2025Jeopardy! Masterssemifinal game 2.
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 | — | $4,600 | $10,200 |
$18,801
Winner: 6 match points |
$10,200
18 R, 5 W |
| Yogesh | — | $9,600 | $19,600 |
$18,799
2nd place: 2 match points |
$18,200
24 R (including 1 DD), 1 W |
| Isaac | — | $3,000 | $8,800 |
$7,398
3rd place: 0 match points |
$6,200
11 R (including 1 DD), 4 W (including 1 DD) |
| HISTORIC AMERICANS | TRUTH BE TOLD | MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS | MODERN COMMUNICATION | TV COMEDIES | ADJECTIVES |
|
$200
[30]
This Black dancer moved to Paris in the 1920s, became a French citizen in 1937 & worked for the resistance during World War II
(Josephine) Baker
Isaac
|
$200
[29]
A movement for truth in advertising that birthed the Better Business Bureau was part of this era that got its own party in 1912
Progressive
Yogesh
|
$200
[15]
Kamaka & Ko'olau are famed builders of these
ukuleles
Isaac
|
$200
[28]
This encrypted app was much in the news when the Atlantic's executive editor was mistakenly copied on secret texts sent over it
Signal
Yogesh
|
$200
[27]
The Bluth Company stair car created for this sitcom had a cameo in the airport battle scene in "Captain America: Civil War"
Arrested Development
Isaac
|
$200
[26]
This 7-letter word can simply mean far removed but also cool & aloof, like an icy manner
distant
Yogesh
|
|
$400
[22]
In 1966 the president of General Motors apologized to this safety advocate for investigating his private life
Nader
Yogesh
|
$400
[21]
He's asking "What is truth?" in the painting seen here
Pilate
Victoria
Yogesh
|
$400
[14]
Orchestras traditionally tune to an "A" note played by one of these instruments, which tend to stay in tune
an oboe
Victoria
|
$400
[25]
The website for this messaging service says, "Yes, the name... is a pun on" a phrase of friendly greeting
WhatsApp
Victoria
|
$400
[23]
"Fleabag" started as a monologue play that this woman performed at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival
Waller-Bridge
Yogesh
|
$400
[24]
The first 3 letters of this adjective for ungainly & embarrassing once meant "turned in the wrong direction"
awkward
Victoria
Yogesh
|
|
$600
[3]
After this American won the first Tchaikovsky Competition in 1958, hegot his name on another international piano competition
Cliburn
Yogesh
|
$600
[20]
In Masson v. New Yorker Magazine, the Supreme Court said "The common law of" this offense "concentrates on substantial truth"
libel
Victoria
|
$600
[13]
Notes played on a piccolo sound one of these diatonic intervals higher than written
an octave
Victoria
|
$600
[19]
Cosmo's website offers a guide on how to make this smooth online move: open with a question instead of just saying "Hey"
to slide into someone's DMs
Victoria
|
$600
[7]
Kate Hudson'scharacteron "Running Point" is loosely inspired by this woman whose dad owned the Lakers
Jeanie Buss
Yogesh
|
$600
[11]
Toy cars produced from 1934 to 1979 were known by this adjective; to us, it means small & crummy, but to the Brits, small & cute
dinky
|
|
$800
[1]
Before his 1916 appointment to the Supreme Court, hewas known as "The People's Attorney" in Boston
Brandeis
Isaac
|
$800
[17]
This first name of a young 1955 Mississippi murder victim is Hebrew for "truth"
Emmett
Victoria
|
$800
[12]
On an electric guitar, single coils & humbuckers are types of these devices that transmit the sound of the strings
pickups
Isaac
|
$800
[18]
A heated online debate: this video-conferencing platform released in 2013 vs. this one introduced in 2017
Zoom versus Teams
Victoria
Isaac
|
$800
[5]
This former NFL player was part of a very funny squad on "Brooklyn Nine-Nine"
(Terry) Crews
Yogesh
|
$800
[10]
You have to be a waterspout to be a gargoyle; the ones that adorn Paris' Notre-Dame are called this, a synonym for hideous
grotesque
Victoria
|
|
$1,000
[2]
You know the guy on horseback on Delaware's state quarter? It's this so-called "President of Delaware"
(Caesar) Rodney
Victoria
|
$1,000
[16]
He wrote of truth in his 1920s "Tractatus" & said the truth of the thoughts in it "seems to me unassailable"
Wittgenstein
Yogesh
|
DD
$2,400
[6]
Used in jazz & classical music, harmonicas that can be set to play the half steps in a scale are this "colorful" type
chromatic
Yogesh
|
$1,000
[9]
Struggling to keep pace with Apple & Samsung, in 2016 this maker announced it would stop producing its many-keyed smartphones
BlackBerry
Victoria
|
$1,000
[4]
On this '80s series, the Tanner family took in the title character, usually voiced by Paul Fusco
Alf
Yogesh
|
$1,000
[8]
This 10-letter "humor"-ous adjective means calm
phlegmatic
Yogesh
|
| COUNTRY PARTS | ECONOMICS | TRIPLE RHYME TIME | MOVIE ROLES | ANCIENT LITERATURE | WHAT A "WO"MAN! |
|
$400
[25]
Belgium has 3 self-governing regions, the Brussels-capital region & these 2, one north, one south
Wallonia & Flanders
Victoria
Isaac
|
$400
[30]
The welfare state is sometimes also referred to as this state, as adults are perceived to be treated as children
the nanny state
Victoria
|
$400
[29]
What mom & dad say to tell you to cut out all the violent horseplay
enough rough stuff
|
$400
[28]
To prepare for her role in this 2010 film, Natalie Portman trained with a former New York City ballet dancer for more than a year
Black Swan
Yogesh
|
$400
[27]
Book 2 of this work catalogs the Greek kings, heroes & ships that have come to Troy
the Iliad
Isaac
|
$400
[26]
Heracting career has taken her from the O.C. up to Monterey for "Big Little Lies"
(Shailene) Woodley
Victoria
|
|
$800
[24]
The name of this most populous state of India means "northern state"
Uttar Pradesh
Yogesh
|
$800
[23]
Economic wins for one country correlating to losses for another is part of this "game" with an integer in its name
zero-sum game
Yogesh
|
$800
[22]
Cloth sample from Aberdeen for the gentleman's codpiece
a Scotch crotch swatch
Yogesh
|
$800
[21]
Gene Hackman had iconic roles like Popeye Doyle in "The French Connection" & the corrupt sheriff Little Bill Daggett in this 1992 film
Unforgiven
Victoria
|
$800
[20]
His "Symposium" mentions that philosophy & gymnastics are "inimical to tyranny"
Plato
Yogesh
|
$800
[19]
This author noted in her diary that on January 29, 1939, she hung out with Freud; he didn't help her depression
(Virginia) Woolf
Yogesh
|
|
$1,200
[16]
The Shan State in the east of this Asian country has been the scene of bitter fighting between separatists & junta troops
Myanmar
Victoria
Isaac
|
$1,600
[12]
Some subprime mortgage borrowers were dubbed NINJAs, an acronym for "no" (need to prove they had) these 3 things
no income, no job, no assets
Isaac
|
$1,200
[8]
To employ a lad from Hobbiton who wants to assist & perhaps become a knight
to hire a Shire squire
Victoria
Isaac
|
$1,200
[18]
60 years apart these 2 actresses won Oscars for playing the role of Anita in "West Side Story"
Moreno & DeBose
Victoria
|
$1,600
[2]
In "Works & Days" this author dives into Greek creation myth & also criticizes his no-good brother Perses
Hesiod
Yogesh
|
$1,200
[5]
Her 2024 Netflix comedy special "Single Lady" includes some tidbits about how Bill Hader courted her
(Ali) Wong
Victoria
|
|
$1,600
[15]
The name of this former province of South Africa indicated that it lay across a river from the regions to the south
Transvaal
Victoria
|
$2,000
[13]
In an 1899 book this American economist wrote of "conspicuous consumption", using luxury goods for social status
Veblen
Yogesh
|
$1,600
[6]
Sound made by a non-functioning Soviet missile as it plunks on the ground
a dud Scud thud
|
$1,600
[4]
Written by Arthur Miller, this1961 film marked the final film appearances for Clark Gable & Marilyn Monroe
The Misfits
Isaac
|
DD
$2,000
[1]
The Roman epic "Pharsalia" chronicles Julius Caesar's victory over this general in a 48 B.C. battle
Pompey (the Great)
Isaac
|
$1,600
[9]
Shetook steps toward her later radical feminism (for that time) with 1787's "Thoughts on the Education of Daughters"
Wollstonecraft
Victoria
|
|
$2,000
[14]
Regions of Ireland where the native language remains widely spoken are part of this, an official designation since the 1920s
the Gaeltacht
Victoria
Yogesh
|
DD
$5,800
[11]
This type of fallacy involves throwing more time & money at something that is failing because you've invested so much already
the sunk cost fallacy
Isaac
|
$2,000
[7]
The method that we came up with to make the smog weaker
a pollution dilution solution
|
$2,000
[3]
Joan Crawford won her only Oscar for playing the title role inthis1945 film
Mildred Pierce
Yogesh
|
$2,000
[17]
"The Great Indian Novel" by Shashi Tharoor is a modern twist on this ancient epic that includes the Bhagavadgita
Mahabharata
Yogesh
|
$2,000
[10]
Born in 1838 & named for the new British queen, she had a spirit vision in Pittsburgh & later ran for president
(Victoria) Woodhull
Isaac
|
Charles Richet coined this term for a bad response to an antigen; the N-A was a late add to make it better-sounding (& harder to spell)
anaphylaxis