2025Jeopardy! Mastersknockout round game 1.
Brad Rutter — an actor and producer from Los Angeles, California
Yogesh Raut — an educational blogger, podcast host, and writer originally from Springfield, Illinois
Victoria Groce — a writer from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Victoria | — | $3,800 | $14,000 |
$14,000
2nd place: 1 match point |
$10,200
20 R (including 1 DD), 2 W |
| Yogesh | — | $15,400 | $30,800 |
$30,800
Winner: 3 match points |
$22,600
24 R (including 2 DDs), 0 W |
| Brad | — | $1,000 | $6,200 |
$2,178
3rd place: 0 match points |
$6,200
8 R, 3 W |
| AMERICAN HISTORY | FEAT. | A LITTLE ALLITERATION | WORLD CAPITALS | MEET "ME" IN THE MIDDLE | U.S. BUSINESS HEADQUARTERS |
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$200
[27]
During these 17th century events, more than 150 were accused, 30 found guilty & 19 hanged (none burned)
the Salem Witch Trials
Yogesh
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$200
[28]
In 2024she brought Yuki Chibaalong for the ride on "Mamushi"
Megan Thee Stallion
Victoria
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$200
[29]
"Baby Shark Dance", "David After Dentist" & "Dog Refuses To Listen, Goes Swimming" are 3 of these
viral videos
Victoria
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$200
[26]
Doha, on a peninsula on a peninsula, is its capital
Qatar
Victoria
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$200
[25]
It can mean familiar & comfortable as well as plain & unattractive
homely
Yogesh
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$200
[30]
After you pick up some of this company's Scotch glue sticks, stick around corporate at its Saint Paul HQ
3M
Yogesh
|
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$400
[21]
Peyton Randolph was elected in 1774 the first president of this body that at its start sought only fair treatment from Britain
the Continental Congress
Victoria
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$400
[24]
In 2017 this rapper proved his "Loyalty. (Feat. Rihanna)"
Kendrick Lamar
Victoria
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$400
[23]
It's the full name of the small canines seen here, developed to herd livestock in the Scottish Isles
a Shetland sheepdog
Victoria
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$400
[17]
Still under construction, Nusantarais the in-process new capital of this country
Indonesia
Victoria
Brad
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$400
[22]
Double r, to Euclid
the diameter
Victoria
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$400
[20]
"To inspire & enable people to experience the restorative power of being outside" is on a wall in big letters at its HQ in Maine
L.L.Bean
Yogesh
|
|
$600
[7]
After Martin Luther King's assassination, Ralph Abernathy succeeded him as head of this org., the SCLC
the Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Yogesh
|
$600
[8]
Was it this woman who featured Billie Eilish on a 2024 tune? Take a guess
Charli XCX
Victoria
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$800
[9]
After marrying John & converting to Christianity, Pocahontas adopted this name
Rebecca Rolfe
Yogesh
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$600
[2]
If you need to see a Cabinet minister in this self-governing crown dependency, head to Douglas
the Isle of Man
Yogesh
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$600
[3]
A palliative or antidote
a remedy
Victoria
|
$600
[19]
Got questions about its trademarked Styrofoam insulation? Dash off a note to the Wilmington HQ of this company
DuPont
Brad
|
|
$800
[6]
A general during the Revolution & a former governor, heserved as vice president under both Jefferson & Madison
(George) Clinton
Victoria
Yogesh
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$800
[10]
Time to give you (almost) everything; "Give Me Everything" featured Ne-Yo, Afrojack & Nayer, but "Mr. 305", this guy, was up front
Pitbull
Brad
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$1,000
[16]
Under this agreement signed in 1920, Hungary lost some 2/3 of its former territory
the Treaty of Trianon
Yogesh
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$800
[1]
In 1991 a world capital moved from Lagos to here
Abuja (Nigeria)
Victoria
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$800
[15]
A middleman or liaison
intermediary
Brad
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$800
[14]
A tech companycampus with a capacity of 12,000 powered by 100% renewable energy is in this city west of San Jose
Cupertino
Yogesh
Brad
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$1,000
[5]
Attorney General from 1919 to 1921, he gave his name to "raids" on suspected subversives, often disregarding civil liberties
Palmer
Yogesh
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$1,000
[11]
The Weeknd featured Daft Punk & sang, "Ha ha ha ha ha, look what you've done... I'm a" (expletive deleted) this title
"Starboy"
Yogesh
|
DD
$5,800
[12]
4 cantons surround this 44-square-mile body of water in central Switzerland
Lake Lucerne
Yogesh
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$1,000
[4]
From 1929 to 1961 this capital of Tajikistan was known as Stalinabad
Dushanbe
Yogesh
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$1,000
[18]
Superficial, or done solely for the sake of appearance
cosmetic
Yogesh
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$1,000
[13]
As the company's headquarters, the name of this city appears on packages of Pampers, Tampax & Tide
Cincinnati
|
| WAS THAT ON YOUR FLASHCARDS? | POETRY-POURRI | THE RELIGIOUS LIFE | A BONE OF CONTENTION | LONG WORDS WITH A SINGLE VOWEL | THE PEABODY AWARDS |
|
$400
[28]
This 5-word cliche to keep new parents rested is not always easy to follow when the kid is grunty or laundry needs doing
Sleep while the baby sleeps
Victoria
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$400
[27]
Kipling rhymes this Burmese city with "Where the flyin' fishes play, An' the dawn comes up like thunder outer China 'crost the bay!"
Mandalay
Victoria
|
$400
[29]
Michael Fassbender & Fidel Castro both served as these lads who assist the priest during mass
altar boys
Yogesh
|
$400
[26]
Praise be!Thisbone gets its name from the Latin for "holy"
the sacrum
Victoria
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$400
[30]
7 letters:A horse removed from a race before it starts is one of these & no, you don't need lotion
scratch
Yogesh
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$400
[25]
Started in1941as the Pulitzers for radio, the Peabodys added TV in 1948, &this beloved kids' show puppet took one home
Howdy Doody
Yogesh
|
|
$800
[21]
It's rhyming slang for "various bits & pieces" & was the title of an album of outtakes by The Who
Odds & Sods
Brad
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$800
[20]
Maternal poems from this Missourian include "The Mothering Blackness" & "Momma Welfare Roll"
Maya Angelou
|
$800
[22]
Many Jews read the legal compilation the Talmud by a method called daf yomi, or one of these daily; it takes 7 1/2 years
a page
Victoria
|
$800
[24]
Ranging from 1 to 5, they're the larger, thicker members of your spine
the lumbar vertebrae
Brad
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$800
[23]
8 letters:A quality of physical power, or something you're good at
strength
Victoria
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$800
[19]
The Peabodys honored the 2009 first season of this high school show that reminds us "we all have a song in our heart"
Glee
Victoria
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|
$1,200
[2]
California was the first state to allow motorcyclists to do this; if the traffic is slow or stopped, it's called "filtering"
split lanes
Brad
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$1,600
[6]
In "The Faerie Queene", the character representing Elizabeth I has this name, also the title of a Britten opera
Gloriana
Brad
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$1,200
[8]
Scripture is the sole authority for faith & practice if you study at SBTS, this theological seminary in Louisville
Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
Victoria
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$1,200
[12]
The clavicle & scapula are part of what's called the pectoral this, meaning it encircles, not slims
girdle
Victoria
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$1,200
[17]
8 letters:DeKuyper makes a butterscotch variety of this potent potable
schnapps
Brad
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$1,200
[18]
With no mention of social resonance but calling it "a first-rate product", the Peabodys honored this sitcom in 1979
Barney Miller
Brad
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|
$1,600
[3]
It's non-contagious, has a nummular (coin-shaped) type & people in TV ads swear by Rinvoq & Dupixent for it
eczema
|
$2,000
[7]
In "The Waste Land" Eliot conjures up this blind Theban seer, a denizen of the underworld in myth
Tiresias
Yogesh
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$1,600
[16]
During Ramadan Muslims break their daylight fast with a meal called this at sunset
iftar
Victoria
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$1,600
[10]
One of the smallest bones in the body, the incus has this shape, its other name
the anvil
Yogesh
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$1,600
[11]
7 letters:This ordinal number from a Shakespeare comedy title
twelfth
Yogesh
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$1,600
[5]
Peabody-honored podcasts include "Serial" & this "sibling successor... the first true audio novel"
S-Town
|
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$2,000
[4]
Spanish for "nail", in prison slang it's contraband or a place to stash it
clavo
|
DD
$5,000
[9]
In Yeats' "The Second Coming", the line "the centre cannot hold" is preceded by these 3 words, later a novel title
Things fall apart
Victoria
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$2,000
[14]
Thiscreator of the world & embodiment of good is the chief deity of Zoroastrianism
Ahura Mazda
Yogesh
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DD
$5,000
[13]
A pair of bones in the mouth have this name, like that of a hill in Rome
Palatine
Yogesh
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$2,000
[15]
7 letters:An irregular stain or discoloration
splotch
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$2,000
[1]
As ambassador to the U.N. in the early '60s, thisex-nominee for president had ashowthe Peabodys praised for "clarifying world problems"
(Adlai) Stevenson
Yogesh
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Words meaning "water's edge" are one suggested etymology of this city, once capital of the province of Aquitania
Bordeaux