Responses for Jeopardy! Masters game #52 - Wednesday, May 28, 2025

2025 Jeopardy! Masters semifinal game 2.

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 responses

HISTORIC AMERICANS
TRUTH BE TOLD
MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS
MODERN COMMUNICATION
TV COMEDIES
ADJECTIVES
    200 30
(Josephine) Baker

Isaac
    200 29
Progressive

Yogesh
    200 15
ukuleles

Isaac
    200 28
Signal

Yogesh
    200 27
Arrested Development

Isaac
    200 26
distant

Yogesh
    400 22
Nader

Yogesh
    400 21
(Victoria: Who is Socrates?)
...
(Ken: Yes, and he's using the form of a question, so, well done, [*].)

Pilate

VictoriaYogesh
    400 14
an oboe

Victoria
    400 25
(Ken: Yes, from "What's up?")

WhatsApp

Victoria
    400 23
Waller-Bridge

Yogesh
    400 24
(Victoria: What is gawky?)

awkward

VictoriaYogesh
    600 3
Cliburn

Yogesh
    600 20
[ERRATUM: The case actually uses the word "upon" rather than "on".]

libel

Victoria
    600 13
an octave

Victoria
    600 19
to slide into someone's DMs

Victoria
    600 7
Jeanie Buss

Yogesh
    600 11
dinky

Triple Stumper
    800 1
Brandeis

Isaac
    800 17
Emmett

Victoria
    800 12
pickups

Isaac
    800 18
(Victoria: What is Skype versus Zoom?)
...
(Ken: Skype's a little older.)

Zoom versus Teams

VictoriaIsaac
    800 5
(Terry) Crews

Yogesh
    800 10
grotesque

Victoria
    1000 2
(Caesar) Rodney

Victoria
    1000 16
(Ken: Yes, humblebrag from [*].)

Wittgenstein

Yogesh
    2,400 6
chromatic

Yogesh
    1000 9
BlackBerry

Victoria
    1000 4
Alf

Yogesh
    1000 8
phlegmatic

Yogesh

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Victoria Yogesh Isaac
4,600 9,600 3,000

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

COUNTRY PARTS
ECONOMICS
TRIPLE RHYME TIME
MOVIE ROLES
ANCIENT LITERATURE
WHAT A "WO"MAN!
    400 25
(Isaac: What's Wallonia and Frisia?)

Wallonia & Flanders

VictoriaIsaac
    400 30
the nanny state

Victoria
    400 29
enough rough stuff

Triple Stumper
    400 28
Black Swan

Yogesh
    400 27
the Iliad

Isaac
    400 26
(Shailene) Woodley

Victoria
    800 24
Uttar Pradesh

Yogesh
    800 23
zero-sum game

Yogesh
    800 22
(Yogesh: What is a [*] [**] for the [***]?)

a Scotch crotch swatch

Yogesh
    800 21
Unforgiven

Victoria
    800 20
Plato

Yogesh
    800 19
(Virginia) Woolf

Yogesh
    1200 16
(Isaac: What is Sri Lanka?)

Myanmar

VictoriaIsaac
    5,800 11
(Ken: Isaac, is it an example of [*] to go all-in on a Daily Double after missing the last one?)
(Isaac: Uh, I guess not.)
(Ken: It worked out here!)

the sunk cost fallacy

Isaac
    1200 8
(Victoria: What is [*] [***]...)
[Victoria's time elapses.]
(Victoria: [**].)
(Ken: Out of time.)

to hire a Shire squire

VictoriaIsaac
    1200 18
Moreno & DeBose

Victoria
    2,000 1
(Isaac: Who is... Hannibal?)

Pompey (the Great)

Isaac
    1200 5
(Ali) Wong

Victoria
    1600 15
Transvaal

Victoria
    1600 12
(Isaac: What is [*], [**], no...)
(Ken: Time.)

no income, no job, no assets

Isaac
Triple Stumper
    1600 6
a dud Scud thud

Triple Stumper
    1600 4
The Misfits

Isaac
    1600 2
Hesiod

Yogesh
    1600 9
Wollstonecraft

Victoria
    2000 14
(Victoria: What's the Pale?)
(Yogesh: What's the Irish Free State?)

the Gaeltacht

VictoriaYogesh
Triple Stumper
    2000 13
Veblen

Yogesh
    2000 7
(Ken: Is [*].)
(Victoria: No!)
(Ken: [Shrugging] It is! It's right here in my script.)

a pollution dilution solution

Triple Stumper
    2000 3
Mildred Pierce

Yogesh
    2000 17
Mahabharata

Yogesh
    2000 10
(Victoria) Woodhull

Isaac

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Victoria Yogesh Isaac
10,200 19,600 8,800

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

MEDICAL WORDS
(Ken: [To Victoria] The word was originally aphylaxis before the “N-A” was added.)
IsaacWhat is rosecea? :(
1,402
VictoriaWhat is anaphylaxis? Hi, Nora! ❤︎
8,601
YogeshWhat
801
anaphylaxis

Final scores:

Victoria Yogesh Isaac
18,801 18,799 7,398
Winner: 6 match points 2nd place: 2 match points 3rd place: 0 match points

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Victoria Yogesh Isaac
10,200 18,200 6,200
18 R,
5 W		 24 R
(including 1 DD),
1 W		 11 R
(including 1 DD),
4 W
(including 1 DD)

Combined Coryat: 34,600

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Game tape date: 2025-04-22
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