2023Jeopardy! Mastersfinal game 2.
Mattea Roach — a writer and podcaster from Toronto, Ontario, Canada (subtotal of 24,800)
Matt Amodio — a postdoctoral researcher from Cambridge, Massachusetts (subtotal of 12,000)
James Holzhauer — a self-described game show villain from Las Vegas, Nevada (subtotal of 34,314)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| James | — | $5,600 | $9,600 | $9,481 |
$10,600
19 R, 2 W (including 1 DD) |
| Matt | — | $1,800 | $3,200 | $3,200 |
$7,800
12 R, 3 W (including 1 DD) |
| Mattea | — | $4,600 | $22,800 | $16,885 |
$17,400
19 R (including 1 DD), 0 W |
| THE 1960s | COMMON BONDS | "P" IS FOR POETRY | NOM NOM NOMINATIONS | THE GRAMMAR POLICE | MICHAEL J. FOX |
|
$200
[5]
When Dr. Christiaan Barnard performed the first of these, the patient lived less than a month, but Dr. B.'s 2nd try got a guy 18 months
a heart transplant
James
|
$200
[19]
Loving, measuring, Elijah's
cup
Matt
|
$200
[30]
Shel Silverstein's poem about one of these, "fresh off the griddle" finds terrible Theresa asking for one in the middle
a pancake
Mattea
|
$200
[14]
Alaska's Copper River Fish Market got a 2023 Good Food Award nom for its locally sourced Copper River sockeye this
salmon
Mattea
|
$200
[23]
Do you know how fast you were going you blew past that stop sign you didn't use a period you ended up with this hyphenated error
a run-on sentence
Mattea
|
$200
[28]
(Michael J. Fox presents the clue.) The song "At This Moment" became a hit after it was the backdrop on this show to show the romance of my character Alex P. Keaton & Ellen, played by Tracy Pollan, who, at this moment, has been my wife for almost 35 years
Family Ties
James
|
|
$400
[4]
It was a decade of rising youth; Bernadette Devlinof Northern Ireland became the then-youngest-ever female one of these
Member of Parliament
Mattea
|
$400
[18]
Fog, stage, Northern
lights
James
|
$400
[29]
Of this figure, Byron wrote, "titan...the rock, the vulture, and the chain, all that the proud can feel of pain"
Prometheus
James
|
$400
[13]
From 2001 to 2006, Emmy voters didn't quite get the "essence of" this chef, but in 2017... bam! he got a trophy for "Eat the World"
Emeril Lagasse
James
|
$400
[22]
"Herb, with his in-laws, are going to Tahiti". Good for Herb, but here's your ticket for violating subject-verb this
agreement
James
|
$400
[27]
(Michael J. Fox presents the clue.) As a judge for the Battle of the Bands, this singer had a cameo in "Back to the Future"; we noodled over the chorus to his hit "Power of Love"
Huey Lewis
James
|
|
$600
[3]
On June 16, 1966 activist Stokely Carmichael rallied a crowd with "we want" these 2 words
Black power
|
$600
[17]
A whip, a code, a joke
things you crack
Mattea
|
$600
[8]
Poet & critic whose award-winning "Cantos" were written across a span of 6 decades
Pound
Matt
|
$600
[12]
A 2022 Beard nominee for Outstanding Restaurant, Brennan's in New Orleans is famed for this flambéed fruit & rum dessert
bananas Foster
Mattea
|
$600
[21]
"I don't know where that panda went off to"?! You can't end a sentence with this part of speech! & you had better find that panda!
a preposition
Mattea
|
$600
[26]
(Michael J. Fox presents the clue.) An inspiration for my character in "The American President" was this advisor to Bill Clinton, a spin doctor in his own right; he also made a cameo on my show "Spin City"
Stephanopoulos
James
|
|
$800
[2]
Last name of Henry, a 19th century governor; it follows "the" in the name of a San Francisco area where 1967 activities would not have pleased Henry
Haight
Matt
|
$800
[16]
Bridges, a slow cornerback, rubber
things you burn (they all get burned)
Mattea
|
$800
[7]
Established in 1881, this alliterative literary award is named for Russia's preeminent poet
the Pushkin Prize
James
|
$800
[11]
"Beat" this chef? as a 1991 & '92 nominee for Beard's rising chef of the year, yes, but in '93? Winner winner barbecue dinner!
Bobby Flay
James
|
$800
[20]
You know you got a dangling this? Yeah, I saw it when you wrote, "Landing on the Moon, the nation erupted in cheers"
participle (or modifier)
Matt
|
$800
[25]
(Michael J. Fox presents the clue.) When I began acting, someone had the name Michael Fox, so I added the J to my name to honor this Michael J. whose work I loved in "Bonnie and Clyde"
Michael J. Pollard
|
|
DD
$1,000
[1]
U.S. Solicitor General J. Lee Rankin was its general counsel & is credited with smoothing the prose in its 1964 report
the Warren Commission
James
|
$1,000
[9]
Rock, rubber, Bollinger
bands
|
$1,000
[6]
A style of ode is named for this great Greek who wrote poems about the Nemean & Pythian Games
Pindar
James
|
$1,000
[10]
She got a BAFTA TV must-see moment nomination for her pronunciation of "microwave" on "Cook, Eat, Repeat"
Nigella Lawson
Mattea
|
$1,000
[15]
30 years on the force, but I was sickened by "I went to lunch, Tim showed up"--what animal does this act with an innocent comma?
splice
Matt
|
$1,000
[24]
(Michael J. Fox presents the clue.) In 1988, I starred in the movie "Bright Lights, Big City," based on the novel this man famously wrote in the second person
McInerney
James
|
| NATURE | CROSSWORD CLUES "AE" | 3-NAMED PEOPLE | IN THIS WORLD | IT'S JUST US | YOU KNOW IT'S NOT THE SAME AS IT WAS |
|
$400
[28]
The red on the flag of the Northwest Territories stands for this cold, treeless ecosystem
tundra
James
|
$400
[29]
Ancient epic composed in hexameters (6 letters)
Aeneid
James
|
$400
[30]
In command of the Bonhomme Richard, he said, "I have not yet begun to fight"
John Paul Jones
James
|
$400
[26]
Fossil remains found in this Tanzanian gorge have provided the most continuous known record of human evolution
Olduvai
Matt
|
$400
[25]
She's the female lead & basically the whole female cast in 1980's "The Blue Lagoon"
Brooke Shields
Mattea
|
$400
[23]
Lovers of the game like Ken Burns & Bill "Spaceman" Lee have observed there's no this in baseball, but as of 2023 there is
a clock
James
|
|
$800
[27]
Some clownfish have a mutualistic living arrangement with this type of sea creature, seen here
anemone
Matt
|
$800
[15]
A fine mist: spray it & do say it (7 letters)
aerosol
Matt
|
$800
[8]
Stop the presses!Here's a picture of this newspaper publisher
(William Randolph) Hearst
Matt
|
$800
[9]
It's the second-largest & most southerly of the Philippines' main islands
Mindanao
Matt
|
$800
[24]
In a 20-teens FOX comedy, at one point Carol doesn't have many romantic options as it seems Phil is this, the show's title
The Last Man on Earth
Mattea
|
$800
[22]
In 2023 a longtime Wash. Post editor wrote, "truth-seeking news media must move beyond" this idea of giving facts without bias
objectivity
Mattea
|
|
$1,200
[2]
Granite commonly contains biotite, a dark, glossy type of this 4-letter mineral
mica
Mattea
|
$1,200
[14]
The Dodecanese are in it (6 letters)
the Aegean
Mattea
|
$1,200
[5]
Books by this historian include "Team of Rivals" & "Leadership in Turbulent Times"
(Doris Kearns) Goodwin
Matt
|
$1,200
[4]
For now the world's largest body of floating ice, it's in the sea of the same name off Antarctica
the Ross Ice Shelf
James
|
$1,200
[18]
In this 2013 movie it's pretty much just Nicholas Hoult as a zombie & Teresa Palmer as a girl he decides not to eat
Warm Bodies
Matt
|
$1,200
[21]
The Democratic National Committee has taken the first presidential primary away from New Hampshire & given it to this state
South Carolina
|
|
$1,600
[1]
The fragrant flowers of this plant turn toward the sun, hence its name; it's also the name for a shade of purple
heliotrope
Mattea
|
$1,600
[13]
Windy type of harp (7 letters)
aeolian
James
|
$1,600
[7]
The evolutionary theory known as punctuated equilibrium was developed by this paleontologist
(Stephen Jay) Gould
James
|
$1,600
[6]
In 1993 it became the capital of an independent Eritrea; it's still the capital
Asmara
Mattea
|
$1,600
[17]
Thislate singer and songwriter gave us the classic songs of friendship "Lean On Me" & "Just the Two of Us"
(Bill) Withers
Mattea
|
$1,600
[20]
Recent movies like "Lady Chatterley's Lover" & TV like "The Affair" credit this type of coordinator of romantic scenes
an intimacy coordinator
Mattea
|
|
DD
$7,400
[3]
Malay gives us the name of this marine mammal that's similar to a manatee
a dugong
Mattea
|
$2,000
[12]
Norse deity group (5 letters)
the Aesir
James
|
$2,000
[11]
Besides painting many portraits of George Washington, he founded a museum in Philadelphia as much for science as for art
Charles Willson Peale
Matt
|
DD
$4,600
[10]
Guadalcanal is a Pacific island; the same 6 letters start the name of this river that flows through southern Spain
Guadalquivir
Matt
|
$2,000
[16]
Paul Williams, Helen Reddy & Johnny Mathis have all recorded the song that says, "Sometimes it feels like" this mismatch
"You And Me Against The World"
|
$2,000
[19]
Bacteria, parasites & viruses inside you sound bad, but they're now seen as this 10-letter realm essential to gut & overall health
microbiome
Matt
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A work by this 15th century English writer quotes the phrase "rex quondam rexque futurus"
Thomas Malory