Responses for Jeopardy! Masters game #9 - Monday, May 15, 2023

2023 Jeopardy! Masters quarterfinal game 9.

Contestants

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Amy Schneider, a writer from Oakland, California

Matt Amodio, a postdoctoral researcher from Cambridge, Massachusetts

Mattea Roach, a writer and podcaster from Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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Jeopardy! Round responses

THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE
TECH TALK
MUSICAL THEATER
NICKNAMES
ART & ARTISTS
ABBREV.
    200 29
the Blue Mountains

Mattea
    200 28
Internet of Things

Mattea
    200 26
Hamilton

Mattea
    200 27
"the Untouchables"

Amy
    200 20
Madonna & child

Matt
    200 30
(Ken: Great round! Great start! That's what Jeopardy! Masters play looks like!)

Ephesians

Mattea
    400 21
Sedona

Matt
    400 22
Shazam

Triple Stumper
    400 25
Cabaret

Amy
    400 23
Jewish penicillin

Matt
    400 19
the Emancipation Proclamation

Mattea
    400 24
Internet Protocol

Amy
    600 8
(Ken: Beat Mattea to [*], yes.)

Nunavut

Amy
    600 9
(Mattea: What's self-effacing?)

deprecating

MatteaMatt
    600 3
Harold Hill

Amy
    600 4
Rasputin

Mattea
    600 18
chiaroscuro

Matt
    600 17
(Ken: I had to ask my kids. What is [*]?)

commenting for better reach

Triple Stumper
    800 7
Hispaniola

Mattea
    800 12
UNIX

Amy
    1,000 2
Kristen Chenoweth

Mattea
    800 5
"Nine-Day Queen"

Matt
    800 14
Fragonard

Matt
    800 16
manufacturer's suggested retail price

Amy
    1000 6
(Matt: What's... Angel Falls?)

Iguazú Falls

MatteaMatt
    1000 13
paperclips

Amy
    1000 1
(Ken: Now, for those of you at home who prefer suspense to surprise, we're going to show you where the Daily Double is located. [Beep boop])

Miss Saigon

Mattea
    1000 10
Tyler

Matt
    1000 11
an odalisque

Amy
    1000 15
(Ken: Yes! Was it fun to say?)
(Mattea: Uh, it was hard to say!)
(Ken: You got 1,000.)

endoplasmic reticulum

Mattea

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Mattea Matt Amy
6,000 3,800 5,800

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

WE'VE GOT HISTORY
AND THE OSCAR WENT TO...
LET'S GO ON A SAFARI
NOT YOUR EVERYDAY WORDS
SUBTITLED LITERATURE
CHESS, MASTERS
(Jennifer Shahade: Hello, Jeopardy! Masters. I'm Jennifer Shahade, a chess master with clues about the history and tactics of the game I've loved since I was a little girl.)
    400 28
Hastings

Matt
    400 27
Cinematography

Amy
    400 22
(Matt: What's cottonmouth?)

a black mamba

MattAmy
    400 30
unction

Matt
    400 29
The Whale

Amy
    400 19
(Bobby) Fischer

Mattea
    800 13
Alexandra (the last Romanov czarina)

Amy
    800 26
"Chim Chim Cher-ee" (from Mary Poppins)

Triple Stumper
    800 25
yellow fever

Mattea
    800 11
toque

Amy
    800 9
There and Back Again

Amy
    800 20
Duchamp

Matt
    1200 2
a stele

Amy
    1200 3
Wings

Mattea
    1200 16
the Namib

Amy
    1200 12
pulchritudinous

Matt
    1200 6
Space Race

Mattea
    1200 21
(Amy: What is, uh, infinite check? Uh.)

perpetual check

Amy
Triple Stumper
    1600 1
(Ken: Let's show our home viewers who care to be so advised where the Daily Doubles are located in this round. [Beep boop])

Babi Yar

Mattea
    1600 4
(Irving G.) Thalberg

Matt
    1600 17
(Matt: What's... buffalo?)
(Ken: More specifically...?)

Cape buffalo

Matt
    1600 14
crampons

Mattea
    1600 5
Modern Prometheus

Matt
    1600 23
Carlsen

Mattea
    2000 8
Dahomey

Mattea
    2000 7
Hawks

Matt
    11,800 18
(Ken: And that means you find the Daily Double. You earned that one, Matt. You're just eighteen hundred dollars off the lead.)
(Matt: This didn't work so well last time, but: 11,800.)

Zambezi

Matt
    2000 15
an étagère

Amy
    5,000 10
(Amy: What... is... uh... uh... bigoted?)
(Ken: No, I'm sorry. It's A Study of [*] Life.)

Provincial

Amy
    2000 24
[Amy supplied the latter response listed here after Ken seemed initially disinclined to accept the former response.]

the Polgárs (the Polgár sisters)

Amy

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Mattea Matt Amy
16,400 24,800 9,600

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

THE U.S. GOVERNMENT
(Ken: [To Amy] Yes, that is a Cabinet-level post, and, of course, they have to have a place to live near the U.N. in Manhattan.)
...
(Ken: [To Mattea] That's a good guess. It's near the stock market, but it's not correct, as we know.)
...
(Ken: [To Matt] "What is Surgeon General?", it looks like you wound up with, after going through a lot of other officials general. ... That was the right wager.)
AmyWhat is Ambassador to the UN?
6,801
MatteaWhat is Post Chair of the Fed?
2,801
MattWhat surgeon Postmaster General ? Attorney gener
8,001
ambassador to the United Nations

Final scores:

Mattea Matt Amy
13,599 16,799 16,401
3rd place: 7 match points Winner: 6 match points 2nd place: 4 match points

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Mattea Matt Amy
16,200 15,000 14,600
19 R
(including 1 DD),
1 W		 17 R
(including 1 DD),
2 W		 19 R,
2 W
(including 1 DD)

Combined Coryat: 45,800

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Game tape date: 2023-05-02
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