Masters Tournament Recap: Friday 5-12-23

Here are some more clues from the 5/12/2023 Jeopardy! Masters Tournament matches. Please don’t put the answers to these clues in the comments so people who missed the show can have a chance to answer them. It is okay to refer to them by category and clue value or by part of the clue.

Game 7 – Andrew, Sam, Amy

REVOLT-ING HISTORY (800) Though this ship sank in the Antarctic in 1915, it lived up to its name from the Latin for “hard” and was found intact in 2022

HANG IN THERE (600) In Shakespearean English, this word for hanging tough has the stress on the 2nd syllable, like it’s about the Adam Scott TV show

PRESENT COMPANY ACCEPTED (1000) Do you have the time? You would if you’d paid $1.1 million at Sotheby’s for a rare Cheich watch by this jeweler from Paris

ISLE BE “C”ING YOU (1600) With sites like the Palancar Caves, this Mexican isle popular with cruise ships is one of the world’s best destinations for scuba divers

INVERTEBRATES (2000) The shell of the knobbed type of this invertebrate, not to be confused with a conch, is New Jersey’s state shell

CHRISTIAN-ITY (800) Before designing his red-soled shoes, Christian Louboutin apprenticed at this Parisian music hall famously seen in a Manet painting

(1200) This fashion designer studied under Vivienne Westwood and Alexander McQueen before launching his own collection

(1600) Christian Jacobs, lead singer of the Aquabats, co-created this ids’ show featuring monsters & DJ Lance Rock

Game 8 – James, Mattea, Matt

AUTHORS’ PRETTY DECENT REVIEWS (600) The Detroit Free Press said “The Mummy” was “vintage” this novelist; “elegantly erotic & full of enchanting terror”

W-2 (1000) Peter Buxtun vis-à-vis the Tuskegee Syphilis Study

GROWING UP X (800) Cooler, Nose Marie & Whopper were some of these alliterative dogs created by Tonka

GAMES, OLD & NEW (1200) Around 1870 the Tenth Hussars faced the Ninth Lancers in this game that’s been around for 2,000 years or so

2-LETTER RESPONSES (1200) Signifying negation or absence, it’s the response to the famous koan “Does a dog have Buddha nature?”

(2000) The arboreal aerialist seen here gets this alternate name from its high-pitched cry

TV TITLE REFERENCES (400) It’s when James & Margaret claimed the Dutton ranch

I’M LATE, I’M GREAT, I WAS SECRETARY OF STATE (1200) As an investor who didn’t want to hear bad things about Theranos, I was played by Same Waterston in “The Dropout”

(2000) My brother said “War is hell” & I quit as Secretary of State 4 days into the Spanish-American War, which I had opposed