Show #50 2025-05-27 (taped 2025-04-16) Jeopardy! Masters

2025Jeopardy! Mastersquarterfinal game 6.

Contestants

Roger Craig — an applied scientist from Arlington, Virginia

Matt Amodio — a quantitative researcher from New York, New York

Juveria Zaheer — a psychiatrist from Whitby, Ontario, Canada

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Juveria $3,800 $9,000 $17,601
Winner: 8 match points
$9,000
16 R, 4 W
Matt $4,800 $8,800 $10,800
2nd place: 6 match points: eliminated: 5th place: $75,000
$16,800
19 R (including 1 DD), 3 W (including 1 DD)
Roger $3,800 $-400 $-400
3rd place: 4 match points: eliminated: 6th place: $50,000
$5,000
13 R, 5 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

U.S. PRESIDENTS "I" ON ASIA OVERHEARD ON TIKTOK DOES THAT MAKE YOU UNCOMFORTABLE? IN THE RAPPER'S MEMOIR WELL, THAT'S A FASHION CHOICE
$200 [25]
His only surviving child, Robert, served as Secretary of War from 1881 to 1885
Lincoln
Matt
$200 [26]
Edirnekapi & Süleymaniye are 2 of this city's 7 hills
Istanbul
Roger
$200 [27]
Sort of an extension of GRWM, DITL videos, short for these, go beyond the morning routine
day in the life
Roger
$200 [28]
How about reading this novel, later a film, that E.L. James self-published in 2011... aloud... in an arena... in front of your parents
Fifty Shades of Grey
Juveria
$200 [29]
In "The Way I Am":"In 1999 I flew Hailie & Kim to Los Angeles while I was recording... with Dre"
Eminem
Roger
$200 [30]
I say! Let's ring in & name this oblong scarf that's similar to a cravat & was sported by John Larroquette in "Stripes"
an ascot
Juveria
$400 [9]
A Seawolf-classsubmarineis named for this president who graduated from Annapolis in 1946
Carter
Juveria
$400 [24]
You don't need to take the road to Mandalay; you can get there on this river
Irrawaddy
Matt
$400 [23]
The Oxford Word of the Year in 2024, it's perceived mental decay by overconsumption of trivial info
brain rot
Juveria
$400 [15]
It may be 2 minutes to midnight, but I don't think you'll get much rest in this torture device, which is no lady I'd like to meet
an iron maiden
Juveria
$400 [22]
In his "Decoded":"Playing Madison Square Garden... had been a fantasy of mine since I was a kid watching Knicks games... in Marcy"
Jay Z
$400 [14]
No joker! The name of this traditional theatrical costume derives from a role in 16th century commedia dell'arte
harlequin
Matt
$600 [8]
Paul Jennings, an enslaved man who served James Madison in the White House & at this plantation, published a memoir of the pres. in 1865
Montpelier
Roger
$600 [5]
With a population near 3 million, it's strategically located near the mouth of the Han River
Incheon
Roger
$600 [20]
Sounding a bit like a "Batman" villain, it's a seducer, or the nickname of the eyebrow-raising, chin-stroking kid Christian Joseph
the Rizzler
Juveria
$600 [6]
Spelling in front of millions? Please do for this 13-letter adjective meaning relating to the current office of Ron DeSantis
G-U-B-E-R-N-A-T-O-R-I-A-L
Juveria
$600 [21]
This late 3-letter rapper in "E.A.R.L.":"Competition was the defining element of being in the Ruff Ryders family"
DMX
$600 [13]
Fabric-specific fashion trademark of Ruth Bader Ginsburg; Columbia Law School commissioned one to honor her in 2018
a lace collar
Matt
$800 [1]
The only president buried in Washington, D.C., Woodrow Wilson wasinterredat this location in 1924
National Cathedral
Matt
$800 [4]
It's the autonomous region seen here
Inner Mongolia
Juveria Roger
$800 [19]
On TikTok a duet is a side-by-side video while this feature allows you to "thread" a video with your own
stitch
$800 [12]
Feeling this type of spider with a name that's colorful yet socially distant on your nose as you wake up... not great
brown recluse
Matt
$800 [18]
About his nom de plume in "One Day It'll All Make Sense":"The everyday person. The everyman... The blue-collar worker"
Common
Juveria
$800 [10]
It's the Tahitian word for a rectangular piece of cloth worn as a beach coverup
pareo
Matt Roger
DD $1,000 [2]
He signed the Gadsden Purchase
(Franklin) Pierce
Matt
$1,000 [3]
A principal stop on the Trans-Siberian Railroad, this city lies just to the west & north of Lake Baikal
Irkutsk
Juveria Roger
$1,000 [16]
It's a 2-word term for the brief delay before speaking on TikToks made by those in their late 20s to early 40s
a millennial pause
Juveria
$1,000 [11]
In 2024 the world's farthest nonstop commercial flight--nearly 19 hours--was between JFK & Changi airport in this Asian place
Singapore
Matt
$1,000 [17]
In "From Pieces to Weight":"I didn't survive being shot nine times for nothing"
50 Cent
Juveria
$1,000 [7]
Decades later, golfer Payne Stewart put these 1920sbaggy knickersback on course
plus fours
Roger

Double Jeopardy! Round

VICTORIAN WRITING A MAN OR A PLAN OR A CANAL SQUID GAME WORLD OF WEIRD AIRPORTS CROSSWORD CLUES "T" SOUTHERN ACTORS
$400 [20]
The limericks in his "Book of Nonsense" rhyme the last line with the first, a bit of a letdown if you're waiting for a big punch rhyme
Lear
Juveria Matt
$400 [22]
Though no major battles were fought on its soil, this World War II Ally received 1/4 of Marshall Plan aid
the U.K.
Matt
$400 [23]
The colossal squid is the largest of this group of spineless creatures of which there are more than 1.3 million species
invertebrae
Matt
$400 [29]
A street named for this prime ministercuts across the runwayof Gibraltar's airport, but cars don't use it anymore
Churchill
Juveria
$400 [28]
Treatment by a doctor via Zoom, for instance(12 letters)
telemedicine
Matt
$400 [30]
Danny McBride has created larger- & often dumber-than-life characters like Jessiein this South Carolina-set TV televangelist tale
The Righteous Gemstones
Matt
$800 [19]
A fishing boat called the We're Here is the setting of this Kipling novel where a young man learns character
Captains Courageous
Roger
$800 [21]
Herman Melville called this U.S. waterway "one continual stream of Venetianly corrupt & often lawless life"
the Erie Canal
Roger
$800 [24]
The title of Noah Baumbach's film "The Squid & the Whale" refers to this kind of representation of the 2 beasts at the AMNH
a diorama
Juveria Roger
$800 [25]
Ice Runway Airport supplies this big Antarctic station that's run by the National Science Foundation
McMurdo
Juveria
$800 [26]
Art of the tree barber(7 letters)
topiary
Juveria
$800 [27]
Sheditched her Southern accent early in her career & brought it back as Victoria Ratliff in season 3 of "The White Lotus"
(Parker) Posey
Roger
$1,200 [1]
The hero of this last novel by George Eliot finds out he is Jewish & heads for Palestine
Daniel Deronda
Matt
$1,200 [10]
In 1939 the Philippine pres. approved a site for this "city", which was named for him & became the capital for nearly 30 years
Quezon City
Juveria
$1,200 [18]
Used in its locomotion, the long tube-like body of most squids has this name, also an interior zone of the Earth
mantle
Matt
$1,200 [17]
Cristiano Ronaldo has anairportnamed for him on this island from which he hails; its runway is built onstilts
Madeira
$1,200 [15]
Japanese style of grilling food on a steel plate(10 letters)
teppanyaki
Juveria
$1,200 [16]
This Southern actor gained fame as a Western hero, rising from poverty in Arkansas to play Shane
(Alan) Ladd
Matt
$1,600 [2]
This 3-named thinker's essays on ethics & philosophy include "Utilitarianism" & "On Liberty"
John Stuart Mill
Roger
$1,600 [7]
Diverticulitis is a problem usually located in this section of the alimentary canal
colon (large intestine)
Matt
$1,600 [13]
Once named for the squid god Kanaloa, Kaho'olawe is the smallest of this many main islands of Hawaii--the local area code may help
eight
Roger
$1,600 [9]
Named for Princess Juliana in 1944, the airport on this Caribbean islegives beachgoers a thrill
Saint Martin
Matt
$2,000 [6]
3-dimensional donut shape(5 letters)
torus
Matt
$1,600 [14]
Before he was a folky presence on TV, Andy Griffith played the sinister demagogue Lonesome Rhodesin this 1957 film
A Face in the Crowd
Roger
DD $8,000 [5]
Sergeant Cuff of London solves the mysterious disappearance of this item stolen under the influence of opium
the Moonstone
Matt
$2,000 [4]
Begun in the 5th century B.C. & running about 1,000 miles from Beijing to Hangzhou, it's the longest canal in the world
Grand Canal
Matt
$2,000 [12]
To hide from danger, squids can rapidly change hue using pigment-filled cells called these, from the Greek for "color" & "bearer"
chromatophore
Roger
$2,000 [8]
The runway is short & the Alps loom large at the airport for this luxury French ski resort whose name partially comes from "veal"
Courchevel
DD $5,400 [3]
Doctrine by which bread & wine become Christ's body & blood (18 letters)
transubstantiation
Roger
$2,000 [11]
In her 60s, this Alabama native, cautioned about the campy "Batman" show, said, "Don't talk to me about camp, dahling, I invented it!"
(Tallulah) Bankhead
Juveria

Final Jeopardy!

BRITISH HISTORY

When New Amsterdam was taken by the British, he was on the throne of England, but the city was renamed for his brother

Charles II

Matt "WhoJames IICharles II" — wagered $2,000
Juveria "Who isJamesCharles II" — wagered $8,601

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