Masters Tournament Recap: Tuesday 5-16-23

Here are some more clues from the 5/16/2023 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 11 – Andrew, Mattea, Sam

NONFICTION (800) This alliterative phrase for authority over a mission is the title of an Eric Schlosser book that tells of nuclear weapons debacles

(1000) Before he was part of the Kennedy administration, this tall economist advocated government spending in “The Affluent Society”

CURRENT U.S. GOVERNORS (800) He cheers for MLB’s Red in his own state as well as the Asheville, N.C. tourists minor league team, which his family owns

TO THE NINES (200) This group term for each of the 9 orders of angels like cherubim & seraphim sounds like they’re singers in a choir

MOVIE MUSIC WITH HANS ZIMMER (800) For this epic, I tried to use some international influences as it opens in Germany, takes place partly in Morocco and the hero is known as “the Spaniard”

WOMEN IN HISTORY (800) As part of a truce in the Hundred Years War, in 1445 Margaret of Anjou married him & became his queen consort

GERMAN WORDS & PHRASES (2000) It’s German for “pleasant & cozy” like the atmosphere in a good beer hall

KEN JENNINGS: INTERNATIONAL NERD OF MYSTERY (800) Ah, an 1869 bottle from this 2-name chateau in Pauillac, France! It’s worth 6 figures & will certainly be savored durng our D&D game

Game 12 – James, Matt, Amy

Episode IV (600) 2022: “King of the Narrow Seas”

BRITISH MUSICAL GEOGRAPHY (400) The guitarist of Big Country couldn’t stand the regular comparison of their guitar sound to this national instrument of their country

(2000) Swindon, often the butt of jokes, produced Andy Partridge & this “Senses Working Overtime” band

Reversals: 12-Letter Words(600) It’s now pretty much lights out for this once-standard type of light bulb, as its filament is less efficient. James’s response of “incandescence” was accepted until the judges noticed it had 13 letters!

GO TO YOUR ROOM (400) Children can go wild in a rec room or this other alliterative one whose name suggests it need not be quiet – Matt’s “romp room” was a reject and Amy got it with the expected “rumpus room”. The judges decided Matt’s response was okay.