2025Jeopardy!Invitational Tournament quarterfinal game 2.
Jaskaran Singh — a consultant from Plano, Texas
Margaret Shelton — a homemaker from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Skyler Hornback — a chemical engineering Ph.D. student originally from Sonora, Kentucky
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Skyler | $2,200 | $2,700 | $7,100 |
$3,600
2nd place: $5,000 |
$8,600
15 R, 2 W (including 1 DD) |
| Margaret | $400 | $2,800 | $6,200 |
$0
3rd place: $5,000 |
$11,200
15 R, 2 W (including 1 DD) |
| Jaskaran | $3,600 | $5,600 | $21,800 |
$21,800
Winner: semifinalist |
$22,800
23 R, 5 W (including 1 DD) |
| ON THE HISTORIC TOP 40 | "ISM"s | THAT'S NOT A THING ANYMORE | GIVING YOU THE CREEPS | SLINGING SLANG | BORDERLINE |
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$200
[10]
No. 40 of U.S. vice presidents, he was on 2 national championship-winning college football teams
Ford
Skyler
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$200
[22]
Seen in some workplaces, it's discrimination based on how old someone is
ageism
Skyler
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$200
[1]
A design defect left this car co.'s Pinto open to exploding & its slogan "Pinto leaves you with that warm feeling"... problematic
Ford
Skyler
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$200
[4]
Thismonstrosity was a mix between the Pillsbury Doughboy & the Michelin Man; Bill Murray said, "He's a sailor, he's in New York"
the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man
Margaret
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$200
[27]
A word for informers; they proverbially "get stitches"
snitches
Margaret
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$200
[30]
This river abruptly changed course on March 7, 1876, leaving Reverie, Tennessee on the Arkansas side
the Mississippi
Skyler
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$400
[11]
There's always a spot on our chart for the "Nine" who bravely desegregated Central High School in this city in 1957
Little Rock
Jaskaran
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$400
[21]
It's the art or sport of climbing high mountains & not necessarily the ones that gave it its name
alpinism
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$400
[2]
I don't wanna wait for you to name this'90s TV drama; I want to know right now: what will it be?
Dawson's Creek
Margaret
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$400
[29]
In the video game "Batman: Arkham Knight", our caped crusader vies with this foe played by Cillian Murphy on film
the Scarecrow
Jaskaran
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$400
[26]
Named for a cartoon spirit, it's a ghosting technique where the ghoster & ghostee stop texting but in a friendly way
caspering
Margaret
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$400
[18]
With Cameroon on its western border & South Sudan on the east, it's right in the middle of the continent
the Central African Republic
Margaret
Jaskaran
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$600
[12]
This foreigner was "Top '40" as Henry VIII's queen in 1540--from a tough wedding night in January to July
Anne of Cleves
Skyler
Margaret
Jaskaran
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$600
[7]
Sounds deadly, but it's the belief that events in life are predetermined & people are powerless to change them
fatalism
Jaskaran
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$600
[3]
In 1947 the Navy Department merged with this other Cabinet department to be led by the secretary of defense
the War Department
Skyler
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$600
[28]
In a song by this country trio, it was goodbye & good riddance to the abusive Earl because "Earl had to die"
The Chicks
Skyler
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$600
[25]
These 4 words spell out a phrase for your soulmate; some say the acronym is pronounced "lom-el"
love of my life
Margaret
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$800
[15]
The Mexican state of Quintana Roo has a southern border with Belize & a NW one with this state that shares a name with the whole area
Yucatán
Jaskaran
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$800
[13]
Alphabetically, it tops the chart of locations for the 7 Wonders of the Ancient World
Alexandria
Skyler
Margaret
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$800
[8]
Author Jean-Paul Sartre was a leader of this literary & philosophical movement
existentialism
Jaskaran
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$800
[20]
No, Lucy, you can't be in the show at this Vegas casino, as it got leveled in 2024 to, perhaps, be a new home for baseball's A's
the Tropicana
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$800
[6]
Played by Jeffrey Dean Morgan, this "Walking Dead" ne'er-do-well was something of a clutch pinch hitter
Negan
Jaskaran
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$800
[24]
Like "Black '47", it's a movie with a Western feel set in Ireland, not a spaghetti Western but...
a potato Western
Margaret
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$1,000
[16]
This country sits on France's northeast border, sandwiched between Belgium & Germany
Luxembourg
Skyler
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$1,000
[14]
This "numeric band" that included Yao Wenyuan dropped off the chart hard after Mao left the stage for good in 1976
the Gang of Four
Jaskaran
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$1,000
[9]
This movement in the arts & literature that began in the late 1700s emphasized passion, emotion & imagination
Romanticism
Skyler
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$1,000
[23]
Sickle-clawed & quick, this 40-pound dinosaur ran wild about 80 million years ago & again on film in 1993
a Velociraptor
Jaskaran
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$1,000
[5]
With gleeful gruesomeness, this actress gained an Oscar nomination for her role as Daisy Domergue in "The Hateful Eight"
Jennifer Jason Leigh
Jaskaran
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$1,000
[19]
Also called a "man on the street" interview, these 2 3-letter words are shortened Latin for "voice of the people"
vox pop
Jaskaran
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DD
$1,500
[17]
Now a tourist attraction, the demilitarized zone separating these 2 countries was officially abolished in 1976
North & South Vietnam
Skyler
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| THE '80s: WHO SAID IT? | LIBRARIES | TV SITCOMS | RUSSIAN LITERATURE | EARTH SCIENCE | TRIPLE "A" |
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$400
[30]
"Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall"
Ronald Reagan
Skyler
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$400
[29]
Noted for its books on art, architecture & photography, the Fleet Library is part of this school, RISD for short
the Rhode Island School of Design
Jaskaran
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$400
[1]
In the U.K. version of "The Office", this comedian played David Brent, a character similar to Steve Carell's Michael Scott
Ricky Gervais
Margaret
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$400
[6]
The title of this 1880 novel refers to siblings Dmitry, Ivan & Alyosha
The Brothers Karamazov
Skyler
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$400
[28]
Studies of iron-rich minerals in clay pots show that this Earth feature spiked to 2.5 times stronger in ancient times than today
the magnetic field (of the Earth)
Skyler
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$400
[26]
A South American member of the camel family, or the wool that comes from it
an alpaca
Jaskaran
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$800
[19]
Describing her historic 1983 space flight:"That was definitely an E ticket"
Sally Ride
Jaskaran
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$800
[15]
A glass tower of books at the British Library houses the collection of this king who reigned from 1760 to 1820
George III
Jaskaran
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$800
[2]
It was on this sitcom that Cory & Topangafirst got together
Boy Meets World
Skyler
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$800
[7]
Hopelessness is the theme of the 1899 Chekhov drama named for this title character who realizes he's wasted his life
Uncle Vanya
Margaret
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$800
[27]
Temperatures in this part of the Earth rival the surface of the Sun, but pressure there is so great the metals don't melt
the core
Skyler
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$800
[25]
Meaning distant, it's used to describe eyes with a distracted look
faraway
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$1,200
[16]
On her nomination to the Supreme Court: "This is a momentous day in my life and the life of my family"
Sandra Day O'Connor
Margaret
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$1,200
[11]
Alibraryat Phillips Exeter Academy in this state is considered amasterworkof modern American architecture
New Hampshire
Jaskaran
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$1,200
[3]
From 2010 to 2016 Melissa McCarthy starred opposite Billy Gardell on this sitcom
Mike & Molly
Jaskaran
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$1,200
[8]
Solzhenitsyn gave an account of his 8 years in Soviet prison camps in this work & used its proceeds to help persecuted folks
The Gulag Archipelago
Jaskaran
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DD
$1,000
[20]
As its name suggests, this part of the atmosphere that begins about 50 miles up is rich in electrically charged particles
the ionosphere
Jaskaran
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$1,200
[23]
Many colleges offer certification in this job of assisting lawyers
paralegal
Margaret
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$1,600
[17]
A champion of human rights: "Our only protection is to boycott the grapes"
Cesar Chavez
Jaskaran
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$1,600
[12]
Among the holdings of the Royal Danish Library is the archive of this "Out of Africa" author
Dinesen
Jaskaran
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$1,600
[4]
Bronson Pinchot, who played Balki Bartokomous on this comedy, says he remains close to his TV cousin & co-star Mark Linn-Baker
Perfect Strangers
Margaret
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$1,600
[9]
This author of "Doctor Zhivago" won & accepted the Nobel Prize, but then was forced to decline by the Soviets
Pasternak
Jaskaran
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$1,200
[14]
Earth scientists refer to layers of sedimentary rock as these levels, with a proper Latin plural
strata
Margaret
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$1,600
[21]
An antonym of urban, this initial-"A" adjective means relating to farmers & farm life
agrarian
Skyler
Jaskaran
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$2,000
[18]
At the 1988 Democratic National Convention: "We are all precious in God's sight--the real rainbow coalition"
Jesse Jackson
Jaskaran
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$2,000
[13]
A Baroque library in Coimbra in this country is home to a colony of bats that protect the books by eating harmful insects
Portugal
Jaskaran
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$2,000
[5]
On "30 Rock" Tracy Jordan is the star of "TGS", which originally stood for this
The Girlie Show
Margaret
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$2,000
[10]
His short story "The Overcoat" is considered one of the foundations of Russian realism
Gogol
Jaskaran
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$2,000
[22]
Dinosaurs walked the earth during these 3 major periods of the Mesozoic era
the Triassic, the Jurassic & the Cretaceous
Jaskaran
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DD
$5,000
[24]
From Sanskrit for "great", it's a person revered for wisdom & selflessness
mahatma
Margaret
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This landmark case was reported in the N.Y. Times not on the front page but in "News of the Railroads"
Plessy v. Ferguson