Responses for Jeopardy! Masters game #49 - Tuesday, May 27, 2025

2025 Jeopardy! Masters quarterfinal game 5.

Contestants

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Isaac Hirsch, a customer support team lead from Burbank, 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

NONFICTION
WORLD LEADERS
DOUBLE TALK
ALMOST RHYMES WITH ORANGE
5 BANDS
BAKING WITH DAME PRUE
(Prue Leith: I'm Dame Prue Leith of The Great British Bake-Off and The Great American Baking Show. Whether you say "frosting" or "icing", I having baking clues coming up for you.)
    200 20
Into the Wild

Yogesh
    200 30
(Claudia) Sheinbaum

Victoria
    200 28
couscous

Victoria
    200 29
(Ken: Yes. I'm not sure if any of those really almost rhymed with "orange", but close enough.)

Solange Knowles

Yogesh
    200 16
(Yogesh: I just realized what that category was.)

Maroon 5

Yogesh
    200 9
biscotti

Yogesh
    400 19
Wilkerson

Victoria
    400 26
KLM

Yogesh
    400 25
Sing Sing

Yogesh
    400 27
an orphanage

Victoria
    400 14
"I Want You Back"

Yogesh
    400 8
a babka

Victoria
    1,000 2
(Yogesh: What's that book called? Uh, what is, um... [*]?)

Going Clear

Yogesh
    600 21
Lula

Yogesh
    600 22
a nēnē

Yogesh
    600 24
a lozenge

Victoria
    600 12
Ben Folds Five

Isaac
    600 7
profiteroles

Victoria
    800 18
Braiding Sweetgrass

Victoria
    800 1
(Ken: Victoria, you were so excited to see Dame Prue.)
(Victoria: I love Prue!)
(Ken: Where are we going to start?)
(Victoria: We're going to start with WORLD LEADERS, 800.)
(Ken: Oh, sorry Prue.)
[Victoria laughs.]

Cambodia

Yogesh
    800 10
a tuk-tuk

Victoria
    800 23
a melange

Isaac
    800 11
(Ken: Wow, metalhead, I didn't know.)
(Victoria: [Laughs] ...No.)

Five Finger Death Punch

Victoria
    800 5
a bûche de noël

Isaac
    1000 17
Howard Zinn

Victoria
    1000 15
Modi

Victoria
    1000 4
Ngorongoro Crater

Victoria
    1000 13
a flange

Victoria
    1000 6
the MC5

Victoria
    1000 3
(Yogesh: [Selecting] Uh... here, it's my gift to you [indicating Victoria]. BAKING WITH DAME PRUE, 1000.)
(Victoria: Yay!)
(Ken: She's so happy.)
...
(Victoria: What is... tarte Tatin?)
...
(Victoria: I'm sorry, Prue!)
(Ken: You'll get another chance, Victoria, don't worry.)

a galette

Victoria
Triple Stumper

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Victoria Yogesh Isaac
9,200 5,000 2,200

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

ANCIENT EGYPT
OPERA
IT'S A MORASS
MEASURING UP!
BEST PICTURE OSCAR WINNERS
IT WILL ALL END WITH "Q"
    400 30
(Isaac: Who is... Set?)

Ra

Isaac
Triple Stumper
    400 29
John the Baptist

Victoria
    400 28
the Shannon

Yogesh
    400 27
a cord

Isaac
    400 26
Midnight Cowboy

Yogesh
    400 25
Iraq

Yogesh
    800 23
mummification

Yogesh
    800 21
[Isaac pronounces the "&" as "UND" (rhymes with "fund"); Ken repeats with the correct pronunciation "OOND".]

Hansel & Gretel

Isaac
    800 22
(Yogesh: Uh, what are... mangroves?)

cypress trees

Yogesh
Triple Stumper
    800 24
a stein

Isaac
    800 6
The Bridge on the River Kwai

Victoria
    800 11
the NASDAQ

Isaac
    1200 15
Upper & Lower Egypt

Yogesh
    1200 1
Donizetti

Victoria
    1200 12
a Burmese python

Victoria
    1200 9
a yuan

Victoria
    1200 5
The Last Emperor

Victoria
    1200 10
(Ken: The abbreviation for idem quod is [*], yes.)

i.q.

Triple Stumper
    1600 13
a cartouche

Victoria
    10,400 2
(Ken: You have a big lead, Victoria, and it's a strong category, if I recall.)
(Victoria: Why not: all of it.)
...
(Victoria: Who are... the Valkyries?)

the Rhinemaidens

Victoria
    1600 17
(Yogesh: Where is the Orinoco?)

the Paraná

VictoriaYogesh
    1600 20
a rad

Victoria
    1600 4
Cimarron

Victoria
    1600 8
(Victoria: Who is Vidocq?)

Lecoq

VictoriaYogesh
    2000 14
Khafre

Victoria
    2000 16
Scarpia

Isaac
    2000 18
Congaree

Victoria
    400 19
a hemidemisemiquaver

Victoria
    2000 3
(Yogesh: Love Frank Capra.)

You Can't Take It with You

Yogesh
    2000 7
(Yogesh: Um, what is a mustache...?)
(Ken: Sorry, no.)
...
(Ken: That's correct. What he put at the bottom. Ends with "Q".)

L.H.O.O.Q.

VictoriaYogesh

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Victoria Yogesh Isaac
16,000 7,400 6,600
(lock game)

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Final Jeopardy! Round responses

20th CENTURY FICTION
(Ken: Departing seniors leaving Columbus, Ohio.)
IsaacWhat is The Best Years of Our Li
1,000
YogeshWhat Goodbye Columbus
5,801
VictoriaWhat is Goodbye, Columbus? Hi, Nora! ❤︎
0
Goodbye, Columbus (by Philip Roth)

Final scores:

Victoria Yogesh Isaac
16,000 13,201 5,600
Winner: 13 match points 2nd place: 9 match points 3rd place: 6 match points

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Victoria Yogesh Isaac
28,000 7,000 6,600
29 R
(including 1 DD),
3 W
(including 1 DD)		 18 R
(including 1 DD),
3 W		 8 R,
1 W

Combined Coryat: 41,600

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Game tape date: 2025-04-16
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