Responses for Jeopardy! Masters game #18 - Tuesday, May 23, 2023

2023 Jeopardy! Masters semifinal game 4.

Contestants

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Matt Amodio, a postdoctoral researcher from Cambridge, Massachusetts

Andrew He, a software developer from San Francisco, California

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

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Jeopardy! Round responses

FICTIONAL CASTLES
THEIR OCCUPATIONAL SURNAMES
COOKING WEIGHTS & MEASURES
THE MOVIES
IT'S THE SILENT CONSONANT
THE UNIVERSE WITH NEIL deGRASSE TYSON
(Neil deGrasse Tyson: I'm Neil deGrasse Tyson, your personal astrophysicist. When I was a kid, I came to the American Museum of Natural History to marvel at the universe. Today, I'll have clues about those marvels from my offices here.)
    200 25
Hogwarts (Castle)

Andrew
    200 26
(Anderson) Cooper

Mattea
    200 27
butter

Andrew
    200 28
Princess Peach

Mattea
    200 29
K (knave)

Mattea
    200 30
the International Astronomical Union

Mattea
    400 8
(Ken: You didn't have He-Man. "By the power of [*]!")

Grayskull

Triple Stumper
    400 16
Faulkner

Mattea
    400 23
(Andrew: What is a handful?)

a cup

Andrew
Triple Stumper
    400 13
Bringing Up Baby

Matt
    400 24
B (jamb)

Matt
    4,400 22
the corona

Andrew
    600 6
Wodehouse

Andrew
    600 11
(Willie) Shoemaker

Andrew
    600 20
(Matt: What's leveled?)

heaping

MatteaMatt
    600 3
(Peter) Venkman

Matt
    600 19
G (phlegm)

Matt
    600 21
the Hayden Planetarium

Andrew
    800 5
Pilgrim's Progress

Matt
    800 10
Jerry Goldsmith

Triple Stumper
    800 17
a sprig

Andrew
    800 2
Shakes the Clown

Triple Stumper
    800 18
P (ptomaine)

Triple Stumper
    800 12
(Matt: What's pulsars?)

quasars

AndrewMatt
    1000 4
Otranto

Matt
    1000 9
(Ring) Lardner

Matt
    1000 7
soupçon

Matt
    1000 1
(Ken: As you might expect, there is a Daily Double hidden on this board. Let's reveal to the home audience where that will be. [Beep boop])

Bring It On

Mattea
    1000 14
D (djinn)

Andrew
    1000 15
Miranda

Triple Stumper

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Mattea Andrew Matt
2,800 8,800 4,400

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

CENTURY NOTES
LET'S GO GULFING
BARONS & BARONESSES
LABOR
CLASSIC CAR TV
EPONYMS
    400 5
(Matt: What's Good [*]?)

King Wenceslas

Matt
    400 8
the Adriatic

Mattea
    400 26
(Mattea: It doesn't look like it, but who is [*]?)

Laurence Olivier

Mattea
    400 25
a shop steward

Mattea
    400 29
Knight Rider

Andrew
    400 28
(Charles) Boycott

Matt
    800 6
(Andrew: What is Khan?)

Dalai Lama

MatteaAndrew
    800 9
(Ken: They had really [*]. [*], Florida.)

Clearwater

Triple Stumper
    800 23
von Trapp

Matt
    800 24
wildcat

Mattea
    800 30
[Before the clue's reveal] (Andrew: Can we have Sam ask for it from the audience?)
(Ken: From the crowd...)
(Sam Buttrey: Bring it!)

Starsky and Hutch

Andrew
    800 27
Tantalus

Mattea
    1200 3
London Bridge

Matt
    1200 10
Costa Brava

Mattea
    1200 16
(Isak) Dinesen

Matt
    1200 21
(Mattea: What's the AFL-CIO?)
(Andrew: What's the Teamsters?)

the NEA (National Education Association)

MatteaAndrew
Triple Stumper
    1200 22
(Andrew: Who's Magnum?)

Rockford

AndrewMatt
    1200 18
(Matt: What's bougainvillea?)
...
(Ken: Named for Mr. Poinsett, it's the [*].)

poinsettia

Matt
Triple Stumper
    13,200 4
Picts

Matt
    6,000 2
Gulf of Aden

Matt
    1600 15
de Coubertin

Andrew
    1600 1
(Ken: Two Daily Doubles are hidden somewhere on that board. We're showing the home audience where they are right now. [Beep boop])

Mother Jones

Matt
    1600 19
the Mach 5

Matt
    1600 12
Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease

Andrew
    2000 7
Boethius

Triple Stumper
    2000 11
Gulf of Guinea

Andrew
    2000 14
Rayleigh scattering

Andrew
    2000 17
(Lilly) Ledbetter

Andrew
    2000 20
Car 54, Where Are You?

Triple Stumper
    2000 13
(Jean) Martinet

Matt

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Mattea Andrew Matt
6,400 16,000 32,800
(lock game)

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

OPERA & HISTORY
(Ken: It's true. We love our Masters. In my heart, I'm giving you credit for that, Matt. [*], "The Twilight of the Gods".)
...
(Ken: [Showing the leaderboard] By finishing second, Andrew earns one match point, pulling him into a tie with Mattea at two match points apiece. We go to the relevant tiebreaker here, which is the number of correct responses offered. Mattea, you gave us 50 correct responses in the semifinals. Andrew He gave us 45.)
(Mattea: Oh, my God.)
(Ken: By a margin of just five responses, Mattea Roach is headed to the final.)
[Mattea hugs Andrew.]
MatteaWhat is Lohengrin?
601
AndrewWhat is Marriage of Figaro?
801
MattWhat an honor it is to share a stage with these wonderful people
0
Götterdämmerung

Final scores:

Mattea Andrew Matt
5,799 15,199 32,800
3rd place: 2 match points 2nd place: 2 match points (eliminated): 4th place: $100,000 Winner: 3 match points

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Mattea Andrew Matt
6,400 12,000 16,800
14 R,
1 W		 16 R
(including 1 DD),
4 W		 19 R
(including 2 DDs),
3 W

Combined Coryat: 35,200

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Game tape date: 2023-05-15
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