Jeopardy! Masters game #34 - Friday, May 17, 2024

2024 Jeopardy! Masters semifinal game 2.

Contestants

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Amy Schneider, a writer from Oakland, California

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

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

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Jeopardy! Round

I'LL BE BACH
PODCASTS
TRIPLE LETTER FUN
FURNITURE
OUR VAST PAST
PERIODICALS
    200 25
J.S. Bach was a force in this music style that, roughly speaking, began in 1600 & ended in 1750, when Bach ended too
    200 26
Fitting title of a podcast about 20th c. Hollywood, or the first 4 words of "As Time Goes By", heard in "Casablanca"
    200 27
3 Ps:
A period of learning under an experienced worker
    200 28
This type of cupboard gets its name from its former use: storing weapons
    200 29
James Cook gave this name to his first landfall in Australia because of a plethora of new plant species there
    200 30
"A trusted theatre resource since 1884", it first used its black & yellow logo in the 1950s
    400 17
Music based on the sufferings of Jesus on the cross; Bach wrote a "St. John" as well as a "St. Matthew" one
    400 22
On "Crime Stories with" her, this legal commentator & former prosecutor asks tough questions
    400 23
3 Us:
A smaller group within a society with its own behaviors & attitudes
    400 24
Tradition says the first piece of this woven furniture to arrive in America was a baby cradle on the Mayflower in 1620
    400 5
Ending in 1868, Japan's peaceful Tokugawa period is also known by this name, the former name of Tokyo
    400 18
In 2021 this magazine changed its name to Scout Life, reflecting a new diversity in its parent organization
    DD: 5,000 16
In 1721 Bach dipped into the masterpiece bin & dedicated a series of works to the Margrave of this
    600 19
In 2020 the staff of this Ira Glass radio program & podcast became the first-ever recipients of a Pulitzer Prize for audio reporting
    600 13
3 Gs:
Denis Quilley played this role in "Hamlet" in 2000
    600 21
This piece of furniture is the title of a song by Wet Leg; it's also repeated all day long in the chorus
    600 4
Depicted here is the unique meeting between Henry VIII & Francis I dubbed "The Field of" this costly fabric
    600 9
This mag has been rocking & rating since 1936, when the public had little reliable info to buy a console radio or straight razor
    800 10
Bach's solo suites for this instrument got new exposure after an 1890 find by a kid browsing sheet music in Barcelona
    800 1
You could say this podcast hosted by Jason Bateman, Sean Hayes & Will Arnett is a no-brainer
    800 11
3 Cs:
A papal letter intended for the whole church
    800 20
Footstool options include the ottoman, which offers storage, & this, also a word for a clump of grass, which does not
    800 2
Nicknamed Buck, this lawyer & co-commander at the Alamo is believed to have died early on in the fight from a bullet to the head
    800 6
Look on grandpa's toilet tank for issues of this magazine of the U.S. past founded by Civil War historian Bruce Catton
    1000 15
This work in 32 sections has been called "a musical peak that almost all major pianists have attempted to scale"
    1000 14
In 2021 this neuroscientist & tenured California professor launched his popular "Lab" health podcast
    1000 12
3 Ts:
Word for a rickety old car that makes a lot of noise
    1000 8
In 1994 Herman Miller introduced this ergonomic chair, called "the world's most coveted office chair"
    1000 3
Herodotus relates that this man was a "hemerodromos", or professional runner; he made a legendary one
    1000 7
This periodical named for financier Clarence W. is a sister publication of The Wall Street Journal

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Yogesh Victoria Amy
4,000 11,200 -200

Double Jeopardy! Round

BRIDGES
FLAVOR PROFILE?
ONE-WORD MOVIE TITLES
SAY IT "IN" LATIN
THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT
ETERNAL SUNSHINE
    400 17
In March 2024 a Baltimore bridge named for this man tragically collapsed
    400 21
Add "-ly" to this "spicy" 6-letter word & it means very cautious or tentatively
    400 24
At the end of this Christopher Nolan film, a shaken Guy Pearce asks, "Now, where was I"?
    400 27
It means "before birth" & is the title of a 1993 No. 1 album
    400 30
Keats' "Ode on Melancholy" wants you to wallow in sadness, so "No, no, go not to" this mythic river of forgetfulness
    400 29
A state song says, "The cattle crop the clover, / And its breath is in the air, / While the sun is shining over / Our beloved" this
    800 14
A Cold-War-flavored word for a Russian, it simply means "Russian", & is the name of an island & a bridge linking it to Vladivostok
    800 20
This oxide of uranium is processed, not baked & probably not what you want on your birthday
    800 25
Charles Boyer tries to drive Ingrid Bergman crazy in this thriller we're sure you've seen before
    800 26
A sculpture of King Decebalus is 180' high & carved into a Danube cliff, so you need to see it this way, Latin for "where it is"
    800 1
"One calm summer night", the title figure of this Edwin Arlington Robinson poem "went home and put a bullet through his head"
    800 28
Geomagnetic solar storm plus: auroras visible everywhere! Minus: it fries satellites, like the 38 made by this Musk-y co.
    1200 13
Santiago Calatrava designed Dallas' Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge over this river, part of an effort to rejuvenate the river basin
    1200 15
If you have a cottage garden, you will definitely want to plant this flower, a member of the pink family
    1200 18
Deeming light speed too slow, the villain in this film opts for "ludicrous speed", then things get plaid
    DD: 6,000 16
This narrative device is in contrast to beginning a story ab ovo ("from the egg")
    1200 3
"The Awful Rowing Toward God" by this American was published in 1975, the year after she took her own life
    1200 7
Completes the title of an Iron Maiden song based on J. Robert Oppenheimer & the atom bomb, "Brighter than..."
    1600 11
A pedestrian suspension bridge is part of a trail leading to this end-of-the-alphabet Swiss village
    1600 10
"See That My Grave Is Kept Clean" is a signature song by this seminal blues guitarist, sometimes called the "Father of the Texas Blues"
    DD: 7,600 6
This Sidney Lumet drama is set at the Union Broadcasting Systems
    1600 9
Penitents can feel relieved when they hear this phrase that comes right after the Latin for "I absolve you from your sins"
    1600 5
He wrote about how the world keeps spinning while we suffer & grieve in poems like "Musée des Beaux Arts" & "Funeral Blues"
    1600 23
The idea that public knowledge sets problems right is said as "sunlight is the best" this, based on a Louis Brandeis essay
    2000 12
The "Father of Railways", this builder of early 19th c. locomotives also designed the Gaunless railway bridge in Durham
    2000 19
"Pineapple Head" is a collection of essays by this Japanese author
    2000 2
The title of this Ethan Hawke sci-fi flick is spelled using the letters representing the 4 DNA bases
    2000 8
It means for oneself, especially when going to court without a lawyer
    2000 4
In "Sympathy", this poet wrote, "I know why the caged bird beats his wing till its blood is red on the cruel bars"
    2000 22
The first person to see a spacecraft named for him launched was Eugene Parker, "Father of" the field known by this sunny term

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Yogesh Victoria Amy
13,200 27,200 -3,000
(lock game)

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Final Jeopardy! Round

ALSO SEEN AT THE CIRCUS
FDR gets credit for implementing this as a concept in the U.S. & the metaphor was used by FDR Jr., running for office in 1966

Final scores:

Yogesh Victoria Amy
1 27,200 -3,000
2nd place: 4 match points Winner: 3 match points 3rd place: 0 match points

Game dynamics:

Game dynamics graph

Coryat scores:

Yogesh Victoria Amy
7,200 18,000 -3,000
18 R
(including 1 DD),
4 W		 22 R
(including 2 DDs),
3 W		 8 R,
6 W

Combined Coryat: 22,200

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Game tape date: 2024-04-30
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