Responses for Jeopardy! Masters game #38 - Wednesday, May 22, 2024

2024 Jeopardy! Masters final game 2.

Contestants

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Yogesh Raut, a cognitive and behavioral scientist from Vancouver, Washington (subtotal of 19,200)

James Holzhauer, the self-described "final boss" of Jeopardy! from Las Vegas, Nevada (subtotal of 28,309)

Victoria Groce, a writer and television personality from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (subtotal of 21,400)

Jeopardy! Round responses

NUMERIC GEOGRAPHY
IT'S ALL GREEK MYTH TO ME
TINY BUBBLES
NAMES IN FASHION
"I" TUNES
THIS! ISN'T! JEOPARDY!
    200 13
Three Mile Island

James
    200 16
Atlas

Victoria
    200 8
(Victoria: What's a buffer?)
(James: What's a base?)
[Both negative rulings reversed before Double Jeopardy! because it was determined that Victoria's response should have prompted Ken to ask her to be more specific]

an antacid

Triple Stumper
    200 26
Chanel

Yogesh
    200 25
"I Shot The Sheriff"

Victoria
    200 5
asylum

Triple Stumper
    400 12
(Yogesh: As in Spencer [*] played by Troian Bellisario on Pretty Little Liars.)
(Ken: [Allowingly] Yeah, I guess.)

Hastings

Yogesh
    400 15
liver

James
    400 9
Dom Perignon

Yogesh
    400 27
the bandage dress

Victoria
    400 21
"I Knew You Were Trouble"

Victoria
    400 6
diplomatic immunity

James
    600 11
(Ken: There are five trees now, apparently.)
(Yogesh: Hm.)

One Tree Hill

Yogesh
    600 14
(Victoria: What is the ship of Theseus?)

the Argo

VictoriaJames
    600 17
pumice

James
    600 28
Meyer Lansky

Triple Stumper
    600 20
"I Don't Care"

James
    600 22
invincible

Victoria
    800 10
the St. Lawrence

Yogesh
    800 2
the golden apples (of the Hesperides)

Yogesh
    800 18
effervescence

Victoria
    800 29
Balenciaga

Victoria
    800 7
"I Remember Everything"

Victoria
    800 23
sanctuary

Yogesh
    1000 3
Kowloon

Yogesh
    1000 1
(Ken: He sent his messenger [*].)

Hermes

Triple Stumper
    1000 19
(Yogesh: What is... diving bell?)

caisson disease

Yogesh
Triple Stumper
    1000 30
van Noten

Victoria
    1,799 4
"I Can See Clearly Now"

Yogesh
    1000 24
an aegis

Victoria

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Victoria James Yogesh
5,600 2,800 5,799

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

AFRICAN HISTORY
"K" "J" FOR THE WIN
(Ken: Aw, that's nice for me. A response might be, for example, "Who is Ken Jennings?")
NEW MATERIAL ABOUT OLD MATERIAL
WOMEN IN POEMS
TV
FAMOUS HOSTS
(Jimmy Kimmel: I'm Jimmy Kimmel. I'll have clues about hosts, because a host is always better than a virus.)
    400 21
Homo habilis

Victoria
    400 22
knee-jerk

James
    400 23
the Shroud of Turin

Victoria
    400 24
Annabel Lee

Victoria
    400 25
8 Simple Rules (for Dating My Teenage Daughter)

Victoria
    400 30
Matt Damon

Yogesh
    800 14
Sierra Leone (or Guinea or Côte d'Ivoire)

Yogesh
    800 13
a killjoy

Victoria
    800 20
(Ken: And you got control back just in time. That is the last Daily Double. What do you want to do here, Victoria?)
(Victoria: Trying to do some math.)
...
(Victoria: Is this [*]?)
(Ken: That's the form of a question. Yes, it is!)

the Stone of Scone

Victoria
    13,600 11
Evangeline

Victoria
    800 26
(Yogesh: What is Scully?)
...
(Ken: Yeah, Scully named for Vin Scully, apparently.)

Mulder

JamesYogesh
    800 29
(Victoria: [Looking to the audience] Shout-out Troy.)

the Dog Pound

Victoria
    1200 1
Tobruk

Victoria
    1200 5
King James

James
    1200 19
parchment

Victoria
    1200 9
Lazarus

Victoria
    1200 15
So You Think You Can Dance

Yogesh
    1200 28
(Yogesh: Is it [*]?)
(Ken: As you know, it is!)

The Manchurian Candidate

Yogesh
    1600 6
(Ken: Of Hotel Rwanda, right.)

Rusesabagina

Yogesh
    1600 2
kilojoules

Yogesh
    1600 18
slate

James
    1600 8
[James turns completely around from the board after hearing the correct response.]
(Ken: James regretting not going for it.)

Queen Mab

Triple Stumper
    1600 7
Torquay

Victoria
    1600 27
the Satyricon

Victoria
    2000 3
Lumumba

Yogesh
    2000 12
Karl Jaspers

Triple Stumper
    2000 17
(James: What are guillotines? Blades?)

guillotine blades

James
    2000 10
(Victoria: Who is Rossetti?)
(Ken: Can you be more specific?)

Christina Rossetti

Victoria
    2000 4
Welcome to Chippendales

Victoria
    2000 16
Salvador Dalí & Gala Éluard Dalí

Yogesh

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Victoria James Yogesh
34,000 8,800 15,799
(lock tournament)

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

AMERICAN WOMEN
(Ken: [To James] Yes, whose cancer cells were taken without her permission for medical research. And we're also gonna hear final boss death music?)
(James: [Pretending to keel over behind his lectern] Rreer-rreer-rreer.)
[Victoria laughs and applauds.]
JamesWho is Henrietta Lacks *final boss death music*
908
YogeshWho Could it be Lacks?
10,911
VictoriaWho is Lacks? Great games, y'all--see you next year! ♡
0
Henrietta Lacks

Final scores:

Victoria James Yogesh
34,000 9,708 26,710

Cumulative scores:

Victoria James Yogesh
55,400 38,017 45,910
Winner: $500,000 + $100,000 to Partners in Health + the Trebek Trophy 3rd place: $150,000 2nd place: $250,000

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Victoria James Yogesh
21,200 8,800 15,000
25 R
(including 2 DDs),
1 W		 11 R,
0 W		 17 R
(including 1 DD),
2 W

Combined Coryat: 45,000

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Game tape date: 2024-05-01
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