2025Jeopardy! Mastersknockout round game 4.
Roger Craig — an applied scientist from Arlington, Virginia
Isaac Hirsch — a customer support team lead from Burbank, California
Yogesh Raut — an educational blogger, podcast host, and writer originally from Springfield, Illinois
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Yogesh | — | $14,900 | $25,700 |
$15,700
Winner: 6 match points |
$19,800
26 R (including 1 DD), 1 W |
| Isaac | — | $0 | $4,400 |
$3,199
3rd place: 3 match points |
$4,400
10 R, 5 W |
| Roger | — | $-3,600 | $2,800 |
$5,599
2nd place: 4 match points |
$3,600
11 R (including 1 DD), 8 W (including 1 DD) |
| THE LIFE & TIMES OF NAPOLEON III | A NORA | LAW, LEGALITY & COURT STUFF | CONSTRUCTING THE WORD | PRESENTING MYTH GREECE | TV |
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$200
[29]
Napoleon III was the son of this brother of Napoleon I, & was sometimes himself known as this name-Napoleon
Louis
Isaac
Roger
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$200
[28]
2009's "Julie & Julia" was the last film she wrote & directed
Nora Ephron
Yogesh
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$200
[30]
In 2000 same-sex marriage wasn't yet on the table but Vermont did legalize partnerships called this 2-word term
civil unions
Roger
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$200
[27]
A youngster+a mathematical path to a conclusion=this, so push down & turn
childproof
Roger
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$200
[26]
Narcissus was too into himself to note the love of this mountain nymph, whose voice was the only thing left as she faded away
Echo
Yogesh
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$200
[25]
This Apple TV+ series stars Jason Segel as a therapist & Harrison Ford as his gruff superior Paul
Shrinking
Isaac
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$400
[22]
Napoleon III supported large public works & this construction project directed by Ferdinand de Lesseps
the Suez Canal
Isaac
Roger
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$400
[2]
More recently seen on "Home Economics" & "Chicago Med", shewas a regular on "SNL" from 1985 to 1990
Nora Dunn
Yogesh
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$400
[23]
1876's Kohl v. U.S. was the 1st Supreme Court case on the federal use of this; land in Ohio was to be condemned & used for a post office
eminent domain
Isaac
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$400
[24]
Egg-based painting technique+British slang for "crazy"=this feisty attitude
temperamental
Yogesh
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$400
[21]
According to Ovid, this mortal was stripped of her beauty by a vengeful Athena; her original charms included non-reptilian hair
Medusa
Roger
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$400
[20]
Of mice & mayhem: Maurice LaMarche voiced the 2nd half of this animated title pair & had a simple goal--to take over the world
Pinky & the Brain
Yogesh
|
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$600
[1]
Attempting to spread French influence, Napoleon III helped install an Austrian archduke as emperor of this nation in 1864
Mexico
Yogesh
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$600
[13]
Nora Charles does some sleuthing with her husband Nick in this Dashiell Hammett novel that inspired a series of films
The Thin Man
Yogesh
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$600
[3]
In 1995 this lawyer made national news with a closing argument that included "If it doesn't fit, you must acquit"
(Johnnie) Cochran
Yogesh
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$600
[19]
A window covering+a computer glitch=this enthusiast
a shutterbug
Yogesh
Isaac
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$800
[8]
After the godskilledher dozen or so children, she became a byname for weeping
Niobe
Yogesh
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$600
[7]
In 2025 he starred as a former U.S. president investigating a cyberattack on "Zero Day"
Robert De Niro
Roger
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$800
[11]
Napoleon III led France through decades of authoritarian prosperity, but lost it all to defeat in this conflict
the Franco-Prussian War
Isaac
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$800
[15]
Dr. Nora Volkow, director of NIDA, was born in Mexico City, the great-granddaughter of this Russian revolutionary
Trotsky
Yogesh
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$800
[9]
A judge's meeting with lawyers from only one side of a case is conducted this way, & the Latin sure legals it up nicely, right?
ex parte
Yogesh
Isaac
Roger
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$800
[4]
Complete & without error+a fee paid to travel=this route
thoroughfare
Roger
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$1,000
[5]
This siren gave her name to an early settlement of Naples, so it was the name of Florence Nightingale's Naples-born sister
Parthenope
Roger
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$800
[17]
Billy Gardell & Folake Olowofoyeku played the title roles of this sitcom that ran for 5 seasons on CBS
Bob Hearts Abishola
Isaac
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$1,000
[10]
Napoleon III's empress was this daughter of a Spanish noble
Eugénie
Yogesh
Roger
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$1,000
[14]
She was attached to James Joyce for nearly 30 years before they actually tied the knot
Nora Barnacle
Isaac
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$1,000
[12]
A federal law passed in 1939, this act named for a sen. was meant to protect federal employees from political coercion at work
the Hatch Act
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$1,000
[18]
Your time to spin in a board game+a signature in music=this "ready to operate" adjective
turnkey
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DD
$6,500
[16]
Pallas' daughter, this goddess totes Hermes' staff to carry a message of victory
Nike
Yogesh
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$1,000
[6]
Rust Cohle on "True Detective": "Time is" this. "Everything we've ever done or will do, we're gonna do over & over & over again"
a flat circle
Yogesh
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| TREKKING INTO AFRICA | WHAT DAY IS IT? | 20th CENTURY SCIENCE | HYMNS & SPIRITUALS | SAY IT WITH FLOWERS | I'M THE LITERARY LAW |
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$400
[25]
On its nearly 3,000-mile course, this river passes Mbandaka & Kisangani
the Congo
Isaac
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$400
[30]
"Friday", co-written by this guy who played Craig in the movie
Ice Cube
Yogesh
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$400
[23]
Ernst Ruska, forbidden to touch his dad's Zeiss one of these as a kid, won a Nobel Prize for inventing the electron one
a microscope
Isaac
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$400
[29]
From this song: "I once was lost, but now am found, was blind but now I see"
"Amazing Grace"
Yogesh
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$400
[28]
A popular bulb flower & a vital organ are in this synonym for cowardly
lily-livered
Yogesh
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$400
[27]
In separate stories in "The Adventures of" him, this civilian detective describes officers Jones & Lestrade as imbeciles
Sherlock Holmes
Yogesh
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$800
[24]
In this capital city & major seaport, you can see the Marcus Aurelius Triumphal Arch dating from 160s A.D.
Tripoli
Roger
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$800
[18]
"Blue Monday", an early '80s song by this band that asks, "How does it feel to treat me like you do?"
New Order
Isaac
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$800
[22]
In the 1920s, Arthur Compton wondered why some X-rays had weird wavelengths & realized they aren't waves at all, they're these
particles
Roger
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$800
[26]
One story says the author of this hymn was inspired to write it while taking refuge from a storm
"Rock Of Ages"
Yogesh
Isaac
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$800
[19]
"Hamlet" is the source of this phrase for an easy or pleasurable route
the primrose path
Yogesh
Roger
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$800
[20]
Meyer Landsman, whom a review calls "a circumcised Sam Spade", appears in this author's "The Yiddish Policemen's Union"
Michael Chabon
Roger
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$1,200
[9]
We're not sure they call it that, but this country has a panhandle of desert-y land in its southeast
Eritrea
Roger
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$1,200
[14]
"Wednesday", a series in which Gomez Addams is played by him
(Luis) Guzmán
Yogesh
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$1,600
[5]
Weather forecasting was aided by these satellites that orbit at the speed the Earth turns; the Syncom program had the first ones
geostationary (or geosynchronous)
Roger
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DD
$1,600
[21]
With music by Sir Arthur Sullivan & a favorite of the Salvation Army, this title precedes "marching as to war"
"Onward Christian Soldiers"
Roger
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$1,200
[17]
You're up on our stage, so you're clearly no wallflower or this "colorful" floral term for a bashful person
a shrinking violet
Yogesh
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$1,200
[3]
P.D. James' novels about this Scotland Yard detective & sometime poet have been adapted for TV multiple times
Dalgliesh
Yogesh
|
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$1,600
[8]
Stretching east-west across the continent, this region of scrubland lies between the Sahara & the moister areas to the south
the Sahel
Isaac
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$1,600
[13]
"Saturday Night", a 2024 film about the first episode of SNL, with Jean Batisteplayingthis musical guest
(Billy) Preston
Roger
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DD
$2,000
[6]
Rhyming with a term for a pro athlete on the market, it's a chemical trigger; Ehrlich's one is used to test for the presence of LSD
reagent
Roger
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$1,600
[12]
"On a hill far away stood" this "cross, the emblem of suffering and shame"
an old rugged cross
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$1,600
[16]
There's a member of the aster family in this expression meaning not tired at all
fresh as a daisy
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$1,600
[2]
Jim Thompson, the "Dimestore Dostoevsky" , created homicidal deputy sheriff Lou Ford in "The Killer" here
The Killer Inside Me
Yogesh
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$2,000
[7]
Named for a white explorer, this mountain on Uganda's west edge follows Kilimanjaro & Kenya as Africa's third-tallest
Mount Stanley
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$2,000
[10]
"Black Sunday", a 1977 film based on his novel of the same name
Thomas Harris
Yogesh
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$2,000
[4]
Movie pitch:Elmer McCollum(Adam Driver)'s discovery of this, with the line, "Mc Co Mc Co Mc Co Mc Co Mc Co Mc Co Mc CoMcCollumursndbatsllwhy!"
vitamin A
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$2,000
[11]
Originally a spiritual sung by the enslaved, it's where I'm "gonna lay down my burden"
"Down By The Riverside"
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$2,000
[15]
The prologue to the "Canterbury Tales" is an antecedent of this familiar saying about the effects of spring rain
April showers bring May flowers
Isaac
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$2,000
[1]
Like this author who died in 2025, Serge, Gus & Roy in his debut novel, "The New Centurions", are LAPD cops
Wambaugh
Yogesh
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"Hide & Seek" & "The Cradle" by this French artist were among the 200 or so works shown at a gallery on blvd. des Capucines in 1874
Berthe Morisot