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

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
Brandy distillation is a major industry of this town in France's Nouvelle-Aquitaine region
    200 24
Proverbial person surrounded by many great choices
    200 3
Theseus replaced this lever operated with the left hand; bikers still use it, but 95% of U.S. car drivers don't use the same-named pedal
    200 30
The USA's Open Door Policy of 1899 sought to ensure all countries had equal access to trade with this nation
    200 28
In 2013 this actress topped the adult contemporary chart with "Cups"
    200 20
(One more time, Rebecca Yarros.) I write down scenes & plot points on index cards, & even at that stage might include these hidden messages, an alliterative term from the world video games
    400 17
North of Grand Rapids, you'll find this city named for explorer Antoine; it was originally called Clam Lake!
    400 23
A Vanity Fair article after the release of the musical "Tick, Tick... Boom!" called Andrew Garfield "the Ultimate" this
    400 7
The original tires are gone; they were great on dirt but also this 2-word phrase, meaning the cops can't touch you in the city
    400 29
Depicting scenes from the explorer's life, the Columbus Doors lead into this domed area, the heart of the U.S. Capitol
    400 27
Turns out music was his true vice! This actor had 2 '80s Top 40 hits: "Heartbeat" & "Till I Loved You", a duet with Barbra Streisand
    400 15
(Rebecca Yarros?</a>) Important in world-building & adding context, short snippets at the start of book chapters, like the ones from "The Dragon Rider's Codex" in "Fourth Wing" are called these, from Greek for "to write upon"
    600 16
This city in southwest Germany is one of Europe's largest inland ports
    600 13
In an '80s ad this iconic phrase precedes "They got the best for so much less, you'll really flip your lid"
    600 10
There's a whole new single-shock rear suspension, the kind pioneered by this company's "Monocross" on the YZ250 in 1974
    600 25
Beginning in 1906, this man & his namesake company pioneered door-to-door sales, passing $800 million in purchases by 1960
    600 26
M. Ward is the Him & she is the She of She & Him, & the 2 asked the musical question "Why Do You Let Me Stay Here?"
    600 14
(Back to Rebecca.) As a romance novelist, I believe in treating my characters to "happily ever after", a phrase that first appears in English in a translation of this not-always-so-happy Italian Renaissance work set during a plague
    800 1
Everglades National Park is just southwest of this city famed for its horse track replete with flamingosa>
    800 9
In 1992 Bill Clinton gave himself this nickname after the New Hampshire primary
    800 21
Theseus put in a custom exhaust, just like the one Don Fera stunt-rode in this 1953 Marlon Brando movie
    800 12
This venue in NYC's Theater District was operated during World War II as a place for servicemen to enjoy free entertainment
    800 19
In this band, Jack Black & Kyle Gass were letter-perfect singing "Dude (I Totally Miss You)" & "Beelzeboss (The Final Showdown)"
    800 5
(Back to Rebecca Yarros.) Paving the way for me in the romantasy genre is this author of the "Throne of Glass" series, which she began writing as a teenager
    DD: 1,000 2
This city was the eventual outcome of the wishes of Menelik II's wife, who wanted a house near some hot springs
    1000 8
This triumphant meme template shows 11-month-old Sam Griner clenching his fist on a beach in a green & white shirt
    1000 22
The brakes have new these, a word one letter off from a measurement used for guns
    1000 11
Aldous Huxley recounted his experiences using mescaline in this nonfiction work
    1000 6
Keanu Reeves played bass on tunes like "Everything Turns Around" for this band
    1000 4
(Here's Rebecca Yarros.</a>) I majored in history & grew up in a 2nd-generation military family, so I can appreciate how this author's series "Master and Commander" combines history & military valor

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

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

Double Jeopardy! Round

BERTHED AT THE POP CULTURE MARINA
GETTING PHILOSOPHICAL
REIGN MAN
A LITTLE OLD FASHION
HARD SCIENCE
SAY IT IN A ROMANCE LANGUAGE
    400 24
In a 1951 film, Skipper Charlie Allnut tells Rose</a> this title boat is "running short of fuel... better put in someplace"
    400 30
With works like "The Concept of Anxiety", this Dane is said to have pioneered existentialism, though the term itself came later
    400 29
1926 was the start of the Showa Era, the reign of this longest-serving Japanese monarch in history
    400 28
Goya portrayed the Duchess of Alba wearing this Spanish-named veil draped around her shoulders
    400 27
It's the only one of the noble gases with a name that doesn't end in "N"
    400 26
Dora the Explorer calls her beloved grandma this; canonically, she's also the grandma of Dora's cousin & pal Diego
    800 21
First appearing in 1999, the Stugots was piloted by this small-screen bigwig
    800 9
Ayn Rand founded this philosophy that says a main purpose in life is one's own happiness; her novel "Atlas Shrugged" expounded on it
    800 25
Henry IV signed this edict in 1598 that promoted religious tolerance before having his reign cut short by an extremist in 1610
    800 23
This garment was originally a man's tight-fitting jacket worn under another layer; now it's a decorative underskirt
    800 10
Quarks come in 6 flavors: up, down, top, bottom & these 2
    800 22
This Portuguese offering is mostly white, sometimes red & its name contains a color that's neither of those
    1200 19
At Poseidon's bidding, this hero from "God of War" defeats a toothy Hydra & sails the Aegean
    1200 4
Berkeley has been called the first of these--not a starry-eyed hoper for a better world but one who believes reality is in the mind
    1200 20
Near the end of his reign, he promoted his son Commodus to joint emperor & they went off to kill some Germanic tribes together as a family
    1200 18
1920s & '30s designer Jessie Franklin Turner was known for using this French-named fabric woven with metallic yarns
    1200 2
This Latin plural is the name of the small air sacs in the lungs where carbon dioxide is exchanged for oxygen
    1200 13
A creepy custom said to exist in feudal Europe involving a lord & new brides of those in his service was called "droit du" him
    1600 12
Forrest Gump named his shrimp boat this, "the most beautiful name in the wide world"
    1600 8
According to Aristotle, the followers of this 6th century B.C. philosopher believed that "everything is numbers"
    DD: 2,600 1
He suffered loss in the last years of his reign, including the murders of his wife in 1898 & nephew in 1914
    1600 17
Hip-length, close-fitting with a high collar, this jacket was named for a world leader who died in 1964
    1600 3
That's not a bar graph! It's one of these, from Greek for "mast"
    DD: 5,000 14
It's Italian for "hope", as in the original of "Abandon all hope, ye who enter here"
    2000 11
"The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex" is the subtitle of the book that Ron Howard based this 2015 film ontd>
    2000 6
Kant wrote critiques of "Pure Reason" & of this kind of "Reason", which lays out his case for free will
    2000 7
Before taking the reins from his bro in 1830, this fecund Hanoverian had 10 illegitimate children with an Irish actress
    2000 16
In Victorian times a woman wearing one of these had on a bodice, not a member of a southern European ethnic group
    2000 5
T.H. Huxley coined this word now used for the theory that life on Earth arose from non-living matter
    2000 15
The chant "The people united will never be defeated" is less catchy than the rhyming Spanish version: "El pueblo unido jamás será..."

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

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

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round

WORLD CAPITALS
With a metro area of more than 9 million, this port city founded in 1576 is the world's most populous Portuguese-speaking capital

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:

Game dynamics graph

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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