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Here’s today’s Final Jeopardy (in the category City Nicknames) for Tuesday, April 15, 2025 (Season 41, Game 157):
The poet Albius Tibullus called a city this in the late 1st century B.C., some 700 years after its traditional founding
(correct response beneath the contestants)
Today’s Jeopardy! contestants:
Thomas Wilson, a teacher from Taylors, South Carolina
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Dondi DeMarco, an operations executive from New York, New York
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Andrew Hayes, a law student originally from Tupelo, Mississippi (4-day total: $98,603)
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Andy’s Pregame Thoughts:
Today, Andrew Hayes looks to become the 284th player in the post-1984 era of Jeopardy! to win at least five games. He’s also $6,397 away from passing Joey Beachum as the winningest player to represent Mississippi on the program at this point; however, it’s only a matter of time, as if you take into account that Andrew will win at least $2,000 in consolation prizing and is extremely likely get at least another $5,000 in either Champions Wildcard or the Tournament of Champions, Beachum’s mark will get surpassed eventually regardless. However, South Carolina’s Thomas Wilson and New York’s Dondi DeMarco are looking to prevent Andrew from taking that fifth victory.
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Correct response: What is The Eternal City?
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Romulus aeternae nondum formaverat urbis moenia, consorti non habitanda Remo. With those words from Elegies, Albius Tibullus first used the term known in English as “the Eternal City” to refer to Rome.
Being very familiar with the nickname, it was an easy jump for me once I figured out that the clue was referring to Rome.
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Game Recap & Tonight’s Game Stats:
Looking to find out who won Jeopardy! today? Here’s the Tuesday, April 15, 2025 Jeopardy! by the numbers, along with a recap:
Jeopardy! Round:
(Categories: Bodies Of Water; All The Aughts; Bonds Of Criminality; What’s In Your Wallet?; From Page To Screen; Oops! I Accidentally Took The Spanish Crossword)
Andrew picked up 6 correct early on to jump into an early lead. At the interviews, the scores were Andrew $4,200 Dondi $2,800 Thomas $1,400.
Statistics at the first break (15 clues):
Andrew 6 correct 0 incorrect
Dondi 4 correct 1 incorrect
Thomas 4 correct 1 incorrect
Today’s interviews:
Thomas does an experiment with gummy bears at Halloween.
Dondi owned a 14-year-old rabbit.
Andrew has won “most likely to be on Jeopardy” in the past.
Andrew found the Daily Double, but lost just $1,000 on it; Dondi led by $800 after 30 clues.
Statistics after the Jeopardy round:
Dondi 7 correct 2 incorrect
Andrew 10 correct 3 incorrect
Thomas 7 correct 1 incorrect
Scores after the Jeopardy! Round:
Dondi $4,400
Andrew $3,600
Thomas $2,400
Double Jeopardy! Round:
(Categories: Starts With “SC”; Authors’ Real Housewives Taglines; The World Almanac 2025; Government Jobs; Spacey Talk; Famous Last Lyrics)
Thomas found DD2 with the first pick of the round, jumping into the lead. Dondi had a good run, punctuated by DD3, putting him at twice Andrew’s score with 19 clues to play. Those final 19 clues saw both Andrew and Thomas play well enough to ensure that Dondi didn’t have a runaway going into Final Jeopardy.
Statistics after Double Jeopardy:
Dondi 17 correct 2 incorrect
Andrew 17 correct 3 incorrect
Thomas 15 correct 2 incorrect
Total number of unplayed clues this season: 30 (0 today).
Scores going into Final:
Dondi $18,400
Andrew $11,600
Thomas $9,600
Andrew was the only player correct in Final, and that makes him a 5-time champion! He’ll go for win #6 tomorrow.
Tonight’s results:
Thomas $9,600 – $9,000 = $600 (What is Troy? Love you Elizabeth, Louis, Gianna, Baby)
Andrew $11,600 + $7,601 = $19,201 (What is the Eternal City? It’s been fun!) (5-day total: $117,804)
Dondi $18,400 – $5,001 = $13,399 (What is…)
Other Miscellaneous Game Statistics:
Daily Double locations:
1) WHAT’S IN YOUR WALLET? $600 (clue #21)
Andrew 4400 -1000 (Dondi 5000 Thomas 1400)
2) GOVERNMENT JOBS $1200 (clue #1)
Thomas 2400 +2400 (Andrew 3600 Dondi 4400)
3) SPACEY TALK $1200 (clue #11, $22000 left on board)
Dondi 10800 +2000 (Andrew 6400 Thomas 4800)
Overall Daily Double Efficiency for this game: 96
Clue Selection by Row, Before Daily Doubles Found:
J! Round:
Andrew 5 4 5 4 4 5 5 5 3*
Dondi 4 3 2 3 2 5 1 3
Thomas 4 1 3 4
DJ! Round:
Andrew 4 5
Dondi 3 4 5 2 1 2 3*
Thomas 3* 3
Average Row of Clue Selection, Before Daily Doubles Found:
Andrew 4.45
Dondi 2.87
Thomas 3.00
Unplayed clues:
J! Round: None!
DJ! Round: None!
Total Left On Board: $0
Number of clues left unrevealed this season: 30 (0.22 per episode average), 0 Daily Doubles
Game Stats:
Andrew $12,600 Coryat, 17 correct, 3 incorrect, 29.82% in first on buzzer (17/57), 2/2 on rebound attempts (on 3 rebound opportunities)
Dondi $17,600 Coryat, 17 correct, 2 incorrect, 29.82% in first on buzzer (17/57), 0/1 on rebound attempts (on 4 rebound opportunities)
Thomas $8,400 Coryat, 15 correct, 2 incorrect, 28.07% in first on buzzer (16/57), 0/0 on rebound attempts (on 3 rebound opportunities)
Combined Coryat Score: $38,600
Lach Trash: $9,400 (on 10 Triple Stumpers)
Coryat lost to incorrect responses (less double-correct responses): $6,000
Lead Changes: 8
Times Tied: 3
Player Statistics:
Andrew Hayes, career statistics:
109 correct, 13 incorrect
8/9 on rebound attempts (on 22 rebound opportunities)
34.74% in first on buzzer (99/285)
6/9 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $14,000)
4/5 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $16,800
Dondi DeMarco, career statistics:
17 correct, 3 incorrect
0/1 on rebound attempts (on 4 rebound opportunities)
29.82% in first on buzzer (17/57)
1/1 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $2,000)
0/1 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $17,600
Thomas Wilson, career statistics:
15 correct, 3 incorrect
0/0 on rebound attempts (on 3 rebound opportunities)
28.07% in first on buzzer (16/57)
1/1 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $2,400)
0/1 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $8,400
Andrew Hayes, to win:
6 games: 57.440%
7: 32.994%
8: 18.951%
9: 10.886%
10: 6.253%
Avg. streak: 6.350 games.
Andy’s Thoughts:
- Andrew is the 284th 5-time champion on the post-1984 version of the show, and now the all-time winningest contestant to represent Mississippi on the show.
- Today’s box score will be linked to when posted by the show.
Final Jeopardy! wagering suggestions:
(Scores: Dondi $18,400 Andrew $11,600 Thomas $9,600)
Andrew: Standard cover bet over Thomas is $7,601. (Actual bet: $7,601)
Dondi: Standard cover bet over Andrew is $4,801. (Actual bet: $5,001)
Thomas: A wager between $4,000 and $5,600 both passes Dondi if he’s incorrect and you’re correct, and stays above Andrew if you both are incorrect. (Actual bet: $9,000)
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I thought of Rome or Athens…but thinking of ‘poetic names’, I went with ‘city of lights’.
I guessed, “city of seven hills.”
ego quoque
I have been trying to figure out what the construction “consorti non habitanda Remo” is. There are lots of translations out there, so I get the meaning but I haven’t found any discussion of the syntax. Is this an ablative absolute? Consorti and remo can both be (masculine) ablatives. Habitanda as well with a long a at the end. But that sounds 1st declension feminine. My Latin goes back to the 60s and is very rusty, to say the least. Can anyone lead me though this? Thanks.
My Latin is about the same age as yours, but I believe habitanda is a gerundive and is neuter accusative plural to agree with moenia. Does that make sense? “Romulus was not yet shaping the walls of the eternal city, not to be inhabited by his companion Remus.” His brother, of course. It’s the name type of form as “Carthago delenda est”, except there you do have a gerundive that’s feminine nominative singular, to agree with its antecedent. Carthage is to be destroyed. The walls [of the eternal city] are not to be inhabited by Remus. And poor Remus was not merely kept out of where Romulus wanted to build the city, but was killed during that dispute.
I had this, but unfortunately, I didn’t think I had this. Not knowing the person who is said to have given Rome it’s nickname, or, when it was founded, it was his Roman sounding name at made me think of the Eternal CIty.
I immediately thought of Rome, but I had no idea why since I don’t know the founding dates of any cities. It may have been due to the poet’s name sounding Roman, but my second thought was that there were many Roman cities (Pompeii, for example), so that poet did not have to be from Rome and did not necessarily have to have been “nicknaming” Rome rather than some other city “back then”. But Rome being the Eternal City was the only nickname I could think of other than Paris being the City of Lights (which I knew was named centuries later), so I went with Rome’s nickname.
Wow, what a close game! Ignoring the final dollar amounts, take a look at those other statistics. Two players each with 17 correct and one with 15 correct. Also, two players at 29.82% in first on buzzer with the third being at 28.07%. It doesn’t get much closer than that. What a great, competitive game, in my opinion.
👍 Absolutely!
I’m curious if anyone knows why they felt they had to put this episode”s tape date, 2/25, on the screen. Any thoughts?
Found it. Because of the major earthquake that hit there on March 28.