Here’s today’s Final Jeopardy (in the category Words of the Year) for Monday, April 11, 2022 (Season 38, Game 151):
Oxford’s Word of the Year for 2021 was this 3-letter one, short for a word that goes back to the Latin for “cow”
(correct response beneath the contestants)
Today’s contestants:
Michael Wolman, a marketing manager from Austin, Texas
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Vanessa McCombs, a college instructor from Manassas, Virginia
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Mattea Roach, a tutor from Toronto, Ontario, Canada (4-day total: $104,600)
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Andy’s Pregame Thoughts: Canada’s Mattea Roach—who now lives in Toronto but has previously lived in Halifax, Calgary, and Moncton as well—is at four victories and became the winningest Canadian Jeopardy! contestant (in regular play) in the history of the show on Friday, becoming the first Canadian to crack the $100,000 mark (in US dollars) in regular play on the show. She returns as a 4-day champion, hoping to make it to 5. (If she gets there, no Canadian has ever won six.)
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Correct response: What is vax?
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According to Oxford’s corpus, by September 2021 the frequency of the word “vax” (short for “vaccine”) was 72 times greater than it was in 2020. The word “vaccine” itself comes from the Latin for cow; the first vaccine was for smallpox, developed by Edward Jenner, after he discovered that milkmaids (who had contracted mild cowpox due to their vocation) became immune from smallpox. For over 200 years since, vaccines have proven to be a safe and effective method of helping to provide immunity to various infectious diseases, reducing the overall effect of those diseases on society.
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Game Recap:
Jeopardy! Round categories: A European Capital Tour; Purple Reign; It’s a Fact; In Mom’s Free Time; 2-Word Animal Expressions; Symphon”E”s
The opening 15 clues today belonged to the two Ms, with both Mattea and Michael getting off to strong start. Unfortunately, Michael was afraid to potentially go in the red, and left $600 on the table on the opening Daily Double. Coming out of the break, Mattea picked up nine correct responses (to Michael’s 7) and jumped out into a small lead.
Double Jeopardy! Round categories: U.S. Geographical History; The Origin Trail; Chemical Elements; Metaphors; Literature; Double Presidential Namers
Mattea struggled in the back half of Double Jeopardy as her two opponents got to play Daily Doubles. Unfortunately for Vanessa, she missed a Daily Double. Michael, however, picked up his for $5,000! In a round that felt like it got strangely cut off five clues early, your scores going into Final saw Michael at $12,600, with Mattea second at $10,200 and Vanessa third at $2,600.
In Final Jeopardy! today, Mattea was the only contestant to come up with “vax”—and she’s now a five-day champion! Tomorrow, she tries to become the first Canadian to ever win six!
Looking to find out who won Jeopardy! today? Here’s the Monday, April 11, 2022 Jeopardy! by the numbers:
Scores going into Final:
Michael $12,600
Mattea $10,200
Vanessa $2,600
Tonight’s results:
Vanessa $2,600 – $2,600 = $0 (What is bov?)
Mattea $10,200 + $2,400 = $12,600 (What is vax? If I lose, I had fun, thanks all) (5-day total: $117,200)
Michael $12,600 – $8,000 = $4,600 (What is bov?)
Scores after the Jeopardy! Round:
Mattea $7,000
Michael $5,200
Vanessa $600
Opening break taken after: 15 clues
Daily Double locations:
1) A EUROPEAN CAPITAL TOUR $1000 (clue #5)
Michael 400 +400 (Mattea 1000 Vanessa 200)
2) LITERATURE $800 (clue #7)
Vanessa 3400 -2000 (Mattea 9000 Michael 3600)
3) CHEMICAL ELEMENTS $2000 (clue #24, $8000 left on board)
Michael 6800 +5000 (Mattea 10200 Vanessa 2600)
Overall Daily Double Efficiency for this game: 55
Unplayed clues:
J! Round: None!
DJ! Round: U.S. GEOGRAPHICAL HISTORY $400 $1200 $1600 $2000 THE ORIGIN TRAIL $2000
Total Left On Board: $7,200
Number of clues left unrevealed this season: 63 (0.42 per episode average), 0 Daily Doubles
Game Stats:
Mattea $10,200 Coryat, 20 correct, 3 incorrect, 40.38% in first on buzzer (21/52), 2/2 on rebound attempts (on 5 rebound opportunities)
Michael $10,200 Coryat, 15 correct, 3 incorrect, 28.85% in first on buzzer (15/52), 1/1 on rebound attempts (on 5 rebound opportunities)
Vanessa $4,600 Coryat, 9 correct, 4 incorrect, 21.15% in first on buzzer (11/52), 0/1 on rebound attempts (on 6 rebound opportunities)
Combined Coryat Score: $25,000
Lach Trash: $11,000 (on 10 Triple Stumpers)
Coryat lost to incorrect responses (less double-correct responses): $10,800
Mattea Roach, career statistics:
134 correct, 11 incorrect
10/12 on rebound attempts (on 26 rebound opportunities)
43.57% in first on buzzer (122/280)
5/6 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $9,000)
4/5 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $18,920
Vanessa McCombs, career statistics:
9 correct, 5 incorrect
0/1 on rebound attempts (on 6 rebound opportunities)
21.15% in first on buzzer (11/52)
0/1 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: -$2,000)
0/1 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $4,600
Michael Wolman, career statistics:
15 correct, 4 incorrect
1/1 on rebound attempts (on 5 rebound opportunities)
28.85% in first on buzzer (15/52)
2/2 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $5,400)
0/1 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $10,200
Mattea Roach, to win:
6 games: 63.210%
7: 39.956%
8: 25.256%
9: 15.965%
10: 10.091%
Avg. streak: 6.718 games.
Today’s interviews:
Michael accidentally travelled to Europe on an expired passport.
Vanessa has well-travelled furniture.
Mattea would like to thank her high school debate coach.
Andy’s Thoughts:
- Link to the box score: April 11, 2022 Box Score
Final Jeopardy! betting suggestions:
(Scores: Michael $12,600 Mattea $10,200 Vanessa $2,600)
Mattea: You should bet between $4,801 (double the score difference between you and Michael) and $4,999 (ensuring you stay ahead of Vanessa).
Vanessa: You can still win this, but Mattea has to overbet and you need a single-get Final. You need to get to at least $4,800, though, so your minimum bet needs to be $2,200.
Michael: Standard cover bet today is $7,801.
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blarg ;p I was fixed on the generic “bos” and forgot all about the female “vacca” 🤦
Current FJ streak: 1L
Rooting again for Haligoinian Mattea!
*Haligonian
whew I’m glad she got win #5! It looked dicey going into FJ.
ugh. 5 clues left on the board is just plain ugly.
I still think they could edit the show a little tighter in order to get all the clues in every game.
It did seem like a lot of clues left with three good players who seemed to be keeping up a good pace. I guess there were just too many misses and triple stumpers. Ken never gave the one minute warning as usually happens.
Wouldn’t that be a form of manipulating the clock?
no more so than other edits that they already do (like taking time to check with the judges. it happens fairly often but isn’t noticeable on the broadcast because it is edited out)
If they allowed extra time to run the game, wouldn’t that create different results for contestants playing under different time limits? To put it another way, I can sink ten free throws in two minutes, but if someone else is given 2:30, doesn’t that skew the results?
The only people affected in this case would be the individual players in each game—and they’d be playing under the same conditions, so it would be fair.
contestants would still have the same time limit when it comes to replying to any individual clue. They might just edit out a second of dead time here or there during triple stumpers, or trim out some of the extraneous dialogue.
Besides, there is already variation in how some clues take longer to read than others. For example: categories with guest presenters and/or video clips take noticeably longer than regular clues
I don’t know any Latin but know vache is French for cow and with the big story of the past couple of years being Covid, it led me to vax.
Got dicey at the end but happy to see Mattea win. 5 clues left on the board was strange…
Perhaps Ken did give a 1 minute warning in person but it didn’t make it to the edited cut of the episode?
Dunno. All’s well that ends well
I was surprised by the low bet Mattea made! A lucky win is still a win, though!
Usually, when in second place, it’s better to bet too little than too much.