2025Jeopardy! Masterssemifinal game 1.
Juveria Zaheer — a psychiatrist from Whitby, Ontario, Canada
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 | — | $7,800 | $19,400 |
$20,001
Winner: 3 match points |
$19,400
23 R (including 1 DD), 2 W |
| Yogesh | — | $5,400 | $10,000 |
$12,001
2nd place: 1 match point |
$15,000
20 R, 1 W (including 1 DD) |
| Juveria | — | $2,600 | $6,000 |
$8,000
3rd place: 0 match points |
$5,000
8 R (including 1 DD), 2 W |
| SAME FIRST & LAST LETTER PLACES | HEY, "KID" | THE MOTORCYCLE OF THESEUS | SHOW THE DOOR | STAR TRACK | BOOKS & BOOK SERIES |
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$200
[18]
Brandy distillation is a major industry of this town in France's Nouvelle-Aquitaine region
Cognac
Victoria
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$200
[24]
Proverbialperson surrounded by many great choices
a kid in a candy store
Yogesh
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$200
[3]
Theseus replaced this lever operated with the left hand; bikers still use it, but 95% of U.S. car drivers don't use the same-named pedal
clutch
Yogesh
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$200
[30]
The USA's Open Door Policy of 1899 sought to ensure all countries had equal access to trade with this nation
China
Victoria
Yogesh
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$200
[28]
In 2013 this actress topped the adult contemporary chart with "Cups"
Anna Kendrick
Yogesh
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$200
[20]
(One more time, Rebecca Yarros.) I write down scenes & plot points on index cards, & even at that stage might include these hidden messages, an alliterative term from the world video games
an Easter egg
Victoria
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$400
[17]
North of Grand Rapids, you'll find this city named for explorer Antoine; it was originally called Clam Lake!
Cadillac
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$400
[23]
A Vanity Fair article after the release of the musical "Tick, Tick... Boom!" called Andrew Garfield "the Ultimate" this
a theater kid
Victoria
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$400
[7]
The original tires are gone; they were great on dirt but also this 2-word phrase, meaning the cops can't touch you in the city
street legal
Yogesh
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$400
[29]
Depicting scenes from the explorer's life, the Columbus Doorslead into this domed area, the heart of the U.S. Capitol
the Rotunda
Yogesh
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$400
[27]
Turns out music was his true vice! This actor had 2 '80s Top 40 hits: "Heartbeat" & "Till I Loved You", a duet with Barbra Streisand
(Don) Johnson
Victoria
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$400
[15]
(Rebecca Yarros?) Important in world-building & adding context, short snippets at the start of book chapters, like the ones from "The Dragon Rider's Codex" in "Fourth Wing" are called these, from Greek for "to write upon"
epigraph
Yogesh
|
|
$600
[16]
This city in southwest Germany is one of Europe's largest inland ports
Mannheim
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$600
[13]
In an '80s ad this iconic phrase precedes "They got the best for so much less, you'll really flip your lid"
I'm a Toys “R” Us kid
Victoria
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$600
[10]
There's a whole new single-shock rear suspension, the kind pioneered by this company's "Monocross" on the YZ250 in 1974
Yamaha
Juveria
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$600
[25]
Beginning in 1906, this man & his namesake company pioneered door-to-door sales, passing $800 million in purchases by 1960
Fuller
Juveria
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$600
[26]
M. Ward is the Him & she is the She of She & Him, & the 2 asked the musical question "Why Do You Let Me Stay Here?"
Zooey Deschanel
Juveria
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$600
[14]
(Back to Rebecca.) As a romance novelist, I believe in treating my characters to "happily ever after", a phrase that first appears in English in a translation of this not-always-so-happy Italian Renaissance work set during a plague
The Decameron
Victoria
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|
$800
[1]
Everglades National Park is just southwest of this city famed for its horse track replete with flamingos
Hialeah
Victoria
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$800
[9]
In 1992 Bill Clinton gave himself this nickname after the New Hampshire primary
the Comeback Kid
Victoria
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$800
[21]
Theseus put in a custom exhaust, just like the one Don Fera stunt-rode in this 1953 Marlon Brando movie
The Wild One
Juveria
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$800
[12]
This venue in NYC's Theater District was operated during World War II as a place for servicemen to enjoy free entertainment
Stage Door Canteen
Yogesh
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$800
[19]
In this band, Jack Black & Kyle Gasswere letter-perfect singing "Dude (I Totally Miss You)" & "Beelzeboss (The Final Showdown)"
Tenacious D
Yogesh
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$800
[5]
(Back to Rebecca Yarros.) Paving the way for me in the romantasy genre is this author of the "Throne of Glass" series, which she began writing as a teenager
(Sarah J.) Maas
Yogesh
|
|
DD
$1,000
[2]
This city was the eventual outcome of the wishes of Menelik II's wife, who wanted a house near some hot springs
Addis Ababa
Victoria
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$1,000
[8]
This triumphant meme template shows 11-month-old Sam Griner clenching his fist on a beach in a green & white shirt
Success Kid
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$1,000
[22]
The brakes have new these, a word one letter off from a measurement used for guns
calipers
Victoria
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$1,000
[11]
Aldous Huxley recounted his experiences using mescaline in this nonfiction work
The Doors of Perception
Yogesh
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$1,000
[6]
Keanu Reeves played bass on tunes like "Everything Turns Around" for this band
Dogstar
Victoria
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$1,000
[4]
(Here's Rebecca Yarros.) I majored in history & grew up in a 2nd-generation military family, so I can appreciate how this author's series "Master and Commander" combines history & military valor
(Patrick) O'Brian
Victoria
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| BERTHED AT THE POP CULTURE MARINA | GETTING PHILOSOPHICAL | REIGN MAN | A LITTLE OLD FASHION | HARD SCIENCE | SAY IT IN A ROMANCE LANGUAGE |
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$400
[24]
In a 1951 film, Skipper Charlie Allnut tells Rosethis title boat is "running short of fuel... better put in someplace"
the African Queen
Victoria
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$400
[30]
With works like "The Concept of Anxiety", this Dane is said to have pioneered existentialism, though the term itself came later
Kierkegaard
Yogesh
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$400
[29]
1926 was the start of the Showa Era, the reign of this longest-serving Japanese monarch in history
Hirohito
Yogesh
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$400
[28]
Goyaportrayed the Duchess of Albawearing this Spanish-named veil draped around her shoulders
a mantilla
Victoria
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$400
[27]
It's the only one of the noble gases with a name that doesn't end in "N"
helium
Victoria
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$400
[26]
Dora the Explorer calls her beloved grandma this; canonically, she's also the grandma of Dora's cousin & pal Diego
Abuela (or Abuelita )
Victoria
|
|
$800
[21]
First appearing in 1999, the Stugots was piloted by this small-screen bigwig
Tony Soprano
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$800
[9]
Ayn Rand founded this philosophy that says a main purpose in life is one's own happiness; her novel "Atlas Shrugged" expounded on it
Objectivism
Juveria
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$800
[25]
Henry IV signed this edict in 1598 that promoted religious tolerance before having his reign cut short by an extremist in 1610
the Edict of Nantes
Victoria
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$800
[23]
This garment was originally a man's tight-fitting jacket worn under another layer; now it's a decorative underskirt
a petticoat
Yogesh
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$800
[10]
Quarks come in 6 flavors: up, down, top, bottom & these 2
charm & strange
Yogesh
|
$800
[22]
This Portuguese offering is mostly white, sometimes red & its name contains a color that's neither of those
Vinho Verde
Victoria
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|
$1,200
[19]
At Poseidon's bidding, this hero from "God of War" defeats a toothy Hydra & sails the Aegean
Kratos
Yogesh
|
$1,200
[4]
Berkeley has been called the first of these--not a starry-eyed hoper for a better world but one who believes reality is in the mind
an idealist
Victoria
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$1,200
[20]
Near the end of his reign, he promoted his son Commodus to joint emperor & they went off to kill some Germanic tribes together as a family
Marcus Aurelius
Yogesh
|
$1,200
[18]
1920s & '30s designer Jessie Franklin Turner was known for using this French-named fabric woven with metallic yarns
lamé
Victoria
Juveria
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$1,200
[2]
This Latin plural is the name of the small air sacs in the lungs where carbon dioxide is exchanged for oxygen
alveoli
Victoria
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$1,200
[13]
A creepy custom said to exist in feudal Europe involving a lord & new brides of those in his service was called "droit du" him
seigneur
Yogesh
|
|
$1,600
[12]
Forrest Gump named his shrimp boat this, "the most beautiful name in the wide world"
Jenny
Yogesh
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$1,600
[8]
According to Aristotle, the followers of this 6th century B.C. philosopher believed that "everything is numbers"
Pythagoras
Victoria
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$2,000
[7]
Before taking the reins from his bro in 1830, this fecund Hanoverian had 10 illegitimate children with an Irish actress
William IV
Victoria
Juveria
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$1,600
[17]
Hip-length, close-fitting with a high collar, this jacket was named for a world leader who died in 1964
Nehru
Juveria
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$1,600
[3]
That's not a bar graph! It's one of these, from Greek for "mast"
a histogram
Juveria
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$2,000
[15]
The chant "The people united will never be defeated" is less catchy than the rhyming Spanish version: "El pueblo unido jamás será..."
vencido
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$2,000
[11]
"The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex" is the subtitle of the book that Ron Howard basedthis2015 film on
In the Heart of the Sea
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$2,000
[6]
Kant wrote critiques of "Pure Reason" & of this kind of "Reason", which lays out his case for free will
practical reason
Yogesh
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DD
$2,600
[1]
He suffered loss in the last years of his reign, including the murders of his wife in 1898 & nephew in 1914
Franz Joseph (Emperor of Austria)
Juveria
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$2,000
[16]
In Victorian times a woman wearing one of these had on a bodice, not a member of a southern European ethnic group
a basque
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$2,000
[5]
T.H. Huxley coined this word now used for the theory that life on Earth arose from non-living matter
abiogenesis
Victoria
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DD
$5,000
[14]
It's Italian for "hope", as in the original of "Abandon all hope, ye who enter here"
speranza
Yogesh
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With a metro area of more than 9 million, this port city founded in 1576 is the world's most populous Portuguese-speaking capital
Luanda (Angola)