Jeopardy! Masters game #32 - Wednesday, May 15, 2024

2024 Jeopardy! Masters quarterfinal game 12.

Contestants

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

Amy Schneider, a writer from Oakland, California

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

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Jeopardy! Round

A STANDING ORATION
SCIENCE FICTION
BUSINESS & PLEASURE
LET'S GET COOKING
FLOATING ON A STREAM OF TV
FOREIGN WORDS
    200 30
An 1863 article in a Pennsylvania newspaper gave 10 paragraphs to an Edward Everett oration, but only one to this speech
    200 29
In an 1897 H.G. Wells tale, these invaders were killed by "disease bacteria against which their systems were unprepared"
    200 28
This 3-letter company boasts it operates "approximately 900 theatres and 10,000 screens across the globe"
    200 27
Just like pasta, grilled vegetables can be made crisp yet tender this way, meaning "to the tooth" in Italian
    200 24
On this show, Martin Short tells Steve Martin, no concertina: "You are scoring a murder mystery, not DJing a hobbit's wedding"
    200 26
"To life! To life"--this Hebrew toast means "to life"
    400 21
This defense attorney quoted A.E. Housman & Omar Khayyam in his defense for Leopold & Loeb
    400 22
The title hero of this 1985 novel is a boy genius (last name Wiggin) on his way to battle school & who might just be Earth's savior
    400 18
It was the nickname of the man who collaborated with Elliot Handler to found a toy company in the 1940s
    400 12
Yeast is one of these agents added to dough to make it rise
    400 23
In 2024 this bear voiced by Seth MacFarlane came back to life on Peacock; somehow, a toy truck named Dennis also gained sentience
    400 25
This 3-syllable German word is a theme that runs through a musical work
    600 20
This gospel singer gets the credit for getting MLK to go off-script and "tell them about the dream" in 1963
    600 6
Takeshi Kovacs has his consciousness downloaded into a new body in this "organic" Richard K. Morgan book from 2002
    600 17
A company called Whitewater makes these, like the AquaDrop & the Head Rush Mat Ride
    600 11
This verb can mean to bring up (like painful memories) or to coat food with flour or crumbs before frying
    600 19
We'd watch this Netflix title character deal with life & death(s) at Nevermore Academy any day of the week
    600 3
In 2017 a hit song taught many people that this Spanish word means "slowly"
    800 5
This master orator of the Roman Republic convinced the Senate that his rival Catiline was up to no good
    DD: 1,400 8
In novels by Dan Simmons, the planet Hyperion has a capital named for this poet who wrote an epic about the sun god Hyperion
    800 16
Teuscher of Switzerland makes these ultra-fancy chocolates in lavender & fleur de sel caramel flavors
    800 10
Seems straightforward: Latin for "to soak" gives us this verb that means to soak, usually fruit in liquid to soften it
    800 14
The pitch for this Freevee court show: "What if you (made) 'The Office' & Jim was a real person who didn't know that Dwight was an actor"
    800 1
The name of this ski turn comes from the Norwegian region where it originated
    1000 7
Don't confuse Ocala, Florida with this Native American leader who in 1834 stood up there & said, "I love my home, & will not go from it"
    1000 15
The title virus in this Neal Stephenson cyberpunk classic affects users offline & online, but Hiro Protagonist is on the case
    1000 4
The Icon of the Seas, the Oasis of the Seas & the Star of the Seas are operated by this company with a sea in its name
    1000 9
Want to sound fancy? Instead of saying "double boiler" or "water bath", use this French term; it's used for making custards
    1000 13
"Oh Lord, not Ekin-Su!" was Phaedra's memed reaction to a supposed murder in a Scottish castle on this competition show
    1000 2
This Japanese game has an onomatopoetic name--it's the sound the little metal pinballs make

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Victoria Amy Mattea
7,000 3,800 3,600

Double Jeopardy! Round

DOWN IN THE VALLEY
PREHISTORIC CREATURES
POTPOURRI
THE "RH" FACTOR
A TOTAL BANGER
KILLER RIFFS
    400 10
If you crave sapu mhicha, sort of the water buffalo version of haggis, head for the Kathmandu Valley in this country
    400 22
This school-bus-sized dinosaur is the state fossil of Colorado, where the USA's first one was discovered in 1877
    400 25
It's the bovine term for when an iceberg breaks off from a glacier
    400 26
Abattoir sounds nicer, but it's just a synonym for this horrible place
    400 29
On April 19, 1775 the first shots of the American Revolution were fired in these 2 towns
    400 28
The bass line on this tune that opens the White Stripes' "Elephant" is played on a hollowbody guitar through a whammy pedal
    800 11
A valley largely submerged by Lake Nasser bears the name of this ancient region of Egypt & Sudan
    800 6
The asteroid believed to have killed off the dinosaurs struck this peninsula 66 million years ago
    800 24
This fresco on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel shows not the physical molding of a body but God passing on the divine spark
    800 27
A tree that grows in the Middle East & Mediterranean was prized in ancient times as a source for this resin used to make incense
    800 30
After "a long blast with the ram's horn, and when ye hear the sound of the trumpet... the wall of the city shall fall" in this Bible book
    800 5
Many think it's called "Stand By Me", which dominates its chorus, but a Clash song with a classic hook has this rhyming name
    DD: 3,600 1
This valley a bit over 100 miles east of Pittsburgh gets its name from "one mountain" in a Native American language
    1200 4
Scientists at Bering Land Bridge National Preserve say these 2 types of mammals co-existed, but did they gorily tusk it out?
No info!
    1200 20
In the 1990s the wreck of this ship of Blackbeard's was found off the coast of North Carolina
    1200 18
Los Angeles, New York & Austin are some of the cities served by this eavesdropping social media account
    1200 23
Providing fusion fuel in thermonuclear bombs, lithium-6 deuteride then transforms into this hydrogen isotope
    1200 7
This Eminem & Cee-Lo song on the "Elvis" soundtrack borrows a "Jailhouse Rock" riff & a Rodgers & Hammerstein show title
    1600 12
Chateau Kefraya is in this rich agricultural valley, the Napa of Lebanon
    1600 3
A 2023 paper brings new evidence to a raging debate in paleontology saying yes, T. rex had these soft-tissue features
    1600 19
The rabbit-eared bandicoot also goes by this 5-letter name, mate
    1600 17
Cefalù is one of Palermo's glorious beaches on it
    1600 21
The sea can be scary! A pistol type of this snaps its claws to create a 218 dB water pulse that's louder than a gunshot
    1600 8
Raphael Ravenscroft got a 27-pound check for the sax riff at this 1978 Gerry Rafferty Top 10 "address"... & the check bounced!
    2000 13
Add "brücken" to this river valley to get a southwest German state capital; note there's no Ruhrbrücken
    DD: 5 9
Theropods ate flesh; these giants such as Apatosaurus & Australotitan used their long necks to eat high plants like giraffes do
    2000 14
The "Roman Carnival" overture of 1844 is one of this Frenchman's enduring works
    2000 15
This Greek-derived word is a medical synonym for rhinitis; it can mean postnasal drip or inflammation of nasal tissues
    2000 16
In quite the event, a 1908 explosion on the Podkamennaya or Stony this River was estimated to have the force of 15 megatons of TNT
    2000 2
Who else but ZZ Top would riff it up & take you to this "Texas town... They got a lot of nice girls... Have mercy, a-haw haw haw haw"

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Victoria Amy Mattea
21,005 7,800 2,800
(lock game)

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Final Jeopardy! Round

SHORT STORIES
"Down--steadily down it crept... downward with its lateral velocity. To the right--to the left" is in this 1842 tale

Final scores:

Victoria Amy Mattea
21,005 7,800 2,800
Winner: 16 match points (advance to semifinals) 2nd place: 6 match points (advance to semifinals) 3rd place: 5 match points (eliminated): 5th place: $75,000

Game dynamics:

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Coryat scores:

Victoria Amy Mattea
22,400 7,800 6,400
27 R
(including 2 DDs),
4 W		 11 R,
1 W		 13 R,
2 W
(including 1 DD)

Combined Coryat: 36,600

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Game tape date: 2024-04-18
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