Responses for Jeopardy! Masters game #34 - Friday, May 17, 2024

2024 Jeopardy! Masters semifinal game 2.

Contestants

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Amy Schneider, a writer from Oakland, California

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

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

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Jeopardy! Round responses

I'LL BE BACH
PODCASTS
TRIPLE LETTER FUN
FURNITURE
OUR VAST PAST
PERIODICALS
    200 25
baroque

Amy
    200 26
You Must Remember This

Amy
    200 27
apprenticeship

Yogesh
    200 28
an armoire

Victoria
    200 29
Botany Bay

Victoria
    200 30
Playbill

Yogesh
    400 17
a passion

Yogesh
    400 22
Grace

Yogesh
    400 23
a subculture

Amy
    400 24
wicker

Victoria
    400 5
the Edo period

Yogesh
    400 18
Boys' Life

Yogesh
    5,000 16
(Ken: The [*] Concertos, yes. You love your classical music, and you have 10,000.)

Brandenburg

Victoria
    600 19
This American Life

Victoria
    600 13
the gravedigger

Yogesh
    600 21
[Victoria laughs.]

a chaise longue

Victoria
    600 4
the Cloth of Gold

Victoria
    600 9
Consumer Reports

Victoria
    800 10
(Ken: Yes, that was a young Pablo Casals.)
(Yogesh: Mm.)

the cello

Yogesh
    800 1
(Yogesh: [Selecting the first clue] Mine's called Recreational Thinking. PODCASTS for 800.)
(Ken: [Chuckles] Love the plug.)

SmartLess

Victoria
    800 11
an encyclical

Amy
    800 20
(Victoria: What is a tuft?)
(Amy: What is a tussock?)

a hassock

VictoriaAmy
Triple Stumper
    800 2
Travis

Yogesh
    800 6
American Heritage

Yogesh
    1000 15
the Goldberg Variations

Victoria
    1000 14
Andrew Huberman

Triple Stumper
    1000 12
(Amy: What is a... a... tah!)
(Ken: Out of time, I'm afraid.)

a rattletrap

Amy
Triple Stumper
    1000 8
the Aeron chair

Victoria
    1000 3
(Ken: At the Battle of Marathon, right.)

Pheidippides

Victoria
    1000 7
(Yogesh: Uh, what is the Dow Jones?)
...
(Ken: Clarence W. Barron. What is [*]?)

Barron's

Yogesh
Triple Stumper

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Yogesh Victoria Amy
4,000 11,200 -200

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

BRIDGES
FLAVOR PROFILE?
ONE-WORD MOVIE TITLES
SAY IT "IN" LATIN
THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT
ETERNAL SUNSHINE
    400 17
Key

Yogesh
    400 21
ginger

Yogesh
    400 24
(Yogesh: What is Interstellar?)
...
(Ken: That's correct. He's... forgotten the whole movie.)

Memento

YogeshAmy
    400 27
(Ken: By Nirvana, right.)

In Utero

Amy
    400 30
Lethe

Yogesh
    400 29
(Ken: The only state that rhymes there? "Our beloved [*]!")

Delaware

Triple Stumper
    800 14
(Amy: What is... Bolshevik?)

Russky

VictoriaAmy
    800 20
yellowcake

Victoria
    800 25
(Yogesh: What is [*]?)
(Ken: Yes.)
(Yogesh: Or is it?)

Gaslight

Yogesh
    800 26
in situ

Victoria
    800 1
Richard Corey

Yogesh
    800 28
Starlink

Amy
    1200 13
the Trinity

Victoria
    1200 15
(Victoria: What's a sweet pea?)

a sweet William

Victoria
Triple Stumper
    1200 18
Spaceballs

Amy
    6,000 16
(Ken: "In the middle of things", that is correct.)

in medias res

Victoria
    1200 3
(Amy: Who was Plath?)
...
(Ken: Plath was earlier.)
(Yogesh: All right. Everyone knows how might I love Taylor Swift, so TORTURED POETS 2000.)
(Ken: That's right.)

(Anne) Sexton

YogeshAmy
    1200 7
a Thousand Suns

Triple Stumper
    1600 11
(Ken: Yeah, Victoria didn't want to risk it.)

Zermatt

Triple Stumper
    1600 10
(Ken: Yeah, we got some tough stuff.)

Blind Lemon Jefferson

Triple Stumper
    7,600 6
(Yogesh: Love Sidney Lumet. What is [*]?)
(Ken: Not tough for a movie buff like Yogesh. That is correct, and we have a tie game.)

Network

Yogesh
    1600 9
(Amy: What is in nomine Deus?)
(Yogesh: What is in nomine patria?)

in nomine patris

YogeshAmy
Triple Stumper
    1600 5
Auden

Yogesh
    1600 23
disinfectant

Victoria
    2000 12
(George) Stephenson

Victoria
    2000 19
Banana Yoshimoto

Victoria
    2000 2
Gattaca

Victoria
    2000 8
(Yogesh: What is pro se?)

in propria persona

Yogesh
Triple Stumper
    2000 4
(Paul Lawrence) Dunbar

Victoria
    2000 22
(Amy: What is... heliology?)
(Ken: Sorry, no. You had to guess.)
(Victoria: What is solar astronomy?)

heliophysics

VictoriaAmy
Triple Stumper

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Yogesh Victoria Amy
13,200 27,200 -3,000
(lock game)

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

ALSO SEEN AT THE CIRCUS
(Ken: [To Yogesh] That's a great political metaphor, but it is not the correct response, in fact.)
...
(Ken: [To Victoria] This is a phrase that didn't become popular until the '80s to refer to Social Security and other New-Deal-era programs like that. It's the [*].)
YogeshWhat Big Tent [picture of a little tent]
13,199
VictoriaWhat is...? Hi, Nora! ♡
0
safety net

Final scores:

Yogesh Victoria Amy
1 27,200 -3,000
2nd place: 4 match points Winner: 3 match points 3rd place: 0 match points

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Yogesh Victoria Amy
7,200 18,000 -3,000
18 R
(including 1 DD),
4 W		 22 R
(including 2 DDs),
3 W		 8 R,
6 W

Combined Coryat: 22,200

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Game tape date: 2024-04-30
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