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Here’s today’s Final Jeopardy (in the category Broadway Premieres) for Tuesday, May 13, 2025 (Season 41, Game 177):
To avoid licensing fees, this play used bits of “Here We Go Round The Mulberry Bush” in place of the Disney tune that inspired its title
(correct response beneath the contestants)
Today’s Jeopardy! contestants:
Katie Tarara, a nonprofit comedy theater executive director from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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Aaron Dmiszewicki, an attorney from Pompano Beach, Florida
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Andrew Jones, a graduate student from Queens, New York (1-day total: $5,600)
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Andy’s Pregame Thoughts:
After a difficult game yesterday that didn’t hit our players particularly well, Andrew Jones is our new champion. Today, he faces off against Aaron Dmiszewicki and Katie Tarara.
Let’s talk about yesterday’s game a little bit more. A category with the word “Jeoportmanteau” in it has now run 12 times, dating all the way back to 2004. The category isn’t going anywhere. Just because it didn’t play well with the players in the studio doesn’t make it a bad category. Some players just aren’t good at wordplay—I went 4 for 5 in the category at home. You don’t see me calling for the de-emphasis of literature categories because I was a poor literature player in quiz bowl and for fewer movie clues because film was my worst category in “trash” tournaments. Wordplay is an equally important part of the Jeopardy! canon as sports—it just can’t be studied as well by memorizing J! Archive—and so a small minority of fans want to see it given the Old Yeller treatment. (And the tabloid clickbait media is happy to play along and amplify it, because outrage drives clicks.) This is also a reminder that the outrage machine is mostly driven by people who were never able to live out their dream of being a contestant on the show, and are choosing to take their frustrations at not being cast out by complaining about the show on a nightly basis.
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Correct response: What is Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
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A cross between literature/theatre and film? How dare Jeopardy! put such an abomination into my favorite television program! Get this absolute filth off my television screen! (For those readers here for whom identifying sarcasm is more difficult, I point you in the direction of my Pregame Thoughts.)
Okay, now, more seriously: Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? is a famous 1960s play by Edward Albee, whose title was taken from the Disney song “Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf” from 1933’s Three Little Pigs. Martha and George, the two main characters, sing a version of the Disney song, replacing “Big Bad” with Virginia. However, many stagings replace the song with “Here We Go Round The Mulberry Bush” due to its similar meter and public domain status.
This is the sort of Final Jeopardy clue that I think I’d like to see more of, though: it’s an interesting way of asking about a topic that the show has asked about numerous times.
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Game Recap & Tonight’s Game Stats:
Looking to find out who won Jeopardy! today? Here’s the Tuesday, May 13, 2025 Jeopardy! by the numbers, along with a recap:
Jeopardy! Round:
(Categories: World History; The Children’s Author Who Wrote…; Change A Letter; Metro Stations; Sitcoms; Proust’s Remembrance Of Smells Past)
Katie took a chance at breaking the game wide open on the first Daily Double, but fell back to $0 with an incorrect response. At the interviews, the scores were Andrew $2,000 Aaron $1,600 Katie $600.
Statistics at the first break (15 clues):
Andrew 3 correct 1 incorrect
Aaron 2 correct 0 incorrect
Katie 9 correct 1 incorrect
Today’s interviews:
Katie does a bit of game show hosting.
Aaron wrote a 40-page book report in fourth grade.
Andrew is a big Shakespeare fan and has been to the Stratford Festival many times.
Katie came back from the Daily Double miss to pick up six correct and re-take the lead after 30 clues.
Statistics after the Jeopardy round:
Katie 15 correct 1 incorrect
Aaron 5 correct 0 incorrect
Andrew 8 correct 3 incorrect
Scores after the Jeopardy! Round:
Katie $3,800
Aaron $2,600
Andrew $2,600
Double Jeopardy! Round:
(Categories: It Takes A Village; Opera; I Aced My Biochem Test; It’s Your Diamond Anniversary; & The Oscar For Acting Goes To…; Special “Eff”ects)
The Daily Doubles proved crucial in this round; Andrew got his correct, Katie missed another, and Andrew led going into Final.
Statistics after Double Jeopardy:
Andrew 16 correct 5 incorrect
Aaron 12 correct 1 incorrect
Katie 23 correct 5 incorrect
Total number of unplayed clues this season: 30 (0 today).
Scores going into Final:
Andrew $10,400
Aaron $9,000
Katie $7,200
Andrew got to the correct response very late but still had time to write it down. It was a good thing he did—he went all in in Final and is now a 2-day champion!
Tonight’s results:
Katie $7,200 – $7,199 = $1 (What is Zip a deedoo)
Aaron $9,000 – $5,401 = $3,599 (What is Merilly We Roll Along)
Andrew $10,400 + $10,400 = $20,800 (What is Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?) (2-day total: $26,400)
Other Miscellaneous Game Statistics:
Daily Double locations:
1) CHANGE A LETTER $800 (clue #13)
Katie 5200 -5200 (Andrew 1200 Aaron 1600)
2) OPERA $1200 (clue #10)
Andrew 7000 +3000 (Aaron 2600 Katie 4600)
3) IT’S YOUR DIAMOND ANNIVERSARY $2000 (clue #24, $3200 left on board)
Katie 9400 -2600 (Andrew 10000 Aaron 7400)
Overall Daily Double Efficiency for this game: -85
Clue Selection by Row, Before Daily Doubles Found:
J! Round:
Andrew 3 4 3
Aaron 4 5
Katie 4 3 5 2 3 3 4 4*
DJ! Round:
Andrew 1 3 4 2 3* 3 4† 5 2
Aaron 1 4 3 5† 4 5
Katie 3 2 5 2 5 4 3 4 5*
† – selection in same category as Daily Double
Average Row of Clue Selection, Before Daily Doubles Found:
Andrew 3.08
Aaron 3.88
Katie 3.59
Unplayed clues:
J! Round: None!
DJ! Round: None!
Total Left On Board: $0
Number of clues left unrevealed this season: 30 (0.17 per episode average), 0 Daily Doubles
Game Stats:
Andrew $8,600 Coryat, 16 correct, 5 incorrect, 31.58% in first on buzzer (18/57), 1/2 on rebound attempts (on 3 rebound opportunities)
Aaron $9,000 Coryat, 12 correct, 1 incorrect, 21.05% in first on buzzer (12/57), 0/1 on rebound attempts (on 7 rebound opportunities)
Katie $15,000 Coryat, 23 correct, 5 incorrect, 40.35% in first on buzzer (23/57), 3/3 on rebound attempts (on 4 rebound opportunities)
Combined Coryat Score: $32,600
Lach Trash: $9,800 (on 7 Triple Stumpers)
Coryat lost to incorrect responses (less double-correct responses): $11,600
Lead Changes: 12
Times Tied: 1
Player Statistics:
Andrew Jones, career statistics:
34 correct, 13 incorrect
1/4 on rebound attempts (on 10 rebound opportunities)
33.33% in first on buzzer (38/114)
1/3 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: -$1,400)
1/2 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $9,300
Aaron Dmiszewicki, career statistics:
12 correct, 2 incorrect
0/1 on rebound attempts (on 7 rebound opportunities)
21.05% in first on buzzer (12/57)
0/0 on Daily Doubles
0/1 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $9,000
Katie Tarara, career statistics:
23 correct, 6 incorrect
3/3 on rebound attempts (on 4 rebound opportunities)
40.35% in first on buzzer (23/57)
0/2 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: -$7,800)
0/1 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $15,000
Andrew Jones, to win:
3 games: 35.680%
4: 12.731%
5: 4.542%
6: 1.621%
7: 0.578%
Avg. streak: 2.555 games.
Andy’s Thoughts:
- Today’s box score will be linked to when posted by the show.
Final Jeopardy! wagering suggestions:
(Scores: Andrew $10,400 Aaron $9,000 Katie $7,200)
Andrew: Standard cover bet over Aaron is $7,601. (Actual bet: $10,400)
Aaron: Standard cover bet over Katie is $5,401. (Actual bet: $5,401)
Katie: Your best chance of victory comes with a bet between $3,201 and $3,600. (Actual bet: $7,199)
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Having seen this play performed live a few times, I got this clue immediately; but I don’t think I’ve ever encountered the “Mulberry Bush” variation. Perhaps a community theater would be more concerned about the licensing fee.
For me, that’s why I didn’t get it; I have never seen a Mulberry Bush variation. Plus, if it’s a small snippet, Fair Use comes into play. Heck, I think even the movie used the real song.
I don’t know about others, but just because I don’t “get” a category, I don’t call it unfair.
In a bit of irony, as I scrolled through this site, I noted an ad for Dell.
Like WWORDuke, I didn’t have the correct response to this Final either. Thinking that the answer clue referred to something recent, I went with “What is Wicked?, although I could see what Mulberry Bush had to do with it.
All you needed was to have seen the play one time and you’d be able to get this final, in my opinion. Sort of thought the theater person might get it but was happy to see, at least, one contestant got it.
Can’t really see any situation where the person in the lead would risk it all, unless they were James Holzhauer. Can anyone explain when it might be appropriate for the leader to risk it all other than in a tie situation? Congratulations to Andrew, though, it worked out for him.
Hi Robert,
I’ll chime in. There were actually no bets that Andrew could make that would keep 1 of the 2 opponents locked out, so I guess that’s why he did it. I was surprised as well until I looked at the scores entering FJ again and saw his options and there was no difference in a cover bet and in all in bet, based on what he probably expected his opponents to bet. Just my 2 cents. 🙂
I had no idea on FJ tonight. Oh well!
Retro congrats to Andew on win #2! Will he get #3 tomorrow? Can’t wait to see and then watch Jeopardy Masters at 9 p.m. Pacific.
The two good things about Jeoportmanteau are 1) it’s not used as much as Before & After and therefore 2) I don’t groan audibly as I do when Before & After is revealed as a category.