Masters Tournament Recap: Monday 5-15-23

Here are some more clues from the 5/15/2023 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 9 – Mattea, Matt, Amy

NICKNAMES (400) This helpful program was launched in 2002 & new apps dubbed “The” it “for” colors, bird songs, etc.

ABBREV. (600) On a social media post, CFBR stands for this; it helps amplify the message

AND THE OSCAR WENT TO… (800) Best Song of 1964 went to this one about someone “as lucky as lucky can be” (1st thing when you play the video)

CHESS MASTERS (1200) Many a seemingly hopeless position has been turned into a draw via this tactic

Game 10 – James, Andrew, Sam

3-WORD PLACE NAMES (400) April 23 is an annual celebration of a local hero in this Warwickshire town–& by the way, that middle word has 4 letters

(2000) This sun-dappled city of Southern France is home to famed hot springs & the atelier of Paul Cezanne

WHATEVER FLOATS (1600) The Mayo Clinic’s page on eye floaters reveals that they’re commonly caused by clumps of this fibrous protein

ARCHAEOLOGY (1200) From the Arabic for “hill”, it’s an artificial mound created by many generations building & rebuilding on the same spot

(1600) This culture named for a New Mexico City was known for its leaf-shaped spear points used to hunt mammoths & other big game

(2000) Named for a mythic place of darkness, this ship commanded by Sir John Franklin has been yielding its secrets from Arctic waters — (It’s the “E” ship in the 1st paragraph after the song lyrics))

GET ‘EM! (2000) A body of water that juts into land, or a window recess shaped like one