2023Jeopardy! Mastersquarterfinal game 8.
Matt Amodio — a postdoctoral researcher from Cambridge, Massachusetts
Mattea Roach — a writer and podcaster from Toronto, Ontario, Canada
James Holzhauer — a self-described game show villain from Las Vegas, Nevada
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| James | — | $8,200 | $24,800 |
$23,678
Winner: 9 match points |
$17,000
25 R (including 1 DD), 3 W |
| Mattea | — | $4,200 | $5,800 |
$5,958
2nd place: 7 match points |
$5,800
11 R, 1 W |
| Matt | — | $2,800 | $-2,000 |
$-2,000
3rd place: 3 match points |
$7,600
14 R (including 1 DD), 6 W (including 1 DD) |
| AUTHORS' PRETTY DECENT REVIEWS | W-2 | PHYSICS CHECKUP | WORLD COINS | CLASSIC MOVIES | GROWING UP X |
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$200
[26]
The Seattle Times declared 1996's "The Runaway Jury" by this man to be his "most addictive courtroom thriller"
Grisham
Matt
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$200
[9]
To literally or figuratively cover over the flaws, perhaps not in a good way
whitewash
Matt
|
$200
[19]
It was the first of the fundamental forces to be systematically described
gravity
Matt
|
$200
[28]
In 2022 Samoa honored "Sesame Street" with a $5 coin featuring this Muppet popping out of his trash can
Oscar (the Grouch)
Mattea
|
$200
[29]
"No man is a failure who has friends" is just one of the lessons George Bailey learns in this Christmas classic
It's a Wonderful Life
James
|
$200
[30]
Of course there's a video case dating back to 1993 from this rental chain; let's make it a this night!
Blockbuster
James
|
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$400
[25]
"A milestone in the chronicling of the black experience", wrote Publishers Weekly about this author's "Beloved"
Morrison
Mattea
|
$400
[8]
A highlight of New Zealand's Waitomo caves is a boat ride to a grotto lit by these creatures
glowworms
James
|
$400
[18]
The brightest explosions ever observed, GRBs are mysterious "burst"s of these
gamma rays
Mattea
|
$400
[27]
In 2023, to celebrate the current lunar new year, the Solomon Islands issued 3 coins featuring this animal
a rabbit
James
|
$400
[15]
Residents of a small town are replaced by soulless alien duplicates in this 1956 sci-fi classic
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
Matt
|
$400
[23]
Boasting 64 kb worth of pure computing power, this company's 64 personal computer went for $595 in '80s money
Commodore
Matt
|
|
$600
[24]
The Detroit Free Press said "The Mummy" was "vintage" this novelist; "elegantly erotic & full of enchanting terror"
Anne Rice
Matt
|
$600
[7]
If you want to be fancy about it, a tailcoat can have this longer name that fits the category
a swallowtail
James
|
$600
[17]
It's the measure of the randomness, or molecular disorder, of a system; the universe's is said to be increasing
entropy
Mattea
|
$600
[11]
Some coins in this Argentine currency feature trees, including the jacaranda & the myrtle
peso
James
|
$600
[14]
"I coulda had class, I could've been a contender", said Marlon Brando in his Oscar-winning role in this film
On the Waterfront
Mattea
|
$600
[22]
Cooler, Nose Marie & Whopper were some of these alliterative dogs created by Tonka
Pound Puppies
|
|
$800
[4]
The New York Times said she created "an indelible portrait of loss & grief" after the passing of her husband John Gregory Dunne
Didion
James
|
$800
[6]
It's the name for that extra toenail on your dog's foot
a dewclaw
James
|
$800
[16]
Newton's second law is commonly summarized as this simple 3-letter equation
F = ma
James
|
$800
[10]
Cameroon is one of several countries that use a currency called the CFA this; coins come in values from 1 to 500
franc
James
|
$800
[13]
This 1979 film about a small group of friends who cycle to victory was ranked by AFI as one of the most inspiring of all time
Breaking Away
James
|
$800
[21]
This type of printer from Apple that used pins hitting an inked ribbon?You bet it's on display!
dot matrix
James
|
|
$1,000
[3]
Can you pass the test? Entertainment Weekly called her comic "Fun Home" witty & mordant (morbid might be more fitting)
Bechdel
Mattea
|
$1,000
[5]
Peter Buxtun vis-à-vis the Tuskegee syphilis study
a whistleblower
|
$1,000
[1]
According to this cosmologist's law, redshift in light coming from a galaxy is directly proportional to its distance from us
Hubble
Matt
|
DD
$1,000
[2]
Though Mount Ararat is in Turkey, this neighboring country issued a 500-dram coin featuring the mountain along with Noah's Ark & a dove
Armenia
Matt
|
$1,000
[12]
Inthissilent film, Charlie Chaplin is a starving prospector who boiled & ate his own boot, which was actually black licorice
The Gold Rush
James
|
$1,000
[20]
On the serious side, the exhibit includes a button bearing this equation that protested the lack of action or even talk about AIDS
silence = death
Mattea
|
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$400
[28]
This Syrian capital is often cited as being the oldest continuously inhabited city in the world
Damascus
Matt
|
$400
[27]
Frank Lloyd Wright's spiral design of the Guggenheim in New York City is said to evoke the shell of this chambered mollusk
a nautilus
James
|
$400
[26]
Named for a historic trek, there's now an online version of this game from 1971 in which death from typhoid & snakebite are commonplace
Oregon Trail
Mattea
|
$400
[23]
He's not the 11th general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party since Mao, but the 6th
Xi
Mattea
|
$400
[25]
It's when James & Margaret claimed the Dutton Ranch
1883
James
|
$400
[30]
Serving under Andrew Jackson, I gained the U.S. greater trading access; later I succeeded AJ as president
Van Buren
James
|
|
$800
[8]
Istanbul is divided into European & Asian sections by this strait
the Bosporus
Mattea
|
$800
[4]
Some argue that Verdi's masterpiece is "Don Carlos", based on a 1787 play by this German writer
Schiller
James
Mattea
|
$800
[13]
The 1981 edition of Trivial Pursuit has this name that you may be familiar with from binomial nomenclature
Genus (Edition)
James
Matt
|
$800
[22]
A 1979 paper by Sandra Schecter argued that this interjection is a central part of Canadian identity
eh
James
|
$800
[24]
A karate dojo in the San Fernando Valley
Cobra Kai
Mattea
|
$800
[29]
I was "the Great Pacificator" & in 1852 was the first man to lie in state in the Capitol rotunda, then went back to Kentucky
Henry Clay
James
|
|
$1,200
[1]
It's the only country in Africa that's completely surrounded by another country
Lesotho
James
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$1,200
[3]
Ernest Pontifex in "The Way of All Flesh" is a stand-in for this author of the posthumously published masterpiece
Butler
James
|
$1,200
[11]
Around 1870 the Tenth Hussars faced the Ninth Lancers in this game that's been around for 2,000 years or so
polo
Matt
|
$1,200
[14]
The first patriarch's first home
Ur
Matt
|
$1,200
[18]
Last name of a family including Daphne & Hyacinth in Regency England
Bridgerton
Matt
|
$1,200
[21]
As an investor who didn't want to hear bad things about Theranos, I was played by Sam Waterston in "The Dropout"
George Shultz
|
|
$1,600
[7]
Denmark's parliament has 179 seats, including 2 from Greenland & 2 from these islands in the North Atlantic
the Faroe Islands
James
|
$1,600
[5]
Before dying at 51, this Frenchman wrote masterpieces including "Le Père Goriot", part of his series "La Comédie humaine"
Balzac
James
|
$1,600
[10]
This gaming company that had a splashy IPO in 2021 gets "virtual explorers" to create worlds by themselves or with friends
Roblox
Matt
|
$1,600
[20]
The arboreal aerialist seenheregets this alternate name from its high-pitched cry
ai
Matt
|
$2,000
[17]
A small Canadian town filled with "skids, hockey players & Christians"
Letterkenny
James
|
$2,000
[16]
My brother said "war is hell" & I quit as Secretary of State 4 days into the Spanish-American War, which I had opposed
John Sherman
James
Matt
|
|
$2,000
[9]
The Kamchatka Peninsulaseparates the Bering Sea from this onethat has ports in eastern Russia & on Hokkaidō
Okhotsk
Matt
|
$2,000
[6]
This Philadelphia painter depicted a surgical operation in "The Gross Clinic", deemed too bloody to display in public in 1876
Eakins
Matt
|
$2,000
[12]
Aperture Science Laboratories is the setting of this classic that's among Steam's top-ranked games
Portal
James
Matt
|
$2,000
[19]
Signifying negation or absence, it's the response to the famous koan "Does a dog have Buddha nature?"
mu
|
DD
$9,600
[15]
Slang meaning undergoing the terrible agony of withdrawal from opiates like Oxycontin
dopesick
Matt
|
DD
$9,400
[2]
I messed up saying I was "in control" in the White House, but earlier I really was as a shaky Richard Nixon's last Chief of Staff
(Alexander) Haig
James
|
The dominions of this land "extend five thousand blustrugs (about twelve miles in circumference)"
Lilliput