectineus muscle, which flexes the thigh at the hip, is a sign of this anatomically named sports strain
    1000 6
We didn't promise only the Western calendar: it begins the Islamic year
    1000 7
A 1944 hit song popularized this title meaning to emphasize the good stuff
    1000 17
(Chris Pratt delivers the clue.) In "The Magnificent Seven", I joined a cast with Denzel Washington & Ethan Hawke who returned to work with this man who directed them both in "Training Day"

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Yogesh Amy Mattea
5,200 6,600 2,600

Double Jeopardy! Round

NAVAL GAZING
GERMAN WORDS
NAMES IN SONGS
GETTING TOUGH ON THE BORDERS
WHY ARE YOU RUNNING?
THE "F.B.", I
    400 30
Convoys during WWII had to be on the lookout for these "canine" groups of U-boats that would hunt them at night
    400 29
Sitzfleisch can mean the ability to do a task for a long time without rising, or can be this part of your body
    400 19
In a viral song, Drake was caught in his feelings & asked this name, "Do you love me? Are you riding?"
    400 16
Austria has borders with 8 other countries; the shortest, just 21 miles, is with this little land
    400 20
Devout Christian Eric Liddell ran for more than medals & skipped the 1924 Olympic 100-meter dash for this reason
    400 28
People... people who sing "People", like Barbra Streisand did playing this woman, are the luckiest people in the world
    800 11
Vital to early navigators, this form of magnetite was sometimes armed with steel that boosted its magnetic strength
    800 26
Erfolgsfans, meaning people who glom onto winning teams, is associated with supporters of FC Bayern, based in this city
    800 18
An Erykah Badu song says, "I think ya better call" this title guy--"but you can't use my phone"
    DD: 2,600 1
Estonia's only borders are with Russia & this
    800 10
Javier Milei ran for president in 2023 to bring libertarian policies & perhaps a new hairstyle craze to this country; he won
    800 27
On Jan. 1, 1959 this leader said adios to Cuba, fleeing to the Dominican Republic
    1200 2
If you can't use celestial navigation to figure out where you are, try this "mortal" method that uses distance & direction traveled
    1200 24
It's German for "sweetheart" or more literally, "little love"
    1200 17
This blues musician named an album & song "Lucille"
    1200 23
They're the 2 countries that border El Salvador
    1200 8
If not for Yoda, a police dog of this Low Country's breed, a prison escapee, who in 2023 caused a two-week manhunt, might still be running
    1200 14
James I's lord chancellor from 1618 to 1621
    1600 3
The clash on this lake in 1823 saw Simón Bolivar's tiny fleet whoop the Spanish, thereby assuring Venezuelan independence a
    DD: 8,800 15
Nietzsche's Zarathustra says that he ist der Sinn der Erde, "is the meaning of the Earth"
    1600 4
In a song by the Beatles, we're told this alliterative man likes to yell obscenities at the Queen
    1600 22
Thailand has land borders with Burma, Laos, Cambodia & this country
    1600 7
He ran for New York City mayor in 1933 to root out Tammany Hall corruption & held the job for 12 years
    1600 13
College football's best receiver gets to catch a trophy named for this Oakland Raiders legend, the MVP of Super Bowl 11
    2000 25
Here is a depiction of this critical engagement of September 5, 1781, aka the Battle of the Virginia Capes
    2000 6
Are you clearing your throat or saying this 4-letter German word meaning "authentic"
    2000 5
In this Red Hot Chili Peppers song, the title anti-heroine robs banks & steals hearts
    2000 21
To its west, Ghana;
to its east, Benin;
to its north, Burkina Faso;
to its south, a whole lotta water
    2000 9
"I've never been so free", says the narrator of this Alan Sillitoe story who's put to running cross-country in a reformatory
    2000 12
This astronaut broadcast, "from the crew of Apollo 8... God bless all of you--all of you on the good Earth"

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Yogesh Amy Mattea
17,200 9,800 20,400

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round

ANAGRAMS
One is a procedure foundational to computer science; the other was made in large part obsolete by computers

Final scores:

Yogesh Amy Mattea
0 2,399 6,399
3rd place: 10 match points 2nd place: 5 match points Winner: 5 match points

Game dynamics:

Game dynamics graph

Coryat scores:

Yogesh Amy Mattea
17,200 9,000 11,400
20 R,
2 W		 17 R
(including 1 DD),
2 W		 14 R
(including 2 DDs),
1 W

Combined Coryat: 37,600

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Game tape date: 2024-04-18
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