Happy Monday, friends! Here’s today’s Final Jeopardy (in the category Names in American History) for Monday, April 25, 2022 (Season 38, Game 161):
Capable of freighting about 180 tons of cargo, in 1624 it was in disrepair & appraised at a total value of 128 pounds
(correct response beneath the contestants)
Today’s contestants:
Michael Graff, a mascot from Eastvale, California
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Jessie Francis, a mental health therapist from Marietta, Georgia
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Mattea Roach, a tutor from Toronto, Ontario, Canada (14-day total: $320,081)
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Andy’s Pregame Thoughts: Ken Jennings continues his hosting stint this week and next as our Canadian 14-day champion Mattea Roach nears some more milestones. She’s already 10th all-time in regular-play winnings and with a good game today she’ll break into the top 25 if tournaments are included. Also, 21 correct responses today will put her at a career total of 400. We’re also at the point of the run where just hearing about a 14-game chat will be intimidating to challengers. (Imagine thinking you’ve avoided Amy Schneider, just to meet Mattea.) Michael and Jessie are surely hoping that they weren’t too intimidated today!
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Correct response: What is the Mayflower?
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The Mayflower was Christopher Jones’ private ship which was hired to take the Pilgrims in September 1620 to the New World. While the intended destination was Northern Virginia, the ship made landfall in Massachusetts. Jones himself died in 1622 and the 1624 appraisal mentioned in the clue was for probate purposes. The ship was described as being “in ruins” and only valued at its scrap value—128 pounds, 8 shillings, and fourpence.
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Game Recap:
Jeopardy! Round categories: Picture the Song; Same First & Last Letter; The Mexican-American War; Out in the Ocean; Musical Instruments; Let’s Play Old-Time Private Eye
The opening 15 clues saw a great battle between Jessie (7 correct, including the Daily Double) and champion Mattea (5 correct). Jessie held a lead at the first break. Coming out of the break, Jessie struggled a little bit with SAME FIRST & LAST LETTER, but did maintain a $600 lead after Single Jeopardy.
Double Jeopardy! Round categories: Books & Authors; Who Played ‘Em?; Multiple Hyphens; Mane-Splaining; I’ll Follow You; To the “N”s of the Earth
Mattea picked up both Daily Doubles for $4,000 apiece; these were the turning points for her in a round where she picked up 14 correct to just three for Jessie; The scores going into Final were Mattea $27,200, Jessie $10,200 and Michael $5,000.
Of our three players, Mattea and Jessie got Final correct; Mattea comes back tomorrow as a 15-day champion!
Looking to find out who won Jeopardy! today? Here’s the Monday, April 25, 2022 Jeopardy! by the numbers:
Scores going into Final:
Mattea $27,200
Jessie $10,200
Michael $5,000
Tonight’s results:
Michael $5,000 – $4,900 = $100 (What is Old Ironsides)
Jessie $10,200 + $100 = $10,300 (What is the Mayflower?)
Mattea $27,200 + $5,500 = $32,700 (What is the Mayflower?) (15-day total: $352,781)
Scores after the Jeopardy! Round:
Jessie $7,000
Mattea $6,400
Michael $600
Opening break taken after: 15 clues
Daily Double locations:
1) MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS $400 (clue #5)
Jessie 1000 +1000 (Mattea 400 Michael 0)
2) TO THE “N”s OF THE EARTH $1600 (clue #10)
Mattea 8800 +4000 (Jessie 6200 Michael 2600)
3) MULTIPLE HYPHENS $1600 (clue #15, $19600 left on board)
Mattea 14800 +4000 (Jessie 8200 Michael 2200)
Overall Daily Double Efficiency for this game: 172
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 $22,400 Coryat, 26 correct, 1 incorrect, 38.60% in first on buzzer (22/57), 3/3 on rebound attempts (on 6 rebound opportunities)
Jessie $9,600 Coryat, 15 correct, 3 incorrect, 26.32% in first on buzzer (15/57), 2/2 on rebound attempts (on 4 rebound opportunities)
Michael $5,000 Coryat, 9 correct, 3 incorrect, 19.30% in first on buzzer (11/57), 1/1 on rebound attempts (on 4 rebound opportunities)
Combined Coryat Score: $37,000
Lach Trash: $12,800 (on 10 Triple Stumpers)
Coryat lost to incorrect responses (less double-correct responses): $4,200
Mattea Roach, career statistics:
406 correct, 35 incorrect
21/26 on rebound attempts (on 63 rebound opportunities)
44.76% in first on buzzer (380/849)
18/20 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $42,000)
10/15 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $19,813
Jessie Francis, career statistics:
16 correct, 3 incorrect
2/2 on rebound attempts (on 4 rebound opportunities)
26.32% in first on buzzer (15/57)
1/1 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $1,000)
1/1 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $9,600
Michael Graff, career statistics:
9 correct, 4 incorrect
1/1 on rebound attempts (on 4 rebound opportunities)
19.30% in first on buzzer (11/57)
0/0 on Daily Doubles
0/1 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $5,000
Mattea Roach, to win:
16 games: 75.266%
17: 56.650%
18: 42.638%
19: 32.092%
20: 24.154%
Avg. streak: 18.043 games.
Today’s interviews:
Michael once lost a dance-off against the Oregon Duck.
Jessie is the daughter of a paratrooper that would use jump commands to assist in going to bed.
Mattea went to a Second City show in Toronto and was the victim of a spit take.
Andy’s Thoughts:
- Viewers are reminded that failing to phrase in the form of a question is a warning offense in the Jeopardy! round and only a penalty in Double Jeopardy!.
- At 406, Mattea moves to 14th all-time in terms of number of correct responses on the show; Arthur Chu sits 13th at 411.
- Mattea moves to 21st all-time in terms of winnings on the show (including tournaments) Arthur Chu is also next for her on this list, with $397,200.
- Link to the box score: April 25, 2022 Box Score
Final Jeopardy! betting suggestions:
(Mattea $27,200 Jessie $10,200 Michael $5,000)
Mattea: Bet no more than $6,799 and enjoy your 15th win!
Jessie: You’re guaranteed 2nd place if you bet no more than $199.
Michael: Not much you can do here—bet anything you like!
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We learned about the Mayflower in elementary school. I didn’t remember anything about its cargo capacity or eventual fate but the year given is a pointer to it.
Current FJ streak – 1W
The reference to the year did it for me.
Starting the week on a good note.
I doubt Mattea learned about it in school, being Canadian, but the date and category should hopefully be a giveaway given how strong she has been in US history so far. The only other famous named ships I can think of that were afloat in that era are the Ark Royal and the Golden Hind (both of which would have been getting on in years, so likely candidates for being in disrepair), but neither of which fit as well with the “American” aspect of the category.
Don’t underestimate what Canadians learn in school. It tends to be far more comprehensive than the typical American education.
I probably should have been more specific: I grew up in the same city as Mattea. I recall studying Samuel de Champlain and the Order of Good Cheer as our colonial origin story in place of Mayflower. She moved around a bit, so perhaps other provinces had a different curriculum, but I mainly remember learning about the Mayflower pilgrims from out-of-school reading and US thanksgiving specials airing on the Boston-based TV channels. (That should be enough for this clue though–it isn’t exactly a deep dive into US history).
I’m also 13 years older than her, so things might have changed between our experiences, but it seems that the subjects covered in the pre-confederation era have been shifting increasingly in favour of more local history–Mi’kmaq, Acadian, African Nova Scotian, etc. (I actually find the limited coverage of US history a bit problematic, as you can’t properly understand the history of Nova Scotia–especially the long saga of conflicts between English, French and Mi’kmaq–without also learning at least some broad strokes history of New England. But I guess there is only so much time for social studies per day.)
It figured in to my daughter’s favorite joke in elementary school. She was probably in second grade or so, and told the joke at least once a week at the dinner table (evidently thinking we had a short memory). But she laughed uproariously every time.
Q: If April showers bring May flowers, what do May flowers bring?
A: Pilgrims
Hahaha! I’ve heard it before many times…but tickled that your daughter got such a kick out of it.
Or furniture. 🙂
Make sure you tell your daughter my punchline to that joke, that being what May flowers actually bring: June bugs.
Doesn’t matter how long it’s been since that, I’m sure she’ll get a laugh.
I’m hoping that Michael talks about being a mascot.
Capable of carrying only 180 tons of cargo this ship was fairly small for its time period. That’s why they called it the Mayflower Compact.
I see what you did there, Kim. LOL
The Mayflower Compact, originally titled Agreement Between the Settlers of New Plymouth, was the first governing document of Plymouth Colony. It was written by the male passengers of the Mayflower, consisting of separatist Puritans, adventurers, and tradesmen. From Wikipedia
I also learned about the Mayflower back US history class in school. Although I didn’t learn about the cargo thing, but still the date here was what gave it away.
I have traced my ancestry back to the Mayflower and having done a lot of research had no trouble with this question.
Dangerous game. Fortunately Mattea found the daily doubles and converted. She has been excellent on those.
how was the game “dangerous”?
I guessed the Mayflower because of the year.
I hadn’t thought about the dates of the Plymouth colonists in so long that 1624 did not make me think of them. What I did think of was the dates for Nina, Pinta and Santa Maria and the dates for Old Ironsides and with 1624 laying between them, guessed Mayflower.
But I have a question . . . since the category was not ‘U.S. History’ and since South America, Central America, and North America are all “The Americas”, might the correct response potentially have been some ship known for use to or in Canada? (Like maybe a ship of Samuel de Champlain or Henry Hudson? If I had had to guess between those, I would have guessed Hudson since the appraisal was given in pounds, but it turns out that back that far French money was called the French word for pounds.)
“America” or “American” by itself usually refers to the U.S.A.
I was not aware of the disciplinary differences regarding ‘in the form of a question’ between Jeopardy and Double Jeopardy games. Are there other little-known rules that only contestants are made privy to?
I wouldn’t say it’s “little known”. It came up fairly recently in a game with three day champion Lawrence Long, whom Mayim told to “remember your phrasing” in a similar circumstance.
Yes, I think it is more that it is “often forgotten about by non-contestants” instead of “little known” as it is a mistake that is seldom made. (A couple of times I have seen contestants on other “quiz” shows inadvertently phrase the answer in the form of a question.)
Your assertion about “only contestants” is incorrect; this rule in particular has been known on the show’s website for years: https://www.jeopardy.com/jbuzz/behind-scenes/5-jeopardy-rules-every-contestant-should-know