2025 SEASON 5 FINAL JACKPOT ROUND

6 teams competed in the Season 5 Final Jackpot Round.

This is the fewest number of teams for a Season Final Jackpot Round in 2025.
The average number of questions correctly answered was 6.83 out of 12.

It turns out that the Jackpot Round was basically a 3-horse race.

Throughout the entire round, the top 3 places were only ever held by the 3 eventual Jackpot winners.

All of them took turns in holding 1st, 2nd and 3rd places at different times.

No other team got a look in!

Question 1 - In which Australian state is the town of Bacchus Marsh located?

Pink Bits answered the fastest and took an early lead.

Betty Swallows were next fastest with Children Of The Revolution just behind them.

Question 2 - Which is larger – an acre or a hectare?

This is the first - and only - question that every team answered correctly.

Betty Swallows and Team Nunya answered correctly in the fastest time of the round - 0.783 seconds.

Betty Swallows moved into 1st place.

Children Of The Revolution answered correctly in 0.993 seconds.

They grabbed 2nd place.

It took Pink Bits 9.153 seconds to answer correctly - the only team to take more than 2 seconds.

Pink Bits dropped down to 3rd place.

Question 3 - Released in 2019, whose debut album was "When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?"?

The top 3 teams all answered correctly in under 2 seconds.

The top 3 places remained unchanged.

Question 4 -  Who is the only one of the 'Angels' in the original "Charlie's Angels" TV series to appear in a James Bond movie?

Only the top 3 teams answered correctly.

Now it was COTR's turn to be in 1st place.

They moved in front of Betty Swallows with a lead of 48 points.

Pink Bits was just 16 points behind them.

 Then there was a big gap to 4th-placed Ita Buttcheeks - 2308 points behind Pink Bits.

Question 5 - Whose first Las Vegas concert residency in 2019 and 2020 was titled "The Xperience"?

COTR answered correctly in 0.831 seconds, getting their highest score of the round - 986 points.

Pink Bits also answered correctly, but took 4.507 seconds.

Unfortunately, Betty Swallows got it wrong and dropped down to 3rd place.

Pink Bits was now in 2nd place, 125 points behind COTR and 1032 points ahead of Betty Swallows.

 Ita Buttcheeks answered correctly and were 1559 points behind Betty Swallows.

Sunboyz also got it right.

Question 6 - How is the musical instrument called a cajón played?

Only Sunboyz and Ita Buttcheeks answered incorrectly.

COTR answered twice as fast as Pink Bits.

Pink Bits scored 443 points - the lowest score of any team for a correct answer in the whole round.

COTR's lead over Pink Bits increased to 405 points.

Betty Swallows remained in 3rd place, but shrunk the gap to Pink Bits to 963 points. 

Team Nunya was now 4th, 2168 points behind.

Pink Bits and Children Of The Revolution answered the first 6 questions correctly.

But that's where the run for both teams came to an abrupt stop.

Question 7 - How many full stars are there on the flag of Bosnia and Herzegovina?

Only Sunboyz answered correctly.

The top 3 places did not change.

Question 8 - The climax of the 1978 movie "Foul Play" takes place during a performance of which Gilbert and Sullivan comic opera?

This turned out to be the most crucial question of the round.

Pink Bits and Betty Swallows answered correctly, but COTR didn't.

Pink Bits moved into 1st place, 735 points ahead of COTR who dropped down to 2nd place.

Betty Swallows were 117 points behind them.

Ita Buttcheeks were a distant 4th, 2240 points behind Betty Swallows. 

Question 9 - The final episode of which TV series was titled "The Hair-Brained Scheme"?

Pink Bits and COTR answered correctly, but Betty Swallows didn't.

COTR answered in 4.855 seconds, but Pink Bits took 19.676 seconds.

Pink Bits' lead was cut to 488 points.

Betty Swallows remained in 3rd, 1187 points behind COTR.

Question 10 - Who won the 2025 U.S. Masters golf tournament?

Once again, Pink Bits and COTR answered correctly, but Betty Swallows didn't.

COTR took 1.858 seconds, while Pink Bits took 5.991 seconds.

Pink Bits' lead was cut to 419 points.

Betty Swallows were able to hang on to 3rd, but were now 2335 points behind COTR.

Question 11 - What type of creature is a Beauceron?

Only the top 3 teams answered correctly.

Pink Bits was quickest, then COTR, then Betty Swallows.

This was the lowest-scoring question for COTR and Betty Swallows.

Pink Bits increased his lead to 496 points.

COTR increased their lead over Betty Swallows to 2540 points.

Question 12 - In which country is the hryvnia the unit of currency?

Only Pink Bits, COTR and Sunboyz answered correctly.

Pink Bits answered in 1.2 seconds, while it took COTR 2.714 seconds.

Pink Bits ended up 524 points ahead of COTR.

COTR ended up 3614 points ahead of Betty Swallows.

The placings were locked in at Question 8 and remained that way until the end of the round.

If COTR had just got Question 8 right, there may have been a very different result.

Pink Bits answered 11 out of 12 questions correctly.

Pink Bits took out the Major Jackpot, winning $300.

Children Of The Revolution took out the Minor Jackpot, winning $100.

Betty Swallows took out the Mini Jackpot, winning $50.

Pink Bits' last Major Jackpot win was Season 4 Final in October 2025.

He also won the Season 3 Final in August 2025.

This means Pink Bits is the first team ever to win 3 consecutive Season Final Jackpots.

Children Of The Revolution's last Minor Jackpot win was Season 3 Final in August 2025.

 Betty Swallows' last Mini Jackpot win was Season 1 Final in April 2023.
 

There were no questions that no team got correct.

There was 1 question that only 1 team got correct.

There were no questions that only 2 teams got correct.

Children Of The Revolution was the only team with an average score per correct answer in the 900s.

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​​Highest average score and fastest buzzer (for correct answers) - Children Of The Revolution

Lowest average score and slowest buzzer (for correct answers) - Sunboyz

Highest average penalty (for incorrect answers) - Children Of The Revolution

Children Of The Revolution got this 'honour' in the previous Season Final.

Lowest average penalty (for incorrect answers) - Betty Swallows

Greatest run of consecutive correct answers - 6 - Pink Bits and Children Of The Revolution

Greatest run of consecutive incorrect answers - 6 - Team Nunya

 Most points for a correct answer - 987 points - Betty Swallows and Team Nunya

 (Q2 - Which is larger – an acre or a hectare?)

​Fewest points for a correct answer - 443 points - Pink Bits

 (Q6 - How is the musical instrument called a cajón played?)

Highest penalty for an incorrect answer - 243 points - Sunboyz and Ita Buttcheeks

 (Q1 - In which Australian state is the town of Bacchus Marsh located?)

Lowest penalty for an incorrect answer - 115 points - Sunboyz

 (Q8 - Released in 2019, whose debut album was "When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?"?)