It all came down to this! The final two episodes of Season 4 of Jeopardy! Masters declared a winner. One contestant became $500,000 richer and proved they are the master of the game.
Victoria Groce, from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Yogesh Raut, from Vancouver, Washington, and Andrew He, from San Francisco, California, faced off in the two final games on September 8. Find out who won. *WARNING: This post contains spoilers about the September 8 episodes of Jeopardy! Masters.*
Raut, a specialist in applied cognition, had the lead for the first round in game one. On clue 20, Groce, a writer and speaker, found the Daily Double.
She had 2,400 points and wagered them all in “A Trip to the Valley.” The clue was “It’s home to the Timbisha Shoshone Village at Furnace Creek.”
“What is Sun Valley?” she answered incorrectly. The correct response was Death Valley, so she dropped to zero points.
By the end of the round, Raut, who won Season 3, ended with 7,800 points. He, a stay-at-home dad, was in second place with 3,400 points. Groce had 400.
In Double Jeopardy, Groce, the Season 2 winner, dominated the beginning of the round. When she found the first DD on clue four, she had 5,200 points.
She wagered 1,200 points in “Before, During, & After.” The clue was “Innate response urging a choice of Melee or escape into a buzzy Rimsky-Korsakov piece with a can of Albacore.”
“What is fight or flight of the bumblebee tuna?” she answered correctly. This gave her 6,400 points.
She then found the next DD on clue 10. Groce had 8,000 points and wagered all of it. In “The Pre-Musketeers,” the clue read, “With a name meaning ‘new soldier,’ these elite Ottoman troops were early adopters of gunpowder weapons.
“Who are the Janissaries?” she answered correctly. This gave her the lead of 16,000 points. Raut had 15,800. However, about halfway through the round, Raut and Groce fought for the lead.
By the end of the round, Raut had the lead with 19,800. Groce wasn’t far behind with 18,800. He had 7,800 points.
The category for Final Jeopardy was “The Internet.” The clue was “In the wake of a recent tech boom, this small Caribbean territory now gets nearly 50% of its revenue from domain name sales.”
He’s response was “What is Anguilla?” That was correct. He wagered 7,777, giving him 15,577. Groce had the correct response. She added zero points, making her final total 18,800.
Raut was also right. He wagered 10,000 points, giving him 29,800 points. He won game one. Scores from both games will be added to the total to determine the winner.
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The final game had the same three competitors. Groce found the DD on clue three. She had 1,000 points and wagered them all.
In “The 20th Century,” the clue was “The breakup of Czechoslovakia into Slovakia & the Czech Republic is called this, playing on the name of a 1989 event.” “What is the Velvet Divorce?” Groce answered correctly, giving her 2,000 points.
By the end of the round, Groce had the lead with 6,200. Raut had 5,600. He was in third place with 1,400 points.
In Double Jeopardy, He found the first DD on clue 12. He had 4,600 points and wagered all of his points.
The clue in “Quasi-related Pairs” was “‘A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning’ poet & wiped with a Swiffer.” He didn’t have a response. The correct response was Dunn and Duted. He dropped down to zero points.
Raut found the second DD on clue 19. He had 10,000 points and wagered 5,000. In “Foe-pourri,” the clue read, “In 1959, his scathing review of B.F. Skinner’s ‘verbal behavior’ was a seminal movement in the birth of cognitive science.”
“Who was Chomsky?” he answered correctly. This gave him 15,000 points. Groce had 17,000 points.
By the end of the round, Raut had 19,000. Groce was in second place with 18,600. He had 2,800 points.
The Final Jeopardy clue was “Supreme Court Decisions.” The clue was “This 1944 decision frequently cites Hirabayashi v. U.S, decided 18 months earlier & upholding a conviction for violating curfew.”
He’s response was “What is Ken vs. Us at Wresl?” That was incorrect. He wagered 2,800 points, giving him zero, and a total of 15,577. Groce wrote “What is Takematsu vs. U.S.?” That was also wrong. She wagered 4,400. giving her 14,200.
Raut’s response was “What is Korematsu?” That was correct. He wagered 7,201, giving him 26,001. Groce had a total of 33,000. Raut’s total was 56,001. Raut became the winner and the first-ever two-time winner.
He won $500,000, the Alex Trebek Trophy, the title of winner, and $100,000 donated to his charity — Direct Relief. Groce went home with $250,000. He took home $150,000.
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