2023Jeopardy! Masterssemifinal game 1.Clips from this show appeared on the 2025-06-19 episode of the Peacock streaming TV seriesPoker Face.
Matt Amodio — a postdoctoral researcher from Cambridge, Massachusetts
Andrew He — a software developer from San Francisco, California
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 | — | $2,800 | $26,000 |
$30,401
Winner: 3 match points |
$16,000
23 R (including 2 DDs), 3 W |
| Andrew | — | $5,600 | $15,200 |
$22,000
2nd place: 1 match point |
$15,000
18 R (including 1 DD), 1 W |
| Matt | — | $5,000 | $8,200 |
$15,201
3rd place: 0 match points |
$8,200
10 R, 2 W |
| AMERICANS IN PROTEST | ALL AROUND THE WORLD | SIGNS & SYMBOLS | PERILS OF JOURNALISM | CLASSIC GAME SHOW PHRASES | TRIPLE RHYME TIME |
|
$200
[29]
It's the L-A in LULAC, a civil rights organization founded at Salon Obreros y Obreras in Corpus Christi in 1929
Latin American
James
Andrew
|
$200
[18]
A national park in Australia gets its name from basalt columnscalled these, components of a musical instrument
organ pipes
James
|
$200
[26]
Originally the staff carried by Hermes, this rod entwined by 2 snakes is a symbol of physicians & the emblem of the U.S. Army Medical Corps
a caduceus
James
|
$200
[28]
Boss has me writing "advance" these for what we call the morgue; CNN exposed some in 2003 for Dick Cheney & John Paul II--oops!
obituaries
Andrew
|
$200
[22]
"Come on down"
The Price Is Right
Andrew
|
$200
[30]
A hirsute, eerie pixie
a hairy scary fairy
James
|
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$400
[19]
A 2014 shooting in this St. Louis suburb marked a new era of protest against police treatment of African Americans
Ferguson
Matt
|
$400
[17]
Be wary around Mont St. Michel of this substance, sables mouvants in French, which is perhaps not as deadly as films portray
quicksand
Andrew
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$400
[25]
Perhaps a reference to the Medici family, 3 gold balls have become the symbol of this type of shop
a pawn shop
James
|
$400
[27]
The "authoritative journalism guidebook", this org.'s stylebook caught flak in 2023 for a tweet about "the French"
AP
James
|
$400
[21]
"Survey says..."
Family Feud
James
|
$400
[24]
To pretend your thoughts hurt
to feign brain pain
|
|
$600
[7]
Best known as the maker of Saran Wrap, this Michigan-based chemical company became the subject of protests for making napalm
Dow
Matt
|
$600
[16]
A ship found off Madagascar may be the vessel of this British pirate whose riches Poe wrote of in "The Gold Bug"
Kidd
James
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$600
[10]
The symbolism in this artist's Arnolfini Portrait includes a dog, a symbol of fidelity
van Eyck
Andrew
|
$600
[23]
Once again, I did this, failed to put the newsworthy part first; my editor says she'll put me underground if I do it again
bury the lead
Matt
|
$600
[20]
"Dumb Dora was so dumb..."
Match Game
James
|
$600
[14]
A more attractive semi-aquatic weasel relative whose job is to make sure your bench press doesn't crush you
a hotter otter spotter
Matt
|
|
$800
[6]
As Army Chief of Staff, in 1932 this general turned away veterans marching on D.C. for World War I bonuses
MacArthur
James
Andrew
|
DD
$1,000
[2]
A gigantic 3/4 dome, Montreal's biosphere was designed by this American for the city's 1967 Expo
(Buckminster) Fuller
Andrew
|
$800
[9]
In 1675 Leibniz introduced an elongated S to represent the sign for this calculus process
integration
James
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$800
[15]
There aren't federal types of these, but most states have ones that won't force me to reveal chili recipe competitors' secrets
shield laws (for journalists)
|
$800
[4]
To the mystery guest: "Enter & sign in, please"
What's My Line?
Matt
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$800
[13]
The shell of an oared racing boat that has lost its luster
dull scull hull
|
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$1,000
[5]
After silver was demonetized, the return of this coinage -ism became a populist cause of the late 1800s, even with protest songs
bimetallism
Andrew
|
$1,000
[1]
The Majolikahausis one of one of many Vienna buildings decorated in this style whose name is partly from German for "youth"
Jugendstil
Andrew
|
$1,000
[8]
This circular symbol of destruction & rebirth features a serpent devouring its own tail
ouroboros
Andrew
|
$1,000
[11]
Welp, my story got shelved by this alliterative group of senior editors, also where lesser members of U.K. Parliament sit
back bench
Matt
|
$1,000
[3]
"Big bucks, no whammies"
Press Your Luck
James
|
$1,000
[12]
To praise the unexpected viewing of "Never Gonna Give You Up" you saw in the pit you dug with the other soldiers
extol Rickroll (in the) foxhole
James
Matt
|
| KING OF THE MOUNTAIN | & SCENE | TOUGH SCIENCE | SPANISH & PORTUGUESE | FIVE FOR FIGHTING | PURE POETRY |
|
$400
[28]
Ben Nevis, since late 2022
Charles III
James
|
$400
[10]
Anesthesia by mallet is one technique this trio uses when they play doctors in "Men in Black", their only Oscar-nominated film
the Three Stooges
Andrew
|
$400
[29]
The size of a beach ball at roughly 23 inches in diameter, it orbited the Earth in around 98 minutes on Oct. 4, 1957
Sputnik
James
|
$400
[23]
In Spanish, one of these is "caballito de mar"; in Portuguese, "cavalo marinho"
a seahorse
Andrew
|
$400
[26]
Throwing one of these gloves in medieval times was a great insult, & "taking one up" was a signal that the fight was on
a gauntlet
Andrew
|
$400
[30]
(Ada Limón reads.) NASA has commissioned me to write a poem to be engraved on its Europa Clipperprobe, which will travel 1.8 billion miles on its way to inspect an icy but possibly life-friendly moon of this planet
Jupiter
James
|
|
$800
[27]
Ben Nevis, 1602--as he was known at the time, please!
James VI (of Scotland)
James
|
$800
[9]
Albert Brooks takes flop sweat to a new level when he gets his break as an anchorman in this comedy
Broadcast News
|
$800
[4]
Snowflakes & coastlines are often cited as examples of these repeating geometric shapes, from Latin for "broken"
fractals
James
|
$800
[22]
When talking to one person in Spanish, you use the pronoun tú with a pal but this other pronoun for a more formal encounter
usted
James
|
$800
[25]
Siamese fighting fish are also known by this name, which sounds like you might want to put a wager on them
betta
James
|
$800
[24]
(Ada Limón reads.) I'm a big fan of this strong metrical foot that consists of two stressed syllables, like the title of my poem "Dead Stars"
spondee
Andrew
Matt
|
|
$1,600
[18]
12,200-foot Pico del Teide on Tenerife, 1975 to 2014
Juan Carlos I
Andrew
|
$1,600
[6]
In this 1937 tearjerker, Barbara Stanwyck in the title role watches through a window as her daughter gets married
Stella Dallas
|
$1,200
[3]
An Italian anatomist gave his name to this "apparatus" inside a cell that modifies & transports proteins & lipids
Golgi
James
|
$1,200
[20]
Literally "new tendency" in Portuguese; don't blame it on us if you can't feel the groove
bossa nova
James
|
$1,200
[15]
An 1880 love affair between Johnse & Roseanna of these 2 families was pumped up by U.S. papers as a tragic union of star-crossed lovers
the Hatfields & the McCoys
Andrew
|
$1,200
[13]
(Ada Limón reads.) From French for "step over", this technique in which a thought runs on from one line to the next imports a free-flowing feel, as in Eliot's "April is the cruellest month, breeding/ Lilacs out of the dead land"
enjambment
Andrew
|
|
$2,000
[17]
Mount Toubkal in the High Atlas, since 1999
Mohammed VI (of Morocco)
Andrew
|
$2,000
[8]
A stunning sequence in this 2019 film depicts the same-named massacre of Manchester protesters in 1819
Peterloo
|
$1,600
[2]
Used in astronomy, it's the percentage of light reflected by an object; the Moon's is about .1, cloudy Venus', about .7
albedo
Matt
|
$1,600
[19]
The first name of the jazz great seen here
Esperanza (Spalding)
Matt
|
$1,600
[14]
This term for a brawl or donnybrook is also the title surname of an Irish-American cop played by John Wayne on film
brannigan
|
$1,600
[11]
(Ada Limón reads.) Often confused with metonymy, this figure of speech creates vivid imagery by using a part of something to represent the whole, as when Milton referred to the corrupt & greedy clergy of his day as "Blind mouths!"
synecdoche
Andrew
|
|
DD
$2,800
[1]
Mont Ventoux in Provence, during the Seven Years' War
Louis XV
James
|
DD
$9,600
[7]
A memorable quote from "In the Heat of the Night" became this title of another Sidney Poitier film in 1970
They Call Me Mister Tibbs!
James
|
$2,000
[5]
Before oxygen was discovered, it was thought that all combustible matter contained a burnable substance called this
phlogiston
James
|
$2,000
[21]
The Japanese word for "thank you" is coincidentally similar to this Portuguese word of thanks
obrigado
James
|
$2,000
[16]
His1919 book "Fighting the Flying Circus" detailed his exploits in the 94th Aero Pursuit Squadron
Rickenbacker
Matt
|
$2,000
[12]
(Ada Limón reads.) Poets who have read at presidential inaugurations include Robert Frostin 1961 &Maya Angelou, who in 1993 recited this poem that implored, "Lift up your eyes upon / This day breaking for you"
"On the Pulse of Morning"
Matt
|
In reviewing this novel, Carl Jung said it took place in one single & senseless day "on which, in all truth, nothing happens"
Ulysses