Jeopardy! Masters game #35 - Monday, May 20, 2024

2024 Jeopardy! Masters semifinal game 3.

Contestants

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Amy Schneider, a writer from Oakland, California

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

SHORT KINGDOMS
THERE'S "A" NOUN FOR THAT
LET'S PLAY BINGO!
A STATE CAPITAL WORD
(Ken: Each response will contain within it the name of a state capital.)
CHAPEAU-POURRI
MASTERING THE PLANET'S FUTURE
(Bill Nye: I'm Bill Nye with clues about what may be in our planet's future; some of it involves looking to the past.)
    200 10
In 1736 German adventurer Theodore I was crowned king of this island of the Bonapartes, but he ghosted that same year
    200 11
A person or thing that's out of place in time
    200 20
This Oscar winner for "Chicago" credits bingo for her start after her family won enough money to send her to dance lessons
    200 2
Celebrating an explorer, a big event of 1893 was the World's this Exposition
    200 25
The bonnet rouge was called this "cap" in the French Revolution, one of the 3 things being fought for
    200 30
(Bill Nye delivers the clue.) As CEO of the nonprofit Planetary Society, I advocate for space exploration, following in the footsteps of this first Society president who introduced me to the wonders of astronomy as my professor at Cornell University
    400 9
The short-lived Qin Dynasty lasted from 221 to 206 B.C. & was followed by this other 3-letter dynasty
    400 12
It's a furniture covering originally meant to protect against an old type of hair oil
    400 19
In the bingo lingo of game callers, this 2-digit number is sometimes called an "Adele" after that singer's third studio album
    400 3
The type of book that tells you where to find a certain word in another book
    400 24
This hat worn by the French Foreign Legion is in the name of their official magazine
    400 29
(Bill Nye delivers the clue.) Don't believe that a species can change the whole world? You wouldn't have been able to breath Earth's atmosphere until some 2 billion years ago after newly evolved organisms like blue-green algae started creating oxygen as a by-product of this process
    600 8
In the 1860s he was the sole emperor of an attempt at a French-influenced Mexican Empire
    600 13
It's an old-timey word for a balloonist
    600 18
Bingo, the large orange gorilla on this TV show, played drums in their band & was voiced by Daws Butler
    600 4
This Middle Eastern capital city has the Lion of Judah on its city seal
    600 23
A Frenchwoman named Caroline Reboux created this bell-shaped chapeau
    600 28
(Bill Nye delivers the clue.) In a 2021 appearance before Congress, I encouraged bold investment in this energy technology that hasn't yet been proven practical but might one day provide virtually limitless clean, safe power
    DD: 1,000 1
In 1814 this historic German state was made into a kingdom for a little while, largely through the influence of England
    800 14
From Latin for to wander or stray, it's something that deviates from the norm
    800 17
Playing the game in this movie, Johnny Knoxville suggests making it "strip bingo" & that's just the beginning
    800 5
Using up all one's resources is doing this to them, also a word for an experience like a marathon
    800 22
Catherinette hats, worn by unmarried women 25 & older, are named for Saint Catherine, a patron of these, aka hatmakers
    800 27
(Bill Nye delivers the clue.) My book "Undeniable" explains that because the Earth is not a closed system, but is constantly receiving energy from the Sun, the process of evolution does not violate the second law of this, as some doubters have argued
    1000 7
This empire that shares its name with a big West African country began by defeating the short-lived Sosso Kingdom c. 1235
    1000 15
It's the grammatical case that marks the direct object of a verb
    1000 16
He beat out Shecky Greene for the role of Larry David's dad in episodes of "Curb Your Enthusiasm" like "Kamikaze Bingo"
    1000 6
The act of yielding control of territory, like of Hong Kong
    1000 21
Cherchez la femme--this femme who has a bonnet named for her & perhaps for her homicidal ways
    1000 26
(Bill Nye delivers the clue.) On my podcast "Science Rules" my guests & I discuss such diverse topics as racism in science, Neanderthal sex & the mass extinction that ended this geologic period some 66 million years ago

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Victoria James Amy
5,200 5,200 0

Double Jeopardy! Round

UNREAL ESTATE
ACTUAL PLACES
MOVIE CHANGE A LETTER
PSYCH
TOUGH CROSSWORD CLUES
JOURNALISTS
    400 30
St. Petersburg, Missouri is the fictional hometown of Tom Sawyer & was based on this town where Mark Twain grew up
    400 25
Due to an agreement with the Anangu people, one can no longer climb to the top of this Down Under monolith
    400 26
It's 1935 in spooky Cold Mountain Penitentiary & a horse-donkey hybrid is headed to the electric chair
    400 27
Using a small request to get a yes to a bigger one is this technique named for a body part & a portal
    400 28
Fertile soil
(4 letters)
    400 29
Her resumé includes helping Richard Nixon write his memoirs (1974-75) & anchoring ABC World News (2009-2014)
    800 7
In her first novel, Lucy Maud Montgomery created this fictional community on Prince Edward Island
    800 24
In Gilbertese, "ti" is said with an "S" sound, so now you know how to say the name of this country that includes the Gilbert Islands
    800 1
In this cult classic, young Bud Cort falls in love with a purplish hue
    800 5
Psychologists now often call autism "ASD", the "S" for this term, representing the condition's wide range of symptoms
    800 15
Italian for "don't bow, pluck"
(9 letters)
    800 12
In 2023 she received the Columbia Journalism Award, the highest award bestowed by that graduate school
    1200 6
Torquilstone Castle is assaulted in order to free Saxon prisoners held there in this 1819 novel
    1200 23
There's not much vegetation in this Upper Midwest national park that's basically between the Cheyenne & White Rivers
    DD: 5,000 19
The Axel Foley theme goes classical as a legendary soprano fights crime in Southern California
    1200 3
This person's "fallacy" is the belief that after 5 straight heads, the next flip has a more than .5 probability of being tails
    1200 9
Staircase post
(5 letters)
    1200 11
This legendary radio correspondent became a CBS VP after WWII, but soon just had to get back behind the microphone
    1600 8
This author has written several books about Lucy Barton & made up Amgash, Illinois for Lucy to grow up in
    DD: 6,000 2
FDR enjoyed summering on this island found in the title of a 1960 film about him
    1600 20
Noted Big Apple criminals Leo DiCaprio & Daniel Day-Lewis get matching coifs leaving much hair on the forehead
    1600 4
A 2022 revision of the DSM-5 includes PGD, short for this lasting disorder that can follow the death of a loved one
    1600 16
Direction Muslims face when praying
(5 letters)
    1600 13
This "60 Minutes" correspondent has interviewed everyone, including her retirement-bound colleague Steve Kroft in 2019
    2000 18
In a novella by H.P. Lovecraft, the title "Horror" of this Massachusetts town is a hideous monster evoked by occult magic
    2000 22
This city on Kyushu in Japan came to world notice when chemical factories poisoned its fish, then its people, with mercury
    2000 21
Huckster preacher Burt Lancaster heads into that little kitchen food closet to get a snack
    2000 10
Jung said this part of the psyche is never personally acquired but owes its "existence exclusively to heredity"
    2000 17
Scottish soup
(4 letters-
1 letter-
6 letters)
    2000 14
This correspondent didn't wish to "be a footnote to somebody else's life " --specifically ex-hubby Ernest Hemingway

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Victoria James Amy
10,800 21,400 1,200

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round

METALLIC ELEMENTS
As it's rarely found in pure form, one explanation of its name is that it comes from Greek for "not alone" or "not one"

Final scores:

Victoria James Amy
10,800 20,278 1,200
2nd place: 4 match points Winner: 4 match points 3rd place: 0 match points

Game dynamics:

Game dynamics graph

Coryat scores:

Victoria James Amy
17,800 17,600 1,200
21 R,
4 W
(including 2 DDs)		 21 R
(including 1 DD),
1 W		 6 R,
2 W

Combined Coryat: 36,600

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Game tape date: 2024-04-30
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