2025Jeopardy!Invitational Tournament quarterfinal game 3.
Jonathan Fisher — an actor originally from Coral Gables, Florida
Rachael Schwartz — a scientist from Berkeley, California
Emily Sands — a benefits consultant from Chanhassen, Minnesota
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Emily | $2,000 | $2,200 | $14,000 |
$14,000
Winner: semifinalist |
$13,400
20 R (including 1 DD), 4 W |
| Rachael | $2,400 | $3,200 | $6,000 |
$1,000
3rd place: $5,000 |
$5,600
8 R (including 1 DD), 0 W |
| Jonathan | $2,400 | $2,800 | $12,400 |
$12,001
2nd place: $5,000 |
$11,200
19 R (including 1 DD), 6 W |
| AUTHORS NOT AUTHORING | LET'S PLAY SPORTS | CLASSICAL MUSIC | LIQUOR IS QUICKER | LACK OF ENERGY | I'M "DRAGON" TODAY |
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$200
[30]
This Arthur, er, author, was knighted for his work in & about the Boer War
Arthur Conan Doyle
Jonathan
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$200
[22]
If you hit for the cycle in baseball, you've gotten all of these hits in one game, & congrats!
a single, a double, a triple & a home run
Emily
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$200
[28]
Thisopera was commissioned by the Khedive of Egypt & earned its composer 150,000 francs
Aida
Jonathan
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$200
[14]
Casamigos Añejo & Don Julio Blanco are bottles of this
tequila
Emily
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$200
[29]
The removal of 4 dams on the Klamath River has cut hydro power a bit but allowed these fish to return to their historic habitat
salmon
Jonathan
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$200
[7]
Rising from the Nevada desert in 2008, this band has had Top 10 hits with songs like "Demons" & "Radioactive"
Imagine Dragons
Rachael
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$400
[26]
Although it wasn't his "Endgame", this author worked as James Joyce's amanuensis after moving from Dublin to Paris
Beckett
Jonathan
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$400
[18]
A soccer team facing a free kick may form this architecturally named blocking formation & ouch
a wall
Emily
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$400
[24]
His 1884 "Holberg Suite" was written to commemorate the 200th birthday of Norwegian-born writer Ludvig Holberg
Grieg
Rachael
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$400
[8]
Queen Victoria adorns the label of this brand's Sapphire gin
Bombay
Emily
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$400
[23]
OPEC's 1973 ban on sales to the U.S., then heavily dependent on foreign oil, is known as this word from the Spanish
embargo
Rachael
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$400
[3]
This word that follows Uther in the name of King Arthur's father is a title for ancient British chiefs
Pendragon
Rachael
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$600
[15]
After writing what Jack London called "'The Uncle Tom's Cabin' of wage slavery", heran for governor of California three times
(Upton) Sinclair
Emily
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$600
[9]
A classic volleyball sequence goes bump (stop the shot), set (tee up a teammate), this powerful attacking hit that may yield a kill
spike
Emily
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$600
[21]
Tchaikovsky described this piece as very noisy with no great artistic value
the 1812 Overture
Jonathan
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$600
[11]
The word "whiskey" comes from the Gaelic for "water of life", a translation of this Latin phrase
aqua vitae
Jonathan
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$600
[1]
This word is found in the names of 3 now-decommissioned nuclear power plants, following Vermont, Maine & of course Connecticut
Yankee
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$800
[5]
Duanwu Jie in Chinese, this festive holiday features aquatic races, rice dumplings & rituals to ward off evil
a Dragon Boat Festival
Jonathan
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$800
[16]
When this short story writer was on the lam, he headed down Honduras way, hung out with a bank robber & wrote "Cabbages & Kings"
O. Henry
Emily
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$800
[10]
Also a place to store fishing gear, in football it's the area of the offensive backfield seen here
a tackle box
Jonathan
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$800
[25]
Despite its name this Chopin piece typically takes longer than 60 seconds to play
the "Minute Waltz"
Emily
Jonathan
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$800
[12]
One ingredient in Aperol is this tart root also known as the pieplant
rhubarb
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$800
[2]
A turning point in empowering U.S. labor was a 1902 strike of this state's anthracite miners, driving up prices
Pennsylvania
Emily
Rachael
Jonathan
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DD
$1,000
[4]
This book's title character is "Armansky's star researcher... a pale, anorexic young woman who had hair as short as a fuse"
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Rachael
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$1,000
[17]
In his early 20s this poet who wrote "A Season in Hell" wanted a season abroad; he quit poetry & traveled the world
Rimbaud
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$1,000
[19]
Named for a tough hockey HOFer, a Gordie Howe hat trick is scoring a goal, earning an assist & doing this
getting in a fight
Emily
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$1,000
[27]
In 1931, 20 years after his death in Vienna, his 9th symphony had its U.S. premiere by the Boston Symphony
Mahler
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$1,000
[13]
This Mexican liqueur brand uses arabica coffee beans & rum
Kahlúa
Emily
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$1,000
[20]
Rapid clicking when you try to start your car is a sign of cold cranking, a problem with this item
your battery
Emily
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$1,000
[6]
This warning is not really found on old maps but really is found (in Latin) on a globe circa 1510
here there be dragons
Jonathan
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| THE ABCs OF ARCHITECTURE | BROADWAY | RECEDING HEIR-LINES | TOUGH VOCAB | THE ELEMENTS | ISLAND MOUNTAINS |
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$400
[28]
A is for this open central court of a Roman house or in Atlanta's Hyatt Regency
an atrium
Jonathan
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$400
[12]
In 2022, Black actors played this family for the first time on Broadway in a revival of "Death of a Salesman"
the Lomans
Emily
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$400
[26]
Staying on brand in 1581, he murdered his heir & namesake; Russia's Time of Troubles lay ahead
Ivan the Terrible
Jonathan
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$400
[27]
You could use the word zaftig or this synonyminspiredby a Baroque master
Rubenesque
Jonathan
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$400
[29]
Symbol Mg, this element that's essential to life might help with sleep issues & prevent migraines
magnesium
Emily
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$400
[30]
On Sicily:This volcano at more than 11,000 feet
Etna
Emily
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$800
[22]
G is for this triangular end of a wall that mirrors the shape of the pitched roof
a gable
Emily
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$800
[6]
Opening in 2024, the jukebox musical "A Wonderful World" traces the life of this legendary jazz great
Louis Armstrong
Emily
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$800
[25]
Carlos I of this nation & his son were slain in 1908; another son, Manuel II, would take over, but by 1910 a republic was born
Portugal
Emily
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$800
[13]
French for great generosity, it starts with a word for very big
largesse
Jonathan
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$800
[18]
27.7% of the Earth's crust is made up of this element that's used in computer chips
silicon
Emily
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$800
[23]
On Baffin Island:Thismountain named for a thunder god with the world's greatest vertical drop
(Mount) Thor
Rachael
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$1,200
[7]
M is for this tower where a muezzin calls the faithful to prayer
a minaret
Jonathan
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$1,200
[3]
In 1996, Idina Menzelwas among a host of young people who made their Broadway debuts in this Jonathan Larson musical
Rent
Jonathan
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$1,600
[16]
Archduke Karl Ludwig's death made Franz Ferdinand next up for the Austro-Hungarians, but Franz would die in this city
Sarajevo
Emily
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$1,200
[10]
Originally a type of Greek poem; Tennyson wrote some "of the King"
an idyll
Jonathan
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$1,200
[1]
Iron combines with oxygen to make ferric oxide, aka this mineral named for its blood red color
hematite
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$1,200
[19]
On Cyprus:This 6,000+-foot peak named just like the deity domicile on the mainland
(Mount) Olympus
Jonathan
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$1,600
[8]
N is for this architectural style of the U.S. Capitol & the White House
Neoclassical
Emily
Jonathan
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$1,600
[4]
In the 1990s both parts of this Tony Kushner epic won Tonys for Best Play
Angels in America
Jonathan
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$2,000
[24]
Cleopatra's son with a famous dad, he was king of Egypt for a while but larger ambitions saw his downfall in Alexandria
Caesarion
Jonathan
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$1,600
[14]
The Latin for "cage" may have given us this word for coaxing via flattery
to cajole
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$2,000
[17]
You may have to drink this whitish element in liquid form for imaging of your GI tract
barium
Emily
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$1,600
[20]
On Hokkaido:This mountain (the island's tallest) that shares its name with a start-of-the-alphabet Japanese beer
Asahi
Emily
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$2,000
[9]
C is for this column with female figures named for Greek maidens
caryatid
Jonathan
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$2,000
[5]
In 2010, Adam Drivermade his Broadway debut in a revival of this playwright's "Mrs. Warren's Profession"
Shaw
Rachael
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DD
$2,400
[11]
This heir, a valuable pawn after his mom & dad got the guillotine in 1793, was determined to have died in a prison
Louis XVII
Jonathan
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$2,000
[15]
This word for a loyal follower is named for Thessalians devoted to Achilles; legend says they were once ants
a Myrmidon
Jonathan
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DD
$2,200
[2]
The Og of elements is oganesson--though we don't know for sure it's a gas, it's part of group 18, this septet
the noble gases
Emily
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$2,000
[21]
On New Zealand's South Island:This mountain also known as Mount Cook
Mount Aoraki
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He wrote, "I must make the founder of lovely & famous Athens the counterpart... to the father of... glorious Rome"
Plutarch