Responses for Jeopardy! Masters game #20 - Wednesday, May 24, 2023

2023 Jeopardy! Masters final game 2.

Contestants

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Mattea Roach, a writer and podcaster from Toronto, Ontario, Canada (subtotal of 24,800)

Matt Amodio, a postdoctoral researcher from Cambridge, Massachusetts (subtotal of 12,000)

James Holzhauer, a self-described game show villain from Las Vegas, Nevada (subtotal of 34,314)

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Jeopardy! Round responses

THE 1960s
COMMON BONDS
"P" IS FOR POETRY
NOM NOM NOMINATIONS
THE GRAMMAR POLICE
MICHAEL J. FOX
(Michael J. Fox: I'm Michael J. Fox. I like to think I've mastered a few kinds of acting over 40 years. I'll have clues about my career.)
    200 5
a heart transplant

James
    200 19
cup

Matt
    200 30
a pancake

Mattea
    200 14
salmon

Mattea
    200 23
a run-on sentence

Mattea
    200 28
Family Ties

James
    400 4
Member of Parliament

Mattea
    400 18
lights

James
    400 29
Prometheus

James
    400 13
Emeril Lagasse

James
    400 22
agreement

James
    400 27
Huey Lewis

James
    600 3
(Ken: I'm starting to think you all are a little young for the 1960s.)

Black power

Triple Stumper
    600 17
things you crack

Mattea
    600 8
Pound

Matt
    600 12
bananas Foster

Mattea
    600 21
a preposition

Mattea
    600 26
Stephanopoulos

James
    800 2
(Matt: What's Castro?)
(Ken: No. Although he might not have been crazy about that, either.)

Haight

Matt
Triple Stumper
    800 16
things you burn (they all get burned)

Mattea
    800 7
the Pushkin Prize

James
    800 11
Bobby Flay

James
    800 20
participle (or modifier)

Matt
    800 25
Michael J. Pollard

Triple Stumper
    1,000 1
(Ken: There's one Daily Double in the Jeopardy! round. Here it is, take a look. [Beep boop] James, start us off.)
(James: 1960s, 1000.)
(Ken: The answer there...[Daily Double is revealed] I give up. I give up, James.)
...
(James: [No response])

the Warren Commission

James
    1000 9
bands

Triple Stumper
    1000 6
Pindar

James
    1000 10
Nigella Lawson

Mattea
    1000 15
splice

Matt
    1000 24
McInerney

James

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

James Matt Mattea
5,600 1,800 4,600

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

NATURE
CROSSWORD CLUES "AE"
3-NAMED PEOPLE
IN THIS WORLD
IT'S JUST US
YOU KNOW IT'S NOT THE SAME AS IT WAS
    400 28
(Ken: Still beating Mattea to the Canadian stuff.)

tundra

James
    400 29
(James: [Selecting the last clue] Bring it!)

Aeneid

James
    400 30
John Paul Jones

James
    400 26
Olduvai

Matt
    400 25
Brooke Shields

Mattea
    400 23
(Ken: Yeah, there's a pitch [*] now.)

a clock

James
    800 27
anemone

Matt
    800 15
aerosol

Matt
    800 8
(William Randolph) Hearst

Matt
    800 9
Mindanao

Matt
    800 24
The Last Man on Earth

Mattea
    800 22
objectivity

Mattea
    1200 2
mica

Mattea
    1200 14
the Aegean

Mattea
    1200 5
(Doris Kearns) Goodwin

Matt
    1200 4
the Ross Ice Shelf

James
    1200 18
Warm Bodies

Matt
    1200 21
(Ken: It's now in more diverse [*].)

South Carolina

Triple Stumper
    1600 1
(Ken: There are two Daily Doubles on the board. You know the drill by now. If you want to know where they are, keep looking. [Beep boop])

heliotrope

Mattea
    1600 13
aeolian

James
    1600 7
(Stephen Jay) Gould

James
    1600 6
Asmara

Mattea
    1600 17
(Bill) Withers

Mattea
    1600 20
an intimacy coordinator

Mattea
    7,400 3
a dugong

Mattea
    2000 12
(James: What's the aemir?)

the Aesir

James
Triple Stumper
    2000 11
(Matt: Ooh. Um, what's uh, Turnbull?)

Charles Wilson Peale

Matt
Triple Stumper
    4,600 10
(Matt: What's Guadalivir?)

Guadalquivir

Matt
    2000 16
"You And Me Against The World"

Triple Stumper
    2000 19
microbiome

Matt

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

James Matt Mattea
9,600 3,200 22,800

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

LATIN IN LITERATURE
[Audience laughs and applauds as Matt's response is revealed.]
(Ken: That's building the suspense. I think, yeah, the third-place contestant should always be a hype man in Final Jeopardy! I like it.)
...
(Ken: Rex quondam rexque futurus means "the once and future king". Talking about King Arthur. This is [*] on the Arthurian legends.)
...
(Ken: James Holzhauer, they tested you to the limit. [Applause and cheering] But you are our first-ever Jeopardy! Masters champion.)
[James shakes hands with Matt and comforts Mattea.]
(James: [To Mattea] You played amazingly. Your dad's so proud of you. Your mom, too.)
[Matt hugs Mattea.]
(Ken: Come join me over here, James. The first-ever winner of the Trebek Trophy.)
MattWho ... will .... win ?!?!?!
0
JamesWho is T H White
119
MatteaWho is S Chaucer?
5,915
Thomas Malory

Final scores:

James Matt Mattea
9,481 3,200 16,885

Cumulative scores:

James Matt Mattea
43,795 15,200 41,685
Winner: $500,000 + $100,000 to Project 150 + the Trebek Trophy 3rd place: $150,000 2nd place: $250,000

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

James Matt Mattea
10,600 7,800 17,400
19 R,
2 W
(including 1 DD)		 12 R,
3 W
(including 1 DD)		 19 R
(including 1 DD),
0 W

Combined Coryat: 35,800

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Game tape date: 2023-05-15
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