Jeopardy! Masters game #54 - Wednesday, June 4, 2025

2025 Jeopardy! Masters semifinal game 4.

Contestants

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

Juveria Zaheer, a psychiatrist from Whitby, Ontario, Canada

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

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Jeopardy! Round

MOVIE ROLE, TV ROLE
AROUND INDIA
IT'S A "E.S." FOR ME
GOBBLIN' MODE
SAY IT BACKWARDS
(Ken: Each response here can be found backwards within the clue.)
THE '20s
    200 19
Danny Ocean
&
Doug Ross on "ER"
    200 26
Rabindranath Tagore & Mother Teresa are 2 Nobel laureates who went on to claim their heavenly prize after dying in this big city
    200 27
A staple of Japanese convenience stores, tamago sando is the familiar sandwich of this stuff
    200 28
Cross a Rawls Jennet & a Red Delicious & you get this Japanese hybrid--sweet!
    200 29
Our crack-of-dawn early-morning duties unfortunately had to be faced with this boostless beverage
    200 30
On April 27, 1521 he led 60 men onto the island of Mactan & never left
    400 25
Jo March in 1994's "Little Women"
&
Joyce Byers on "Stranger Things"
    400 24
Called the Pink City, Jaipur is the capital of this Indian state that means "land of kinds"
    400 23
Use light bulbs with this U.S. government certification; they burn longer & help cut down on greenhouse gases
    400 22
The K is not silent in this Jewish deli offering of dough that may be filled with meat, mashed potatoes or buckwheat groats
    400 21
Making room for so many other boats in the crowded harbor, we were unable to do this properly with our own
    400 20
In 1620 this somewhat ironically named companion ship proved unseaworthy, so the Mayflower set off from England alone
    600 13
District Attorney Jim Garrison
&
John Dutton
    600 14
The Bahá'í Lotus Temple & India Gate are sites in this city
    600 15
Before whistleblowing, he worked for Dell & Booz Allen Hamilton
    600 16
We stumped regular players with chilaquiles; can you 3 do better with these, crispy Latin American fried pork rinds?
    600 17
Hopefully, you were repaid after spending your own cash to get an emergency one of these at the bris
    600 18
This mania for speculating in geographically named stock burst in 1720, ruining many British investors
    800 12
"The Outlaw Josey Wales"
&
Rowdy Yates on "Rawhide"
    800 11
The name of this "Coast" that includes the southwestern state of Kerala likely comes from Tamil & Persian words
    800 10
Also known as conditional value at risk, this finance term measures the market risk of a portfolio
    800 9
This mix of sugar, almond paste & unbeaten egg whites is used to make decorative shapes
    800 8
This top part of the semainier held her just reward for services rendered to a grateful family
    800 7
Seems the Niagara River has some pesky falls, so this canal opened in 1829 linking Lakes Erie & Ontario
    1000 2
Sofia in the musical remake of "The Color Purple"
& Tasha "Taystee" Jefferson on "Orange Is the New Black"
    DD: 1,000 1
Before a 2020 visit from Pres. Trump, the replica tombs of these 2 lovers were cleaned for the first time in 300+ years
    1000 3
Claude Debussy told this composer his work lacked form; he promptly wrote 7 piano duets titled "3 Pieces in the Form of a Pear"
    1000 5
Serrano ham & this cheese named for a Spanish region go together like Cruz & Bardem
    1000 4
The professor said, "I slave away all semester & my nasty students give me" these "that will make everyone avoid my course"
    1000 6
More than 20 countries sent delegates to a 1920 New York convention of the Universal Negro Improvement Association, led by this Jamaican immigrant

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Yogesh Juveria Isaac
9,200 3,600 0

Double Jeopardy! Round

PAINTED LOVE
FASHION IN SONG
SEEN ON THE ROAD
FEMALE ACTIVISTS
READ IT
& YOU QUOTE
    400 30
After his 1609 marriage to Isabella Brandt, daughter of an Antwerp lawyer, he painted himself & his wife under a honeysuckle bower
    400 29
In a Prince song, "She wore" this, "the kind you find in a secondhand store"
    400 28
The guy on the corner doing this advertising job is a dynamo--maybe he competed in the world championships of it in March 2025
    400 27
Body acceptance activist Demon Derriere suggests unashamedly saying, "I am" this 3-letter word
    400 26
2-word title of the ancient work that drew comparisons between guys like Demosthenes & Cicero
    400 25
From a 1926 letter, "der nicht würfelt", meaning that God doesn't do this
    800 19
In 1915 this Belorussian wed Bella, his hometown love, & showed his love to her in paintings like "Birthday"
    800 20
A song from this rapper & T-Pain mentions "Apple Bottom jeans, boots with the fur, the whole club was lookin' at her"
    800 21
I only see two wheels on the sign, but it indicates a crossing for these ATVs whose name refers to having four wheels
    800 22
Born enslaved around 1797, in the pre-Civil War years she won audiences preaching not only abolitionism but feminism
    800 23
Norman Mailer was 25 when this novel about a platoon of American soldiers on Anopopei island was published
    800 24
"The cinema is truth" this many "times per second"
    1200 3
The 1928 painting "The Lovers" is by this surrealist, no stranger to obscuring faces
    1200 9
In a Taylor Swift song, "She wears short skirts, I wear T-shirts, she's cheer captain and I'm" here
    1200 16
Truck accident ahead--if you like to feast on slightly bruised these melons named for a city now called Turgutlu, it's your lucky day
    1200 5
In the Max show "Julia", Julia Child gets scolded by this "Feminine Mystique" author for keeping women in the kitchen
    1200 17
We have a mutual admiration society with this author of "Prep" & "Romantic Comedy"
    1200 18
Of these "I sing", arma virumque cano in the original
    1600 1
Klimt painted "Beethoven Frieze" while part of the Vienna branch of this "break-away" movement spelled with a "Z"
    1600 8
The Birkin bag is name-dropped in "Up" by Cardi B & "Act Up" by this duo consisting of Yung Miami & JT
    1600 14
It's an Oklahoma specialty license plate with the name of this operation announced by George W. Bush in March 2003
    DD: 1,800 6
When she died at 108, the ashes of this 3-named environmentalist were scattered over the Everglades she helped to preserve
    DD: 1,800 4
Her "A Spool of Blue Thread" is set in Baltimore, like many of her novels
    1600 15
"She" does this, "like the night of cloudless climes & starry skies"
    2000 2
The biblical Rebecca is thought to be this title woman in a Rembrandt piece that Van Gogh called "infinitely sympathetic"
    2000 7
A song about this article of clothing says, "Watch me unravel, I'll soon be naked"
    2000 13
My passenger just pointed out a drainage structure & used this 7-letter word for it--I never knew that's what it's called!
    2000 10
Seen here at the keyboard, she wrote passionately about neighborhoods in "The Death and Life of Great American Cities"
    2000 11
A good friend of Charlotte Brontë, she wrote about a little English town in her novel "Cranford"
    2000 12
"There are going to be times... when we can't wait for somebody. Now, you're either..." these 7 words

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Yogesh Juveria Isaac
18,800 10,400 3,600

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round

ISLAND COUNTRIES
The only U.N. member state named for a woman, it's named for a 4th century Sicilian martyr

Final scores:

Yogesh Juveria Isaac
20,801 10,400 4,215
Winner: 5 match points 2nd place: 2 match points 3rd place: 0 match points: eliminated: 4th place: $100,000

Game dynamics:

Game dynamics graph

Coryat scores:

Yogesh Juveria Isaac
18,800 12,000 3,600
24 R
(including 1 DD),
1 W		 15 R
(including 1 DD),
3 W
(including 1 DD)		 10 R,
5 W

Combined Coryat: 34,400

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Game tape date: 2025-04-22
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