Responses for Jeopardy! Masters game #39 - Wednesday, April 30, 2025

2025 Jeopardy! Masters knockout round game 1.

Contestants

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Brad Rutter, an actor and producer from Los Angeles, California

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 responses

AMERICAN HISTORY
FEAT.
(Ken: Featuring.)
A LITTLE ALLITERATION
(Ken: Tough to say.)
WORLD CAPITALS
MEET "ME" IN THE MIDDLE
(Ken: Because the letters M-E are in the exact center of each response.)
U.S. BUSINESS HEADQUARTERS
    200 27
the Salem Witch Trials

Yogesh
    200 28
(Victoria: [Selecting the next clue] Um, LITTLE ALLIL--[more carefully] A LITTLE ALLITERATION--I can't say that--200.)

Megan Thee Stallion

Victoria
    200 29
viral videos

Victoria
    200 26
Qatar

Victoria
    200 25
homely

Yogesh
    200 30
(Ken: [*] is in Saint Paul, Minnesota.)

3M

Yogesh
    400 21
the Continental Congress

Victoria
    400 24
Kendrick Lamar

Victoria
    400 23
a Shetland sheepdog

Victoria
    400 17
(Brad: What is... [taps lectern with right palm three times] uh... [wiggles right fingers] uhh!)
(Ken: That's time, I'm afraid.)

Indonesia

VictoriaBrad
    400 22
(Victoria: [Selecting the next clue] Um, A LITTLE ALLILRA--[more carefully] A LITTLE ALLITERATION--that is hard to say--for 400.)
(Ken: It is!)

the diameter

Victoria
    400 20
L.L.Bean

Yogesh
    600 7
the Southern Christian Leadership Conference

Yogesh
    600 8
Charli XCX

Victoria
    5,800 12
Lake Lucerne

Yogesh
    600 2
the Isle of Man

Yogesh
    600 3
a remedy

Victoria
    600 19
DuPont

Brad
    800 6
(Victoria: Who is Gerry? [Tries more definitive soft "G"] Gerry?)

(George) Clinton

VictoriaYogesh
    800 10
(Brad: [On the joy of at last ringing in and being ruled right] Whew! Finally!)
(Ken: Your favorite.)

Pitbull

Brad
    800 9
Rebecca Rolfe

Yogesh
    800 1
Abuja (Nigeria)

Victoria
    800 15
intermediary

Brad
    800 14
(Brad: What is Mountain View?)
...
(Ken: Yeah, it's Apple, not Google.)

Cupertino

YogeshBrad
    1000 5
Palmer

Yogesh
    1000 11
"Starboy"

Yogesh
    1000 16
the Treaty of Trianon

Yogesh
    1000 4
Dushanbe

Yogesh
    1000 18
cosmetic

Yogesh
    1000 13
(Ken: Procter & Gamble is in [*].)

Cincinnati

Triple Stumper

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Victoria Yogesh Brad
3,800 15,400 1,000

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

WAS THAT ON YOUR FLASHCARDS?
POETRY-POURRI
THE RELIGIOUS LIFE
A BONE OF CONTENTION
LONG WORDS WITH A SINGLE VOWEL
THE PEABODY AWARDS
(Ken: ...because the 8th awards will be given out on June 1st.)
    400 28
Sleep while the baby sleeps

Victoria
    400 27
Mandalay

Victoria
    400 29
altar boys

Yogesh
    400 26
the sacrum

Victoria
    400 30
scratch

Yogesh
    400 25
Howdy Doody

Yogesh
    800 21
Odds & Sods

Brad
    800 20
Maya Angelou

Triple Stumper
    800 22
a page

Victoria
    800 24
(Brad: What are vertebrae?)
(Ken: Can you be more specific?)
(Brad: Uh, what are... cervical vertebrae?)

the lumbar vertebrae

Brad
Triple Stumper
    800 23
strength

Victoria
    800 19
Glee

Victoria
    1200 2
split lanes

Brad
    5,000 9
Things fall apart

Victoria
    1200 8
Southern Baptist Theological Seminary

Victoria
    1200 12
(Victoria: What is... corset?)

girdle

Victoria
Triple Stumper
    1200 17
schnapps

Brad
    1200 18
Barney Miller

Brad
    1600 3
(Ken: Nobody had a flashcard on [*], it turns out.)

eczema

Triple Stumper
    1600 6
Gloriana

Brad
    1600 16
iftar

Victoria
    1600 10
the anvil

Yogesh
    1600 11
(Ken: [*] Night.)

twelfth

Yogesh
    1600 5
(Ken: It's been a minute. That was [*].)

S-Town

Triple Stumper
    2000 4
(Ken: Ooh, and you need to brush up on your prison slang. "What is [*]?")
(Brad: We just called it "swag" when I was in the joint, Ken.)
(Ken: Back in the day.)

clavo

Triple Stumper
    2000 7
Tiresias

Yogesh
    2000 14
Ahura Mazda

Yogesh
    5,000 13
(Ken: The first two Daily Doubles, we had big wagers, Yogesh, but you're betting from the lead at the moment.)
(Yogesh: Um, twenty-two--uh, no. 5,000.)
...
(Ken: Right, [*]--the palate.)

Palatine

Yogesh
    2000 15
splotch

Triple Stumper
    2000 1
(Adlai) Stevenson

Yogesh

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Victoria Yogesh Brad
14,000 30,800 6,200
(lock game)

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

EUROPE
(Ken: [To Brad] When in doubt... the Philadelphia Eagles. And they never let you down, right, Brad?)
(Brad: Well... not lately.)
BradWhat is Go Birds
4,022
VictoriaWhat is Bordeaux? ♡ Hi, Nora! ♡ (+TV-JAMMM)
0
YogeshWhat Glasgow
0
Bordeaux

Final scores:

Victoria Yogesh Brad
14,000 30,800 2,178
2nd place: 1 match point Winner: 3 match points 3rd place: 0 match points

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Victoria Yogesh Brad
10,200 22,600 6,200
20 R
(including 1 DD),
2 W		 24 R
(including 2 DDs),
0 W		 8 R,
3 W

Combined Coryat: 39,000

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Game tape date: 2025-04-15
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