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Ernst Ruska, forbidden to touch his dad's Zeiss one of these as a kid, won a Nobel Prize for inventing the electron one
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Jeopardy! Masters game #42 - Wednesday, May 7, 2025

2025 Jeopardy! Masters knockout round game 4.

Contestants

Roger Craig, an applied scientist from Arlington, Virginia

Isaac Hirsch, a customer support team lead from Burbank, California

Yogesh Raut, an educational blogger, podcast host, and writer originally from Springfield, Illinois

Jeopardy! Round

THE LIFE & TIMES OF NAPOLEON III
A NORA
LAW, LEGALITY & COURT STUFF
CONSTRUCTING THE WORD
PRESENTING MYTH GREECE
TV
    200 29
Napoleon III was the son of this brother of Napoleon I, & was sometimes himself known as this name-Napoleon
    200 28
2009's "Julie & Julia" was the last film she wrote & directed
    200 30
In 2000 same-sex marriage wasn't yet on the table but Vermont did legalize partnerships called this 2-word term
    200 27
A youngster
+
a mathematical path to a conclusion
=
this, so push down & turn
    200 26
Narcissus was too into himself to note the love of this mountain nymph, whose voice was the only thing left as she faded away
    200 25
This Apple TV+ series stars Jason Segel as a therapist & Harrison Ford as his gruff superior Paul
    400 22
Napoleon III supported large public works & this construction project directed by Ferdinand de Lesseps
    400 2
More recently seen on "Home Economics" & "Chicago Med", she was a regular on "SNL" from 1985 to 1990
    400 23
1876's Kohl v. U.S. was the 1st Supreme Court case on the federal use of this; land in Ohio was to be condemned & used for a post office
    400 24
Egg-based painting technique
+
British slang for "crazy"
=
this feisty attitude
    400 21
According to Ovid, this mortal was stripped of her beauty by a vengeful Athena; her original charms included non-reptilian hair
    400 20
Of mice & mayhem: Maurice LaMarche voiced the 2nd half of this animated title pair & had a simple goal--to take over the world
    600 1
Attempting to spread French influence, Napoleon III helped install an Austrian archduke as emperor of this nation in 1864
    600 13
Nora Charles does some sleuthing with her husband Nick in this Dashiell Hammett novel that inspired a series of films
    600 3
In 1995 this lawyer made national news with a closing argument that included "If it doesn't fit, you must acquit"
    600 19
A window covering
+
a computer glitch
=
this enthusiast
    DD: 6,500 16
Pallas' daughter, this goddess totes Hermes' staff to carry a message of victory
    600 7
In 2025 he starred as a former U.S. president investigating a cyberattack on "Zero Day"
    800 11
Napoleon III led France through decades of authoritarian prosperity, but lost it all to defeat in this conflict
    800 15
Dr. Nora Volkow, director of NIDA, was born in Mexico City, the great-granddaughter of this Russian revolutionary
    800 9
A judge's meeting with lawyers from only one side of a case is conducted this way, & the Latin sure legals it up nicely, right?
    800 4
Complete & without error
+
a fee paid to travel
=
this route
    800 8
After the gods killed her dozen or so children, she became a byname for weeping
    800 17
Billy Gardell & Folake Olowofoyeku played the title roles of this sitcom that ran for 5 seasons on CBS
    1000 10
Napoleon III's empress was this daughter of a Spanish noble
    1000 14
She was attached to James Joyce for nearly 30 years before they actually tied the knot
    1000 12
A federal law passed in 1939, this act named for a sen. was meant to protect federal employees from political coercion at work
    1000 18
Your time to spin in a board game
+
a signature in music
=
this "ready to operate" adjective
    1000 5
This siren gave her name to an early settlement of Naples, so it was the name of Florence Nightingale's Naples-born sister
    1000 6
Rust Cohle on "True Detective": "Time is" this. "Everything we've ever done or will do, we're gonna do over & over & over again"

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Yogesh Isaac Roger
14,900 0 -3,600

Double Jeopardy! Round

TREKKING INTO AFRICA
WHAT DAY IS IT?
20th CENTURY SCIENCE
HYMNS & SPIRITUALS
SAY IT WITH FLOWERS
I'M THE LITERARY LAW
    400 25
On its nearly 3,000-mile course, this river passes Mbandaka & Kisangani
    400 30
"Friday", co-written by this guy who played Craig in the movie
    400 23
Ernst Ruska, forbidden to touch his dad's Zeiss one of these as a kid, won a Nobel Prize for inventing the electron one
    400 29
From this song: "I once was lost, but now am found, was blind but now I see"
    400 28
A popular bulb flower & a vital organ are in this synonym for cowardly
    400 27
In separate stories in "The Adventures of" him, this civilian detective describes officers Jones & Lestrade as imbeciles
    800 24
In this capital city & major seaport, you can see the Marcus Aurelius Triumphal Arch dating from 160s A.D.
    800 18
"Blue Monday", an early '80s song by this band that asks, "How does it feel to treat me like you do?"
    800 22
In the 1920s, Arthur Compton wondered why some X-rays had weird wavelengths & realized they aren't waves at all, they're these
    800 26
One story says the author of this hymn was inspired to write it while taking refuge from a storm
    800 19
"Hamlet" is the source of this phrase for an easy or pleasurable route
    800 20
Meyer Landsman, whom a review calls "a circumcised Sam Spade", appears in this author's "The Yiddish Policemen's Union"
    1200 9
We're not sure they call it that, but this country has a panhandle of desert-y land in its southeast
    1200 14
"Wednesday", a series in which Gomez Addams is played by him
    DD: 2,000 6
Rhyming with a term for a pro athlete on the market, it's a chemical trigger; Ehrlich's one is used to test for the presence of LSD
    DD: 1,600 21
With music by Sir Arthur Sullivan & a favorite of the Salvation Army, this title precedes "marching as to war"
    1200 17
You're up on our stage, so you're clearly no wallflower or this "colorful" floral term for a bashful person
    1200 3
P.D. James' novels about this Scotland Yard detective & sometime poet have been adapted for TV multiple times
    1600 8
Stretching east-west across the continent, this region of scrubland lies between the Sahara & the moister areas to the south
    1600 13
"Saturday Night", a 2024 film about the first episode of SNL, with Jean Batiste playing this musical guest
    1600 5
Weather forecasting was aided by these satellites that orbit at the speed the Earth turns; the Syncom program had the first ones
    1600 12
"On a hill far away stood" this "cross, the emblem of suffering and shame"
    1600 16
There's a member of the aster family in this expression meaning not tired at all
    1600 2
Jim Thompson, the "Dimestore Dostoevsky" , created homicidal deputy sheriff Lou Ford in "The Killer" here
    2000 7
Named for a white explorer, this mountain on Uganda's west edge follows Kilimanjaro & Kenya as Africa's third-tallest
    2000 10
"Black Sunday", a 1977 film based on his novel of the same name
    2000 4
Movie pitch: Elmer McCollum (Adam Driver)'s discovery of this, with the line, "McCollum! Our cows are blind as bats! Tell me why!"
    2000 11
Originally a spiritual sung by the enslaved, it's where I'm "gonna lay down my burden"
    2000 15
The prologue to the "Canterbury Tales" is an antecedent of this familiar saying about the effects of spring rain
    2000 1
Like this author who died in 2025, Serge, Gus & Roy in his debut novel, "The New Centurions", are LAPD cops

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Yogesh Isaac Roger
25,700 4,400 2,800
(lock game)

Final Jeopardy! Round

ART HISTORY
"Hide & Seek" & "The Cradle" by this French artist were among the 200 or so works shown at a gallery on blvd. des Capucines in 1874

Final scores:

Yogesh Isaac Roger
15,700 3,199 5,599
Winner: 6 match points 3rd place: 3 match points 2nd place: 4 match points

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Yogesh Isaac Roger
19,800 4,400 3,600
26 R
(including 1 DD),
1 W		 10 R,
5 W		 11 R
(including 1 DD),
8 W
(including 1 DD)

Combined Coryat: 27,800

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