2023Jeopardy! Mastersquarterfinal game 3.
Mattea Roach — a writer and podcaster from Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Amy Schneider — a writer from Oakland, California
Sam Buttrey — an associate professor at the Naval Postgraduate School from Pacific Grove, California
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sam | — | $4,000 | $17,600 |
$2,399
3rd place: 1 match point |
$12,400
18 R (including 1 DD), 2 W |
| Amy | — | $6,000 | $11,200 |
$17,700
2nd place: 2 match points |
$9,800
13 R (including 1 DD), 1 W |
| Mattea | — | $2,800 | $16,400 |
$22,401
Winner: 3 match points |
$13,200
18 R (including 1 DD), 3 W |
| PLAY: THE GAME | UNUSUAL MUSEUMS | TIME TO LAWYER UP | TV | 1920s SCIENCE | ALL "IN" |
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$200
[28]
Your wife asks for a divorce; lose direction in life; move in with sportswriter pal; clean his place. Clean it again. & again
The Odd Couple
Sam
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$200
[23]
Oddly, Leeds Castle in England houses a museum devoted to 5 centuries of this canine neckwear
a dog collar
Sam
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$200
[26]
For not complying with a court order in 1995, a Philly lawyer was jailed for this; he kept not complying & was in jail for 14 years
contempt (of court)
Mattea
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$200
[30]
The last advertising idea conceived by Don Draper on "Mad Men" was for this bubbly product
Coke
Amy
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$200
[21]
Peter Kaisen discovered the first fossil of this dinosaur, the "speedy thief"
Velociraptor
Sam
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$200
[19]
Not a record to boast about, Jim Hardy threw 8 of these against the Eagles in a 1950 NFL game
interceptions
Mattea
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$400
[27]
Travel to Elsinore; glean what afflicts old pal Hamlet; try to find where he put Polonius; get betrayed; win 1968 Tony
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
Mattea
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$400
[22]
In Milwaukee spring on over to the National Hall of Fame & Museum for these collectible dolls, sometimes called "nodders"
bobbleheads
Sam
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$400
[25]
Be an upright citizen & know it's the legal right to bring a lawsuit; judges decide if you have it so the case can proceed
standing
Sam
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$400
[29]
It's the 2-word name of the menacing parallel dimension on "Stranger Things"
the Upside Down
Mattea
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$400
[18]
In 1922 Caltech got the Wood-Anderson torsion one of these instruments, a breakthrough in sensitivity & precision
seismometer
Sam
Mattea
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$400
[16]
We sometimes use this Latin word for "in the meantime" when someone takes a job on a temporary basis
interim
Sam
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$600
[8]
Play affair card with a guy, then accuse his wife of witchcraft; roll again & accuse her of attempted murder
The Crucible
Mattea
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$600
[5]
Like Las Vegas, Warsaw, Poland has this type of museum that's really lit (literally)
Museum of Neon
Sam
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$600
[24]
A defense that involves claiming one knew nothing, saw nothing & heard nothing is named for this "Hogan's Heroes" character
Sergeant Schultz
Sam
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$600
[7]
At the end of "Game of Thrones", this member of the Stark family becomes the ruler of Westeros
Bran
Amy
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$600
[17]
The electrostatic valence rule is one of 5 on crystal structures put forth by this future Nobel-winning American chemist
(Linus) Pauling
Mattea
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$600
[15]
It's a court order requiring a person to do or to cease doing a particular act
injunction
Mattea
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$800
[9]
Advance to Harry Hope's bar; lose turn waiting for Hickey; play your pipe dream card; chill at bar after Hickey is arrested
The Iceman Cometh (by Eugene O'Neill)
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$800
[3]
Cup Noodles Museum in Osaka honors Momofuku Ando, who invented instant ramen & founded this company that makes it
Nissin
Mattea
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$800
[20]
Your Honor, the defendant is incompetent, or if I may get fancy, this 3-word phrase, Latin for "not master of one's mind"
non compos mentis
Sam
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$800
[6]
"There's no such thing as real psychics", proclaimed Simon Baker as Patrick Jane on this drama
The Mentalist
Amy
Mattea
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$800
[1]
Lewis Fry Richardson proposed doing this with 64,000 computers (those were people then) & data from a world network of balloons
forecasting the weather
Sam
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$800
[14]
This type of verb doesn't take a direct object
intransitive
Mattea
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DD
$2,400
[11]
Teach evolution to your science class; get arrested; be prosecuted by a 3-time presidential candidate; guilty card, pay $100
Inherit the Wind
Amy
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$1,000
[4]
Croatia, which broke up with Yugoslavia in 1991, has a Museum of Broken Relationships in this capital city
Zagreb
Mattea
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$1,000
[10]
I cite 1963's him v. Wainwright--the 6th Amendment's right to counsel extends to felony defendants in state courts
Gideon
Amy
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$1,000
[12]
As Baba Voss, this actor stars in "See", a series about a dystopian future where most of humanity has lost its sight
Jason Momoa
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$1,000
[2]
The Stern-Gerlach experiment gave insight into this, electrons' angular momentum, sort of like what planets do but also sort of not
spin
Sam
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$1,000
[13]
From the Italian for "engrave" or "cut", it was the process used to engrave the gemstone seen here
intaglio
Amy
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| THE MAP OF EUROPE | EDITORS | COLONIAL AMERICA | ____ OF THE ____ | BIBLICAL PLACES | DIANE WARREN |
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$400
[25]
With 2 million people & just north of North Macedonia, it may not be on every map of Europe
Kosovo
Sam
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$400
[23]
Graydon Carter gave props to Annie Leibovitz' photos that ran with celeb profiles in summing up 25 years editing this magazine
Vanity Fair
Amy
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$400
[28]
South Carolina was a top producer of this plant that produces a blue dye; round cakes of it were often used as currency
indigo
Amy
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$400
[27]
It's the idea that having a little whiskey the morning after you've had a lot of whiskey will somehow make you feel better
hair of the dog
Mattea
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$400
[30]
Brothers Peter & Andrew were casting a net into this body of water when Jesus said, "Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men"
the Sea of Galilee
Sam
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$400
[20]
(Diane Warren gives the clue.) One of the top films of the '90s was "Armageddon", which features my song "I Don't Want To Miss A Thing", the first No. 1 hit for this group"And I don't wanna miss a thing"
Aerosmith
Amy
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$800
[10]
There's a southern German state in the name of this Alpine subrange that runs along the border of Germany & Austria
the Bavarian Alps
Amy
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$800
[22]
On Oscar night 2016 Walter Robinson, an editor at this newspaper, hung with Michael Keaton, who played Walter in "Spotlight"
The Boston Globe
Mattea
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$800
[24]
In 1607 this colony chose a pres. in what's been called British America's first democratic election--6 of 104 had a vote
Jamestown
Sam
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$800
[26]
Almost 20 years after an earlier one, Navratilova faced Connors in a match called this
Battle of the Sexes
Sam
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$800
[29]
Joseph of this place took the crucified Jesus & placed his body in a "new tomb"
Arimathea
Sam
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$800
[19]
(Diane Warren gives the clue.) My song "Blame It On The Rain" was the last No. 1 hit for this Europop duo before it was revealed that they didn't actually do their own singing"Blame it on the rain"
Milli Vanilli
Mattea
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$1,600
[1]
It's the largest & southernmost of Ireland's counties
Cork
Mattea
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$1,200
[21]
The documentary "Turn Every Page" is about the bond of editor Robert Gottlieb & this man working on an epic political biography
Caro
Mattea
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$1,200
[6]
Published in 1767, "On Messrs. Hussey and Coffin" was the first printed poem by this Black woman
(Phillis) Wheatley
Sam
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$1,200
[5]
In the Bible, Pharaoh says Joseph's family may come & eat of this, what Lennie longs for in "Of Mice & Men"
the fat of the land
Amy
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$1,200
[15]
For killing his brother Abel, Cain was exiled to this land "on the east of Eden"
Nod
Amy
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$1,200
[18]
(Diane Warren gives the clue.) I actually had to get on my knees & beg Cher to record this 1989 hit, which worked out pretty nicely for both of us
"If I Could Turn Back Time"
Mattea
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$2,000
[9]
& quiet flows this 3-letter river, mostly south about 1,200 miles to the Sea of Azov
the Don
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$1,600
[12]
Thisurbane writer was a co-founder of the Paris Review & its first editor
Plimpton
Amy
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$1,600
[7]
King Philip's War, a bloody conflict between colonists & Native Americans in the 1670s, was led by Massasoit's son from this nation
the Wampanoag Nation
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$1,600
[4]
From this Broadway song, "Cunning little brain, regular Voltaire, thinks he's quite a lover but there's not much there"
"Master Of The House" (from Les Mis )
Mattea
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$1,600
[14]
The lord told Jonah to "Arise" & go to this Assyrian city "and cry against it"; Jonah did not want to
Nineveh
Mattea
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$1,600
[17]
(Diane Warren gives the clue.) In a strange twist, bothLeAnn Rimes & Trisha Yearwoodwere up for Grammys for my song from "Con Air" that asks this title question
"How Do I Live"
Amy
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DD
$4,400
[2]
Walk straight from Narbonne to Zaragoza & you'll pass in & out of this country
Andorra
Mattea
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$2,000
[11]
In 2016 a team of scientists at this La Jolla, California institute said they used gene editing to give sight to blind rodents
the Salk Institute
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DD
$7,200
[8]
This evangelical revival of the 1730s & 1740s was led by such theologians as George Whitefield & Jonathan Edwards
the Great Awakening
Sam
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$2,000
[3]
Congress has this alliterative ability, allowing it to levy taxes & spend government monies
the power of the purse
Sam
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$2,000
[13]
Johnwrote the book of Revelation while he was in the isle that is called this, depicted here
Patmos
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$2,000
[16]
(Diane Warren gives the clue.) I honored my own dad for believing in me & my music when I wrote "Because You Love Me" for this film in which Robert Redford played a news director who believed in Michelle Pfeiffer
Up Close & Personal
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Once a journalist himself, he began his first novel with his hero being fined 150,000 kronor for aggravated libel
Stieg Larsson