Responses for Jeopardy! Masters game #21 - Wednesday, May 1, 2024

2024 Jeopardy! Masters quarterfinal game 1.
Ken Jennings hosts.

Contestants

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Victoria Groce, a writer and television personality from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Matt Amodio, a quantitative researcher from New York, New York

Mattea Roach, a writer and podcast host from Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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Jeopardy! Round responses

THERE ONCE WAS THIS MAN FROM...
INTERNET SLANG
HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES
AMERICAN FICTION
4-LETTER TV
YOU'RE REPEATING YOURSELF
    200 27
[ERRATUM: A forward slash was missing after "wonder" in the clue as shown.]

Hillary

Victoria
    200 29
Gen Alpha

Matt
    200 30
Kwanzaa

Mattea
    200 20
Pelican Brief

Matt
    200 25
(Victoria: What is Dean?)
...
(Ken: Yeah, Dean's the actor.)

Hank

MattVictoria
    200 23
Yo-Yo Ma

Victoria
    400 26
Pinochet

Matt
    400 28
the original poster

Victoria
    400 12
Chavez

Victoria
    400 19
an octopus

Mattea
    400 24
Gary

Mattea
    400 22
Cha-Cha

Mattea
    600 9
Chamberlain

Matt
    600 4
laughing

Victoria
    600 11
Mongolia

Mattea
    600 13
The Joy Luck Club

Victoria
    600 18
Buzz (Cola)

Triple Stumper
    600 21
Dab-Dab the duck

Triple Stumper
    800 8
Maginot

Mattea
    800 3
non-player character

Mattea
    800 10
Peru

Mattea
    800 7
No Country for Old Men

Matt
    800 15
Borg

Matt
    800 17
Major (Major Major) Major

Victoria
    1000 6
(Ken: James G. [*], yes.)

Blaine

Victoria
    1000 2
(Ken: Kinda glad you don't know this word. What are [*]? Back to you, Mattea.)
(Mattea: It seems like I should've been able to guess it.)

petfluencers

Triple Stumper
    1,000 1
(Mattea: What... is... the... harvest festival? I don't know.)

the Dragon Boat Festival

Mattea
    1000 5
Miss Jane Pittman

Matt
    1000 14
(Matt: What's Igor?)

Spot

Matt
Triple Stumper
    1000 16
Ford Madox Ford

Victoria

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Mattea Matt Victoria
3,400 3,200 5,000

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

REALLY TOUGH CAPITALS
CLASSIC MOVIES
DREAMT OF IN YOUR PHILOSOPHY
INVENTORS & INVENTIONS
NOT YOUR EVERYDAY WORDS
AARON BURR & FRIENDS
(Ken: His friends are others whose initials consist of two consecutive letters of the alphabet, and take note, we will need both names. I'm looking at you, Amodio.)
    400 27
Bridgetown

Victoria
    400 23
(Ryan) O'Neal

Victoria
    400 28
Beautiful

Victoria
    400 26
Bullets

Victoria
    400 29
a wainwright

Victoria
    400 30
(Ken: Yes, Bergen, Norway.)

Henrik Ibsen

Victoria
    800 5
Guatemala City & Panama City

Matt
    800 22
Robert Mitchum

Triple Stumper
    800 12
neo-Confucianism

Mattea
    8,000 14
(Matt: What's... scissors?)

a sewing machine

Matt
    800 24
tonsure

Matt
    800 25
(Ken: That's [*]'s real name.)

Virginia Woolfe

Triple Stumper
    1200 1
Madagascar

Matt
    1200 21
(Carole) Lombard

Mattea
    1200 4
paradigms

Victoria
    1200 6
theremin

Matt
    1200 16
(Ken: Ooh, and I get to say it! What is [*]?)

fecund

Triple Stumper
    7,000 18
(Ken: Lost to Rutherford B. Hayes, controversially.)

Samuel Tilden

Victoria
    1600 2
Niue

Victoria
    1600 13
(John) Ford

Matt
    1600 9
Hume

Victoria
    1600 7
Cray

Victoria
    1600 11
syzygy

Victoria
    1600 15
Lucretia Mott

Victoria
    2000 3
Conakry

Mattea
    2000 19
Only Angels Have Wings

Triple Stumper
    2000 10
peripatetic

Victoria
    2000 8
Gray

Victoria
    2000 17
inchoate

Victoria
    2000 20
(Ken: Well done, that's a tough one.)
(Victoria: He's one of my favorites.)

Oscar Peterson

Victoria

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Mattea Matt Victoria
7,400 800 31,600
(lock game)

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

LATIN SCIENCE TERMS
(Ken: "Hi, Nora!" Your mom's gonna get some match points in a second!)
MattWhat genus
0
Matteawhat are flora?
311
VictoriaWhat are species? Hi, Nora! ♥
1,733
genera

Final scores:

Mattea Matt Victoria
7,089 800 29,867
2nd place: 1 match point 3rd place Winner: 3 match points

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Mattea Matt Victoria
8,400 8,800 25,800
11 R,
1 W
(including 1 DD)		 13 R,
2 W
(including 1 DD)		 26 R
(including 1 DD),
1 W

Combined Coryat: 43,000

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Game tape date: 2024-04-17
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