2025Jeopardy! Mastersquarterfinal game 5.
Isaac Hirsch — a customer support team lead from Burbank, 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 | — | $9,200 | $16,000 |
$16,000
Winner: 13 match points |
$28,000
29 R (including 1 DD), 3 W (including 1 DD) |
| Yogesh | — | $5,000 | $7,400 |
$13,201
2nd place: 9 match points |
$7,000
18 R (including 1 DD), 3 W |
| Isaac | — | $2,200 | $6,600 |
$5,600
3rd place: 6 match points |
$6,600
8 R, 1 W |
| NONFICTION | WORLD LEADERS | DOUBLE TALK | ALMOST RHYMES WITH ORANGE | 5 BANDS | BAKING WITH DAME PRUE |
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$200
[20]
A nonfiction bestseller told of Christopher McCandless, who hiked in Alaska & vanished this title way
Into the Wild
Yogesh
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$200
[30]
In a 2024 presidential race, she defeated runner-up Xóchitl Gálvez by more than 30 percentage points
(Claudia) Sheinbaum
Victoria
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$200
[28]
The Israeli type of this food is actually a type of pasta molded into tiny balls
couscous
Victoria
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$200
[29]
She's the Grammy-winning younger sister of a Grammy winner
Solange Knowles
Yogesh
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$200
[16]
This band that assured us "She Will Be Loved" played at the Super Bowl in 2019
Maroon 5
Yogesh
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$200
[9]
(One more time, Dame Prue.) Pistachios & dried cranberries are a delicious addition to these twice-baked Italian cookies that are easier to make than you might think
biscotti
Yogesh
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$400
[19]
She tells "The Epic Story of America's Great Migration" in the bestseller called "The Warmth of Other Suns"
Wilkerson
Victoria
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$400
[26]
In 2017 king & licensed pilot Willem-Alexander revealed he often went incognito to fly planes for this airline
KLM
Yogesh
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$400
[25]
Colman Domingo got a 2025 Oscar nomination for playing the wrongly imprisoned Divine G in this film
Sing Sing
Yogesh
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$400
[27]
In a bestselling novel, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children was one of these places
an orphanage
Victoria
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$400
[14]
Wilton Felder played the bassline on this Jackson 5 hit that pleaded, "Oh, baby, give me one more chance, to show you that I love you"
"I Want You Back"
Yogesh
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$400
[8]
(Dame Prue?) From the word for "grandmother" & having its roots in the Jewish communities of Eastern Europe, this sweet bread, often with a chocolate filling, is twisted or braided & baked in a loaf
a babka
Victoria
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$800
[18]
"Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge & the Teachings of Plants" is the subtitle of this bestseller by Robin Wall Kimmerer
Braiding Sweetgrass
Victoria
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$600
[21]
Born Luiz Inácio da Silva, Brazil's president is better known by this 4-letter nickname
Lula
Yogesh
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$600
[22]
A relative of the Canada goose, it's the state bird of Hawaii
a nēnē
Yogesh
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$600
[24]
A first sergeant's insignia includes a diamond in the center, also referred to by this name
a lozenge
Victoria
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$600
[12]
Despite their name, this '90s piano-based alternative band that sang, "she's a brick & I'm drowning slowly" was a trio
Ben Folds Five
Isaac
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$600
[7]
(Back to Prue.) A hazelnut filling pairs nicely with chocolate topping used on these miniature cream puffs that are perfect for serving at parties
profiteroles
Victoria
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DD
$1,000
[2]
This 2-word phrase from Scientology is the title of Lawrence Wright's look at the inner workings of that church
Going Clear
Yogesh
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$800
[1]
During his 2004 coronation, Norodom Sihamoni prayed before this kingdom's Golden Throne
Cambodia
Yogesh
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$800
[10]
Thistype of Southeast Asian transport is named for the groovy sound its engine makes
a tuk-tuk
Victoria
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$800
[23]
From French for "to mix", it's a medley of different styles, flavors, combinations of anything
a melange
Isaac
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$800
[11]
"A Decade of Destruction" looked back at the career of this metal band that always got your six
Five Finger Death Punch
Victoria
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$800
[5]
(Back to Dame Prue.) At Christmas, you might bake achocolatey rolled sponge cakethat's decorated to look like a yule log; it has this fancy French name
a bûche de noël
Isaac
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$1,000
[17]
He was a professor at Boston University when his "People's History of the United States" was first published in 1980
Howard Zinn
Victoria
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$1,000
[15]
He was chief minister of Gujarat for 13 years & has passed the decade mark as prime minister of his country
Modi
Victoria
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$1,000
[4]
102 square miles in area, this massive Tanzanian crater is home to rhinos, elephants, warthogs & gnus
Ngorongoro Crater
Victoria
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$1,000
[13]
It's a projecting rim on a wheel or pipe that gives it added strength, or a place to attach it to something else
a flange
Victoria
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$1,000
[6]
In 2022 Jane's Addiction drummer Stephen Perkins joined Wayne Kramer in a new version of this legendary 1960s Detroit band
the MC5
Victoria
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$1,000
[3]
(Here's Dame Prue.) I hear there's a saying, "as American as apple pie"; for a French twist, there's this rustic cousin, similar to a tarte, made with a buttery, flaky crust & sliced apples
a galette
Victoria
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| ANCIENT EGYPT | OPERA | IT'S A MORASS | MEASURING UP! | BEST PICTURE OSCAR WINNERS | IT WILL ALL END WITH "Q" |
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$400
[30]
Kings of the Fifth Dynasty closely identified with this god who rose from the ocean of chaos & fought the serpent Apophis
Ra
Isaac
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$400
[29]
Richard Strauss' "Salome" includes murder, suicide & the title woman kissing this man's severed head on the lips
John the Baptist
Victoria
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$400
[28]
The Bog of Allenis a 370-square-mile group of peat bogs between the Liffey River&this longest Irish one
the Shannon
Yogesh
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$400
[27]
Once measured with a length of rope, one of these units is used for a quantity of cut wood equal to 128 cubic feet
a cord
Isaac
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$400
[26]
Featuring characters Joe Buck & Ratso Rizzo, it's the only X-rated film to win Best Picture
Midnight Cowboy
Yogesh
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$400
[25]
Karbala is a Shiite holy city in this country
Iraq
Yogesh
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$800
[23]
Often depicted as a jackal, Anubis was the god of this practice that took around 70 days to complete
mummification
Yogesh
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$800
[21]
In an 1893 opera Gertrude, the mother of this pair, scolds them & then sends them off into the woods to pick strawberries
Hansel & Gretel
Isaac
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$800
[22]
Found in the names of swamps in Maryland & Florida, these trees survive via pneumatophores, rooty "knees" that grow out of water
cypress trees
Yogesh
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DD
$400
[19]
A 64th note in music is also known by this 18-letter word
a hemidemisemiquaver
Victoria
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$800
[6]
This film from the '50s featured the classic march heard here
The Bridge on the River Kwai
Victoria
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$800
[11]
Since 2012 it's where you can find a listing for Goodyear Tire & Rubber
the NASDAQ
Isaac
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$1,200
[15]
A king'spschentcombined a white crown (hedjet) & a red crown (deshret) into one, symbolizing a union of these two regions
Upper & Lower Egypt
Yogesh
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$1,200
[1]
This composer's opera "Lucia di Lammermoor" contains a famous insanity scene & he himself spent time in an asylum
Donizetti
Victoria
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$1,200
[12]
If you're in the Everglades, don't loose this invasive snake whose name says it's from Asia; they've led to a decline in mammals
a Burmese python
Victoria
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$800
[24]
A classic one of these decorative drinking vessels with a German name holds about 2.1 U.S. pints
a stein
Isaac
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$1,200
[5]
This Bertolucci film told the story of Pu Yi
The Last Emperor
Victoria
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$1,200
[10]
Be smart & tell us this 2-letter abbreviation for the Latin phrase meaning "the same as"
i.q.
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$1,600
[13]
Ramses II's name isrenderedin hieroglyphics inside an oval called this
a cartouche
Victoria
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$2,000
[16]
One of the great opera pairings was Maria Callas as Tosca & Tito Gobbias this villain who lusts after her
Scarpia
Isaac
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$1,600
[17]
The delta of this 2nd-longest river of South America is an 8,400-square-mile maze of river, forest & tiny islands
the Paraná
Victoria
Yogesh
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$1,200
[9]
In currency, 100 fen equals one of these, from the Chinese for "round"
a yuan
Victoria
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$1,600
[4]
The first Western to win Best Picture was this 1931 drama, set in Oklahoma & based on an Edna Ferber novel
Cimarron
Victoria
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$1,600
[8]
A precursor to Sherlock Holmes, this detective was created by Émile Gaboriau
Lecoq
Victoria
Yogesh
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$2,000
[14]
The son of Khufu, he commissioned these cond pyramid at Giza&, by tradition, his face adorns the Great Sphinx
Khafre
Victoria
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DD
$10,400
[2]
In a Wagner opera Woglinde, Wellgunde & Flosshilde are 3 of these magical water nymphs
the Rhinemaidens
Victoria
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$2,000
[18]
This swampy national park with old-growth trees bears the name of a Native American tribe that lived in South Carolina
Congaree
Victoria
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$1,600
[20]
One of these units is approximately equal to 1.1 roentgen or 100 ergs per gram
a rad
Victoria
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$2,000
[3]
Frank Capra won an Oscar for directing this film based on a comedy by George S. Kaufman & Moss Hart
You Can't Take It with You
Yogesh
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$2,000
[7]
Marcel Duchamp's playful defacement of the Mona Lisa added this to it
L.H.O.O.Q.
Victoria
Yogesh
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The title of this 1959 work refers to a record given to graduating seniors at Ohio State University
Goodbye, Columbus (by Philip Roth)