Previously on "Jeopardy! Masters"...
Victoria Groce could not be caught.
Did she know it was "Goodbye, Columbus"?
She did.
3 more points on the leaderboard for Victoria in that game.
It all comes down to this.
A win in this game would guarantee you
a spot in the semis.
Matt Amodio in second place by just 200 points.
He crossed out James II and put Charles II.
That is correct.
You are now in the lead over Juveria Zaheer.
Did she know it was Charles II?
She also crossed out James and put Charles II.
She wagered...
8,601.
You're headed to the semifinals, Juveria.
Victoria Groce is on top with 13 match points.
Juveria Zaheer will advance thanks to that win.
Isaac and Matt are tied with 6
but based on the first tiebreaker, number of games won,
it's Isaac Hirsch who will be advancing.
Roger Craig, a $50,000 prize for you. Thank you.
Matt Amodio, for fifth place,
$75,000 prize for you. Thank you for coming back.
Always great to see you. Well done.
[ Beeping ]
We began with nine Masters,
but it's down to the final four.
In the end, only one will emerge as the champion.
This is "Jeopardy! Masters."
[ Applause ]
In tonight's first semifinal game,
we have Juveria Zaheer...
[ Applause ]
...Yogesh Raut...
[ Applause ]
...and Victoria Groce.
[ Applause ]
And now here is your host -- Ken Jennings!
[ Applause ]
Thank you, Johnny Gilbert.
And welcome to the semifinals of "Jeopardy! Masters."
At this point in the competition,
all match points have been wiped clean,
and it's once again an even playing field.
Over the next two episodes,
our four remaining Masters will play each other
in every possible combination,
with only the top three advancing to the finals.
Up first, Victoria, Yogesh, and Juveria.
Good luck, semifinalists.
Let's take a look at the categories
we have in store for you in the Jeopardy! round.
First up...
A philosophical question.
Is it even the same bike if every part is new?
And finally...
I'm Rebecca Yarros.
I've taken readers on a dragon ride in a series
and moved some to tears in my standalone novels.
I'll have clues about books by me and others.
Victoria, you're going to make the first selection of the semis.
I'll take Places for 800.
Everglades National Park is just southwest of this city,
famed for its horse track replete with flamingos.
- Victoria. - What is Hialeah?
Yes. Places, 1,000.
Answer -- Daily Double, Victoria.
[ Applause ]
You've just notched your first 800 points.
But, of course, you can wager up to 1,000.
And I will, thank you. 1,000.
Alright, here's your clue.
in Same First & Last Letter Places.
What is Addis Ababa?
Menelik II of Ethiopia. Right.
So you add 1,000 points, taking you to 1,800.
[ Applause ]
Let's check out Motorcycle of Theseus for 200.
- Yogesh. - What is clutch?
- Right. - Book Series, 1,000.
Here is Rebecca Yarros.
I majored in history and grew up
in a second-generation military family,
so I can appreciate how this author's series,
"Master and Commander,"
combines history and military valor.
- Victoria. - Who is O'Brian?
- Yes, Patrick O'Brian. - Book Series, 800.
Back to Rebecca Yarros.
Paving the way for me in the romantasy genre
is this author of the "Throne of Glass" series,
which she began writing as a teenager.
- Yogesh. - Who is Maas?
- Sarah J. Maas, yes. - Star Track, 1,000.
Keanu Reeves played bass
on tunes like "Everything Turns Around"
for this band.
- Victoria. - What is Dogstar?
- Correct. - Motorcycle of Theseus, 400.
- Yogesh. - What is street legal?
- Yes. - "Kid," 1,000.
[ Beep ]
Online, they call him Success Kid. Back to you, Yogesh.
"Kid," 800.
Victoria. What's the Comeback Kid?
- That's right. - Motorcycle of Theseus, 600.
- Juveria. - What's Yamaha?
- Yes. - The Door for 1,000.
- Yogesh. - What is "The Doors of Perception"?
- Good for 1,000. - Door, 800.
- Yogesh. - What is, like, Stage Door Canteen?
- That's correct. - Okay. "Kid," 600.
- Victoria. - What is "I'm a Toys 'R' Us kid"?
Yes. "I don't want to grow up. I'm a Toys 'R' Us kid."
I'll take a Book Series for 600.
Back to Rebecca.
As a romance novelist, I believe in
treating my characters to happily ever after,
a phrase that first appears in English in a translation
of this not-always-so-happy Italian Renaissance work
set during a plague.
- Victoria.\ - What is "The Decameron"?
- Good. - Book Series, 400.
Rebecca Yarros.
Important in world building and adding context,
short snippets at the start of book chapters,
like the ones from "The Dragon Rider's Codex"
in "Fourth Wing," are called these,
from Greek for "to write upon."
- Yogesh. - What is epigraph?
- Yes. - Places, 600.
[ Beep ]
We stumped you with Mannheim.
- Back to you, Yogesh. - Places, 400.
[ Beep ]
That's Antoine Cadillac.
- Yogesh. - Ah, sure. Places, 200.
Finish it off.
- Victoria. - What is Cognac?
- Yes. - Star Track, 800.
In this band, Jack Black and Kyle Gass
were letter-perfect singing "Dude (I Totally Miss You)"
and "Beelzeboss (The Final Showdown)."
- Yogesh. - What is Tenacious D?
- Right. - Book Series, 200.
One more time, Rebecca Yarros.
I write down scenesand plot points on index cards
and even at that stage mightinclude these hidden messages,
an alliterative termfrom the world of video games.
- Victoria. - What's an Easter egg?
- You got it. - Motorcycle, 800.
- Juveria. - What's "The Wild One"?
- Correct. - Motorcycle for 1,000.
- Victoria. - What are calipers?
Calipers with a "P."
Hey, "Kid," 400.
- Victoria. - What's a theater kid?
- Yes. - Awesome.
Hey, "Kid," 200.
Proverbial person surrounded by many great choices.
- Yogesh. - What is a kid in a candy store?
- That's him. - Door, 600.
- Juveria. - Who is Fuller?
The Fuller Brush Company, yes.
Star Track for 600.
- Juveria. - Who is Zooey Deschanel?
Yes.
Track for 400.
- Victoria. - Who is Johnson?
- That's correct. Don Johnson. - Star Track, 200.
- Yogesh. - Who is Anna Kendrick?
- That's right. - Door, 400.
Depicting scenes from the explorer's life,
The Columbus Doors lead into this domed area,
the heart of the U.S. Capitol.
- Yogesh. - What's the Rotunda?
That's right. Final clue in Show the Door.
- Victoria. - What's Japan?
I'm sorry, no.
- Yogesh. - What is China?
China is right. So you catch up a little bit.
Victoria is in first place at the end of the Jeopardy! round,
and Double Jeopardy! is up next.
We'll be right back.
[ Applause ]
Juveria Zaheer made it to the semifinals.
And by appearing in "Masters" with us, Juveria,
you're now the only player in "Jeopardy!" history
who's been in all five postseason tournaments, right?
Second Chance champions, wild card,
Tournament of Champions, JIT, and now Masters.
Pretty impressive resume.
Yeah, it's a lot of tournaments.
"Masters" 1 premiered the same day
as my first game that I lost,
and my kids and I were in a hotel in Halifax,
and we watched "Masters,"
and we were sitting there thinking, like,
"How do these people know all this stuff?"
And my kids were like, "These are real celebrities,
'Jeopardy!' celebrities."
And I never in a million years thought,
but one step at a time,
1,000 tournaments later, here I am.
What a weird journey
that now you're here on the "Masters" stage.
In this game, you're playing against Victoria,
- and you guys are pretty good friends, right? - Yeah.
Is it harder or easier to play against a friend on "Jeopardy!"?
Yes. I have two friends here. Yogesh and I met at TOC.
And Victoria and I met when I was the alternate
at "Masters" last year.
And even though it was one of the most important days
of her life, she took the time to come sit with me
- and say, "Well, how are you? But like how are you really?" - Aw.
And for the last six months or 12 months,
she was my text, my call,
has been there for me every step of the way.
I'm so grateful.
And now you're head-to-head.
Yeah.
You're also playing against Yogesh Raut,
who is back with us.
Yogesh, you told us in a past appearance about your podcast.
Are you still doing that?
Yeah, yeah, and I've had many people from, you know, the TOC
and the "Jeopardy!" world on it, including Juveria,
along with Jake DeArruda and Sean McShane.
- They all appeared together. - Mm-hmm.
And you have a new feature on that, is that right?
Yeah, yeah.
And I started something called Directors Sets
where basically I go through and basically write a set about --
where every answer is a director
whose name starts with the same letter of the alphabet,
- like starting with "A." - Ah, I see.
They provide opportunities for -- for wordplay, as well.
My -- My friend there had a question in the "M" set
about the director, Pierre Morel, and it went dead.
But then my friend Jayanthi asked, "Was he a fun guy?"
- Fun guy. - [fungi] Yes.
- Mushroom, I get it. - Yeah.
Well, welcome to the semifinals, Yogesh.
Good to have you.
Victoria Groce, friend to all,
friend to Juveria, we've heard, "Jeopardy!" coach.
You also got to do something pretty fun
- after your last "Jeopardy!" appearance, I think. - I did. I did.
So at some point,
James Holzhauer was doing, like, the ceremonial puck
at a -- at a Vegas Knights game.
I was, like, texting like, "That's pretty cool."
He's like, you know -- I was like,
"I've always wanted to do like a first pitch or something."
He's like, "You should ask for things."
And I was like, "I do not do that.
You've met me."
But he did. He made some calls.
And I ended up --Heasked? He asked on my behalf.
And I ended up throwing out the first pitch
at a Pirates game last summer.
- And I had two goals. - Fun.
One of them was to not injure myself or another human.
And the other one was to not end up
on "SportsCenter's" Not Top Plays.
- And I am proud to say that I threw that ball... - You did neither.
...in the general direction of home plate
some percentage of the way there.
And what a lesson to learn.
If -- If you're a person who doesn't like asking for things,
get James Holzhauer to do it.
Make friends who actually will do that for you.
- That's right. That's -- That's a service James provides. - Yeah.
Time for Double Jeopardy! now, players.
Juveria, you're going to make the first selection.
Take a look at these new categories.
We have first...
- Juveria. - Reign Man for 1,600.
- Answer, just like that -- - Daily Double.
[ Applause ]
You're in third place,
but you can make a little move here. What do you want to wager?
2,600.
Alright, a true Daily Double in Reign Man.
We'll see how it goes. Here's your clue.
Who is Franz Joseph?
Emperor of Austria is correct.
You now have $5,200.
Tight game. Select again.
Hard Science for 1,200.
- Victoria. - What are alveoli?
- Right. - Hard Science for 1,600.
That's not a bar graph.
It's one of these, from Greek for "mast."
- Juveria. - What's a histogram?
Yes.
Getting Philosophical for 1,200.
- Victoria. - What's an idealist?
First idealist, yes.
Hard Science, 2,000.
- Victoria. - What is abiogenesis?
- 2,000 more for you. - Philosophical, 2,000.
- Yogesh. - What is practical reason?
- That's the other one. - Reign Man, 2,000.
- Juveria. - Who is George IV?
I'm sorry, no.
- Victoria. - Who is William IV?
- Right, his brother. - Philosophical, 1,600.
- Victoria. - Who is Pythagoras?
- That's right. - Philosophical, 800.
- Juveria. - What's objectivism?
- Correct. - Hard Science for 800.
- Yogesh. - What are charm and strange?
You got it.
Marina, 2,000.
"The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex"
is the subtitle of the book
that Ron Howard based this 2015 film on.
[ Beep ]
It was called "In the Heart of the Sea."
- Yogesh. - Marina, 1,600.
Yogesh.
What is Jenny?
Yeah, named it after Jenny.
- Okay. - Romance Language, 1,200.
- Yogesh. - What is seigneur?
- Yes. - Romance Language, 1,600.
Answer there -- the final Daily Double of the game.
And it comes at a good time for you, Yogesh.
You're in second place.
Um...5,000.
Alright, that would give you a narrow lead over Victoria
if you're right in Say It in a Romance Language.
Um...
What is, um...
[ Beep ] Esperanza.
You were a little late, and it's notesperanza.
It'ssperanza in Italian.
So you lose $5,000,
but you still have command of the board, Yogesh.
Romance Language, 2,000.
[ Beep ] They'll never bevencido, defeated.
Yogesh.
Fashion, 2,000.
[ Beep ]
A basque was a kind of bodice.
- Yogesh. - Fashion, 1,600.
- Juveria. - What's Nehru?
Yes.
Old Fashion for 1,200.
- Juveria. - What's jacquard?
No, I'm sorry.
- Victoria. What's lame? - Lame is it.
Pop Culture Marina, 1,200.
- Yogesh. - Who is Kratos?
Correct.
Reign Man, 1,200.
- Yogesh. - Who was Marcus Aurelius?
Little family bonding for Marcus Aurelius, yes.
Marina, 800.
[ Beep ] It's Tony Soprano's boat,The Stugots.
Back to you, Yogesh.
Romance Language, 800.
This Portuguese offering is mostly white, sometimes red,
and its name contains a color that's neither of those.
Victoria. What is Vinho Verde?
That's right.
A Little Old Fashion, 800.
- Yogesh. - What's a petticoat?
- Right. Okay. - Marina, 400.
In a 1951 film, skipper Charlie Allnut
tells Rose this title boat "is running short of fuel.
Better put in someplace."
- Victoria. - What's theAfrican Queen?
- Yes. - Reign Man, 800.
- Victoria. - What is the Edict of Nantes?
- Right again. - Romance Language, 400.
- Victoria. - What is Abuela?
Yes, or Abuelita.
Hard Science, 400.
- Victoria. - What is Tennessine?
No.
Yogesh or Juveria?
[ Beep ] Top of the noble gases. It's helium.
Back to you, Victoria.
A Little Old Fashion, 400.
Goya portrayed the Duchess of Alba
wearing this Spanish-named veil draped around her shoulders.
- Victoria. - What's a mantilla?
- Right. - Reign Man, 400.
- Yogesh. - Who was Hirohito?
- That's correct. - Philosophical, 400.
We'll get philosophical one more time.
- Yogesh. - Who was Kierkegaard?
That's correct, taking you to 10,000 points even,
and doing some quick math,
Final Jeopardy! will be very important.
Plus we have those match points for second place.
Let's find out what category you three will be dealing with.
World Capitals is the category,
and we'll be right back with the clue.
Final Jeopardy! in our first game tonight
will concern world capitals.
Here's the clue.
30 seconds. Good luck.
Juveria Zaheer wound up with 6,000 points
coming into Final Jeopardy!
and wrote down what world capital?
"What is Luanda?" The capital of Angola.
And that is correct, Juveria.
It's bigger than both Lisbon, which is much older,
and Brasilia, which is much newer.
What did you wager?
You'll add 2,000 points, taking you to 8,000.
Yogesh Raut was in second place with 10,000 even.
Did he think of the capital of Angola?
He's also got Luanda, so he will add...
2,001, taking him to 12,001 points.
Victoria Groce had a pretty good lead heading into Final
with 19,400.
But did she know it was Luanda?
There we go. She's correct.
She wagered...
601, taking her to 20,001
and making her tonight's first winner.
Congratulations, Victoria.
3 match points for you for finishing in first place.
Yogesh, you will add 1 match point
for your second-place finish.
No match points for you in that game, Juveria.
After the break, Victoria and Yogesh
will be back on the Alex Trebek Stage,
this time facing Isaac,
making his "Jeopardy! Masters" semifinals debut.
We'll be right back.
[ Cheers and applause ]
Welcome back to the semifinals of "Jeopardy! Masters."
Competing in tonight's second game --
Isaac Hirsch...
[ Applause ]
...Yogesh Raut...
[ Applause ]
...and Victoria Groce.
[ Cheers and applause ]
Welcome back to "Jeopardy! Masters."
Following their win and second-place finish,
respectively, in game one,
Victoria and Yogesh are back on the Alex Trebek Stage,
joined by Isaac,
making his debut in the "Jeopardy! Masters" semis.
Good luck, players.
Here are your categories in the Jeopardy! round.
We have...
Victoria, once again you select first.
Historic Americans, 800.
Before his 1916 appointment to the Supreme Court,
he was known as the people's attorney in Boston.
- Isaac. - Who is Brandeis?
It is.
Historic Americans, 1,000.
You know the guy on horseback on Delaware's state quarter?
It's this so-called President of Delaware.
- Victoria. - Who is Rodney?
- Caesar Rodney, yes. - Americans, 600.
After this American won the first Tchaikovsky Competition
in 1958,
he got his name on another international piano competition.
- Yogesh. - Who was Cliburn?
- Yes. - TV Comedies, 1,000.
- Yogesh. - Who is ALF?
That's correct.
TV Comedies, 800.
- Yogesh. - Who is Crews?
- Terry Crews. - Musical Instruments, 1,000.
Answer -- Daily Double.
[ Applause ]
TV Comedies put you into the lead, Yogesh.
What do you want to wager on Musical Instruments?
I mean, it's early enough.
I can bounce back if I get it wrong. So I'll do the full 2,400.
True Daily Double in Musical Instruments.
Here's your clue.
What are chromatic?
That's correct -- chromatic harmonica.
Back to you, Yogesh.
TV Comedies, 600.
Kate Hudson's character on "Running Point"
is loosely inspired by this woman, whose dad owned the Lakers.
- Yogesh. - Who is Buss?
- Can you be more specific? - Jeanie Buss.
It is.
Adjectives, 1,000.
- Yogesh. - What is phlegmatic?
That's the right humor.
Communication, 1,000.
- Victoria. - What is BlackBerry?
- Correct. - Adjectives, 800.
- Victoria. - What is grotesque?
- Right. - Adjectives, 600.
[ Beep ] Apparently in the U.K.
it's better to be dinky than it is here.
- "What is dinky?" - Alright.
- Back to you, Victoria. - Musical Instruments, 800.
- Isaac. - What are pickups?
- Right. - Musical Instruments, 600.
- Victoria. - What's an octave?
- An octave up. - Musical Instruments, 400.
- Victoria. - What's an oboe?
- Right again. - Musical Instruments, 200.
- Isaac. - What are ukuleles?
- Good. - Truth Be Told, 1,000.
- Yogesh. - Who was Wittgenstein?
Yes, humblebrag from Wittgenstein.
Truth Be Told, 800.
- Victoria. - What is Emmett?
Emmett Till, yes.
Modern Communication, 800.
- Victoria. - What is Skype versus Zoom?
Sorry, no.
Isaac. What is Zoom versus Teams?
That's correct. Skype's a little older.
Modern Communication, 600.
- Victoria. - What is to slide into someone's DMs?
That is how one slides into DMs, yes.
Truth Be Told, 600.
- Victoria. - What is libel?
- Right. - Truth Be Told, 400.
He's asking, "What is truth?" in the painting seen here.
- Victoria. - Who is Socrates?
Sorry, no.
- Yogesh. - Who is Pilate?
It's Pilate, yes, and he's using the form of a question,
so well done, Pilate.
Historic Americans, 400.
- Yogesh. - Who is Nader?
- Right. - TV Comedies, 400.
- Yogesh. - Who is Waller-Bridge?
- Right. - Adjectives, 400.
- Victoria. - What is gawky?
Sorry, no.
- Yogesh. What is awkward? - Awkward, that's it.
Modern Communication, 400.
- Victoria. - What is WhatsApp?
- Yes, from "what's up?" - Adjectives, 200.
- Yogesh. - What is distant?
- Right. - TV Comedies, 200.
- Isaac. - What is "Arrested Development"?
- That's the show. - Modern Communication, 200.
- Yogesh. - What is Signal?
- Right. - Truth Be Told, 200.
- Yogesh. - What is Progressive?
The Progressive Era, yes.
Here's the last clue in Historic Americans.
- Isaac. - Who's Baker?
Correct, Josephine Baker, taking Isaac to 3,000.
Yogesh has the lead.
But, Isaac, you'll go first in Double Jeopardy!
when "Jeopardy! Masters" returns.
We'll be right back.
[ Applause ]
Isaac Hirsch has made it to the semifinals,
which means, Isaac, no matter what happens in this round,
you're guaranteed to pick up a pretty good-sized prize.
And I understand you've thought about
what you want to do with that. What are you looking to buy?
Yeah, I hear engagement rings are expensive, so...
- Oh. - Yeah.
I mean, honestly, we've been thinking about it for a while,
and the whole discussion has always been,
"After this 'Jeopardy!' thing,
we're going to go out and do it."
And then there's another "Jeopardy!" thing.
We're like, "Okay, but after this'Jeopardy!' thing,"
and then now we're here,
but after this "Jeopardy!" thing, we're going to do it.
I'm very relieved.
I understand from your story that she actually knew about this,
that you weren't proposing just now by saying,
"I'd like to shop for engagement rings."
That was not the proposal.
No, we've been together for six years,
so some may say it's overdue.
I just say it's due. It's due. It's time, so...
When the time is right, you got to do it.
Well, congratulations to you two.
And I'm glad we could help out with the rings.
- Well done. - Thank you.
[ Applause ]
Yogesh Raut is here
and doing very well on the buzzer here in game two.
What's your buzzer strategy?
Do you have a philosophy of the buzzer, Yogesh?
I wouldn't say that I'm doing well on the buzzer.
It's more conscious to me every time I fail to ring in.
But, yeah, it feels very random to me, but I did --
In order to maybe get better,
I listened to Victoria's recommendation
and I downloaded the rhythm game "Cytus II"
on my -- my phone.
Is that a -- Oh, it's a -- it's a phone app that helps you buzz?
It's a -- I mean, it's a basic, like, rhythm game,
but, yeah, it's on the phone,
and, you know, I don't actually download paid apps very often.
So I was looking at the app store being like,
"This $1.98 better be worth it."
[ Laughter ]
Well, it looks like it paid off. Well done.
Victoria Groce, you were a one-day "Jeopardy!" champion
back in the day, but you've been with us
- quite a bit more in recent seasons. - I have, yeah, yeah.
So you've come to understand what it is
to have to think of stories about yourself...
- Yes. - ...every single game.
Yes. And now it has come down to this.
I want you to tell us about how you cook poultry.
So, um, I have a hair dryer.
Wait. I generally don't use it on my hair.
Um, I generally do use it to cook duck.
You cook a duck with hair dryer?
Partly, not -- not completely.
I don't just, like, you know, stand there for like four hours.
- Right, it'd be a long day. - Like, that would really be
hard on your elbow.
No, it's the Marcella Hazan duck recipe.
And basically, you blanch it.
You use a hair dryer to get every bit of water off of it
so it makes the skin really crisp.
Oh, the crisp -- the skin is crispier if you --
- That's right. - And you say it's a different one
than the one you use on your hair?
- No, it's the same hair dryer. - Oh, it's the same hair dryer.
I just -- I just don't dry my hair.
Like, I've probably used the hair dryer more times
to make duck than I have to dry my hair.
Well, if you do very well in "Masters," Victoria,
maybe you could afford a duck dryer and a hair dryer.
That's crazy talk, Ken.
- Conspicuous consumption, I guess. - This is insane.
Isaac, you're going to be selecting first
in Double Jeopardy!
Pick up your signaling devices, everybody,
and behold these categories.
We have...
Isaac, you're up first.
Ancient Literature for 1,200.
Answer there -- Daily Double.
You found it just like that.
A chance to move into second place here, Isaac.
What do you want to wager?
Well, I know what I'm supposed to do.
I'll do 2,000.
Okay, you will be in second place if you're correct
in Ancient Literature.
Who is Hannibal?
Sorry, no, it's Pompey, Pompey the Great.
But you didn't do a true Daily Double.
You still have some points. Select again.
Ancient Literature, 1,600.
- Yogesh. Right. - Who is "He-siod"? "Hez-iod"?
- Okay. - Movie Roles, 2,000.
Joan Crawford won her only Oscar
for playing the title role in this 1945 film.
- Yogesh. - What is "Mildred Pierce"?
- Correct for 2,000. - Movie Roles, 1,600.
Written by Arthur Miller,
this 1961 film marked the final film appearances
for Clark Gable and Marilyn Monroe.
- Isaac. - What is "The Misfits"?
You got it.
What a "Wo"man!, 1,200.
- Victoria. - Who is Wong?
Ali Wong is right.
Triple Rhyme Time, 1,600.
[ Beep ]
That would be the thud made by a dud Scud.
Victoria, Triple Rhyme Time? What do you think?
Oh, yeah. This is going to be great.
Triple Rhyme Time, 2,000.
Getting back on the bike.
[ Beep ]
Is a pollution dilution solution.
- No! - It is.
It's right here in my script.
Triple Rhyme Time, 1,200.
- Victoria. - What is hire squire...
- Shire. - Out of time.
- Yogesh or Isaac? - Isaac.
What is to hire a Shire squire?
That's correct, yes.
What a "Wo"man! for 1,600.
She took steps toward her later radical feminism,
for that time, with 1787's
"Thoughts on the Education of Daughters."
- Victoria. - Who is Wollstonecraft?
- Right. - What a "Wo"man!, 2,000.
- Isaac. - Who is Woodhull?
Correct, Victoria Woodhull.
Economics, 1,200.
Answer -- Daily Double again for you, Isaac.
[ Applause ]
Just as it was last time,
a chance to move into second place.
Okay, true Daily Double.
This time he's going to try it.
For 11,600, Isaac, here's your clue in Economics.
What is the sunk-cost fallacy?
That's right!
[ Applause ]
Isaac, is it an example of the sunk-cost fallacy
to go all in on a Daily Double after missing the last one?
Uh, I guess not.
It worked out here.
Economics, 1,600.
- Isaac. - What is no income, no jobs, no, uh...
Time. Victoria or Yogesh?
[ Beep ]
Income and jobs are correct.
The third one -- assets. Back to you, Isaac.
Economics, 2,000.
- Yogesh. - Who was Veblen?
- That's it. - Country Parts, 2,000.
- Victoria. - What's the Pale?
No, I'm sorry.
- Yogesh. - What's the Irish Free State?
No, that's also incorrect.
Isaac's shrugging.
[ Beep ]
"What is the Gaeltacht?"
- Back to you, Yogesh. - Country Parts, 1,600.
The name of this former province of South Africa indicated
that it lay across a river from the regions to the south.
- Victoria. - What is Transvaal?
Yes.
Country Parts, 1,200.
Isaac.
What is Sri Lanka?
No, I'm sorry.
- Victoria. - What is Myanmar?
- You got it. - Ancient Literature, 2,000.
- Yogesh. - What is the "Mahabharata"?
- Right. - Movie Roles, 1,200.
- Victoria. - Who are Moreno and DeBose?
- You got them both. - What a "Wo"man!, 800.
- Yogesh. - Who was Woolf?
Virginia Woolf, yes.
Ancient Literature, 800.
- Yogesh. - Who is Plato?
- Right. - Movie Roles, 800.
- Victoria. - What is "Unforgiven"?
- That's the movie. - Triple Rhyme Time, 800.
- Yogesh. - What is a Scotch swatch for the crotch?
A Scotch crotch swatch is right.
Economics, 800.
- Yogesh. - What is zero-sum game?
- Yes. - Country Parts, 800.
- Yogesh. - What is Uttar Pradesh?
- Right again. - Country Parts, 400.
Isaac.
What is Wallonia and Frisia?
No, sorry.
- Victoria. - What's Wallonia and Flanders?
Those are the two.
What a "Wo"man!, 400.
Her acting career has taken her from the OC
up to Monterey for "Big Little Lies."
- Victoria. - Who is Woodley?
- Shailene Woodley, right. - Ancient Literature, 400.
- Isaac. - What is "The Iliad"?
- Yeah. - Movie Roles, 400.
- Yogesh. - What is "Black Swan"?
- Yes. - Triple Rhyme Time, 400.
[ Beep ]
They might say, enough rough stuff.
Here's the final clue in Economics.
- Victoria. - What's the nanny state?
Nanny state is correct, taking you to 10,200.
So Final Jeopardy! still very important today.
Match points at stake for first and second place.
Here's your category, semifinalists --
Medical Words.
We're going to pause while they make their wagers,
and then we'll come back with the clue.
The Final Jeopardy! category to decide this game --
Medical Words.
Let's show our Masters the clue.
30 seconds. Good luck.
Isaac Hirsch finished the game with 8,800 points
and wrote down in Final Jeopardy!...
"What is rosacea?" It's not rosacea.
Isaac, what did you wager?
1,402. That'll knock you down to 7,398.
Victoria Groce was in second place with 10,200.
She wrote down...
"What is anaphylaxis?"
And that is correct.
The word was originally "aphylaxis"
before the n-a was added.
What did you wager, Victoria?
8,601.
So you have 18,801
and you're just behind Yogesh Raut,
who was in the lead coming into Final.
Did he know it was anaphylaxis?
Didn't get it. He will lose...
801, knocking him down to 18,799,
So by just 2 points,
Victoria Groce comes from behind and wins the game.
[ Cheers and applause ]
3 more match points for Victoria
for her come-from-behind win.
1 more point for Yogesh Raut for finishing in second place.
Isaac, no points for you in that game.
Masters, let's take a look at the leaderboard
to see how things stand.
Victoria, undefeated so far in the semis, is in the top spot.
Yogesh is next thanks to both of his second-place finishes.
Isaac and Juveria have some catching up to do,
but there are still two games left to play
before we know who's advancing to the finals.
Don't miss it when the "Jeopardy! Masters" semifinals
conclude next Tuesday.
We'll see you then. Good night.