Responses for Jeopardy! Masters game #25 - Wednesday, May 8, 2024

2024 Jeopardy! Masters quarterfinal game 5.

Contestants

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Amy Schneider, a writer from Oakland, California

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

Yogesh Raut, a cognitive and behavioral scientist from Vancouver, Washington

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Jeopardy! Round responses

EUROPEAN GEOGRAPHY
THE CLOTHES CLOSET
IT'S A NOUN, IT'S A VERB
GHOSTS
THE ELITE
HOLLYWOOD LEGACIES
(Michael Douglas: I'm Michael Douglas with clues about some Hollywood history made by generations within families.)
    200 29
Amsterdam

Amy
    200 30
(Ken: Stumped you on the last clue.)

a handkerchief skirt

Triple Stumper
    200 28
shroud

Yogesh
    200 24
Abigail Adams

Yogesh
    200 26
the talented tenth

Yogesh
    200 27
(Laura) Dern

Amy
    400 3
San Marino

Matt
    400 22
mandarin

Amy
    400 23
shoulder

Yogesh
    400 21
(the) Roosevelt

Matt
    400 20
Princeton

Yogesh
    400 25
(Matt: What's... The Hustler?)

Wall Street (Money Never Sleeps)

YogeshMatt
    600 14
the Volga

Yogesh
    600 18
Ulster

Matt
    600 15
discipline

Yogesh
    600 16
the Chelsea

Yogesh
    600 17
the Mercury 7

Yogesh
    600 19
Jayne Mansfield

Yogesh
    1,000 5
Avignon

Matt
    800 11
bateau

Yogesh
    800 8
manifest

Yogesh
    800 2
(Yogesh: What is Athens?)
(Matt: What's Carthage?)

Sparta

YogeshMatt
Triple Stumper
    800 13
Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR)

Yogesh
    800 12
[Amy omitted the leading article in her response.]

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

Amy
    1000 4
(Yogesh: What is Gran Canaria?)
...
(Ken: The Canaries are Spanish. This is [*].)

Madeira

Yogesh
Triple Stumper
    1000 10
Fair Isle

Matt
    1000 7
trace

Amy
    1000 1
(Anthony) Wayne

Amy
    1000 6
Pointe du Hoc

Triple Stumper
    1000 9
Paths of Glory

Amy

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Yogesh Matt Amy
5,400 2,200 4,600

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

COUNTRY MUSIC HISTORY
LITERATURE: WHO SAID IT?
(Ken: You'll name the character.)
NATURE
NORTH AMERICAN COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES
IN THE PAST
"A" THEN "Z"
(Ken: Each correct response will have those two letters somwhere within it; the "A" will come first.)
    400 30
Carter

Matt
    400 26
Gollum

Matt
    400 25
Joshua (trees)

Matt
    400 29
English & French

Amy
    400 27
East Germany

Amy
    400 28
nationalize

Matt
    800 24
Ryman (Auditorium)

Matt
    800 21
(Matt: What's Samsa?)
(Ken: It is not Samsa. ... It is [*], in fact, of [*]'s Web fame. She's scheming.)

Charlotte

Matt
Triple Stumper
    800 22
canopy

Matt
    800 23
(Ken: Correct! It was "at Los Angeles".)
(Yogesh: [Showing the Trojan "V" with his right hand] Fight on.)

the University of California, Los Angeles

Yogesh
    800 11
Wellington

Yogesh
    800 5
(Ken: Ah, you saw the category. Well done.)
(Yogesh: Yes.)

a schnauzer

Yogesh
    1200 18
(Charley) Pride

Yogesh
    15,400 15
(Ken: In 1984, you got it.)

O'Brien

Yogesh
    1200 20
kudzu

Matt
    1200 19
(Ken: You were worried you weren't going to get the Warriors clue.)
(Amy: Yeah.)
(Ken: You got there.)

Davidson

Amy
    1200 7
sepoy

Yogesh
    1200 6
[ERRATUM: The clue omitted the apostrophe in "it's" as shown.]

trapezoid (or trapezium)

Matt
    1600 17
(Anne) Murray

Yogesh
    1600 14
(Ken: From Dracula, well done.)

Van Helsing

Yogesh
    2,200 1
pangolin

Matt
    1600 3
(Ken: The "M" is for [*].)

Monterrey

Triple Stumper
    1600 2
vizier

Yogesh
    1600 9
paleozoology

Amy
    2000 16
"Heads Carolina, Tails California"

Yogesh
    2000 8
(Matt: What's Dent?)
...
(Ken: Yeah, you got the right book, Matt, it is Hitchhiker's Guide.)

Beeblebrox

MattAmy
    2000 13
crepuscular

Yogesh
    2000 4
Salve Regina

Amy
    2000 12
the Arawak

Yogesh
    2000 10
Abruzzi

Triple Stumper

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Yogesh Matt Amy
36,400 7,200 12,200
(lock game)

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

THE THEATER
(Ken: [To Matt] That is the right show, set just down the coast in Cornwall. They used costumes from H.M.S. Pinafore, apparently, in a hurry to obtain the British copyright.)
MattWhat Pirates of Penzance
7,200
AmyWhat is Pirates of Penzance?
2,201
YogeshWhat
0
The Pirates of Penzance

Final scores:

Yogesh Matt Amy
36,400 14,400 14,401
Winner: 7 match points 3rd place: 1 match point 2nd place: 1 match point

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Yogesh Matt Amy
22,200 6,400 12,200
26 R
(including 1 DD),
2 W
14 R
(including 2 DDs),
4 W
13 R,
0 W

Combined Coryat: 40,800

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Game tape date: 2024-04-17
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