Responses for Jeopardy! Masters game #19 - Wednesday, May 24, 2023

2023 Jeopardy! Masters final game 1.

Contestants

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

Matt Amodio, a postdoctoral researcher from Cambridge, Massachusetts

James Holzhauer, a self-described game show villain from Las Vegas, Nevada

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Jeopardy! Round responses

SO YOU THINK YOU'RE PRETTY GOOD AT THIS
IN THE WORLD CAPITAL
RECENT EVENTS
COMPOSERS
SOME HARD WORDS
COPS & ROBBERS TV
    200 20
(Ken: That's correct, and I apologize to James for a whole category about great upsets. It's not what he wants to see.)

Spanish Armada

Matt
    200 5
New Delhi

Mattea
    200 30
Amsterdam

James
    200 25
(Mattea: What's a rag? I don't know.)

waltz

Mattea
Triple Stumper
    200 27
Herculean

Matt
    200 28
Cagney and Lacey

Matt
    400 19
Enron

Mattea
    400 4
Vienna

James
    400 29
Turkey

James
    400 12
Paris

Matt
    400 26
cast iron

James
    400 24
Bada Bing!

Matt
    600 18
the Baltimore Colts

James
    600 3
Cairo

James
    600 8
Alzheimer's

Matt
    600 11
Handel

James
    600 15
callous

Matt
    600 23
Peaky Blinders

James
    800 17
Bellerophon

James
    800 2
Kingston

Mattea
    800 7
(Ken: I don't get to say this very much, but [*] is correct.)
[Laughter and applause]

George Santos

Mattea
    800 10
George Gershwin

Mattea
    800 14
hard-boiled

Mattea
    800 22
Cold Case

Matt
    1000 16
pro se

Triple Stumper
    1,000 1
(Ken: There's a Daily Double in this round, of course. If the home audience cares to know, look at your television screens right now. [Beep boop] There we go. James, start the round.)
(James: IN THE WORLD CAPITAL, 1000.)
(Ken: Well, there you go. [Daily Double is shown] You kept the suspense for almost five seconds, James.)
(James: I know. I love that little preview you give them. 1000 please.)
...
(James: What is Prague?)
(Ken: No, I'm afraid Einstein was studying in Switzerland. What is [*]?)

Bern

James
    1000 6
the Wagner Group

Triple Stumper
    1000 9
Rimsky-Korsakov

James
    1000 13
adamant

Triple Stumper
    1000 21
Ironside

Matt

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

James Matt Mattea
4,600 4,400 3,600

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

NATIONAL HISTORICAL PARKS
FURNITURE & FURNISHINGS
3-"SY"LLABLE WORDS
HORROR MOVIES
BRITISH AUTHORS
WHAT'S ALL THIS?
    400 27
the Wright Brothers

James
    400 28
IKEA

Matt
    400 30
sycophant

Mattea
    400 23
Jason

James
    400 25
Dahl

Matt
    400 29
Beethoven's 9th

Matt
    800 4
the Mexican-American War

Mattea
    800 14
Murphy bed

Matt
    800 26
systemic

Triple Stumper
    800 22
Mandy

James
    8,600 7
Anne Bronte

James
    800 10
an ozone molecule

James
    1200 3
Rosie the Riveter

James
    1200 12
cable (or cable-knit)

Triple Stumper
    1200 16
Syracuse

Mattea
    1200 21
Sam Raimi

Triple Stumper
    1200 2
Thomas Hardy

James
    1200 8
(James: What's the Southern Cross?)

the Northern Cross

James
Triple Stumper
    1600 1
(Ken: The two Daily Doubles in this round could prove pivotal. If you want to know at home where they are, take a look right now. We're showing you. [Beep boop] There we see them.)

New Bedford

Matt
    1600 13
jardiniere

Mattea
    1600 17
a sybarite

Triple Stumper
    1600 20
Daisy Edgar Jones

Triple Stumper
    1600 6
Chesterton

James
    1600 9
Mongolia

Triple Stumper
    2000 5
(Matt: What's Everett?)

the Hanford Nuclear Site

Matt
Triple Stumper
    2000 15
a cabriole

James
    7,200 18
syncope

Mattea
    2000 19
Eyes Without a Face

Mattea
    2000 24
Mitchell

James
    2000 11
(Ken: Those are the parts of T.S. Eliot's [*].)

"The Waste Land"

Triple Stumper

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

James Matt Mattea
22,400 6,000 16,800

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

AFRICA
(Ken: [To Matt] The capital of Tanzania, for a long time, before it moved to Dodoma.)
MattWhat Dar-es-Salaam
6,000
MatteaWhat is Dar es Salaam?
8,000
JamesWhat is Dar Es Salaam
11,914
Dar es Salaam

Final scores:

James Matt Mattea
34,314 12,000 24,800

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

James Matt Mattea
15,600 6,000 11,600
20 R
(including 1 DD),
2 W
(including 1 DD)		 14 R,
1 W		 12 R
(including 1 DD),
1 W

Combined Coryat: 33,200

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Game tape date: 2023-05-15
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