2025Jeopardy! Masterssemifinal game 4.
Isaac Hirsch — a customer support team lead from Burbank, California
Juveria Zaheer — a psychiatrist from Whitby, Ontario, Canada
Yogesh Raut — an educational blogger, podcast host, and writer originally from Springfield, Illinois
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Yogesh | — | $9,200 | $18,800 |
$20,801
Winner: 5 match points |
$18,800
24 R (including 1 DD), 1 W |
| Juveria | — | $3,600 | $10,400 |
$10,400
2nd place: 2 match points |
$12,000
15 R (including 1 DD), 3 W (including 1 DD) |
| Isaac | — | $0 | $3,600 |
$4,215
3rd place: 0 match points: eliminated: 4th place: $100,000 |
$3,600
10 R, 5 W |
| MOVIE ROLE, TV ROLE | AROUND INDIA | IT'S A "E.S." FOR ME | GOBBLIN' MODE | SAY IT BACKWARDS | THE '20s |
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$200
[19]
Danny Ocean&Doug Ross on "ER"
George Clooney
Yogesh
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$200
[26]
Rabindranath Tagore & Mother Teresa are 2 Nobel laureates who went on to claim their heavenly prize after dying in this big city
Kolkata
Yogesh
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$200
[27]
A staple of Japanese convenience stores, tamago sando is the familiar sandwich of this stuff
egg salad
Isaac
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$200
[28]
Cross a Rawls Jennet & a Red Delicious & you get this Japanese hybrid--sweet!
Fuji
Isaac
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$200
[29]
Our crack-of-dawn early-morning duties unfortunately had to be faced with this boostless beverage
decaf (faced backwards)
Juveria
|
$200
[30]
On April 27, 1521 he led 60 men onto the island of Mactan & never left
Magellan
Yogesh
|
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$400
[25]
Jo March in 1994's "Little Women"&Joyce Byers on "Stranger Things"
(Winona) Ryder
Isaac
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$400
[24]
Called the Pink City, Jaipuris the capital of this Indian state that means "land of kings"
Rajasthan
Yogesh
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$400
[23]
Use light bulbs with this U.S. government certification; they burn longer & help cut down on greenhouse gases
Energy Star
Juveria
Isaac
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$400
[22]
The K is not silent in this Jewish deli offering of dough that may be filled with meat, mashed potatoes or buckwheat groats
knish
Yogesh
Juveria
|
$400
[21]
Making room for so many other boats in the crowded harbor, we were unable to do this properly with our own
moor (room backwards)
Isaac
|
$400
[20]
In 1620 this somewhat ironically named companion ship proved unseaworthy, so the Mayflower set off from England alone
the Speedwell
Yogesh
|
|
$600
[13]
District Attorney Jim Garrison&John Dutton
Kevin Costner
Yogesh
|
$600
[14]
The Bahá'í Lotus Temple & India Gate are sites in this city
Delhi
|
$600
[15]
Before whistleblowing, he worked for Dell & Booz Allen Hamilton
Edward Snowden
Yogesh
Isaac
|
$600
[16]
We stumped regular players with chilaquiles; can you 3 do better with these, crispy Latin American fried pork rinds?
chicharrones
Yogesh
|
$600
[17]
Hopefully, you were repaid after spending your own cash to get an emergency one of these at the bris
a diaper (repaid backwards)
Isaac
|
$600
[18]
This mania for speculating in geographically named stock burst in 1720, ruining many British investors
the South Sea Bubble
Juveria
|
|
$800
[12]
"The Outlaw Josey Wales"&Rowdy Yates on "Rawhide"
Clint Eastwood
Juveria
|
$800
[11]
The name of this "Coast" that includes the southwestern state of Kerala likely comes from Tamil & Persian words
Malabar
Yogesh
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$800
[10]
Also known as conditional value at risk, this finance term measures the market risk of a portfolio
the expected shortfall
|
$800
[9]
This mix of sugar, almond paste & unbeaten egg whites is used to make decorative shapes
marzipan
Juveria
Isaac
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$800
[8]
This top part of the semainier held her just reward for services rendered to a grateful family
drawer (reward backwards)
|
$800
[7]
Seems the Niagara River has some pesky falls, so this canal opened in 1829 linking Lakes Erie & Ontario
(the) Welland (Canal)
Yogesh
Juveria
|
|
$1,000
[2]
Sofia in the musical remake of "The Color Purple"& Tasha "Taystee" Jefferson on "Orange Is the New Black"
(Danielle) Brooks
Juveria
|
DD
$1,000
[1]
Before a 2020 visit from Pres. Trump, the replica tombs of these 2 lovers were cleaned for the first time in 300+ years
Shah Jahan & Mumtaz
Yogesh
|
$1,000
[3]
Claude Debussy told this composer his work lacked form; he promptly wrote 7 piano duets titled "3 Pieces in the Form of a Pear"
Eric Satie
Yogesh
|
$1,000
[5]
Serrano ham & this cheese named for a Spanish regiongo togetherlike Cruz & Bardem
Manchego
Juveria
|
$1,000
[4]
The professor said, "I slave away all semester & my nasty students give me" these "that will make everyone avoid my course"
evals (slave backwards)
Yogesh
|
$1,000
[6]
More than 20 countries sent delegates to a 1920 New York convention of the Universal Negro Improvement Association, led by this Jamaican immigrant
Garvey
Yogesh
|
| PAINTED LOVE | FASHION IN SONG | SEEN ON THE ROAD | FEMALE ACTIVISTS | READ IT | & YOU QUOTE |
|
$400
[30]
After his 1609 marriage to Isabella Brandt, daughter of an Antwerp lawyer, he paintedhimself & his wife under a honeysuckle bower
Rubens
Isaac
|
$400
[29]
In a Prince song, "She wore" this, "the kind you find in a secondhand store"
a raspberry beret
Yogesh
|
$400
[28]
The guy on the corner doing this advertising job is a dynamo--maybe he competed in the world championships of it in March 2025
sign spinning
Isaac
|
$400
[27]
Body acceptance activist Demon Derriere suggests unashamedly saying, "I am" this 3-letter word
fat
Yogesh
|
$400
[26]
2-word title of the ancient work that drew comparisons between guys like Demosthenes & Cicero
Parallel Lives
Juveria
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$400
[25]
From a 1926 letter, "der nicht würfelt", meaning that God doesn't do this
play dice
Isaac
|
|
$800
[19]
In 1915 this Belorussian wed Bella, his hometown love, & showed his love to her in paintings like "Birthday"
Chagall
Isaac
|
$800
[20]
A song from this rapper & T-Pain mentions "Apple Bottom jeans, boots with the fur, the whole club was lookin' at her"
Flo Rida
Juveria
|
$800
[21]
I only see two wheels on thesign, but it indicates a crossing for these ATVs whose name refers to having four wheels
a quad bike
|
$800
[22]
Born enslaved around 1797, in the pre-Civil War years she won audiences preaching not only abolitionism but feminism
(Sojourner) Truth
Juveria
|
$800
[23]
Norman Mailer was 25 when this novel about a platoon of American soldiers on Anopopei island was published
The Naked and the Dead
Yogesh
|
$800
[24]
"The cinema is truth" this many "times per second"
24
Yogesh
Isaac
|
|
$1,200
[3]
The 1928 painting "The Lovers" is by this surrealist, no stranger to obscuring faces
Magritte
Juveria
|
$1,200
[9]
In a Taylor Swift song, "She wears short skirts, I wear T-shirts, she's cheer captain and I'm" here
in the bleachers
Juveria
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$1,200
[16]
Truck accident ahead--if you like to feast on slightly bruised these melons named for a city now called Turgutlu, it's your lucky day
casaba melons
Isaac
|
$1,200
[5]
In the Max show "Julia", Julia Child gets scolded by this "Feminine Mystique" author for keeping women in the kitchen
(Betty) Friedan
Juveria
|
$1,200
[17]
We have a mutual admiration society with this author of "Prep" & "Romantic Comedy"
(Curtis) Sittenfeld
Juveria
|
$1,200
[18]
Of these "I sing", arma virumque cano in the original
arms and the man
Yogesh
|
|
$1,600
[1]
Klimt painted "Beethoven Frieze" while part of the Vienna branch of this "break-away" movement spelled with a "Z"
Sezession
|
$1,600
[8]
The Birkin bag is name-dropped in "Up" by Cardi B & "Act Up" by this duo consisting of Yung Miami & JT
City Girls
|
$1,600
[14]
It's an Oklahoma specialty license plate with the name of this operation announced by George W. Bush in March 2003
Iraqi Freedom
Yogesh
|
DD
$1,800
[6]
When she died at 108, the ashes of this 3-named environmentalist were scattered over the Everglades she helped to preserve
Marjory Stoneman Douglas
Juveria
|
DD
$1,800
[4]
Her "A Spool of Blue Thread" is set in Baltimore, like many of her novels
(Anne) Tyler
Juveria
|
$1,600
[15]
"She" does this, "like the night of cloudless climes & starry skies"
walks in beauty
Yogesh
|
|
$2,000
[2]
The biblical Rebecca is thought to be this title woman in a Rembrandt piecethat Van Gogh called "infinitely sympathetic"
the Jewish bride
|
$2,000
[7]
A song about this article of clothing says, "Watch me unravel, I'll soon be naked"
a sweater
Isaac
|
$2,000
[13]
My passenger just pointed out adrainage structure& used this 7-letter word for it--I never knew that's what it's called!
culvert
Yogesh
|
$2,000
[10]
Seen here at the keyboard, she wrote passionately about neighborhoods in "The Death and Life of Great American Cities"
(Jane) Jacobs
Yogesh
|
$2,000
[11]
A good friend of Charlotte Brontë, she wrote about a little English town in her novel "Cranford"
(Elizabeth) Gaskell
Yogesh
|
$2,000
[12]
"There are going to be times... when we can't wait for somebody. Now, you're either..." these 7 words
on the bus or off the bus
|
The only U.N. member state named for a woman, it's named for a 4th century Sicilian martyr
Saint Lucia