Responses for Jeopardy! Masters game #27 - Friday, May 10, 2024

2024 Jeopardy! Masters quarterfinal game 7.

Contestants

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

Amy Schneider, a writer from Oakland, California

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

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Jeopardy! Round responses

"M" & "M"s
FLOWERS
LIKE THERE WOULDN'T BE SHAKESPEARE
COMING TO AMERICA
PLANE TALK
(Billie Jean King: I'm Billie Jean King. 50 years ago I founded the Women's Sports Foundation, and today I have clues about...)
TRAILBLAZING WOMEN IN SPORTS
    200 27
mass media

Mattea
    200 25
corpse flower

Matt
    200 26
Julius Caesar

Mattea
    200 28
Ellis Island

Mattea
    200 29
(Ken: And Billie Jean King will finish the round. Bring it, Billie Jean.)

clearance

Amy
    200 30
Mia Hamm

Mattea
    400 22
mad money

Amy
    400 23
(Ken: You might smell it here in L.A.: "What is [*]?")

night-blooming jasmine

Triple Stumper
    400 4
Cordelia

Matt
    3,000 14
Cuba

Amy
    400 15
Lear

Matt
    400 24
Patrick

Matt
    600 11
(Mattea: [Sighs] What is, uh... no. Don't have it.)

mare's milk

MattMattea
    600 12
edelweiss

Mattea
    600 7
Titus Andronicus

Matt
    600 13
displaced persons

Amy
    600 18
ailerons

Mattea
    600 21
(Matt: What's... Joyner?)
(Ken: ...Nno.)
(Matt: [Overlapping slightly] -Kersee?)
[Matt's original response of "Joyner" was deemed correct before Double Jeopardy!]

Jackie Joyner-Kersee

MattAmy
    800 3
a maker's mark

Amy
    800 8
foxglove

Matt
    800 6
Calaban

Amy
    800 10
(Mattea: What are Nisei?)
...
(Ken: Yes, their parents, the [*], first generation.)

Issei

AmyMattea
    800 17
(Amy: What's an aileron?)

an airfoil

Amy
Triple Stumper
    800 20
(Wilma) Rudolph

Matt
    1000 2
"Maud Muller"

Triple Stumper
    1000 5
Aster

Matt
    1000 1
[Mattea omitted the leading article in the response.]

The Two Gentlemen of Verona

Mattea
    1000 9
Bracero

Mattea
    1000 16
ceiling and visibility unlimited

Amy
    1000 19
(Mattea: Who is Margaret Court?)
(Matt: What's Moody?)

Alice Marble

MattMattea
Triple Stumper

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Matt Amy Mattea
4,800 7,400 1,600

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

GETTING MEDIEVAL ON YOU
IN THIS CORNER...
OH, THOSE DUTCH!
PARENTS & KIDS
OSCARS FOR MAKEUP & HAIRSTYLING
12 OR MORE LETTERS
    400 30
the Crusades

Mattea
    400 29
(Ken: Yes. You're all picturing the same map in your head.)

New Mexico

Matt
    400 24
a dike

Mattea
    400 27
(Ken: [Putting his own coda on the clue] ...unless they're into it.)

potty training

Mattea
    400 26
Beetlejuice

Mattea
    400 28
(Mattea: What's [**]?)
[Original ruled incorrect; reversed at the end of Double Jeopardy!]
(Matt: Oh, uh, what's... uh... de-embarkment?)
[Originally ruled incorrect; not counted]

disembarcation (or disembarkment)

AmyMattea
    800 22
(Matt: Oh... what's Charlemagne?)
...
(Ken: It's actually a Broadway lyric because the king is named [*].)

Pippin (III)

Matt
Triple Stumper
    800 16
the Côte d'Azur

Matt
    800 23
Saint Martin

Mattea
    800 21
IVF

Amy
    800 25
[Mattea omitted the leading article from the response.]

The Grand Budapest Hotel

Mattea
    10,600 5
insubordination

Amy
    1200 4
Aquinas

Amy
    1200 15
China

Mattea
    1200 19
(Johan) Cruyff

Amy
    1200 20
emancipated

Mattea
    1200 9
(Rick) Baker

Amy
    1200 10
vulcanization

Matt
    1600 3
Maimonides

Mattea
    1600 14
Henry the Navigator

Amy
    5,200 7
(Ken: The [*] cloud, yes.)

Oort

Mattea
    1600 18
(Ken: Parents often say [*].)

the days are long but the years are short

Triple Stumper
    1600 8
Mad Max: Fury Road

Mattea
    1600 11
parthenogenesis

Matt
    2000 2
Romanesque

Amy
    2000 13
the Caprivi Strip

Triple Stumper
    2000 1
(Matt: Ooh. What's Poussin?)

Jacob van Ruisdael

Matt
Triple Stumper
    2000 17
behaviorism

Matt
    2000 6
(Ken: From [*]'s Black Bottom, right.)

Ma Rainey

Mattea
    2000 12
achondroplasia

Triple Stumper

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Matt Amy Mattea
8,000 26,400 18,000

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

THE 20th CENTURY
(Ken: [To Matt] This was Khrushchev's secret speech denouncing Stalin. Big news in the West.)
MattWhat destalinization
8,000
Matteawhat is destalinization?
0
AmyWhat is [2 characters scribbled out] DeStalinization?
9,601
destalinization

Final scores:

Matt Amy Mattea
16,000 36,001 18,000
3rd place: 1 match point Winner: 4 match points 2nd place: 2 match points

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Matt Amy Mattea
8,000 14,000 14,400
15 R,
3 W		 17 R
(including 2 DDs),
1 W		 21 R
(including 1 DD),
3 W

Combined Coryat: 36,400

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Game tape date: 2024-04-18
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