Jeopardy! Masters game #50 - Tuesday, May 27, 2025

2025 Jeopardy! Masters quarterfinal game 6.

Contestants

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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

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Jeopardy! Round

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
    200 25
His only surviving child, Robert, served as Secretary of War from 1881 to 1885
    200 26
Edirnekapi & Süleymaniye are 2 of this city's 7 hills
    200 27
Sort of an extension of GRWM, DITL videos, short for these, go beyond the morning routine
    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
    200 29
In "The Way I Am":
"In 1999 I flew Hailie & Kim to Los Angeles while I was recording... with Dre"
    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"
    400 9
A Seawolf-class submarine is named for this president who graduated from Annapolis in 1946
    400 24
You don't need to take the road to Mandalay; you can get there on this river
    400 23
The Oxford Word of the Year in 2024, it's perceived mental decay by overconsumption of trivial info
    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
    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"
    400 14
No joker! The name of this traditional theatrical costume derives from a role in 16th century commedia dell'arte
    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
    600 5
With a population near 3 million, it's strategically located near the mouth of the Han River
    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
    600 6
Spelling in front of millions? Please do for this 13-letter adjective meaning relating to the current office of Ron DeSantis
    600 21
This late 3-letter rapper in "E.A.R.L.":
"Competition was the defining element of being in the Ruff Ryders family"
    600 13
Fabric-specific fashion trademark of Ruth Bader Ginsburg; Columbia Law School commissioned one to honor her in 2018
    800 1
The only president buried in Washington, D.C., Woodrow Wilson was interred at this location in 1924
    800 4
It's the autonomous region seen here
    800 19
On TikTok a duet is a side-by-side video while this feature allows you to "thread" a video with your own
    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
    800 18
About his nom de plume in "One Day It'll All Make Sense":
"The everyday person. The everyman... The blue-collar worker"
    800 10
It's the Tahitian word for a rectangular piece of cloth worn as a beach coverup
    DD: 1,000 2
He signed the Gadsden Purchase
    1000 3
A principal stop on the Trans-Siberian Railroad, this city lies just to the west & north of Lake Baikal
    1000 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
    1000 11
In 2024 the world's farthest nonstop commercial flight--nearly 19 hours--was between JFK & Changi airport in this Asian place
    1000 17
In "From Pieces to Weight":
"I didn't survive being shot nine times for nothing"
    1000 7
Decades later, golfer Payne Stewart put these 1920s baggy knickers back on course

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Juveria Matt Roger
3,800 4,800 3,800

Double Jeopardy! Round

VICTORIAN WRITING
A MAN OR A PLAN OR A CANAL
SQUID GAME
WORLD OF WEIRD AIRPORTS
CROSSWORD CLUES "T"
SOUTHERN ACTORS
    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
    400 22
Though no major battles were fought on its soil, this World War II Ally received 1/4 of Marshall Plan aid
    400 23
The colossal squid is the largest of this group of spineless creatures of which there are more than 1.3 million species
    400 29
A street named for this prime minister cuts across the runway of Gibraltar's airport, but cars don't use it anymore
    400 28
Treatment by a doctor via Zoom, for instance
(12 letters)
    400 30
Danny McBride has created larger- & often dumber-than-life characters like Jessie in this South Carolina-set TV televangelist tale
    800 19
A fishing boat called the We're Here is the setting of this Kipling novel where a young man learns character
    800 21
Herman Melville called this U.S. waterway "one continual stream of Venetianly corrupt & often lawless life"
    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
    800 25
Ice Runway Airport supplies this big Antarctic station that's run by the National Science Foundation
    800 26
Art of the tree barber
(7 letters)
    800 27
She ditched her Southern accent early in her career & brought it back as Victoria Ratliff in season 3 of "The White Lotus"
    1200 1
The hero of this last novel by George Eliot finds out he is Jewish & heads for Palestine
    1200 10
In 1939 the Philippine pres. approved a site for this "city", which was named for him & became the capital for nearly 30 years
    1200 18
Used in its locomotion, the long tube-like body of most squids has this name, also an interior zone of the Earth
    1200 17
Cristiano Ronaldo has an airport named for him on this island from which he hails; its runway is built on stilts
    1200 15
Japanese style of grilling food on a steel plate
(10 letters)
    1200 16
This Southern actor gained fame as a Western hero, rising from poverty in Arkansas to play Shane
    1600 2
This 3-named thinker's essays on ethics & philosophy include "Utilitarianism" & "On Liberty"
    1600 7
Diverticulitis is a problem usually located in this section of the alimentary canal
    1600 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
    1600 9
Named for Princess Juliana in 1944, the airport on this Caribbean isle gives beachgoers a thrill
    DD: 5,400 3
Doctrine by which bread & wine become Christ's body & blood (18 letters)
    1600 14
Before he was a folky presence on TV, Andy Griffith played the sinister demagogue Lonesome Rhodes in this 1957 film
    DD: 8,000 5
Sergeant Cuff of London solves the mysterious disappearance of this item stolen under the influence of opium
    2000 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
    2000 12
To hide from danger, squids can rapidly change hue using pigment-filled cells called these, from the Greek for "color" & "bearer"
    2000 8
The runway is short & the Alps loom large at the airport for this luxury French ski resort whose name partially comes from "veal"
    2000 6
3-dimensional donut shape
(5 letters)
    2000 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!"

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Juveria Matt Roger
9,000 8,800 -400

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Final Jeopardy! Round

BRITISH HISTORY
When New Amsterdam was taken by the British, he was on the throne of England, but the city was renamed for his brother

Final scores:

Juveria Matt Roger
17,601 10,800 -400
Winner: 8 match points 2nd place: 6 match points: eliminated: 5th place: $75,000 3rd place: 4 match points: eliminated: 6th place: $50,000

Game dynamics:

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Coryat scores:

Juveria Matt Roger
9,000 16,800 5,000
16 R,
4 W		 19 R
(including 1 DD),
3 W
(including 1 DD)		 13 R,
5 W
(including 1 DD)

Combined Coryat: 30,800

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Game tape date: 2025-04-16
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