2025Jeopardy!Invitational Tournament quarterfinal game 6.
Luigi de Guzman — an attorney from Arlington, Virginia
Amy Schneider — a writer from Oakland, California
Avi Gupta — a law student originally from Portland, Oregon
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avi | $1,400 | $2,600 | $11,600 |
$4,367
2nd place: $5,000 |
$8,200
11 R (including 1 DD), 2 W |
| Amy | $3,600 | $5,200 | $14,200 |
$4,200
3rd place: $5,000 |
$10,400
17 R (including 1 DD), 2 W |
| Luigi | $4,800 | $9,600 | $23,600 |
$18,799
Winner: semifinalist |
$23,000
27 R (including 1 DD), 4 W |
| SOME ART, SOME SCIENCE | QUOTABLE 21st CENTURY FILMS | ACRONYMS & ABBREVIATIONS | I CAN BUY MYSELF FLOUR | SPORT A PHRASE | SEVERANCE |
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$200
[26]
The name of this decorative art style that arose in France in the 1700s came in part from using rocks to decorate grottos
Rococo
Amy
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$200
[24]
"Gretchen, stop trying to make fetch happen"
Mean Girls
Amy
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$200
[27]
Wanna work in a U.S. embassy or consulate? Try being an FSO, this type of officer
Foreign Service
Luigi
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$200
[28]
Maybe the Bob's Red Mill organic type of this stuff, made from the ground white meat of a hard-shelled fruit
coconut flour
Luigi
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$200
[29]
This phrase, "full of Grace, the Lord is with thee", & in 2024, also with the Commanders, who beat the Bears with one of them
Hail Mary
Avi
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$200
[30]
(Britt Lower presents the clue.) In this 1886 story that's become synonymous with leading a double life, one change is a pair of hands going from firm & white to knuckle-y & hairy
Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
Amy
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$400
[15]
The brightest star in this constellation is Al Tarf, Arabic for "the end"; it marks the end of a leg on the crab
Cancer
Luigi
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$400
[23]
"Fish are friends, not food"
Finding Nemo
Luigi
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$400
[5]
As in the title of a TV show, CSI stands for this
Crime Scene Investigation
Amy
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$400
[19]
Sí, some masa harina for the corn type of these; I'm making the 8-inch size, good for tacos
tortillas
Luigi
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$400
[14]
You're "born on" this Chipper Jones-manned baseball spot if you begin life with many advantages but think you've earned them yourself
third base
Amy
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$400
[25]
(Patricia Arquette presents the clue.) A Best Actor Oscar went to Ronald Colmanfor playing a thespian who can't tell this Shakespeare role from reality & strangles Shelley Wintersin the first of her many murder victim roles
Othello
Luigi
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$600
[9]
A year after finishing this iconic painting featuring a glowing yellow crescent moon, van Gogh was van gone
The Starry Night
Luigi
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$800
[22]
Clint Eastwood:"Get off my lawn"
Gran Torino
Luigi
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$600
[4]
Yahoo! stands for "Yet Another Hierarchical Officious" this, also the name of a software company
Oracle
Avi
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$600
[13]
Forthesepancakes, so it will be some of the same-named flour with an earthy taste; despite the name, it doesn't come from grain
buckwheat
Amy
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$600
[6]
It's the 3-word boxing phrase for being in a tough situation almost to the point of helplessness, but Ali was great there
on the ropes
Amy
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$600
[17]
(John Turturro presents the clue.) Called perhaps the most unnerving true crime book ever "The Stranger Beside Me" is Ann Rule's account of working at a suicide hotline with a nice young man who turned out to be this serial killer
(Ted) Bundy
Luigi
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$800
[8]
New to Paris, this Russian-Jewish artist painted a Cubist-ish "Homage to" the avant-garde poet Apollinaire in 1911-12
Chagall
Amy
Luigi
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$1,000
[21]
"Neiman, you earned the part. Alternates, you want to clean the blood off my drum set?"
Whiplash
Amy
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$800
[3]
CRF is this chronic problem that might be treated with dialysis
renal failure
Avi
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$800
[11]
Not sure what I'm in the mood for, so I'll get a bag of white wheat flour with this hyphenated term meaning for use in most anything
all-purpose
Luigi
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$800
[1]
Rhymingly in golf, you "drive for show", then get down to business & do this
putt for dough
Luigi
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$800
[12]
(Tramell Tillman presents the clue.) The divided consciousness of Black Americans is explored in this 1952 novel whose nameless narrator's grandfather tells of being a spy in the enemy's country
Invisible Man
Amy
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$1,000
[10]
It's chemistry 101, people! The tables were turned when this radioactive element, No. 101, was named for a Russian chemist
mendelevium
Luigi
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DD
$1,200
[20]
Alan Arkin:"If I'm doing a fake movie, it's gonna be a fake hit"
Argo
Luigi
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$1,000
[2]
In the computer language COBOL, "B" stands for this word
Business
Luigi
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$1,000
[16]
I'll need to find some teff flour since we'll be having Ethiopian food with this spongy flatbread
injera
Avi
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$1,000
[7]
Let's race to define FPTP, short for this, the way Brits elect members of Parliament
first-past-the-post
Luigi
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$1,000
[18]
(Adam Scott presents the clue.) Not sure what it says about the guy, but before directing episodes of "Severance"Ben Stillermade a movie of this classic story about a guy whose main life takes place in hisfantasies; I was also in this movie, by the way
"The Secret Life of Walter Mitty"
Luigi
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| FORESTS | SMALL, MEDIUM, LARGE | PORTMANTEAUS | LOOK MA, NO WHEELS! | CELEBRITIES | HISTORY TO A "T" |
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$400
[30]
Belgium's Hallerbos Forestis known for its bloom of these flowers with a musical name
bluebells
Luigi
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$400
[28]
In 1917 the House GOP held a tiny 215-213 majority; a few Progressives voted with the Dems & Champ Clark was elected as this
Speaker
Avi
Luigi
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$400
[26]
Shah Rukh Khan & Aamir Khan are on Time Out's list of the 12 Best these Actors Working in Hindi Cinema
Bollywood
Amy
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$400
[27]
Thislong, flat-bottomed sled gets its name from an Algonquian word
a toboggan
Luigi
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$400
[29]
Sheplayed Carly Shay on Nickelodeon from 2007 to 2012 & in the 2020's on a Paramount+revival
(Miranda) Cosgrove
Avi
Amy
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$400
[14]
In 1971 she eliminated a program that provided milk to schoolkids & got the rhyming nickname "Milk Snatcher"
Thatcher
Luigi
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$800
[21]
Trees aren't the focus in Kyoto's Arashiyama Forest; it's stacked tall with a grassy grove of this
bamboo
Amy
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$800
[5]
The smallest of this group of mammals is the planigale, seenherein Queensland compensating with ferocity
marsupials
Amy
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$800
[1]
Starbucks began serving this iced blended drink in the early 1990s; the first 2 flavors were coffee & mocha
a Frappucino
Avi
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$800
[6]
Maglev is short for this technology in which wheelless trains glide over their tracks
magnetic levitation
Luigi
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$800
[25]
His memoir "From Under the Truck" chronicles being raised in Paso Robles & his roles in "Goonies" & "No Country for Old Men"
Josh Brolin
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$800
[3]
In 1922 Harry Sinclair of the Mammoth Oil Company got exclusive rights to drill, baby, drill at these Wyoming reserves
Teapot Dome
Avi
Amy
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$1,600
[7]
Belgrad Forest is deemed the "lungs" of this metropolis & is located on the European side, not the Asian one
Istanbul
Luigi
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$1,200
[20]
Moku o Keawe is the traditional equivalent of this geographic nickname that's 2 English words
the Big Island
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$1,200
[2]
It's the portmanteau word for a program that is aired at the same time on TV & radio
a simulcast
Amy
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$1,200
[17]
Today, it means a hard-topcarbig enough for four passengers; in ye olden days, it was a portablechaircarried on poles
a sedan
Luigi
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$1,200
[24]
In 2024, shewon the Jackie Joyner-Kersee Award for top U.S Female Track & Field Athlete
Gabby Thomas
Amy
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$1,600
[13]
At the turn of the 19th century, this chief spoke for the indigenous people at great councils in Urbana & Chillicothe
Tecumseh
Avi
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$2,000
[8]
"T" is for this type of Siberian forest, meaning "land of the little sticks" in the native tongue
taiga
Avi
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$1,600
[19]
This species, including Kenya's Turkana Boyfrom 1.6 million B.C., had a brain size between Australopithecus & Alan Turing
Homo erectus
Luigi
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$1,600
[10]
Buzz Feed is known for these, like "16 Things You will Understand Only If You Love Dogs"
listicles
Luigi
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$1,600
[16]
In a classic Monty Python sketch, a mistranslation leads a man to say, "My" this gliding transport "is full of eels"
hovercraft
Avi
Amy
Luigi
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$1,600
[23]
Last name Accurso, this "Ms." YouTuber dropped a popular toy line "for Littles" in 2024
Rachel
Avi
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$2,000
[12]
The number of sacraments was set at 7 at the 1540s Council of this place
Trent
Luigi
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DD
$4,600
[9]
The Bohemian Forest is mainly along Germany's border with this country to the east
Czechia (the Czech Republic)
Avi
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$2,000
[18]
The English & the Orpheus are famed these 2-word classical ensembles, midway between the size of a quartet & a philharmonic
a chamber orchestra
Luigi
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$2,000
[11]
Bobo is a portmanteau for these seemingly conflicting social classes, like being a starving artist & a 9-5er
bourgeois-bohemian
Luigi
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$2,000
[15]
Pan-Am called its popular flyingboats these, evoking the fast 19th century sailingshipsthat brought tea from China
clippers
Luigi
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$2,000
[22]
This "SNL" actor found viral success as a doctor/model, wedding crasher, off-key singer & cuckolder Domingo
Marcello Hernandez
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DD
$5,000
[4]
The forces of Leonidas & Xerxes faced off at this 480 B.C. battle
Thermopylae
Amy
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Enlisting in the Army in 1917, he was sent to Camp Sheridan in Montgomery, where he met the woman who became his wife
(F.) Scott Fitzgerald