2025Jeopardy! Mastersknockout round game 2.
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 | — | $5,000 | $10,600 |
$16,001
2nd place: 1 match point |
$11,600
17 R, 2 W (including 1 DD) |
| Roger | — | $4,400 | $15,200 |
$21,201
Winner: 3 match points |
$8,400
16 R (including 2 DDs), 6 W |
| Juveria | — | $2,800 | $8,000 |
$16,000
3rd place: 0 match points |
$8,000
15 R, 4 W |
| BODY PARTS EVERYWHERE | MUSEUM PIECES | MEMOIRS & AUTOBIOGRAPHIES | BEASTLY TV TITLES | COLLEGES | GREEK LIFE |
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$200
[27]
Ham & cheese pinwheels, potato skins & festive goat cheese balls are examples of this type of fare
finger food
Juveria
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$200
[25]
Get busted at the Uffizi with a c. 50s A.D. marble sculpture of this musically inclined Roman emperor
Nero
Roger
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$200
[26]
The fittingly titled "Faster than Lightning" is the autobiography of this Jamaican
Bolt
Matt
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$200
[28]
From 1997 to 2004 Steve Irwin put the wild in Aussie wildlife on this show
The Crocodile Hunter
Roger
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$200
[29]
This college with a main campus in Boston's Theater District is named for Charles Wesley, not Ralph Waldo
Emerson
Matt
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$200
[30]
Athens' "Tower of Winds" was also called the Horologium, which, as that name suggests, meant it measured this
time
Juveria
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$400
[22]
The frontalis muscles are used for this, an idiom for mild surprise or disapproval
eyebrow raising (raised eyebrows)
Roger
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$400
[24]
MoMA features a pair of "Oncore" high-waisted shorts by Sara Blakely, who in 2000 founded this women's shapewear brand
Spanx
Roger
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$400
[23]
He said much of his "Up from Slavery" was kind of written on the fly during moments he could spare from his work at Tuskegee
Booker T. Washington
Juveria
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$400
[21]
Reported heights of this animated British swine range from 3'9" to an absolutely terrifying 7'1"
Peppa Pig
Matt
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$400
[20]
Since 1821 itscampushas been on the southern slope of Mount Royal
McGill
Matt
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$400
[19]
Meaning "exercise naked", these places helped train men for games & also hosted philosophical talks
a gymnasium
Juveria
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$600
[15]
That has provoked laughter! It's a real this, implying you're lightly touching one of 24 in my body, so really, stop that
rib tickler
Matt
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$600
[14]
The Louvre offers an invitation to Veronese's "Wedding Feast at" this place, which is displayed opposite the "Mona Lisa"
Cana
Juveria
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$600
[16]
Michelle Zauner, who puts out music as Japanese Breakfast, also wrote this acclaimed memoir of family, food, grief & resilience
Crying in H Mart
Juveria
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$600
[17]
A cup of tea on the house is the favor that unleashes obsession & stalking in this limited series
Baby Reindeer
Roger
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$600
[18]
This university in Manhattan includes Parsons School of Design & the Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts
the New School
Matt
Juveria
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$600
[13]
Hoplitodromos was a not-so-fun-sounding Greek race in which the runners wore this, of which greaves were a part
armor
Matt
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$800
[7]
This proverbial 2-word substance is applied when you're doing really hard work
elbow grease
Juveria
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$800
[9]
"Africa Unmasked" is an exhibition at one of America's great art museums, in this Ohio city named for a European one
Toledo
Roger
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$800
[11]
"Open Heart" is a short, late-in-life memoir by this Nobel Peace Prize winner & holocaust survivor
Wiesel
Juveria
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$800
[8]
On from the '50s to the '80s, this kids' show with Mr. Green Jeans somehow welcomed guest stars like Alan Arkin & Dr. Joyce Brothers
Captain Kangaroo
Juveria
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$800
[10]
Located on the Brazos River between Dallas & Austin, this private Christian university is the oldest college in Texas
Baylor
Juveria
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$800
[12]
From the Greek for "to grasp", this unit of ancient Greek currency was worth a handful of arrows
a drachma
Roger
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DD
$1,000
[2]
A lord in Oscar Wilde's "An Ideal Husband" talks of making a this, meaning a full confession, "of the whole affair"
a clean breast
Matt
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$1,000
[1]
Go two-by-two to L.A.'s Getty Center to see "The Entry of the Animals into Noah's Ark" by this Flemish painter the Elder (y'know, Pieter's son)
(Jan) Brueghel
Matt
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$1,000
[3]
"'Tis", Frank McCourt's follow-up to this Pulitzer Prize-winning memoir, begins with him sailing from Ireland to America
Angela's Ashes
Matt
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$1,000
[6]
Novelty song master Allan Sherman voiced this feline who barged into 2 kids' & a lot of America's living rooms March 10, 1971
The Cat in the Hat
Juveria
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$1,000
[5]
Lutherans & Congregationalists congregated in this twin city exurb to found St. Olaf & Carleton, respectively
Northfield (Minnesota)
Matt
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$1,000
[4]
Named for an island of the Cyclades, this alliance of Greek city-states was founded in 478 B.C. to ward off the Persians
the Delian League
Roger
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| THE MIDDLE AGES | IN CONSIDERATE | SCIENCE VOCAB | THE STUDIO SYSTEM | OPPOSITE GEOGRAPHY | THUNDERBOLTS |
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$400
[25]
As the name suggests, this French dukedom was founded in the 10th century by men from up at the top of the map
Normandy
Matt
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$400
[26]
The act of defiling or making something unholy
desecration
Matt
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$400
[27]
In sugar water, water is this, a substance that causes another to become part of it
solvent
Roger
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$400
[28]
After pioneering sound films, this studio launched the gangster movie craze with movies like "Little Caesar"
Warner Brothers
Roger
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$400
[30]
Parts of this tony area include East, where Jackie O. summered, & West, chosen by Coopers & Mannings
Hamptons
Matt
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$400
[29]
(One more time, David Harbour.) Sometimes, thunder & lightning do strike twice; this song that mentions "thunderbolt and lightning" peaked at No. 9 in the U.S. in 1976, but thanks to its use in a film 16 years later, it reached No. 2 in 1992
"Bohemian Rhapsody"
Matt
Roger
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$800
[10]
The byname of this 9th century king of Wessex was popularized by admiring Elizabethan historians
Alfred the Great
Roger
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$800
[23]
To get your bearings or get acquainted with
orient
Roger
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$800
[22]
Attributed to a reaction involving the enzyme luciferase, foxfireis this chemical reactionof some species of fungi
bioluminescence
Matt
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$800
[24]
"Spirited Away" & "Howl's Moving Castle" are classic films from this studio with its own museum in Tokyo
Studio Ghibli
Juveria
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$800
[7]
Until the mid-1800s Upper Canada & Lower Canada were used for areas now covering all or much of these 2 provinces
Ontario & Quebec
Juveria
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$800
[21]
(Once again, Florence Pugh.) Unusual for the time, this 1725 quartet of violin concerti was accompanied by poems, including one that says, "The sky is caped in black, and / Thunder and lightning herald a storm"
The Four Seasons
Roger
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$1,200
[2]
These 2 legendary commanders squared off at the 1191 Battle of Arsuf, with the Crusaders winning in a rout
Richard the Lionhearted & Saladin
Juveria
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$1,200
[19]
Savatiano grapes are used to make this Greek wine
retsina
Matt
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$1,200
[20]
Here's the tea, "sis": it's the series of muscle contractions in your GI tract after drinking tea
peristalsis
Juveria
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$1,200
[16]
In streaming's "The Studio", the CEO of Continental Studios is named Griffin Mill, like Tim Robbins in this '90s film of Hollywood
The Player
Juveria
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$1,200
[8]
You'll find Big Diomede (itself only 12 square miles) & Little Diomede Islands in this strait
the Bering Strait
Juveria
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$1,200
[17]
(Here's Florence Pugh.) The 1977 Newbury Medal went to this Mildred D. Taylor novel about a Black family facing racism while struggling to make ends meet in the rural South during the Great Depression
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
Matt
Roger
Juveria
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$1,600
[1]
He's Genghis Khan to you & me, Chinggis to the Mongolians, but when he was born in 1162, he was this
Temüjin
Matt
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$1,600
[18]
A cadre is a group of co-workers; this other French word is a circle of friends
coterie
Roger
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$2,000
[5]
Here at "Jeopardy!" "top-sup" is what we call Microsoft's purported discovery of this new phase of quantum-chip-empowering matter
a topological superconductor
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$1,600
[15]
Named for a London borough, Ealing Studios made 1950s comedies starring him like "The Lavender Hill Mob" & "The Ladykillers"
(Alec) Guinness
Roger
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$1,600
[9]
You can visit theancient ruinscalled Old this just north of Salisbury, England, which was once New this
Sarum
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$1,600
[13]
(Back to David Harbour.) In the novel "The Godfather", while in exile on Sicily, Michael is hit by the thunderbolt when he lays eyes upon this peasant girl & doesn't rest until he marries her; sadly, she dies in a car bomb explosion intended for Michael
Apollonia
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$2,000
[3]
St. Hildegard of this town on the Rhine was a medieval quadruple threat--abbess, visionary, poet & composer
Bingen
Roger
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$2,000
[4]
CH3COCH3
acetone
Roger
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DD
$4,400
[6]
From Greek for "swift", this word first appeared in a 1967 paper called "possibility of faster-than-light particles"
tachyon
Roger
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$2,000
[14]
Later a famous dad, hemade a fortune in the 1920s with bygone studios like FBO & took time off for an affair with Gloria Swanson
Joe Kennedy
Roger
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DD
$6,000
[11]
Using prefixes now associated with gender, the Romans ID'd these 2 main areas of "Gaul" on either side of a mountain range
Cisalpine & Transalpine
Roger
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$2,000
[12]
(Here's David Harbour.) You can't have thunderbolts without Thor; this 1863 poetry collection modeled on "The Canterbury Tales" includes "The Challenge of Thor", which says, "I am the God Thor, I am the War God, I am the Thunderer!"
Tales of a Wayside Inn
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A follow-up to an earlier work, this 1671 effort references eventual triumphs written of in the book of Job & the gospels
Paradise Regained