Show #10 2023-05-15 (taped 2023-05-02) Jeopardy! Masters

2023Jeopardy! Mastersquarterfinal game 10.

Contestants

Sam Buttrey — an associate professor at the Naval Postgraduate School from Pacific Grove, California

Andrew He — a software developer from San Francisco, California

James Holzhauer — a self-described game show villain from Las Vegas, Nevada

Scores

Player	First Commercial	End of Jeopardy!	End of Double Jeopardy!	Final	Coryat
James	—	$7,600	$24,805	$23,999 Winner: 12 match points	$18,800 25 R (including 2 DDs), 2 W
Andrew	—	$6,400	$8,800	$8,800 2nd place: 9 match points	$7,600 11 R (including 1 DD), 2 W
Sam	—	$2,800	$8,800	$0 3rd place: 2 match points	$8,800 17 R, 3 W

Jeopardy! Round

THE FRENCH REVOLUTION	WHAT A LITERARY CHARACTER!	GREAT SPORTS CALLS	MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS & ACCESSORIES	FROM THE GREEK	MY MISSED CAREER, SUBSTITUTE TEACHER
$200 [30] Tuneage of the revolutionary era included this song composed by an army captain in one night in 1792 "The Marseillaise" Sam	$200 [28] "Could you expect me to rejoice in the inferiority of your connections?" is a zinger from this proud Jane Austen guy Darcy James	$200 [23] Andrés Cantor said he almost fainted while making this call after a thrilling Landon Donovan score GOOOAAAL! Sam	$200 [24] Despite the rumors, David Mamet said he doesn't actually use this musical device to mark time, but does count syllables metronome Sam	$200 [21] Zendaya is very familiar with this word from Greek that means intense happiness & well-being euphoria Andrew	$200 [26] Let's take roll... A.A. Ron...? Oh, just like this composer of 1957's "Piano Fantasy" Copland James
$400 [29] New names were needed for these & poet Fabre d'Églantine came up with Frimaire, Germinal, Messidor & others the months of the year Sam	$400 [27] It's the first name of Ian Fleming's Mr. Goldfinger Auric James	$400 [22] Howard Cosell, 1973: "Down goes" this man! "Down goes" this man! "Down goes" this man! Frazier Sam	$400 [18] The doo-hickey seenhereis one of these for a cello; it limits the cello's resonance slightly a mute Andrew	$400 [20] From a Greek word for "moving", it's a type of energy as well as a type of art kinetic Sam	$400 [25] Let's bring American history class to life! Take a look at this Revolutionary group pouring tea down the throat of a Crown official Sons of Liberty James
$600 [15] On the eve of the revolution, Marie-Antoinette was implicated in "the Affair of" this item & reviled as deceitful & corrupt the Necklace James	$600 [16] Walter Scott wrote of him, "conspicuous by his long gun, waving tartans, and the single plume" of "the Highland gentleman" Rob Roy Sam	$600 [11] Al Michaels: "It is caught by Dyson. Can he get in? No, he cannot. Mike Jones made the tackle &" they "have won the Super Bowl!" the Rams James Andrew	$600 [17] String players apply this sticky stuff to their bows to create friction, allowing the bows to grip the strings & make them vibrate more clearly rosin Sam	$600 [19] This stage in the development of a butterfly is from the Greek for "gold" a chrysalis James	$600 [9] In P.E. I'll make you multi-sport stars like this decathlete who won a 1960 duel of UCLA Bruins to take Olympic gold Rafer Johnson Sam
$800 [14] Locked out of a meeting hall at Versailles in 1789, members of the Third Estate took their famous oath at this location there a tennis court Andrew	$1,000 [2] The title character in "Humboldt's Gift" by this author is based on his friend, poet Delmore Schwartz (Saul) Bellow Andrew	$800 [10] "I don't believe what I just saw" & "We'll see you tomorrow night" are among the many calls of this legend & dad of a legend Jack Buck James	$800 [12] Auguste Mustel invented this keyboard instrument in 1886; its heavenly name evokes the sky a celesta Andrew Sam	$800 [7] From the Greek for "to whirl", it's another name for an equilateral parallelogram rhombus Andrew	$800 [8] I love A.P. bio! Let's talk pancreas! An adult one has a million of these, named for the German doctor who noted them in 1869 islets of Langerhans James
$1,000 [13] The biggest celebration of the Revolution was held on July 14, 1790, not on the Champs-Élysées, but on this Champ Champ de Mars James	DD $2,000 [4] At the end of a Thomas Pynchon book, Oedipa Maas awaits the bidding on a stamp collection with this auction number lot 49 Andrew	$1,000 [1] "The slipper still fits!" as this then-Cinderella Spokane school eked out a 1999 NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament win Gonzaga James	$1,000 [5] The Amati family & their pupils the Stradivari made their violins in this city in the Lombardy region Cremona James	$1,000 [6] From Greek for "head" & "foot", it's any of the class of mollusks that includes the squid & octopus cephalopod James	$1,000 [3] Geography class, China's NW corner is this "autonomous region", though it's debatable how much autonomy its Uyghur people have Xinjiang James Andrew

Double Jeopardy! Round

3-WORD PLACE NAMES	WHATEVER FLOATS	ESSAYS	TV THERAPISTS	ARCHAEOLOGY	GET "EM"!
$400 [24] April 23 is an annual celebration of a local hero in this Warwickshire town--& by the way, that middle word has 4 letters Stratford-upon-Avon	$400 [28] French gives us this 7-letter word for a flat-bottomed boat; it's also a type of floating bridge composed of a group of boats a pontoon James	DD $5 [21] This Italian's experiments with dead frogs led him to write an essay on the "Effect of Electricity in Muscular Motion" Galvani James	$400 [26] For his final sign-off to his radio audience, Frasier Crane said, "Goodnight", this city Seattle James	$400 [30] The Hittite Empire may have collapsed around 1200 B.C. due to a severe drought as indicated in the width of these from juniper trees tree rings Sam	$400 [29] Extremely thin, perhaps as the result of malnutrition emaciated Sam
$800 [23] Pétionville is a wealthy suburb of this Caribbean capital Port-au-Prince Sam	$800 [17] In a Police song, Sting floats one of these; later, "a hundred billion" of them show up on his shore a message in a bottle James	$400 [27] A book of essays about the "Black Panther" film & its cultural impact is called "Why" this fictional country "Matters" Wakanda Andrew	$800 [25] Oscar-nominated for "Goodfellas", she would later receive 4 Emmy nominations for her role as a TV therapist Lorraine Bracco (on The Sopranos ) James	$800 [5] Wooden furniture & a loaf of bread in an oven have been found preserved in this city 10 miles northwest of Pompeii Herculaneum James Sam	$800 [14] To correct by altering a text or manuscript emend James
$1,600 [1] This spot northwest of Philly got its name from a tavern named for Frederick II King of Prussia James	$1,200 [15] A company's stock float is calculated by subtracting restricted stock from these, abbreviated O/S outstanding shares James	$800 [8] Nora Ephron mentions ones that are loose, crepey, wrinkled & turkey gobbler in her essay "I Feel Bad About My" this Neck Sam	$1,200 [19] Seen here, Marcia Wallace played feisty receptionist Carol to the psychologist on this show The Bob Newhart Show Sam	$1,200 [4] From the Arabic for "hill", it's an artificial mound created by many generations building & rebuilding on the same spot a tell	$1,200 [12] Based on observation empirical Sam
$2,000 [9] This sun-dappled city of southern France is home to famed hot springs & the atelier of Paul Cézanne Aix-en-Provence	$1,600 [16] The Mayo Clinic's page on eye floaters reveals that they're commonly caused by clumps of this fibrous protein collagen Sam	$1,200 [6] In "Self-Reliance" Emerson wrote that "A foolish consistency is" this "of little minds" hobgoblin James	$1,600 [20] Dr. Linda Martin, therapist for this title guy, worked on a book about him called "Sympathy for the Devil" Lucifer James Andrew	$1,600 [3] This culture named for a New Mexico city was known for its leaf-shaped spear points used to hunt mammoths & other big game the Clovis Culture	$1,600 [11] A soothing substance for the skin an emollient Sam
DD $9,200 [2] A South American cidade & estado both go by this name Rio de Janeiro James	$2,000 [18] This formidable New Orleans krewe that shares its name with a Keats poem built an over 300-foot-long Mardi Gras float Endymion Sam	$1,600 [7] In 1972 John McPhee compared Monopoly properties with a declining Atlantic City in his essay "The Search for" this property Marvin Gardens James Andrew	$2,000 [22] This onetime shrink played by David Cross on "Arrested Development" suffers from never-nude syndrome Tobias (Fünke) Andrew	$2,000 [13] Named for a mythic place of darkness, this ship commanded by Sir John Franklin has been yielding its secrets from Arctic waters the HMS Erebus	$2,000 [10] A body of water that juts into land, or a window recess shaped like one an embayment

Final Jeopardy!

19th CENTURY FIRST LADIES

After her husband left office, a minister wrote the White House was "purer because" this first lady "has been its mistress"

Lucy Hayes ("Lemonade Lucy")

Andrew "Who is Lucy Hayes?" — wagered $0

Sam "Who is Grant?" — wagered $8,800

James "If a Ken falls in the forest and no one's around, does it make a dad joke?" — wagered $806

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