Jeopardy! Masters game #33 - Friday, May 17, 2024

2024 Jeopardy! Masters semifinal game 1.

Contestants

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

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

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

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Jeopardy! Round

SCANDINAVIA
WE QUOTE THE REALITY TV SHOW
AN INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING
BOOK NOIR
LIKE A "G"6
(Ken: Responses are six letters long and begin with the letter G.)
(Lisa Ann Walter: I'm Celebrity Jeopardy! champion Lisa Ann Walter. I wish I could join you in the Masters competition, but instead I'm contributing a category about my not-so-secret passion...)
MUSCLE CARS
    200 26
Norway has the longest coastline in Europe & one of the most jagged due to these long narrow inlets
    200 24
"I open the door, & Khloé slams the door right in my face. & it infuriates me, like I literally want to kill her... I'm so angry"
    200 25
In 2023 IBM introduced a platform called this name "X", "to train, tune and distribute models with generative AI"
    200 20
Chapter 2 of "The Maltese Falcon" has a 100-word description of this man rolling a cigarette
    200 12
It's an attic, like a small Parisian one where an artist might stay
    200 22
(Lisa Ann Walter delivers the clue.) Designed to dominate NASCAR, the Plymouth Superbird shows its racing origins in its aerodynamic nose & its huge wing type of this device designed to counteract lift & keep the rear end on the track
    400 7
A trip to Copenhagen wouldn't be complete without visiting this 180-year-old theme park with rides, lush scenery & entertainment
    400 23
"Impersonating Beyoncé is not your destiny, child"
    400 21
It's the name on the no-strings award of $800,000 given to one the organization calls a "fellow" & others, a genius
    400 6
His color-titled Easy Rawlins novels like "A Little Yellow Dog" get the noir tag; he says, "People say it, & I let them"
    400 19
Juan Moreira was a famous one around the Rio de la Plata
    400 27
(Lisa Ann Walter delivers the clue.) Featuring a mammoth 455-cubic-inch V8 engine, the 1970 Buick GSX zoomed around with an impressive 350 horsepower & 510 foot-pounds of this
    600 2
This peninsula that forms the mainland of Denmark accounts for about 70% of the country's total area
    600 18
"You are the new head of household"; also, "Rachel is a complete ho-bag. Seriously, girl?... Straight-up jealous of me... since day 1"
    600 10
Here's a Mensa question for you: "Can you think of an American tree whose name contains all five vowels?" (it's this)
    600 5
HarperCollins Noir is the French publisher of this director's first novel, "Heat 2", continuing the story of a film of his
    600 15
Terry Butler, born in Birmingham, England in 1949, is better known as this
    600 28
(Lisa Ann Walter delivers the clue.) Melissa Schemmenti, my character on "Abbott Elementary", loves Italian stuff, but in real life, I love this legendary American muscle car that was rolled out by Dodge in 1970 & rebooted to great acclaim in 2008; I've owned four
    800 1
Best known for his system of binomial nomenclature, in the 1740s he became a professor at the University of Uppsala
    800 17
"I've never given a handshake for a showstopper before... That is a fantastic cake. Well done"
    800 9
An antiquated classification for one with a very low IQ combined with a French-derived word to give us this 2-word term
    800 3
A masterful creator of amoral heroes, she made noir even out of sunny Greece in "The Two Faces of January"
    800 14
Meriones unguiculatus, it's a popular childhood pet
    800 29
(Lisa Ann Walter delivers the clue.) Pontiac introduced the sporty Firebird in 1967; in 1969 it brought out this even more powerful variant that took its name from a series of races held at tracks across the country
    1000 4
Between 946 & 1957 Norway haad at least 7 kings with this name
    1000 16
"Seaside's so beautiful! Look at the garbage"
    DD: 3,600 11
This scale was co-developed by psychologists at a U.S. university & in France
    1000 8
Titles don't get much noirer than this, of Dorothy B. Hughes' novel about Dix Steele & of the movie with Bogie & Gloria Grahame
    1000 13
This Chinese tree is known to drop all of its leaves on the same day
    1000 30
(Lisa Ann Walter delivers the clue.) Count off the barrels in its carburetor, the speeds in its transmission & its dual exhaust pipes to get the numeric name of this classic 1964 Oldsmobile

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Victoria Yogesh James
9,800 2,600 3,800

Double Jeopardy! Round

PARTY LIKE IT'S 1884
BROADWAY
ANCIENT LIT
THAT'S JUST LAWFUL
YOU OWE US AN "OLOGY"
(Ken: There it is! Tournament favorite...)
BEFORE, DURING & AFTER
    400 30
In December a metal tip brought it to a total height of 555 feet, 5.125 inches--the tallest human-built structure in the world
    400 29
Betty Buckley made her Broadway debut as Martha Jefferson in this musical
    400 28
A Euripides play tells the sufferings of Hecuba & the other women of this city who are taken into slavery after its fall
    400 27
The 4th Amendment enforces the right of people to be secure in their houses "against unreasonable" these 2 pluralized things
    400 26
The dogmatic type of this talks about God; the moral type is concerned with human behavior
    400 17
Battle of Little Bighorn aka gets some cinematic schooling from Edward James Olmos to give us a line in the Lord's Prayer
    800 7
In June 1884 he arrived in America with 4 cents in his pocket & a letter of introduction to Thomas Edison
    800 21
Ben Platt & Laura Dreyfuss sang "Only Us" in this musical; Ben & Kaitlyn Dever, in the movie version
    800 25
As a Sophocles play opens, this title king of Thebes is trying to save his city from a plague
    800 19
It's not hard, it's an interest granted by deed to use land owned by another for a specific limited purpose, like a right-of-way
    800 16
You can tell an Algerian nuthatch from an Andean tit-spinetail? You must be an expert in this!
    800 18
Darlin', can't you hear a title ABBA distress signal that gets motor oil treatment & becomes an acronym for kissing & such
    1200 6
In October he received a patent for photographic film; his camera would come a few years later
    1200 13
The title character of this Tony-winning musical is a 16-year-old with a rare genetic disorder that causes rapid aging
    1200 2
Not the way I'd teach science, but Lucretius decided to explain "the nature of things" in a long poem of these 6-foot lines
    1200 14
Note the year in "Black's Law Dictionary" for a hanging this: "(2000)... attached to the ballot by a single point"
    1200 15
From Greek for "knowledge", it's the study of knowledge
    1200 20
Slumber-averse Beastie Boys song summoning Andy Samberg's TV cops to Dante's infernal echelons
    1600 3
Independent Republicans who backed Democrat Grover Cleveland in the 1884 election were called these, from Algonquian
    1600 12
The musical "Mack and Mabel" looked at the romantic & work partnerships of Mack Sennett & this silent screen star
    1600 23
These pastoral poems by Virgil are also known as "The Bucolics"
    1600 11
The Supreme Court often pulls a GVR: grant certiorari; vacate the prior decision; this "R" returning the case to a lower court
    1600 5
It's the branch of metaphysics concerned with the study of being
    DD: 3,000 22
Carson McCullers novel about a gonzo journalist who hits the road with bandmates to sing songs like "Hold Me Now"
    2000 4
In January this composer's opéra-comique "Manon" premiered in Paris
    2000 1
The song "Tea For Two" comes from this 1925 musical in which one Louise Groody played the woman mentioned in the title
    DD: 8,200 9
Aristophanes' animal-titled works include "The Birds", "The Frogs" & this one that's actually about litigious Athenians
    2000 10
CJS is shorthand for this widely used legal encyclopedia with a Latin name
    2000 8
Psychopathology is another name for this 2-word discipline, the study of mental disorders
    2000 24
WWII B-29 piloted by Paul Tibbets that gets a multicolored June holiday feting Elizabeth Bennet's victory over the walking dead

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Victoria Yogesh James
18,000 24,400 13,000

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Final Jeopardy! Round

NATIVE AMERICAN LANGUAGE
In 1612 John Smith published a Powhatan word list including these 2 words familiar to us today, one worn in pairs & one wielded

Final scores:

Victoria Yogesh James
9,999 36,001 13,098
3rd place: 0 match points Winner: 3 match points 2nd place: 1 match point

Game dynamics:

Game dynamics graph

Coryat scores:

Victoria Yogesh James
14,000 18,200 13,000
19 R
(including 2 DDs),
2 W		 19 R
(including 1 DD),
2 W		 18 R,
2 W

Combined Coryat: 45,200

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Game tape date: 2024-04-30
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