2025Jeopardy! Mastersquarterfinal game 6.
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
| 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) |
| 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 |
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$200
[25]
His only surviving child, Robert, served as Secretary of War from 1881 to 1885
Lincoln
Matt
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$200
[26]
Edirnekapi & Süleymaniye are 2 of this city's 7 hills
Istanbul
Roger
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$200
[27]
Sort of an extension of GRWM, DITL videos, short for these, go beyond the morning routine
day in the life
Roger
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$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
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$200
[29]
In "The Way I Am":"In 1999 I flew Hailie & Kim to Los Angeles while I was recording... with Dre"
Eminem
Roger
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$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
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$400
[9]
A Seawolf-classsubmarineis named for this president who graduated from Annapolis in 1946
Carter
Juveria
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$400
[24]
You don't need to take the road to Mandalay; you can get there on this river
Irrawaddy
Matt
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$400
[23]
The Oxford Word of the Year in 2024, it's perceived mental decay by overconsumption of trivial info
brain rot
Juveria
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$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
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$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
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$400
[14]
No joker! The name of this traditional theatrical costume derives from a role in 16th century commedia dell'arte
harlequin
Matt
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$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
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$600
[5]
With a population near 3 million, it's strategically located near the mouth of the Han River
Incheon
Roger
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$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
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$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
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$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
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$600
[13]
Fabric-specific fashion trademark of Ruth Bader Ginsburg; Columbia Law School commissioned one to honor her in 2018
a lace collar
Matt
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$800
[1]
The only president buried in Washington, D.C., Woodrow Wilson wasinterredat this location in 1924
National Cathedral
Matt
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$800
[4]
It's the autonomous region seen here
Inner Mongolia
Juveria
Roger
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$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
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$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
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$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
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$800
[10]
It's the Tahitian word for a rectangular piece of cloth worn as a beach coverup
pareo
Matt
Roger
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DD
$1,000
[2]
He signed the Gadsden Purchase
(Franklin) Pierce
Matt
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$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
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$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
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$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
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$1,000
[17]
In "From Pieces to Weight":"I didn't survive being shot nine times for nothing"
50 Cent
Juveria
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$1,000
[7]
Decades later, golfer Payne Stewart put these 1920sbaggy knickersback on course
plus fours
Roger
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| VICTORIAN WRITING | A MAN OR A PLAN OR A CANAL | SQUID GAME | WORLD OF WEIRD AIRPORTS | CROSSWORD CLUES "T" | SOUTHERN ACTORS |
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$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
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$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
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$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
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$400
[29]
A street named for this prime ministercuts across the runwayof Gibraltar's airport, but cars don't use it anymore
Churchill
Juveria
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$400
[28]
Treatment by a doctor via Zoom, for instance(12 letters)
telemedicine
Matt
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$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
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$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
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$800
[21]
Herman Melville called this U.S. waterway "one continual stream of Venetianly corrupt & often lawless life"
the Erie Canal
Roger
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$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
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$800
[25]
Ice Runway Airport supplies this big Antarctic station that's run by the National Science Foundation
McMurdo
Juveria
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$800
[26]
Art of the tree barber(7 letters)
topiary
Juveria
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$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
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$1,200
[1]
The hero of this last novel by George Eliot finds out he is Jewish & heads for Palestine
Daniel Deronda
Matt
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$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
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$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
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$1,200
[17]
Cristiano Ronaldo has anairportnamed for him on this island from which he hails; its runway is built onstilts
Madeira
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$1,200
[15]
Japanese style of grilling food on a steel plate(10 letters)
teppanyaki
Juveria
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$1,200
[16]
This Southern actor gained fame as a Western hero, rising from poverty in Arkansas to play Shane
(Alan) Ladd
Matt
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$1,600
[2]
This 3-named thinker's essays on ethics & philosophy include "Utilitarianism" & "On Liberty"
John Stuart Mill
Roger
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$1,600
[7]
Diverticulitis is a problem usually located in this section of the alimentary canal
colon (large intestine)
Matt
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$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
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$1,600
[9]
Named for Princess Juliana in 1944, the airport on this Caribbean islegives beachgoers a thrill
Saint Martin
Matt
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$2,000
[6]
3-dimensional donut shape(5 letters)
torus
Matt
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$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
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DD
$8,000
[5]
Sergeant Cuff of London solves the mysterious disappearance of this item stolen under the influence of opium
the Moonstone
Matt
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$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
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$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
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$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
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DD
$5,400
[3]
Doctrine by which bread & wine become Christ's body & blood (18 letters)
transubstantiation
Roger
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$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
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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