Masters Tournament Recap: Wednesday 5-17-23

Here are some more clues from the 5/17/2023 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 13 – Mattea, Matt, Sam

3 “O”S (1000) From Latin for “call together”, it’s a group of people called together for an assembly, be it of clergy or college students

CITIES OF SOUTH AMERICA (1000) On the Atlantic coast, Maldonado is 70 miles east of this capital city

INTERNATIONAL FOOD WITH PADMA LAKSHMI (1000) I’ve created recipes from one of my favorite cheese brands– this creamy one from Normandy that is tastefully pairs with roasted figs or brunch tacos

ORCHESTRAS (600) Recordings by this U.S. orchestra have won 64 Grammys, 24 of them under the leadership of Sir Georg Solti

4 CONSECUTIVE VOWELS OR CONSONANTS (1200) This word for brainy or elitist was big in 1949, when Life magazine gave examples: Harris Tweed, Eames chair, ballet & Calder

1990S EMMY AWARDS (2000) In 1999, this executive producer picked up Emmys for both drama & comedy series– “The Practice” & “Ally McBeal”

Game 14 – James, Andrew, Amy

MYTHOLOGICAL WORDS & PHRASES (800) The Oracle of Delphi alluded to rocks when she told a treasure seeker to be diligent with this 4-word phrase still heard today

SECRETS OF THE ANGELENOS (400) A columnist wrote that next to the Black Dahlia, L.A.’s biggest whodunit is who killed this streetcar system aka Pacific Electric

(800) In 1914 he directed the first feature-length movie made in Hollywood & cast a Native American actress in a major part

BRING WHAT? (800) This 3-chapter section of the gospels includes “A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit”

(1000) An inscription at Washington, D.C.’s Union Station says “He that would bring home” this phrase “must carry” this phrase “with him”

WORD ORIGINS (1600) This 13-letter adjective meaning keen or clear-sighted comes from Latin for “discerning”

BODIES OF WATER (800) Alan Jackson showed off his waterskiing talents in the video for his song named for this river

(1200) Henry Rowe Schoolcraft is said to have coined the name of this American Lake from Latin for “truth” & “head”

(2000) It flows 2,300 miles from the Altai Mountains to the Arctic Ocean

HEADGEAR & HISTORY (2000) The steel pot helmet of WW2 had this more formal alphanumeric name, like the Garand rifle

ROCK”ER”S (2000) Judd Apatow’s “This is 40” features a reunion of this fierce British New Wave rocker and his legendary band The Rumour