Responses for Jeopardy! Masters game #26 - Wednesday, May 8, 2024

2024 Jeopardy! Masters quarterfinal game 6.

Contestants

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

James Holzhauer, the self-described "final boss" of Jeopardy! from Las Vegas, Nevada

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

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Jeopardy! Round responses

THE COLD WAR
LETTER PERFECT
CHANGING IT UP
THE COLORS OF TELEVISION
STARTS & ENDS WITH R
CHEESING IN PUBLIC
    200 26
duck and cover

Victoria
    200 25
W

Mattea
    200 27
Atlanta

Mattea
    200 28
(Mattea: I'm always saying this. What's [*]?)

the White Lotus

Mattea
    200 29
rebar

Victoria
    200 30
(Ken: [To Victoria] And you're lucky that James doesn't scuba dive, because you have the lead right now!)

the Joker

Victoria
    400 5
the "Hollywood Ten"

Victoria
    400 24
Q (for Quincy Jones)

Mattea
    400 18
War and Peace

James
    400 22
The Golden Girls

Victoria
    400 17
retainer

Triple Stumper
    400 16
prunes

James
    600 2
glasnost

James
    600 23
X

Victoria
    600 7
"Bohemian Rhapsody"

Mattea
    600 21
Grey's Anatomy

James
    600 15
radiographer

James
    600 9
John Paul I

James
    800 1
SALT

James
    800 12
U

Mattea
    800 4
Moby-Dick

James
    800 20
The Green Hornet

James
    800 14
rejoinder

James
    800 10
Hals

James
    1000 3
containment

Victoria
    1000 13
V

Victoria
    1000 6
(Mattea: Who is Mosley?)
...
(Ken: Hush-Hush is also in L.A. Confidential, I think, by [*]!)

James Ellroy

Mattea
Triple Stumper
    1000 8
Blue Thunder

Victoria
    5,800 19
(James: What's a respirator?)

regulator

James
    1000 11
Democritus

Victoria

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Victoria James Mattea
6,000 1,400 1,400

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

CLASSICAL IS IN
THEY DID BAD
STAR WORDS
ON THE DIRECTOR'S RÉSUMÉ
PLACES
FIND THE GREEK LETTER IN...
    400 29
lieder

Victoria
    400 26
Bambi

Victoria
    400 30
white dwarfs

Triple Stumper
    400 28
Spike Lee

Mattea
    400 23
Lithuania

James
    400 21
nu (in ingenue)

James
    800 12
(Ken: Yes, Carmen.)

Bizet

Victoria
    14,000 15
(Ken: James is now nipping at your heels, Victoria.)
(Victoria: Um, I believe the move is [pushes both hands forward] all in.)
(Ken: [To James] What do you think?)
(James: Poor technique. Good strategy, though.)
(Ken: James is gonna have to show you the gesture later...)

Machine Gun Kelly

Victoria
    800 24
pulsars

Victoria
    800 27
Gerwig

Mattea
    4,200 9
(Ken: Not "Convent Garden", yes.)

Covent Garden

James
    800 20
[ERRATUM: Psilocybin is a hallucinogenic compound, not a species. It is named after Psilocybe, which is a genus name, and thus also not a species.]

psi (in psilocybin)

James
    1200 10
Elijah

Victoria
    1200 13
dishonorable discharge

James
    1200 4
magnitude

James
    1200 16
(David) Lean

James
    1200 5
the Darién Gap

Mattea
    1200 19
eta (in theta)

Mattea
    1600 11
(Victoria: Who is Rubinstein?)

Rachmaninoff

VictoriaJames
    1600 7
Commander

James
    1600 2
[Victoria does not ring in immediately.]
...
(Ken: You were right to risk it.)

globular clusters

Victoria
    1600 6
Leone

Victoria
    1600 8
(Victoria: What is Flinders Island?)

Stewart Island

Victoria
Triple Stumper
    1600 18
chi (in Chiron)

James
    2000 14
Bartók

Victoria
    2000 25
(Ken: "The Wolf of Wall Street".)

(Jordan) Belfort

James
    2000 3
the main sequence

Victoria
    2000 1
[Mattea selected the first clue.]

Murnau

Victoria
    2000 22
Yogyakarta

Mattea
    2000 17
rho (in poorhouse)

Triple Stumper

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Victoria James Mattea
29,600 17,600 7,000

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

FAMOUS LAST WORDS
(Ken: No, it was, in fact, More's predecessor, [*]. You had the right king. He could not get Henry VIII out of his marriage to Catherine of Aragon.)
MatteaWho is Thomas More?
7,000
JamesWho is Thomas More
6,400
VictoriaWho is More? Hi, Nora! ♥
5,601
Cardinal Wolsey

Final scores:

Victoria James Mattea
23,999 11,200 0
Winner: 9 match points 2nd place: 5 match points 3rd place: 1 match point

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Victoria James Mattea
16,400 20,000 7,000
21 R
(including 1 DD),
2 W		 22 R
(including 1 DD),
1 W
(including 1 DD)		 11 R,
1 W

Combined Coryat: 43,400

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Game tape date: 2024-04-17
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