2025Jeopardy!Invitational Tournament final game 1.
Juveria Zaheer — a psychiatrist from Whitby, Ontario, Canada
Roger Craig — an applied scientist from Arlington, Virginia
Matt Amodio — a quantitative researcher from New York, New York
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Matt | $3,000 | $4,600 | $30,000 |
$45,601
Winner: 1 match point |
$25,000
27 R (including 1 DD), 3 W |
| Roger | $4,000 | $5,200 | $22,800 |
$30,397
2nd place |
$15,200
17 R (including 1 DD), 2 W |
| Juveria | $1,000 | $-600 | $1,000 |
$1,500
3rd place |
$4,400
12 R, 6 W (including 1 DD) |
| ALL THE NON-HUMAN BOOK CHARACTERS | NOTABLE NAMES | FEELING PUNCHY | SPITTING FIRE | RECENT MOVIES | ADD A LETTER |
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$200
[25]
In the sci-fi novel "Children of Time", humans must vie with Portia & Bianca, genetically juiced "jumping" types of this arachnid
spiders
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$200
[26]
Worth about $200 billion, give or take a few, in 2021 he flew to the edge of space on one of his Blue Origin spacecrafts
Bezos
Matt
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$200
[27]
"Knucks" is shorthand for these illegal metal fisticuff aids
brass knuckles
Roger
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$200
[28]
In Exodus the angel of the Lord appeared & this "burned with fire, and" it "was not consumed"
the (burning) bush
Roger
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$200
[29]
"Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom" ends with our hero revealing the existence of this kingdom of his
Atlantis
Matt
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$200
[30]
The sound of guffawing & to butcher cattle
laughter & slaughter
Roger
|
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$400
[7]
Enzo, the dog from "The Art of Racing in the Rain", is named for this Italian well-known in racing
Ferrari
Juveria
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$400
[10]
In 2023 this Nobel Peace Prize laureate called for a global movement to end gender apartheid by the Taliban
Malala Yousafzai
Juveria
|
$400
[23]
In boxing, this 3-letter punch often acts as a range-finder when rockin' & sockin' 'em in the ring
a jab
Juveria
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$400
[14]
1st century scholar Shammai said all 8 candles should be lit on the first night of this, then decreasing one per night
Hanukkah
Juveria
|
$400
[22]
This beloved bear gets a terrifying makeover in the 2023 horror film subtitled "Blood and Honey"
(Winnie the) Pooh
Matt
Juveria
|
$400
[24]
An attribute or characteristic & a connector of 2 large bodies of water
trait & strait
Matt
|
|
$600
[5]
A motto of Boxer, the cart horse in "Animal Farm", was that this character "is always right"
Napoleon
Matt
Roger
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$600
[6]
National Dictionary Day on October 16 honors the day this man was born in 1758
(Noah) Webster
Juveria
|
$800
[17]
With his coach Freddie Roach, he developed a right hook called "Manila Ice"
Pacquiao
Juveria
|
$600
[12]
"Oh, my god, he's gonna say it!... Avengers assem--!" No, Deadpool, Chris Evans is Johnny, not Cap, & says this catchphrase instead
Flame on
Roger
|
$600
[21]
In "The Brutalist" he plays Harrison Lee Van Buren Sr., initially not crazy about the work of architect Laszlo Toth
Guy Pearce
Roger
Juveria
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$600
[19]
A 4 on the pH scale & a description of a nasty smell
acid & acrid
Matt
Juveria
|
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$800
[2]
Treebeard in Tolkien's Middle-earth is this species, the female of which is hard to find
Ent
Roger
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$800
[4]
As publisher of the Washington Post, she employed lots of Pulitzer winners; she won one herself for "Personal History"
Graham
Matt
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$1,000
[16]
It was noble of boxing to adopt these 1867 rules that banned "shoes or boots with springs"
Queensberry
Matt
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$800
[8]
The Food Network's recipe for this includes a pound of a certain fruit, vanilla ice cream & 1/3 cup of golden rum to fire up
cherries jubilee
Matt
Juveria
|
$800
[9]
Asthischaracter in "Dune: Part Two", Timothée Chalamet unites with the Fremen to help seek his revenge on his enemies
Paul
Matt
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$800
[15]
A repetitive way of memorizing a lot of facts & a series of steps to get to your destination
rote & route
Matt
|
|
$1,000
[1]
In a book by Robert C. O'Brien, this widowed mouse meets up with some rats from the National Institute of Mental Health
Mrs. Frisby
Roger
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$1,000
[3]
In 1961 this French co-creator of Cubism became the first living artist to have a solo exhibition at the Louvre
Braque
Matt
|
DD
$3,400
[20]
A powerful punch, it's likely named for the agricultural practice of cutting dried grass
a haymaker
Juveria
|
$1,000
[11]
It's the title of a 1962 Nabokov novel as well as the 999-line poem within it
Pale Fire
Roger
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$1,000
[13]
Subtitled "A Mad Max Saga", this film is an origin story about a legendary fighter before she met the Road Warrior
Furiosa
Matt
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$1,000
[18]
Graceful or limber & happy or carefree, perhaps in spirit
lithe & blithe
Juveria
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| EUROPEAN GEOGRAPHY | DOCUMENT DUDES | THE DESIRED OPERA CATEGORY | LAYING DOWN THE LAW | REALITY TV | ENDS IN "M" |
|
$400
[21]
TheSão Carlos Opera Houseis found in this city, the westernmost capital in continental Europe
Lisbon
Roger
|
$400
[22]
The D'Arcy Concession, which led to the creation of the Anglo-Persian Oil Co., later BP, was signed in this Asian city in 1901
Tehran
Roger
|
$400
[23]
Figaro! Figaro Figaro Fiii-gaaa-ro! is who I'm talking about & he sings the aria "Largo al factotum" in this 1816 comic opera
The Barber of Seville
Matt
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$400
[26]
Signedin 1965, this act made literacy tests & poll taxes illegal
Voting Rights Act
Matt
Roger
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$400
[30]
This show's spin-offs include "Mediterranean" with Captain Sandy & "Down Under"
Below Deck
Juveria
|
$400
[29]
A can of this--lovely this! Wonderful this!--has salt, water, sugar, potato starch, sodium nitrate & pork with ham
Spam
Matt
|
|
$800
[19]
Icebound from December to April, the Gulf of Riga is part of this 160,000-square-mile body of water
the Baltic Sea
Matt
Juveria
|
$800
[7]
The Roosevelt Corollary said that this statement gives the U.S. the right to butt into Latin America; the Clark Memorandum says not
Monroe Doctrine
Matt
|
$800
[25]
Like many immigrants, this German worked hard in England, with 11 operas premiering from 1723 to 1728, including "Ottone"
Handel
Roger
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$800
[18]
Dutch for "dawdling" gave us the word for this crime of hanging around
loitering
Matt
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$800
[28]
This show slayed in 2024, winning the Emmy for Outstanding Reality Competition Program & one for its host, Alan Cumming
The Traitors
Matt
|
$800
[11]
Borrowed from Latin, it means word for word--we just saved effort by repeating last year's clue this way
verbatim
Matt
|
|
$1,200
[17]
Before flowing into the Adriatic, the Bojana Riverforms part of the border between Albania &this country
Montenegro
Roger
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$1,200
[4]
This British foreign secretary's 1917 declaration supported a Jewish homeland in Palestine
Balfour
Matt
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$1,200
[13]
The last act of a Wagner opera opens with this classic piece, also used to great effect in "Apocalypse Now"
Ride of the Valkyries
Roger
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$1,200
[12]
Judges tend to "follow" this, referring to a decision in an earlier, similar case
precedent
Juveria
|
$1,200
[27]
She's since worked on her anger issues, but an iconic moment on "The Real Housewives of New Jersey" was when she flipped a table
Teresa Giudice
Juveria
|
$1,200
[8]
According to Cassius Dio, a mock sea battle took place in here
Colosseum
Matt
|
|
$2,000
[16]
A dinosaur-dominant period gets its name from this mountain range between France & Switzerland
Jura
Matt
|
$1,600
[5]
Explaining Christ's both human & divine nature, Leo's Tome was from Pope Leo I to the patriarch of this city 850 miles east of Rome
Constantinople
Matt
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$1,600
[1]
Stalin walked out of a 1930s opera by Shostakovich called this Shakespearean woman "of Mtsensk"--not a good sign
Lady Macbeth
Roger
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$1,600
[14]
It's the Latin way of saying, "I did it, but this is not my admission of guilt"
nolo contendere
Roger
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$1,600
[24]
For the past 15 seasons, "Survivor" has been filmed in this island country
Fiji
Juveria
|
$1,600
[9]
Some blame "the" this for all the dog content on their For You Page; the word goes back to an 800s Islamic mathematician
algorithm
Matt
|
|
DD
$6,600
[3]
Connected to the Tyrrhenian Sea, the Strait of Bonifacio separates these 2 islands
Corsica & Sardinia
Matt
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$2,000
[6]
He introduced a proviso to prohibit slavery in new territories & presided over the convention that nominated Lincoln
Wilmot
Matt
Juveria
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$2,000
[2]
Italian for woman, singularly or as a group; a famous aria says they è mobile, "are fickle"
la donna
Matt
|
DD
$9,600
[15]
The D.O.J. states that elements of this paired crime involve the "intent to facilitate the commission of a crime by another"
aiding & abetting
Roger
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$2,000
[20]
Conquering Mt. Midoriyama, a 75-foot rope climb, is the $1 million final obstacle on this series
American Ninja Warrior
Roger
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$2,000
[10]
It's matter over mind in philosophical thought, or a proclivity for the flashy things in life
materialism
Matt
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This mathematician of Pisa studied in Algeria & later wrote a book introducing Arabic numerals to a larger audience
Fibonacci (Leonardo of Pisa)