Responses for Jeopardy! Masters game #51 - Wednesday, May 28, 2025

2025 Jeopardy! Masters semifinal game 1.

Contestants

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Juveria Zaheer, a psychiatrist from Whitby, Ontario, Canada

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 responses

SAME FIRST & LAST LETTER PLACES
HEY, "KID"
THE MOTORCYCLE OF THESEUS
(Ken: A philosophical question: is it even the same bike, if every part is new?)
SHOW THE DOOR
STAR TRACK
BOOKS & BOOK SERIES
(Rebecca Yarros: I'm Rebecca Yarros. I've taken readers on a dragon ride in a series, and moved some to tears in my stand-alone novels. I'll have clues about books by me and others.)
    200 18
Cognac

Victoria
    200 24
a kid in a candy store

Yogesh
    200 3
clutch

Yogesh
    200 30
(Victoria: What's Japan?)

China

VictoriaYogesh
    200 28
Anna Kendrick

Yogesh
    200 20
an Easter egg

Victoria
    400 17
Cadillac

Triple Stumper
    400 23
a theater kid

Victoria
    400 7
street legal

Yogesh
    400 29
the Rotunda

Yogesh
    400 27
(Don) Johnson

Victoria
    400 15
epigraph

Yogesh
    600 16
Mannheim

Triple Stumper
    600 13
(Ken: Yes, I don't wanna grow up, [*]!)
[Victoria laughs.]

I'm a Toys “R” Us kid

Victoria
    600 10
Yamaha

Juveria
    600 25
(Ken: The [*] Brush Company, yes.)

Fuller

Juveria
    600 26
Zooey Deschanel

Juveria
    600 14
The Decameron

Victoria
    800 1
Hialeah

Victoria
    800 9
the Comeback Kid

Victoria
    800 21
The Wild One

Juveria
    800 12
Stage Door Canteen

Yogesh
    800 19
Tenacious D

Yogesh
    800 5
(Sarah J.) Maas

Yogesh
    1,000 2
Addis Ababa

Victoria
    1000 8
(Ken: Online they call him [*].)

Success Kid

Triple Stumper
    1000 22
calipers

Victoria
    1000 11
The Doors of Perception

Yogesh
    1000 6
Dogstar

Victoria
    1000 4
(Patrick) O'Brian

Victoria

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Victoria Yogesh Juveria
7,800 5,400 2,600

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

BERTHED AT THE POP CULTURE MARINA
GETTING PHILOSOPHICAL
REIGN MAN
A LITTLE OLD FASHION
HARD SCIENCE
SAY IT IN A ROMANCE LANGUAGE
    400 24
the African Queen

Victoria
    400 30
Kierkegaard

Yogesh
    400 29
Hirohito

Yogesh
    400 28
a mantilla

Victoria
    400 27
(Victoria: What is tennessine?)

helium

Victoria
Triple Stumper
    400 26
Abuela (or Abuelita)

Victoria
    800 21
Tony Soprano

Triple Stumper
    800 9
Objectivism

Juveria
    800 25
the Edict of Nantes

Victoria
    800 23
a petticoat

Yogesh
    800 10
charm & strange

Yogesh
    800 22
Vinho Verde

Victoria
    1200 19
Kratos

Yogesh
    1200 4
an idealist

Victoria
    1200 20
Marcus Aurelius

Yogesh
    1200 18
(Juveria: What's Jacquard?)

lamé

VictoriaJuveria
    1200 2
alveoli

Victoria
    1200 13
seigneur

Yogesh
    1600 12
Jenny

Yogesh
    1600 8
Pythagoras

Victoria
    2,600 1
Franz Joseph (Emperor of Austria)

Juveria
    1600 17
Nehru

Juveria
    1600 3
a histogram

Juveria
    5,000 14
(Yogesh: Um... what is, um... I don't know.)
[The time expiry signal sounds.]
(Yogesh: Esperanza!)

speranza

Yogesh
    2000 11
In the Heart of the Sea

Triple Stumper
    2000 6
practical reason

Yogesh
    2000 7
(Juveria: Who is George IV?)
...
(Ken: Right, his brother.)

William IV

VictoriaJuveria
    2000 16
(Ken: [*] was a kind of bodice.)

a basque

Triple Stumper
    2000 5
abiogenesis

Victoria
    2000 15
vencido

Triple Stumper

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Victoria Yogesh Juveria
19,400 10,000 6,000

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Final Jeopardy! Round responses

WORLD CAPITALS
(Ken: [To Juveria] It's bigger than both Lisbon, which is much older, and Brasília, which is much newer.)
JuveriaWhat is Luanda?
2,000
YogeshWhat Luanda
2,001
VictoriaWhat is Luanda? Hi, Nora! ❤︎
601
Luanda (Angola)

Final scores:

Victoria Yogesh Juveria
20,001 12,001 8,000
Winner: 3 match points 2nd place: 1 match point 3rd place: 0 match points

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Victoria Yogesh Juveria
19,400 15,000 5,000
23 R
(including 1 DD),
2 W		 20 R,
1 W
(including 1 DD)		 8 R
(including 1 DD),
2 W

Combined Coryat: 39,400

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Game tape date: 2025-04-22
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