Jeopardy! Masters game #49 - Tuesday, May 27, 2025

2025 Jeopardy! Masters quarterfinal game 5.

Contestants

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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

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Jeopardy! Round

NONFICTION
WORLD LEADERS
DOUBLE TALK
ALMOST RHYMES WITH ORANGE
5 BANDS
BAKING WITH DAME PRUE
(Prue Leith: I'm Dame Prue Leith of The Great British Bake-Off and The Great American Baking Show. Whether you say "frosting" or "icing", I having baking clues coming up for you.)
    200 20
A nonfiction bestseller told of Christopher McCandless, who hiked in Alaska & vanished this title way
    200 30
In a 2024 presidential race, she defeated runner-up Xóchitl Gálvez by more than 30 percentage points
    200 28
The Israeli type of this food is actually a type of pasta molded into tiny balls
    200 29
She's the Grammy-winning younger sister of a Grammy winner
    200 16
This band that assured us "She Will Be Loved" played at the Super Bowl in 2019
    200 9
(One more time, Dame Prue.) Pistachios & dried cranberries are a delicious addition to these twice-baked Italian cookies that are easier to make than you might think
    400 19
She tells "The Epic Story of America's Great Migration" in the bestseller called "The Warmth of Other Suns"
    400 26
In 2017 king & licensed pilot Willem-Alexander revealed he often went incognito to fly planes for this airline
    400 25
Colman Domingo got a 2025 Oscar nomination for playing the wrongly imprisoned Divine G in this film
    400 27
In a bestselling novel, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children was one of these places
    400 14
Wilton Felder played the bassline on this Jackson 5 hit that pleaded, "Oh, baby, give me one more chance, to show you that I love you"
    400 8
(Dame Prue?) From the word for "grandmother" & having its roots in the Jewish communities of Eastern Europe, this sweet bread, often with a chocolate filling, is twisted or braided & baked in a loaf
    DD: 1,000 2
This 2-word phrase from Scientology is the title of Lawrence Wright's look at the inner workings of that church
    600 21
Born Luiz Inácio da Silva, Brazil's president is better known by this 4-letter nickname
    600 22
A relative of the Canada goose, it's the state bird of Hawaii
    600 24
A first sergeant's insignia includes a diamond in the center, also referred to by this name
    600 12
Despite their name, this '90s piano-based alternative band that sang, "she's a brick & I'm drowning slowly" was a trio
    600 7
(Back to Prue.) A hazelnut filling pairs nicely with chocolate topping used on these miniature cream puffs that are perfect for serving at parties
    800 18
"Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge & the Teachings of Plants" is the subtitle of this bestseller by Robin Wall Kimmerer
    800 1
During his 2004 coronation, Norodom Sihamoni prayed before this kingdom's Golden Throne
    800 10
This type of Southeast Asian transport is named for the groovy sound its engine makes
    800 23
From French for "to mix", it's a medley of different styles, flavors, combinations of anything
    800 11
"A Decade of Destruction" looked back at the career of this metal band that always got your six
    800 5
(Back to Dame Prue.) At Christmas, you might bake a chocolatey rolled sponge cake that's decorated to look like a yule log; it has this fancy French name
    1000 17
He was a professor at Boston University when his "People's History of the United States" was first published in 1980
    1000 15
He was chief minister of Gujarat for 13 years & has passed the decade mark as prime minister of his country
    1000 4
102 square miles in area, this massive Tanzanian crater is home to rhinos, elephants, warthogs & gnus
    1000 13
It's a projecting rim on a wheel or pipe that gives it added strength, or a place to attach it to something else
    1000 6
In 2022 Jane's Addiction drummer Stephen Perkins joined Wayne Kramer in a new version of this legendary 1960s Detroit band
    1000 3
(Here's Dame Prue.) I hear there's a saying, "as American as apple pie"; for a French twist, there's this rustic cousin, similar to a tarte, made with a buttery, flaky crust & sliced apples

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Victoria Yogesh Isaac
9,200 5,000 2,200

Double Jeopardy! Round

ANCIENT EGYPT
OPERA
IT'S A MORASS
MEASURING UP!
BEST PICTURE OSCAR WINNERS
IT WILL ALL END WITH "Q"
    400 30
Kings of the Fifth Dynasty closely identified with this god who rose from the ocean of chaos & fought the serpent Apophis
    400 29
Richard Strauss' "Salome" includes murder, suicide & the title woman kissing this man's severed head on the lips
    400 28
The Bog of Allen is a 370-square-mile group of peat bogs between the Liffey River & this longest Irish one
    400 27
Once measured with a length of rope, one of these units is used for a quantity of cut wood equal to 128 cubic feet
    400 26
Featuring characters Joe Buck & Ratso Rizzo, it's the only X-rated film to win Best Picture
    400 25
Karbala is a Shiite holy city in this country
    800 23
Often depicted as a jackal, Anubis was the god of this practice that took around 70 days to complete
    800 21
In an 1893 opera Gertrude, the mother of this pair, scolds them & then sends them off into the woods to pick strawberries
    800 22
Found in the names of swamps in Maryland & Florida, these trees survive via pneumatophores, rooty "knees" that grow out of water
    800 24
A classic one of these decorative drinking vessels with a German name holds about 2.1 U.S. pints
    800 6
This film from the '50s featured the classic march heard here
    800 11
Since 2012 it's where you can find a listing for Goodyear Tire & Rubber
    1200 15
A king's pschent combined a white crown (hedjet) & a red crown (deshret) into one, symbolizing a union of these two regions
    1200 1
This composer's opera "Lucia di Lammermoor" contains a famous insanity scene & he himself spent time in an asylum
    1200 12
If you're in the Everglades, don't loose this invasive snake whose name says it's from Asia; they've led to a decline in mammals
    1200 9
In currency, 100 fen equals one of these, from the Chinese for "round"
    1200 5
This Bertolucci film told the story of Pu Yi
    1200 10
Be smart & tell us this 2-letter abbreviation for the Latin phrase meaning "the same as"
    1600 13
Ramses II's name is rendered in hieroglyphics inside an oval called this
    DD: 10,400 2
In a Wagner opera Woglinde, Wellgunde & Flosshilde are 3 of these magical water nymphs
    1600 17
The delta of this 2nd-longest river of South America is an 8,400-square-mile maze of river, forest & tiny islands
    1600 20
One of these units is approximately equal to 1.1 roentgen or 100 ergs per gram
    1600 4
The first Western to win Best Picture was this 1931 drama, set in Oklahoma & based on an Edna Ferber novel
    1600 8
A precursor to Sherlock Holmes, this detective was created by Émile Gaboriau
    2000 14
The son of Khufu, he commissioned the second pyramid at Giza &, by tradition, his face adorns the Great Sphinx
    2000 16
One of the great opera pairings was Maria Callas as Tosca & Tito Gobbi as this villain who lusts after her
    2000 18
This swampy national park with old-growth trees bears the name of a Native American tribe that lived in South Carolina
    DD: 400 19
A 64th note in music is also known by this 18-letter word
    2000 3
Frank Capra won an Oscar for directing this film based on a comedy by George S. Kaufman & Moss Hart
    2000 7
Marcel Duchamp's playful defacement of the Mona Lisa added this to it

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Victoria Yogesh Isaac
16,000 7,400 6,600
(lock game)

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Final Jeopardy! Round

20th CENTURY FICTION
The title of this 1959 work refers to a record given to graduating seniors at Ohio State University

Final scores:

Victoria Yogesh Isaac
16,000 13,201 5,600
Winner: 13 match points 2nd place: 9 match points 3rd place: 6 match points

Game dynamics:

Game dynamics graph

Coryat scores:

Victoria Yogesh Isaac
28,000 7,000 6,600
29 R
(including 1 DD),
3 W
(including 1 DD)		 18 R
(including 1 DD),
3 W		 8 R,
1 W

Combined Coryat: 41,600

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Game tape date: 2025-04-16
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