Here’s today’s Final Jeopardy (in the category Films of the 1950s) for Thursday, April 21, 2022 (Season 38, Game 159):
The title character of this film has the same name as the Roman goddess of the dawn
(correct response beneath the contestants)
Today’s contestants:
Meghan Bowman, an IT analyst from Mount Prospect, Illinois
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Alex Lemberg, an attorney & activist from San Francisco, California
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Mattea Roach, a tutor from Toronto, Ontario, Canada (12-day total: $271,282)
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Andy’s Pregame Thoughts: Mattea Roach surpassed 300 correct responses, 12 victories, and $270,000 yesterday. Today, she goes for victory #13. Mattea has quickly become one of the most popular people in Canada to cheer for—and our national news and morning shows are definitely paying attention! (For the uninitiated Canadians: the show airs on YES TV in Ontario and Alberta, CHEK Victoria in British Columbia, and NTV St. John’s on the East Coast. If you don’t have access to any of these—check out the local listings of US border television markets.)
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Correct response: What is Sleeping Beauty?
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One of the most famous Disney animated films of all time, Princess Aurora is the title character of 1959’s Sleeping Beauty. The crux of this clue, though, is being able to associate Aurora as “Roman goddess of the dawn”. If your brain can make that connection in 30 seconds, great! If not: that’s no reason to heap shame onto anyone.
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Game Recap:
Jeopardy! Round categories: California; Book Title Geography; Think “Big”; That’s not Cannon; A Golf Course; Also Found in the Kitchen
Mattea had a good, but not great, start in her quest for win #13; she only had $2,000 (off 5 correct responses) going into the first break! Meanwhile, Alex doubled up immediately after the break on the Daily Double and held the lead after Single Jeopardy!; Meghan did well in the golf category at the end to pull some of her defecit back.
Double Jeopardy! Round categories: The 1720s; World Capitals; Anagrammed Ungulates; Biblical Devotions; Simply Stellar; Let Freedom Sing
A strong battle between Mattea and Alex only saw separation when Mattea got her Daily Double correct, whereas Alex missed his. Alex did recover after losing $5,000 to keep Mattea from getting a runaway. Scores going into Final were Mattea at $20,000, with Alex at $12,600 and Meghan at $4,000.
Meghan was the only player to get Final correct; unfortunately for her, she didn’t have enough money today to take advantage of that to win today. Mattea survives another scare to pick up win #13! She goes for win #14 tomorrow.
Looking to find out who won Jeopardy! today? Here’s the Thursday, April 21, 2022 Jeopardy! by the numbers:
Scores going into Final:
Mattea $20,000
Alex $12,600
Meghan $4,000
Tonight’s results:
Meghan $4,000 + $3,500 = $7,500 (What is Sleeping Beauty?)
Alex $12,600 – $8,000 = $4,600 (What is Some like it hot)
Mattea $20,000 – $5,201 = $14,799 (What is Sabrina?) (13-day total: $286,081)
Scores after the Jeopardy! Round:
Alex $6,000
Mattea $5,400
Meghan $2,000
Opening break taken after: 15 clues
Daily Double locations:
1) CALIFORNIA $600 (clue #16)
Alex 1200 +1200 (Mattea 2000 Meghan -400)
2) THE 1720s $1200 (clue #7)
Mattea 8200 +3000 (Alex 7200 Meghan 2400)
3) BIBLICAL DEVOTIONS $2000 (clue #24, $8000 left on board)
Alex 14000 -5000 (Mattea 19200 Meghan 4000)
Overall Daily Double Efficiency for this game: 101
Unplayed clues:
J! Round: None!
DJ! Round: None!
Total Left On Board: $0
Number of clues left unrevealed this season: 64 (0.40 per episode average), 0 Daily Doubles
Game Stats:
Mattea $18,200 Coryat, 23 correct, 0 incorrect, 38.60% in first on buzzer (22/57), 0/0 on rebound attempts (on 2 rebound opportunities)
Meghan $4,000 Coryat, 7 correct, 1 incorrect, 14.04% in first on buzzer (8/57), 0/0 on rebound attempts (on 1 rebound opportunity)
Alex $17,000 Coryat, 20 correct, 2 incorrect, 35.09% in first on buzzer (20/57), 0/0 on rebound attempts (on 1 rebound opportunity)
Combined Coryat Score: $39,200
Lach Trash: $10,200 (on 9 Triple Stumpers)
Coryat lost to incorrect responses (less double-correct responses): $4,600
Mattea Roach, career statistics:
350 correct, 29 incorrect
18/22 on rebound attempts (on 55 rebound opportunities)
44.49% in first on buzzer (327/735)
15/17 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $32,000)
8/13 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $19,200
Alex Lemberg, career statistics:
20 correct, 3 incorrect
0/0 on rebound attempts (on 1 rebound opportunity)
35.09% in first on buzzer (20/57)
1/2 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: -$3,800)
0/1 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $17,000
Meghan Bowman, career statistics:
8 correct, 1 incorrect
0/0 on rebound attempts (on 1 rebound opportunity)
14.04% in first on buzzer (8/57)
0/0 on Daily Doubles
1/1 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $4,000
Mattea Roach, to win:
14 games: 72.393%
15: 52.407%
16: 37.939%
17: 27.465%
18: 19.883%
Avg. streak: 15.622 games.
Today’s interviews:
Meghan watches Jeopardy! with her family while drinking cocktails.
Alex was a drag performer; their professional knife-throwing father threw knives at them.
Mattea got to watch the Tour de France while on exchange.
Andy’s Thoughts:
- With current exchange rates (1:30 PM Eastern on April 21, 2022), $286,081 USD is worth $359,091.73 CAD.
- Mattea moves into the top 30 in overall winnings (including tournaments.)
- With 350, Mattea moves into 18th all-time in terms of number of correct responses on the show.
- Link to the box score: April 21, 2022 Box Score
Final Jeopardy! betting suggestions:
(Mattea $20,000 Alex $12,600 Meghan $4,000)
Mattea: Standard cover bet today is $5,201.
Alex: You need to get to at least $14,800; bet at least $2,200. If you limit your bet to $4,599, you can keep Meghan locked out in third.
Meghan: You’re not going to win unless Mattea significantly overbets. Bet whatever you like, with the thought that your chances of second place are better if you keep more money left at the end.
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Huh… tricksy clue. Wonder how many will get misdirected, thinking the name is actually in the title. It took me several seconds to make the jump from Aurora to the character in Sleeping Beauty.
Current FJ streak: 2W
That was certainly me…I immediately thought the goddess of the dawn was Aurora, but dismissed it because I didn’t know of a film titled Aurora.
Having no clue, I would’ve guessed The Three Faces of Eve
No idea whatsoever!
My bad FJ run continues 🙁
There’s only been three correct Final responses so far this week. I thought Tuesday’s Final was shady, and the champ soloed one game, though . . .
Do you think they would accept “Aurora”?
Nope—the clue clearly says “this film”.
Dang, it’s been a three day dry spell on FJ for me. Still though, I hope Mattea can crack the top ten on the All Time Jeopardy winnings list.
I did remember the name princess aurora as it lead me directly to sleeping beauty. But what i don’t get is why did Mattea say Sabrina the teenage witch? Still a win is a win
1) She just said Sabrina, no more;
2) It’s always better to say something, no matter how wrong you think it might be, because a blank answer is definitely wrong.
Sabrina was the title of a movie in the mid-fifties starring Audrey Hepburn in which the title character was definitely not a teenage witch.
I was DOA with this final. I always think Eos as goddess of the dawn first, and had absolutely no idea that Sleeping Beauty’s name was Aurora.
I thought of Eos as the Goddess of the Dawn, too. That led me nowhere … except into the darkness, alas.
Eos is Greek, Aurora is Roman.
I immediately went to Aurora but it took me a while to realize that I needed the title of the film. It finally dawned (pun intended) on me that the correct response was “Sleeping Beauty.” Not sure I would have come up with it under the pressure of the allotted 30 seconds. Mostly, I wrote this to get the pun in. 🙂
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Sabrina wasn’t a bad guess – the title character of the 1959 movie “Sabrina” is also the name of a Roman goddess .. just not the right one. She was lucky Alex was also incorrect.