Responses for Jeopardy! Masters game #45 - Tuesday, May 20, 2025

2025 Jeopardy! Masters quarterfinal game 1.

Contestants

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Roger Craig, an applied scientist from Arlington, Virginia

Victoria Groce, a writer from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

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

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Jeopardy! Round responses

AROUND THE U.S.A.
PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS
EAT THE HOMOPHONE
IT'S ALL MATERIAL
SPORTS THROUGH THE YEARS
JACQUES ON THE BOX
    200 27
the Beltway

Victoria
    200 26
the lion

Victoria
    200 21
a serial

Yogesh
    200 28
asbestos

Victoria
    200 29
the (Golden State) Warriors

Roger
    200 30
Emilia Pérez

Yogesh
    400 25
Vicksburg

Yogesh
    400 22
the Lorraine Motel

Victoria
    400 20
pi

Roger
    400 18
mortar

Victoria
    400 23
(Monica) Seles

Victoria
    400 24
the Canadiens

Victoria
    600 16
Bakersfield

Yogesh
    1,800 3
Biloxi Blues

Yogesh
    600 13
muscle

Triple Stumper
    600 10
hemp (or jute)

Roger
    600 19
(Yogesh: Who is Rodman?)
(Ken: Uh, can you be more specific?)

Trinity Rodman

Yogesh
    600 17
the Calypso

Yogesh
    800 12
(Roger: What is Marfan?)
(Ken: No.)
(Roger: [Realizing his mistake] Oh!)
...
(Victoria: [To Roger, after her rebound] Sorry.)

Marfa

VictoriaRoger
    800 2
McDonagh

Yogesh
    800 7
a karat

Victoria
    800 9
Bakelite

Roger
    800 14
JuJu Watkins

Triple Stumper
    800 15
(Jacques) Pépin

Roger
    1000 11
the Sangre de Cristo

Victoria
    1000 1
Strindberg

Yogesh
    1000 6
(Yogesh: What is a labyrinth?)
...
(Ken: For the homophone part to work, Yogesh, it's [*].)

a maze

Yogesh
Triple Stumper
    1000 8
Murano

Roger
    1000 4
(Ken: [*], yeah, famous baseball footnote.)

(Eddie) Gaedel

Yogesh
    1000 5
Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well and Living in Paris

Victoria

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Yogesh Victoria Roger
6,200 5,800 3,000

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

"A" IN HISTORY
TAKE ME TO CHURCH
THE ARTS
A KNIGHT AT THE MOVIES
ANAGRAMS OF EACH OTHER
HOT ONES
(Sean Evans: I'm Sean Evans, host of Hot Ones. I'll have clues about different kinds of [*], and we won't make the contestants consume sriracha while they respond.)
    400 22
Atlanta

Roger
    400 23
Christchurch

Victoria
    400 24
(Yogesh: Uh, what's the 14th century?)

the 15th century (the 1400s)

YogeshRoger
    400 28
The Green Knight

Yogesh
    400 25
avenge & Geneva

Yogesh
    400 30
Iran

Victoria
    800 4
the Academy

Roger
    800 20
Arm & Hammer

Roger
    2,600 6
(Roger: Well, I'd rather be lucky than good. I'm gonna wager 2,600.)
(Ken: All right, going for the True Daily Double in THE ARTS. We'll see if you're lucky. Here's your clue...)
...
(Roger: Who is... Graham?)

Twyla Tharp

Roger
    800 26
The Seventh Seal

Victoria
    800 27
(Victoria: What is miter and remit?)
(Roger: What is miter and... trime?)
(Ken: [Laughs] Sorry, no. Is that even a word?)

miter & merit

YogeshVictoriaRoger
    800 29
the Dodgers

Triple Stumper
    1200 1
(Roger: What is... Imhotep?)
...
(Roger: [After Victoria's rebound] Ah, geez.)
(Ken: Yes, [*]. "A" IN HISTORY. So close, Roger.)
(Roger: Yeah.)

Amenhotep

VictoriaRoger
    1200 17
My Fair Lady

Yogesh
    1200 16
Mahler

Roger
    1200 18
[Ken gives his best Connery impression reading the quote in the clue.]

Dragonheart

Roger
    1200 21
study & dusty

Triple Stumper
    1200 19
(Yogesh: Uh, where is Kitt Peak?)
(Victoria: What's the Flagstaff Observatory?)
(Ken: Can you be more specific?)
(Victoria: [Immediately] No.)
(Ken: [Laughs] Well, that makes it easy!)

the Lowell Observatory (in Flagstaff)

YogeshVictoria
Triple Stumper
    1600 2
Agrippa

Triple Stumper
    1600 13
(Ken: If you were thinking about Joyce, you were right. "What is [*]?")

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Triple Stumper
    1600 14
García Lorca

Victoria
    1600 10
The Last Duel

Victoria
    1600 8
medical, decimal & claimed

Yogesh
    1600 15
Popocatépetl

Victoria
    2000 3
Adrianople

Victoria
    2000 12
Turing

Roger
    2000 5
(Yogesh: Uh, who was... Saint-Gaudens?)

Daniel Chester French

Yogesh
Triple Stumper
    2000 9
Boorman

Yogesh
    400 11
(Ken: We know you've been working on your wordplay, Victoria. What do you want to wager in ANAGRAMS OF EACH OTHER?)
(Victoria: 400.)
(Ken: [Laughs] The crossword tournament didn't go that well, is that what you're saying?)
(Victoria: I was a little slow, Ken. [Laughs])
...
(Ken: Victoria, I have to say, you really earned that 400 points. Well done.)
(Victoria: Uh, yeah--k--k--uh, [***] took me a long time, there.)

caterer, retrace & terrace

Victoria
    2000 7
Delacroix

Victoria

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Yogesh Victoria Roger
9,000 15,800 5,200

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

BOOK TITLES
(Ken: [To Victoria] It's a long response, but you still had time for "Hi, Nora!" Well done.)
[Victoria waves to Nora in the audience.]
(Ken: Fast writing, from the Crossword Puzzle tournament, maybe.)
(Victoria: [Laughs] That's right.)
RogerWhat [scribble] Return of the Native
5,199
YogeshWhat Return of hte Native
4,600
VictoriaWhat is The Return of the Native? Hi, Nora! ❤︎
2,201
Return of the Native (by Thomas Hardy)

Final scores:

Yogesh Victoria Roger
13,600 18,001 10,399
2nd place: 7 match points Winner: 7 match points 3rd place: 4 match points

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Yogesh Victoria Roger
7,800 17,400 7,800
16 R
(including 1 DD),
4 W		 21 R
(including 1 DD),
2 W		 13 R,
4 W
(including 1 DD)

Combined Coryat: 33,000

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Game tape date: 2025-04-16
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