Here’s today’s Final Jeopardy (in the category Countries of Africa) for Tuesday, April 19, 2022 (Season 38, Game 157):
Old maps depicting what’s now this 125,000-square-mile country labeled the area with the French word for “teeth”
(correct response beneath the contestants)
Today’s contestants:
Josh Sen, a student from Edison, New Jersey
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Tina Disciullo-Acker, a manager of development events from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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Mattea Roach, a tutor from Toronto, Ontario, Canada (10-day total: $227,601)
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Andy’s Pregame Thoughts: Mattea Roach continues her winning ways, as the first-ever Canadian superchamp became only the 13th person to win at least 10 games on the show. (Amazingly, four of those have been in the last nine months.) Why is that? Witnessing just how much extra time many of my quizzing friends have had to study trivia, it comes as no surprise that more people are getting better at this. I’m sure that things will revert to normal eventually, but this has been a great ride.
(And, I would also like to point out, that the show’s categories today have used the term “Indian” in its correct usage and context—that being, the demonym for people from India)
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Correct response: What is Côte d’Ivoire?
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The Republic of Côte d’Ivoire has had many names referring to the ivory trade that the area become known for, including the Côte de Dents. “Côte du Vent” was also prevalent due to the offshore windy weather. The Ivorian government has requested that Côte d’Ivoire be used as the official name of the country since 1986 (in spite of this, many English-language news sources, plus Wikipedia, essentially thumb its nose at the request, still using the English translation, “Ivory Coast”.)
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Game Recap:
Jeopardy! Round categories: Let’s Get Scientific; The ABCs of Indian Food; Possessive Things; Nonfiction Television; Rhyme Time; I See You There
Mattea had a strong but not dominant opening 30 clues, with our Canadian superchampion picking up 6 on each side of the interviews. Unfortunately for Josh, he dropped a true Daily Double just before the first commercial break, but he rebounded to 50% of Mattea’s score at the second series of commercials.
Double Jeopardy! Round categories: April Fools; My Literary Creations; Policing & Punishment; Religion in the 13th Century; The Cast of the Movie; “ICU” There!
In a more even game than usual on the buzzer, it was Josh who found the first Daily Double—but he dropped another $3,000. After Mattea switched out of the religion category, the last Daily Double felt destined to be found late—and it was Mattea who got to play a Penultimate Wager. Playing it very well, Mattea cemented her runaway on the final clue of the round. Scores going into Final saw Mattea at $17,400, Josh at $8,600, and Tina at $7,000.
Final Jeopardy! was a Triple Stumper, which meant the last Daily Double was crucial—Mattea’s now an 11-game champion! She’ll go for a dozen tomorrow!
Looking to find out who won Jeopardy! today? Here’s the Tuesday, April 19, 2022 Jeopardy! by the numbers:
Scores going into Final:
Mattea $17,400
Josh $8,600
Tina $7,000
Tonight’s results:
Tina $7,000 – $5,000 = $2,000 (What is Dent)
Josh $8,600 – $0 = $8,600 (What is Sudan?)
Mattea $17,400 – $119 = $17,281 (What is Mali?) (11-day total: $244,882)
Scores after the Jeopardy! Round:
Mattea $5,600
Josh $2,800
Tina $1,400
Opening break taken after: 14 clues
Daily Double locations:
1) LET’S GET SCIENTIFIC $800 (clue #14)
Josh 1800 -1800 (Mattea 2200 Tina 600)
2) “ICU” THERE! $1200 (clue #17)
Josh 7200 -3000 (Mattea 14000 Tina 4600)
3) RELIGION IN THE 13th CENTURY $2000 (clue #30, $0 left on board)
Mattea 14000 +3400 (Tina 7000 Josh 8600)
Overall Daily Double Efficiency for this game: -117
Unplayed clues:
J! Round: None!
DJ! Round: None!
Total Left On Board: $0
Number of clues left unrevealed this season: 64 (0.41 per episode average), 0 Daily Doubles
Game Stats:
Mattea $16,000 Coryat, 23 correct, 2 incorrect, 40.35% in first on buzzer (23/57), 1/1 on rebound attempts (on 4 rebound opportunities)
Josh $13,400 Coryat, 18 correct, 3 incorrect, 33.33% in first on buzzer (19/57), 0/0 on rebound attempts (on 5 rebound opportunities)
Tina $7,000 Coryat, 10 correct, 4 incorrect, 21.05% in first on buzzer (12/57), 1/2 on rebound attempts (on 3 rebound opportunities)
Combined Coryat Score: $36,400
Lach Trash: $8,400 (on 7 Triple Stumpers)
Coryat lost to incorrect responses (less double-correct responses): $9,200
Mattea Roach, career statistics:
295 correct, 25 incorrect
16/19 on rebound attempts (on 48 rebound opportunities)
44.44% in first on buzzer (276/621)
12/14 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $24,600)
7/11 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $19,291
Tina Disciullo-Acker, career statistics:
10 correct, 5 incorrect
1/2 on rebound attempts (on 3 rebound opportunities)
21.05% in first on buzzer (12/57)
0/0 on Daily Doubles
0/1 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $7,000
Josh Sen, career statistics:
18 correct, 4 incorrect
0/0 on rebound attempts (on 5 rebound opportunities)
33.33% in first on buzzer (19/57)
0/2 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: -$4,800)
0/1 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $13,400
Mattea Roach, to win:
12 games: 71.311%
13: 50.853%
14: 36.264%
15: 25.860%
16: 18.441%
Avg. streak: 13.486 games.
Today’s interviews:
Josh wanted to become a musician, for money and women.
Tina had a father who wrote clues where the correct response was always George Washington.
Mattea has three younger brothers.
Andy’s Thoughts:
- Mattea, at $244,882, moves to 13th in all-time winnings in regular play.
- Link to the box score: April 19, 2022 Box Score
Final Jeopardy! betting suggestions:
(Mattea $17,400 Josh $8,600 Tina $7,000)
Mattea: Bet between $0 and $199 and enjoy your victory!
Tina: Bet between $3,201 and $3,800 to give yourself the best chance of taking second place.
Josh: The standard cover bet over Tina is $5,401. Bet that.
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tch I was thinking of old Europe instead of colonial period. That’s the first time I heard of “Côte de Dents”, although the Ivory connection should be enough to point you to the answer assuming you know its approximate size.
Current FJ streak: 1L
Wondering if “Ivory Coast” will be acceptable.
I have a feeling it will be.
Mattea’s trying to mimic Ken Jennings with that wager. Ken always had a knack to even out his scores, so if there’s a one, he would wager an amount with a nine at the end.
“our Canadian superchampion…”
Wouldn’t “ultrachampion” be the more appropriate term there?
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Does Ken Jennings read the fan pages?
I actually thought this was going to be a triple get rather than a triple stumper. Of course, it probably helped me that I had students from the Republic of Côte d’Ivoire in the International Class that I taught at my church. None of my students ever referred to it as Côte de Dents but it was the first country that popped into my head anyway. Maybe, it wasn’t so easy after all and I just got lucky. In any case, best wishes for continued success to Mattea, the super ultra champ from Canada. 🙂
I knew it was Cote d’Ivoire in a matter of seconds, because of the ivory + French name. Shocked that not a one of them got it…. but I spend too much time on Sporcle. So maybe that’s it.
I imagine there’s a lot of pressure in the thirty seconds on a clue that you don’t know but can reason out. Not too surprised that no one got it.
“Demonym,” love that word. Did crosswords, to which I attribute my Jeopardy! knowledge, for 20 years. Never ran across that one? In my heyday, I did the New York Times, USA Today, and the Oregonian almost every day. So many words, so little time. Nailed the Final with Ivory Coast . . .