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    $1600 4
This spring celebration, the Persian New Year, has a name meaning "new day" in Farsi
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Jeopardy! Masters game #53 - Wednesday, June 4, 2025

2025 Jeopardy! Masters semifinal game 3.

Contestants

Juveria Zaheer, a psychiatrist from Whitby, Ontario, Canada

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

Victoria Groce, a writer from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Jeopardy! Round

BOOKS OF THE BIBLE
INTERNATIONAL ATHLETES
ARCHITECTURE TERMS
GET HYPHENATED
ALPHABETICALLY FIRST &/OR LAST
BLACK HISTORY & GENEALOGY
(Henry Louis Gates Jr.: I'm Henry Louis Gates Jr. I've spent my entire career studying African-American history, and sharing what I've found in books, TV shows, and today, a category for the masters.)
    200 14
The section of Handel's "Messiah" that asks & answers "Who is this king of glory?" comes from the 24th of these
    200 23
Norway's Bjorn Daehlie won a record 8 Olympic golds in this type of skiing, including 2 in pursuit & 2 in the 50 km freestyle
    200 13
As its name suggests, it's the central piece of an arch or a vault, holding the whole thing together
    200 24
Knights of yore would train for tournaments on an early version of this whirling fairground amusement
    200 26
First:
Of the 3 Baltic states
    200 7
(Here's Professor Gates.) While many Black surnames are those of the families that owned our ancestors, another common name, this one of an Oscar-winning actor was taken after the Civil War to indicate no ownership
    400 18
Were this book named for its recipient, not author, we might have watched NFL star Theophilus Kuechly & baseball's Theophilus Appling
    400 22
Lionel Messi has won a record 8 of these French-named awards
    400 12
It's an exterior support from the face of a wall, often of masonry; types include tower, hanging &, of course, flying
    400 25
The ads of this fast food chain feature cows that probably wouldn't excel at a spelling bee
    400 27
First & last:
Of the Ivy League schools
    400 9
(Skip Gates.) For decades, one of the best jobs for Black men, & one of the few that showed them a wider world, was this job in railroad cars; the Brotherhood of them was the AFL's first Black union
    DD: 3,200 6
If you're not a seminarian & you're reading Deuteronomy 5, it's probably for these
    600 19
Cork County star Christy Ring is a legend of this stick-&-ball sport
    600 3
An intermediate level of a building or a theater can be called an entresol or this Italian-derived word
    600 15
The name of this acrobatic basketball move is thought to come from a cry a French acrobat makes before a leap
    600 28
First & last:
Of the chemical elements
    600 8
(Back to Professor Gates.) After emancipation, many African Americans still lived off the land owned by others; if a relative success, one could be this type of farmer who, unlike a sharecropper, owned a portion of what he grew & paid rent from the proceeds
    800 5
Chapter 1 of the first book of Samuel is largely about the successful fight for fertility by this woman, Sam's mother
    800 20
Kenya's Faith Kipyegon is the women's world record holder in the mile & this event that's 359 feet shorter
    800 2
It's a semicircular recess at the end of a church, or niche to hold a statue
    800 16
Change a letter in a term meaning "unambiguous" to get this adjective for a wholesome, neatly barbered young fella
    800 29
Last:
Of Canada's 10 provinces
    800 10
(Professor Gates?) The average African American has about 23% European ancestry & although Malcolm X rightly said that "Plymouth Rock landed on us", in 2023 I showed this legendary activist that she had a white ancestor on the Mayflower
    1000 4
This short epistle to one single man asks him not to be harsh to his runaway slave Onesimus
    1000 21
From 1987 to 1997 she spent a record 377 weeks as the world's top-ranked women's tennis player
    1000 1
Turns out there's a name for the low railing that can stop you from falling off a balcony--this 10-letter one
    1000 17
In the 18th c. this phrase meaning "of lower quality" was the grade of Royal Navy ship after those with 100 guns & 90 guns
    1000 30
Last:
Alphabetically & chronologically of the battles of the Second Punic War
    1000 11
(One more time, Henry Louis Gates.) Many of our enslaved ancestors who came to America were Mende people of Sierra Leone; one famous Mende was this leader of the Amistad rebellion

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Victoria Isaac Juveria
12,800 2,000 3,400

Double Jeopardy! Round

BOOKS OF THE BIBLE?
(Ken: This time with a question mark.)
CELEBRATIONS
BROADWAY MUSICAL CHANGE A LETTER
SCIENCE CLASS
GEOGRAPHY
ON "QUE"
(Ken: Responses here end with the letters "Q-U-E".)
    400 25
Published Nov. 24, 1859, this book about the genesis of different kinds of animals didn't match up with the biblical book of Genesis
    400 26
An icon of this Mexican holiday is "La Calavera Catrina"
    400 27
Mamacita Morton runs the women's jail in this celebration of Mexican-American culture
    400 28
Iron is the second-most abundant metal in Earth's crust; this metal with atomic number 13 is first
    400 29
The Irish Sea connects to the North Atlantic not via St. Patrick's Channel, but his channel
    400 30
Back in the day, Gypsy Rose Lee was famous as this type of performer
    800 23
Get the gospel according to John in his memoir of advising Donald Trump on national security, "The Room Where It Happened"
    800 24
Lima was first called City of the Kings because it was founded during this January festival when the 3 kings visited Jesus
    800 22
Sure, the working class title teen from northern England passionately embraces ballet, but he also picks on kids half his size
    800 14
This term is used for the unique temperature & pressure at which a substance can exist as a liquid, solid & gas in equilibrium
    800 17
Namibia's Dragon's Breath Cave provides access to a gigantic underground lake on the edge of this desert
    800 9
Originating in Spain in the 16th century, this early form of novel related the adventures of a roguish hero
    1200 18
Books judging the judges include one from 2023 titled this dark realm of 99% of the Supreme Court's decisions, none signed
    1200 21
This enlightenment is the name of a holiday that honors Siddhartha Gautama's achievement of that awakening to become the Buddha
    1200 1
Frederic, Mabel & the Major General do some singing while stretching on a trio of reformers
    1200 2
This supercontinent began to break up about 200 million years ago, forming the modern continents & the Atlantic Ocean
    1200 10
Spanish for "plains", these vast grasslands sprawl across Colombia & Venezuela
    1200 8
The Rhesus monkey is a species of this
    1600 19
This Italian plural that can mean "boys" or "guys" or "my gang" is the title of a book of down-&-out Romans by Pier Paolo Pasolini
    1600 4
This spring celebration, the Persian New Year, has a name meaning "new day" in Farsi
    1600 15
Show in which the title character is equally good with a rifle & the Bible & is out to retrieve Mother Superior in the Old West
    1600 3
Per a 2022 Nobel Prize statement, in quantum mechanics, 2 particles are this if what happens to 1 affects the other even at a distance
    1600 11
You get 3 A's if you can name this sea between Myanmar & the Bay of Bengal
    1600 7
Proper term for a citizen of Prince Albert II's country
    DD: 1,200 20
Encompassing math & logic, "Principia Mathematica" by Alfred North Whitehead & him is a book of numbers & letters too
    DD: 2,000 5
The origins of this ancient Roman festival are murky, but its name might be related to the animal that suckled Romulus & Remus
    2000 16
It's rock & roll time for a German victim of a botched operation & a clearly upset Andean of yore
    2000 12
Originally called 2005 FY9, this dwarf planet beyond the orbit of Pluto bears the name of the creator god of Easter Island myth
    2000 13
The name of this strait that connects the Red Sea & the Indian Ocean means "gate of tears"
    2000 6
A feminine French first name, it also refers to a dish such as sole garnished with seedless grapes

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Victoria Isaac Juveria
32,400 1,200 7,400
(lock game)

Final Jeopardy! Round

MEDIEVAL TIMES
(Ken: The times, I assume, not the restaurant.)
A vassal-lord bond had 2 parts: in homage the vassal swore to serve, & in this other 6-letter word the vassal also swore, to be loyal

Final scores:

Victoria Isaac Juveria
29,800 1,300 7,400
Winner: 9 match points 3rd place: 0 match points 2nd place: 1 match point

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Victoria Isaac Juveria
30,600 1,200 7,400
31 R
(including 3 DDs),
3 W		 7 R,
2 W		 15 R,
2 W

Combined Coryat: 39,200

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