Jeopardy! Masters game #56 - Wednesday, June 4, 2025

2025 Jeopardy! Masters final game 2.

Contestants

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Juveria Zaheer, a psychiatrist from Whitby, Ontario, Canada (subtotal of 0)

Yogesh Raut, an educational blogger, podcast host, and writer originally from Springfield, Illinois (subtotal of 0)

Victoria Groce, a writer from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (subtotal of 14,400)

Jeopardy! Round

WORLD HISTORY
RELIGION
ALL KINDS OF FOOD
NICKNAMES
TOUGH TV
I'M AT A LOSS
    200 25
Combing the South China Sea in the 1800s, Zheng Yi Sao has been called the most successful woman of this pilfering profession
    200 26
In synagogue, this, a curved ram's horn, is blown to mark the conclusion of Yom Kippur
    200 27
It's the proper name for a grilled sandwich featuring corned beef, swiss cheese & sauerkraut on rye
    200 28
In literature, Jack Dawkins is better known by this nickname
    200 29
It was this character "all along" in a series of memes churned out by "Wandavision" fans
    200 30
To abandon or give up; in Major League Baseball, it results in a 9-0 score, which looks like a team really got its butt kicked
    400 24
"Why was Denzil Dowell killed" was the first headline of a 1967 newspaper named for this party "for Self Defense"
    400 23
This quintet includes salah (prayer) & zakat (giving alms)
    400 22
A glass of port wine pairs nicely with this British "king of cheeses"
    400 21
Japan & Norway are the lands of these 2 things that differ by a word
    400 20
This animated spinoff series centered on an acerbic teen who lamented life in Lawndale
    400 19
On Dec. 13, 2000, Al Gore said, "Tonight, for the sake of our unity as a people & the strength of our democracy, I offer my" this
    600 11
In 1900 Herbert's wife, Lou Hoover, wrote that she was in "the most interesting" siege at Tianjin during this rebellion
    600 17
Jehovah's Witnesses distribute this magazine that has been published continuously since 1879
    600 16
If you come from the land Down Under, you've probably eaten this yeasty bread spread that first hit store shelves in 1923
    600 18
Legendary Mississippi-born bluesman McKinley Morganfield got this byname from playing in a creek as a young boy
    600 8
Conan O'Brien wrote this "Simpsons" episode that centers on the civic plans of the slick-talking Lyle Lanley
    600 15
A decisive drubbing, or in another sense, applying a preparation dissolved in alcohol for use as a wood finish
    800 10
Around 1970 Father Gustavo Gutiérrez coined this term for a movement for social action by the church in Latin America
    800 9
Around 6 million people, mostly in India, practice this ancient religion that believes every living thing has an eternal jiva or soul
    800 6
From Turkish for "turning", it's the Middle Eastern version of a gyro or doner, meat shaved from a rotating spit & wrapped in a pita
    800 13
For his cunning tactics during World War II, German field marshal Erwin Rommel earned this nickname
    800 3
In "Born & Raised", Leslie Knope of "Parks & Rec" fame learned she wasn't born in Pawnee but in this city, Pawnee's nemesis
    800 14
The signs are all there; it means to submit, but Macbeth says, "I will not" do this "to kiss the ground before young Malcolm's feet"
    DD: 1,000 4
The Piagnoni, fan boys of Girolamo Savonarola, were the main instigators behind these events; one took place on Shrove Tuesday
    1000 1
You have to hold the rank of archbishop to be one of these, a Vatican ambassador to another country
    1000 5
Not to be confused with a Mexican sauce, this Filipino dish is braised meat cooked in a marinade of vinegar, soy sauce & garlic
    1000 7
It's the nickname for a person from Tyneside, England, including Newcastle, or the dialect they might speak
    1000 2
David Fincher directed episodes of this Netflix series that portrayed Richard Speck & Edmund Kemper, among others
    1000 12
One way to say "beaten", it's also a fine, smooth wool fabric used in suits

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Victoria Yogesh Juveria
4,200 7,000 5,200

Double Jeopardy! Round

LET'S SET SOME BOUNDARIES
IN THE BROADWAY CAST
HUMAN PREHISTORY
8 WAYS TO WIN
FRENCH POETRY
THE "END"
    400 25
A fault running from Arran in the west to Stonehaven in the east is a traditional boundary between these 2 regions of Scotland
    400 26
Movie star Lee Remick worked with the Lighthouse Foundation for these people before starring in "Wait Until Dark" in 1966
    400 27
Now fallen, the crosspiece once atop the tallest standing stone at Stonehenge helped track this event, the shortest day of the year
    400 28
The 8th letter of the Greek alphabet, it was once considered unlucky as the first letter of the Greek word for death
    400 29
A friend of Picasso, Paul Éluard wrote "La Victoire de" this Spanish city in condemnation of a fascist bombing
    400 30
Señorita, welcome to El Paraíso de Ken, this type of estate with the same name as the hotel that once stood where the Mandalay Bay is
    800 24
The meridian of this headland separates the South Atlantic from the South Pacific
    800 23
This baritone with a Bonnie daughter who's also a singer introduced songs like "If I Loved You" in "Carousel"
    800 22
Possibly the earliest evidence of cooking shows our ancestors 780,000 years ago having this for dinner near Lake Hula
    800 21
In Buddhism, the 8-spoked Dharmachakra represents, in part, this important doctrinal root of the faith
    800 6
Jacques Prévert's poem "Les Feuilles mortes" inspired this "seasonal" standard with versions by Nat King Cole & Frank Sinatra
    800 20
The salad here is topped with pea shoots, botanically called these twining parts
    DD: 10,800 12
The western limit of the Mediterranean is a line drawn between Cape Spartel in Africa & this Spanish cape famed in naval history
    1200 15
In 2025 this "Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt" scene stealer had a run as Mrs. Lincoln in "Oh, Mary!"
    1200 7
The first known metal to be worked by humans, as far back as 9000 B.C., was this one, putting "chalco-" in Chalcolithic
    1200 13
1933's "Dinner at Eight" co-starred John Barrymore as an actor at the end of his career & this actress as his social-climbing wife
    1200 5
"Drunken Morning", "Childhood" & "Genius" are by this poet, portrayed by Leonardo DiCaprio on film
    1200 19
The late Melody Beattie turned her experiences as the daughter & wife of addicts into the bestseller this "No More"
    1600 10
At the tip of a peninsula belonging otherwise to Canada, Point Roberts, Wash. is U.S. territory because it lies south of this line
    1600 4
Arthur Kennedy played him when "The Crucible" opened on Broadway; in 2025, Sadie Sink is in a play called he "Is the Villain"
    1600 8
Discovered in 1940, this complex of caves in Dordogne is home to prehistoric depictions of aurochs, ibexes & other animal life
    1600 14
"An Agony in 8 Fits" is the subtitle of this Lewis Carroll poem that describes a sea voyage
    1600 1
The song "How Beautiful You Are" by The Cure was inspired by a prose poem in "Le Spleen de Paris" by this 19th century poet
    DD: 16,600 16
Polonium, radium & uranium were all first discovered in this ore
    2000 11
The border between N. & S. America is usually said to be this break in the Pan-American Highway that's between Panama & Colombia
    2000 3
This play about gay men at a party ran 1,000 shows on 55th St. in 1968 & moved 10 blocks for its 2018 Broadway debut with Matt Bomer
    2000 9
2022 Nobel winner Svante Pääbo sequenced the Neanderthal genome & discovered this new hominin that lived in Siberia
    2000 18
A group of American artists who showed together just once in 1908, The Eight included this Philly-born painter of "East Riverpark"
    2000 2
With a last name suggesting a Greek god, he influenced Cubism & Surrealism before dying young in 1918
    2000 17
Canadian History 101:
Jean Talon was New France's first of these main civil officials of the Ancien Regime

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Victoria Yogesh Juveria
11,000 36,000 20,800

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round

PAINTINGS
The artist saw this subject as a kindred spirit & in 1890 depicted him with flowers used to treat heart disease

Final scores:

Victoria Yogesh Juveria
22,000 41,601 36,800

Cumulative scores:

Victoria Yogesh Juveria
36,400 41,601 36,800
3rd place: $150,000 Winner: $500,000 + $100,000 to the player's chosen charity + the Trebek Trophy 2nd place: $250,000

Game dynamics:

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Coryat scores:

Victoria Yogesh Juveria
11,000 21,000 11,200
15 R,
2 W		 25 R
(including 1 DD),
1 W		 15 R
(including 2 DDs),
2 W

Combined Coryat: 43,200

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Game tape date: 2025-04-23
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