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    $400 22
"The Mountaintop" by Katori Hall is set entirely in room 306 of this motel
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Jeopardy! Masters game #45 - Tuesday, May 20, 2025

2025 Jeopardy! Masters quarterfinal game 1.

Contestants

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

Jeopardy! Round

AROUND THE U.S.A.
PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS
EAT THE HOMOPHONE
IT'S ALL MATERIAL
SPORTS THROUGH THE YEARS
JACQUES ON THE BOX
    200 27
It's the name of the ring road around Washington, D.C.
    200 26
When a George Bernard Shaw play was on Broadway in the '40s, Ernest Truex was Androcles & John Becher had this role
    200 21
"Flash Gordon" was a popular one in 13 thrilling chapters
    200 28
Once woven into fabric, this mineral has a name meaning "unquenchable", a reference to its resistance to heat & fire
    200 29
The best regular season record in NBA history is this team's 73-9 in 2015-16
    200 30
Jacques Audiard wrote & directed this Netflix film & won an Oscar for co-writing its song "El Mal"
    400 25
I-20 takes you near a marker for Grant's incomplete canal & past this city in Mississippi, the site of an 1863 siege
    400 22
"The Mountaintop" by Katori Hall is set entirely in room 306 of this motel
    400 20
This letter to represent a ratio was first devised by British mathematician William Jones in 1706
    400 18
On the Passover Seder table, a paste of apples & nuts called haroset symbolizes this building material
    400 23
Already an 8-time Grand Slam singles title winner at age 19, she might have ruled '90s women's tennis but for a violent attack
    400 24
Jacques Plante won 5 straight Stanley Cups on this team & was a TV commentator in French for the 1972 Canada-Russia series
    600 16
Wynn Stewart found his "Sound" in this city in California's Tulare Basin
    DD: 1,800 3
This 1980s Neil Simon play set in Mississippi follows Eugene Jerome in basic training
    600 13
A dampener of vibrations & less than 1/4 inch long, the stapedius is the smallest
    600 10
This 4-letter plant fiber is used to make burlap
    600 19
Daughter of a star athlete, she scored the first goal for the U.S. Olympic soccer team on its way to 2024 Olympic gold
    600 17
From 1968 to 1976 "The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau" showcased ocean exploration from aboard this research vessel
    800 12
See some abnormal Friday night lights not in Dillon but this city in West Texas at the junction of U.S. highway 90 & 67
    800 2
Also a film director, he's written plays like "Hangman" & "The Lieutenant of Inishmore"
    800 7
Standardized worldwide around 1907, it's equal to 200 milligrams
    800 9
Trademarked in 1909, this first synthetic plastic is named for the Belgian-born chemist who invented it
    800 14
The UCLA coach might have grumbled when in 2025 this bun-sporting guard was the first winner from USC of the John R. Wooden award
    800 15
Drew Barrymore freaked out when this chef made a surprise appearance on her show while she was making his French onion soup
    1000 11
Once part of the Santa Fe Trail, Raton Pass cuts through these Spanish-named mountains
    1000 1
The 1907 work "A Dream Play" by this Swedish playwright was adapted for TV by Ingmar Bergman in the 1960s
    1000 6
The heroic son of Aegeus escaped one of these but betrayed the woman who helped him
    1000 8
A museum of glass (devoted to, not made of the material) is on this Venetian island group with a long glassmaking history
    1000 4
Leading off a 1951 game as a pinch-hitter (an unusual move right there), this 3'7" man walked in his only plate appearance
    1000 5
You can rent an adaptation of this musical revue; the title is no longer true, but it has the title guy singing "Ne me quitte pas"

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

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

Double Jeopardy! Round

"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
Generals Sherman & McPherson defeated John Bell Hood at the 1864 battle of this Southern city that would later burn
    400 23
13 prime ministers have graduated from this college, part of the University of Oxford since 1546
    400 24
The quattrocento means this century when the Italian Renaissance produced artists like Bellini & Ghirlandaio
    400 28
For this 2021 Dev Patel flick, the "Gawain" poet gets a "based on" credit
    400 25
To retaliate &
a Swiss city
    400 30
(One more time, Sean Evans.) A bit west of the borders with Pakistan & Afghanistan, the Lut Desert in this country has a plateau whose name means "toasted wheat", which sounds like a breakfast cereal, with surface temperatures over 150°
    800 4
Begun in the 4th century B.C., its environs included olive trees, a park & a gymnasium consecrated to an Attic hero
    800 20
Church & Dwight is the parent company of this brand whose logo symbolizes Vulcan's mighty bicep
    DD: 2,600 6
This choreographer celebrated her dance company's 60th anniv. in 2025 with a program pairing her "Diabelli" & "Slacktide"
    800 26
Max von Sydow plays a knight home from the Crusades in this film in which he also employs a knight on a chessboard
    800 27
To earn &
headgear for a bishop
    800 29
(Back to Sean.) Baseball savants including Bill James say it's plausible the Chicago Cubs were hurt by a fatigue from decades of day games only, like on June 20, 1953, when it was a record 104° at Wrigley & they lost to this team that got a homer from Carl Furillo
    1200 1
Hubba bubba, the first pharaoh of this name accrued land in Nubia & expanded Egypt's reach to the second cataract of the Nile
    1200 17
In this stage & movie musical, Alfred Doolittle croons "Get Me To The Church On Time"
    1200 16
His Symphony No. 2 completed in 1894 is known as "The Resurrection"
    1200 18
"When there are no more dragons to slay, how will you make a living, knight?" asks Sean Connery of Dennis Quaid in this film
    1200 21
Room that might be filled with books &
the state of the neglected books there
    1200 19
(Here's Sean Evans.) Arizona has its share of hot spots, like this scientific one where Pluto was discovered & where astronomers are finding bushels of Wolf-Rayet stars with surfaces 30 times hotter than the Sun
    1600 2
This clever ally of Augustus deftly defeated Mark Antony's forces at Actium & founded Roman colonies to boot
    1600 13
Irish singer Hozier, who had a huge hit with "Take Me To Church", has cited this 1916 novel as a big influence on his songwriting
    1600 14
This Spaniard's short writing career includes the poem "Lament for Ignacio Sánchez Mejías" & the play "Yerma"
    1600 10
Ben Affleck & Matt Damon reunited to help write & star in this film based on true events, in which the honor of French knights is at stake
    1600 8
3 words:
Adjective for a doctor,
relating to the number 10 &
contended
    1600 15
(Back to Sean Evans.) Cholula, which some interviewees enjoyed back in season 1, is not only a hot sauce, but an ancient city near the foot of this volcano whose name means "smoking mountain"
    2000 3
Peace was had as the treaty of this Turkish city put an end to the Russo-Turkish war in 1829
    2000 12
This last name is paired with Church in a 1930s thesis about computations & logical computational devices
    2000 5
Old Civil War cannons were used to cast the iconic work seen here by this sculptor
    2000 9
In "Excalibur" by this director, who is a knight himself, Patrick Stewart played Leondegrance & Paul Geoffrey was sir Perceval
    DD: 400 11
3 words:
Synonym for a balcony,
the provider of food at a function &
to go over a drawing again
    2000 7
(Here's Sean Evans.) If you want to know what hell looks like, you can go to the Louvre & see an 1822 painting of Dante & Virgil in the Fifth Circle, the first masterpiece by this French Romantic painter

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

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

Final Jeopardy! Round

BOOK TITLES
The journey in the title of this 1878 novel is from Paris to "the vast tract of unenclosed wild known as Egdon Heath"

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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