Responses for Jeopardy! Masters game #43 - Wednesday, May 14, 2025

2025 Jeopardy! Masters knockout round game 5.

Contestants

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Adriana Harmeyer, an archivist from West Lafayette, Indiana

Matt Amodio, a quantitative researcher from New York, New York

Victoria Groce, a writer from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

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Jeopardy! Round responses

THE CIVIL WAR
SWAN DIVING
IDIOMS FROM THE BIBLE
A PHOTOGRAPHIC MEMORY
ORGANIZATIONS
SOME SERIOUS SPORTS TALK
    200 22
Fort Sumter

Matt
    200 21
Helen of Troy

Victoria
    200 25
(Victoria: What is a tiger can't change their stripes?)

a leopard can't change its spots

VictoriaMatt
    200 27
Brandenburg Gate

Matt
    200 29
(Victoria: What's the NIH?)

Planned Parenthood

VictoriaAdriana
    200 30
(Ken: Yes, USA's big hockey win.)

Do you believe in miracles?

Victoria
    400 8
Richmond

Victoria
    400 16
The Trumpet of the Swan (by E.B. White)

Victoria
    400 26
by the skin of one's teeth

Victoria
    400 11
(Ken: We're lookin' at an old [*], there.)

coonhound

Triple Stumper
    400 28
PETA

Victoria
    400 15
Stephen A. Smith

Matt
    600 7
Grant

Adriana
    600 14
Cygnus

Adriana
    600 3
pearls before swine

Victoria
    600 10
(Millard) Fillmore

Matt
    4,800 20
(Ken: In French, no less. You're showing off a little. I like it.)
(Victoria: Just a smidge.)

Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders)

Victoria
    600 18
(Vin) Scully (for the Dodgers)

Victoria
    800 6
Army of the Potomac

Matt
    800 13
Odile & Odette

Victoria
    800 1
a drop in the bucket

Triple Stumper
    800 4
the James Webb Space Telescope (Webb Telescope accepted)

Matt
    800 17
PFLAG

Adriana
    800 24
Lesley Visser

Triple Stumper
    1000 5
Hampton Roads

Matt
    1000 12
(Victoria: I've played that.)

The Carnival of the Animals

Victoria
    1000 2
(Victoria: Who is a prophet in their own land?)

a voice crying in the wilderness

Victoria
Triple Stumper
    1000 9
Maserati

Victoria
    1000 19
World Central Kitchen

Victoria
    1000 23
Olbermann

Victoria

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Victoria Matt Adriana
11,400 4,200 2,200

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

WORLD PLACE NAMES
"T.M.", I
A CLASH OF SWORDS
ON THE OLD CABIN'S BOOKSHELF
DRUMMING
THE 2 & THE 4
(Ken: In other words, letters 2 and 4 of the response. So you might get a clue about B and E, which would get you to "What is able?" Does that make sense? You'll see.)
    400 18
Bangladesh

Matt
    400 16
Terry McMillan

Victoria
    400 20
Siegfried

Victoria
    400 25
The Robe

Adriana
    400 28
belly dancing

Adriana
    400 9
(Ken: I and I would give you the response "What is [*]?"--the second and fourth letters of [*].)

civilian

Triple Stumper
    800 13
Asunción

Adriana
    800 15
Theresa May

Adriana
    800 21
(Victoria: Who is Germanicus?)

Julius Caesar

Victoria
Triple Stumper
    800 22
Bradbury

Matt
    800 26
Karen Carpenter

Adriana
    800 10
absolution

Victoria
    1200 8
the Hellespont

Victoria
    1200 14
Thelonious Monk

Adriana
    1200 24
(Victoria: Also my cat.)

Roland

Victoria
    5,000 4
A River Runs Through It

Victoria
    1200 27
Jason Bonham

Victoria
    1200 11
catwalk

Victoria
    1600 7
(Ken: That's the [*]--the turtledove.)

Tortola

Triple Stumper
    2,200 1
Thomas Malthus

Adriana
    1600 23
(Dante Gabriel) Rossetti

Victoria
    1600 3
The Island of Doctor Moreau

Victoria
    1600 29
(Ken: That's some tough drummer trivia. "What is [*]?")

Ludwig

Triple Stumper
    1600 12
(Matt: Uh, no more of that. Uh... PLACE NAMES, 800.)
(Ken: Okay, but it'll be back.)

agitator

Matt
    2000 6
(Ken: [Commenting on Matt's pronunciation] Close enough!)

Vatnajökull

Matt
    2000 2
Takashi Murakami

Victoria
    2000 19
Amaterasu

Victoria
    2000 5
Saint Bernadette

Matt
    2000 30
(Gene) Krupa

Matt
    2000 17
(Victoria: What is triticale?)
(Adriana: What is einkorn?)

spelt

VictoriaAdriana
Triple Stumper

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Victoria Matt Adriana
27,200 13,000 6,800
(lock game)

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

18th CENTURY SCIENCE
AdrianaWhat is tapir?
6,500
MattWhat tapir
601
VictoriaWhat is a tapir? Hi, Nora! ❤︎
0
the tapir

Final scores:

Victoria Matt Adriana
27,200 13,601 13,300
Winner: 4 match points 2nd place: 2 match points 3rd place: 1 match point: eliminated: $15,000

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Victoria Matt Adriana
19,200 13,000 6,200
26 R
(including 2 DDs),
5 W		 14 R,
0 W		 11 R
(including 1 DD),
1 W

Combined Coryat: 38,400

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Game tape date: 2025-04-15
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