Below is the Final Jeopardy clue for Jeopardy Masters Game 5 for Wednesday, May 14, 2025. At the beginning of the fifth game in the knockout rounds, Yogesh Raut is in the lead with 6 match points, with Roger Craig in second with 4 points and Isaac Hirsch with 3. The first game in tonight’s match, though, will feature three different contestants who all have 1 point so far: Adriana Harmeyer, Matt Amodio, and Victoria Groce. Here is the clue, answer, wagers, and winner for Jeopardy Masters Game 5 on 5/14/2025.
Final Jeopardy Question for Jeopardy Masters 2025 Game 5
The Jeopardy Masters Final Jeopardy question for Game 5 on May 14, 2025 is in the category of “18th Century Science” and has the following clue:
Naturalist the Count de Buffon mocked N. & S. American animals, like this “elephant of the new world… the size of a very small mule”
To prevent spoilers, the right response to this question has been placed at the end of this article
Final Jeopardy Wagers and Winner for Jeopardy Masters 2025 Game 5
With a runaway victory, returning Jeopardy Masters champion Victoria Groce earned three additional points to her total. All three contestants nailed the Final Jeopardy clue.
Victoria had 27,200, just enough to have more than double Matt’s total. She didn’t have to wager anything to win, and so she bet 0 for the safe 3 points.
Matt still got second place, starting with 13,000 and earning an extra 601. He finished with 13,601 and got an additional point for his efforts.
Meanwhile, Adriana only had 6,800 and earned another 6500 with her answer. Sadly, 13,300 was not enough for her to get any points.
Final Jeopardy Answer for Jeopardy Masters 2025 Game 5
The correct answer for Final Jeopardy for Jeopardy Masters Game 5 on May 14, 2025 is “What is tapir?”
While it’s true that tapirs look like miniature elephants or perhaps even hippos, the closest living relatives of this animal is actually the rhino and horse. Buffon, aka Georges-Louis Leclerc, called the tapir “the elephant of the new world” as a way to assert American degeneracy, attempting to say that animals in the Americas were somehow inferior. Thomas Jefferson disproved the theory by saying that the American bear and beaver were much larger than their European counterparts.
