2025Jeopardy! Mastersquarterfinal game 3.
Matt Amodio — a quantitative researcher from New York, New York
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 | — | $5,400 | $32,000 |
$22,399
Winner: 10 match points |
$21,400
25 R (including 1 DD), 2 W |
| Yogesh | — | $8,400 | $20,800 |
$9,599
2nd place: 8 match points |
$19,000
20 R (including 1 DD), 0 W |
| Matt | — | $200 | $1,200 |
$1,200
3rd place: 5 match points |
$5,400
9 R, 3 W (including 1 DD) |
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$200
[28]
In 1999 many of Germany's government offices as well as the Bundestag moved from this city to Berlin
Bonn
Victoria
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$200
[27]
Attributed to this MLB Hall of Famer: "A nickel ain't worth a dime anymore" & "I really didn't say everything I said"
Yogi Berra
Victoria
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$200
[26]
Grandpa is represented by a bassoon & the hunters' guns, timpani, in this work that premiered in 1936 in Moscow
Peter and the Wolf
Matt
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$200
[29]
Visual images using one color only are described by this adjective
monochromatic
Victoria
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$200
[30]
Hmm... do we want its 12cilindri Spider in bianco artico or blu roma? Both come with the yellow & black prancing horse
Ferrari
Matt
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$200
[25]
This marine snail has its name on an island in the middle Florida Keys
a conch
Victoria
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$400
[20]
Formerly known as Kishinev, Chisinau is the capital of this country
Moldova
Yogesh
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$400
[22]
"Even when I was little, I was big", said the size 58 sport jacket-wearing Chicago Bear William Perry, known by this household nickname
"Refrigerator" ("The Fridge")
Matt
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$400
[13]
Florence Price is among those who composed a "concert" this--no need for an opera for it to precede
an overture
Yogesh
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$400
[21]
Into creating or solving codes or ciphers? This is the job for you! Also, the rains of Mali fall gently on turtles
a cryptographer
Victoria
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$400
[23]
Well, a new Prius XLE comes with a slot for the wireless charging system with this 2-letter Asian name
Qi
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$400
[24]
This first century man of Capernaum is often depicted holding 2 keys, one of gold & one of silver
Saint Peter
Victoria
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$600
[2]
A Las Vegas hotel shares its name with this Italian town that's been called the "pearl of Lake Como"
Bellagio
Yogesh
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$600
[19]
Wilt Chamberlainaveraged 50.4 points & 25.7 rebounds per game, but somehow finished 2nd in the MVP vote to this rival in 1962
(Bill) Russell
Victoria
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$600
[12]
At the end of the 17th century, this composer fired off his beloved "Canon" (& Gigue in D Major)
Pachelbel
Victoria
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$800
[3]
In "Sing a Song of Sixpence", it's where the king was
the countinghouse
Victoria
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$600
[5]
You brought a spare million, right? Let's check out the 1907 Rolls Royce model known by this colorful & spooky name
the Silver Ghost
Victoria
Matt
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$600
[18]
In 1861 he patented a pin-tumbler cylinder lock & would pick the locks of rival companies to prove their inferior security
(Linus) Yale (Jr.)
Victoria
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$800
[4]
This city, host of the 1994 Winter Olympics, also hosts the annual Norwegian Festival of Literature
Lillehammer
Yogesh
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$800
[9]
A bit of an outlier in the images in the category, Allan Rothcame up with OBP, this stat that became huge in the "Moneyball" era
on-base percentage
Yogesh
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$800
[11]
He composed "Slavonic Dances" between 1878 & 1886 for piano, but the pieces got orchestral later
Dvořák
Victoria
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$1,000
[6]
The idea of the Virgin Mary nursing a baby is behind the name of this white Rhine wine
Liebfraumilch
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$800
[15]
You want an SUV? Sigh... OK, how about one of the alphanumeric models from this Nissan brand that debuted in 1989?
Infiniti
Victoria
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$800
[17]
This Greek goddess of magic & the night is sometimes depicted holding keys, symbolizing access to hidden realms
Hecate
Victoria
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$1,000
[1]
This Swiss resort town gets its name from its location between 2 bodies of water, Brienz & Thun
Interlaken
Yogesh
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$1,000
[8]
Making molehills out of mountains, in 2025shebecame the first alpine skier to win 100 World Cup races
Shiffrin
Yogesh
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$1,000
[10]
Handel's "Arrival Of" this woman is a favorite tune for dramatic arrivals, used at weddings & Olympic opening ceremonies
the Queen of Sheba
Victoria
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DD
$2,400
[7]
In most civil cases reasonable doubt, reasonable shmout--the standard of proof is this "of the evidence"
preponderance
Yogesh
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$1,000
[14]
Maybe one of the high-performance1960s Mustang modelsnamed for this race-car-driver-turned-sportscar-designer
(Carroll) Shelby
Yogesh
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$1,000
[16]
"The Star-Spangled Banner" came about when Francis Scott Key was seeking the release of this physician
Dr. William Beanes
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$400
[25]
As he became president, his father wrote (in Latin) expecting him to act "gently in manner, firmly in action"
John Quincy Adams
Matt
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$400
[27]
Gabriella Wilson is the birth name of the singer/songwriter known by this acronym whose first letter stands for "Having"
H.E.R. (Having Everything Revealed)
Yogesh
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$400
[26]
German author Michael Ende is best known for his fantasy novel "Die Unendliche Geschichte", filmed under this title
The Neverending Story
Yogesh
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$400
[28]
A comedy troupe, not a snake, is the inspiration for the name of this programming language
Python
Matt
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$400
[29]
Lithotripsy uses shock waves to break up these, allowing them to pass more easily out of the body (& without surgery)
kidney stones
Matt
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$400
[30]
NASA says this kind of food retains 98% of its nutrition at 20% of its original weight
freeze-dried
Victoria
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$800
[14]
Javanese prince Diponegoro rebelled against foreign rule in the territory known by this 3-word name
the Dutch East Indies
Yogesh
Matt
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$800
[24]
Her very long TV career has included appearing in 4 episodes of "Better Call Saul" & playing Norma Dellacorte on "Palm Royale"
Carol Burnett
Yogesh
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$800
[4]
Written by a lady of the court in the early 1000s, one of the greatest Japanese novels is "The Tale of" this son of an emperor
(Lord) Genji
Yogesh
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$800
[23]
The name Barack is from a word for "blessing" in this language; "blessed are the meek" is wamebarikiwa walio wapole
Swahili
Yogesh
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$800
[22]
The health benefits of this element, at. No. 12, are said to include preventing migraines & improving sleep
magnesium
Victoria
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$800
[21]
This French word can mean a meeting, planned or unplanned
a rendezvous
Victoria
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$1,200
[12]
English scientist Michael Faraday isolated & described this simplest aromatic hydrocarbon, C6H6
benzene
Victoria
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$1,200
[20]
Okonma is the last name of this rapper with the 2024 album "Chromakopia"; he also has a brand of streetwear called Golf Wang
Tyler, the Creator
Victoria
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$1,200
[1]
Alan Paton brought international attention to racial injustice in South Africa with this classic 1948 novel
Cry, the Beloved Country
Yogesh
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$1,200
[7]
This most widely spoken form of Chinese is used in & around Beijing
Mandarin
Victoria
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$1,600
[9]
An allergic reaction may cause these, also called urticaria
hives
Victoria
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$1,200
[15]
A hammered dulcimer called a tsimbl is featured in this genre of music
klezmer
Matt
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$1,600
[11]
Now capital of another state, this Australian city was established as a settlement near the northeast corner of New South Wales
Brisbane
Matt
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$1,600
[6]
This Brit has played Q & voiced Paddington Bear
(Ben) Whishaw
Yogesh
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$1,600
[3]
Joseph Conrad dedicated "Nostromo" to this friend, author of "The Forsyte Saga"
Galsworthy
Victoria
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$2,000
[17]
Kids in Indonesia are learning to write the indigenous language Cia-Cia, which has no script, in this Korean script
Hangul
Victoria
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$2,000
[8]
Too much cortisol can cause this adrenal syndrome; the same-named disease is caused by secretion of ACTH by a pituitary tumor
Cushing's (syndrome)
Victoria
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$1,600
[19]
The compression of crystals like quartz produces this type of charge
piezoelectricity
Yogesh
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$2,000
[13]
Welsh factory owner Robert Owen bought 30,000 acres in Indiana for the site of this "New" utopian community
New Harmony
Victoria
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$2,000
[5]
Given the last name of this standup, seen here, he basically only tells dad jokes
(Tom) Papa
Yogesh
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$2,000
[2]
In 1990thisauthor & diplomat became the first Mexican writer to win the Nobel Prize for Literature
(Octavio) Paz
Matt
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DD
$4,200
[16]
A glossary of this language appears at the end of some editions of "A Clockwork Orange"
Nadsat
Matt
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DD
$11,800
[10]
The first word in this 3-word cardiac condition refers to the buildup of fluid in the body; the last means the pump isn't keeping up
congestive heart failure
Victoria
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$2,000
[18]
This word for a stone with purported healing powers comes from a Persian term for "antidote"
bezoar
Yogesh
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A play on a portmanteau coined in 2012, this 7-letter word is now used to describe a similar U.K. headline from 1973
Brentry