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Here’s today’s Final Jeopardy (in the category Places In The American Past) for Wednesday, April 16, 2025 (Season 41, Game 158):
It’s the building where the Stax Records classic “Knock On Wood” was written but it’s remembered for other reasons
(correct response beneath the contestants)
Today’s Jeopardy! contestants:
Brenden Monroe, a senior game producer from Seattle, Washington
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Denise LeBlanc-Bock, an architect from Santa Rosa Beach, Florida
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Andrew Hayes, a law student originally from Tupelo, Mississippi (5-day total: $117,804)
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Andy’s Pregame Thoughts:
Yesterday, Andrew Hayes became a 5-time Jeopardy! champion, automatically qualiifying himself for the Tournament of Champions. Today, he faces off against Seattle’s Brenden Monroe and Florida’s Denise LeBlanc-Bock.
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Correct response: What is the Lorraine Motel?
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The Lorraine Motel in Memphis, now the site of the National Civil Rights Museum, was the site where, on April 4, 1968, American civil rights activist Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated. During segregation, it was an upscale location catering to Black clientele; a number of famous recording artists would stay at the Lorraine when recording at Stax Records in Memphis.
Judging from some of the complaints about this clue online already: is there some sort of major failing of the American education system here when teaching students about the Civil Rights movement? Shouldn’t students know where in Memphis the assassination was? Certainly, most Americans would immediately be able to associate JFK with Dealey Plaza or the Texas School Book Depository. (And I did check J! Archive: the Lorraine Motel has been a bottom-row clue in regular play on a pair of occasions in the past—which means, for anyone who has been studying from J! Archive, this should be in a player’s flashcard deck.)
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Game Recap & Tonight’s Game Stats:
Looking to find out who won Jeopardy! today? Here’s the Wednesday, April 16, 2025 Jeopardy! by the numbers, along with a recap:
Jeopardy! Round:
(Categories: The Book Of The Decade; Bite Me; Baseball; Bird Words; Ode On A Grecian; Earn)
Andrew picked up 8 correct responses in the opening segment; his lead would have been even bigger had he gotten the Daily Double correct. After 15 clues, the scores were Andrew $4,000 Denise $1,000 Brenden -$400.
Statistics at the first break (15 clues):
Andrew 8 correct 1 incorrect
Denise 3 correct 1 incorrect
Brenden 1 correct 2 incorrect
Today’s interviews:
Brenden fell asleep on his flight over the Rift Valley in Kenya.
Denise owns a fire pit; her children used their old school papers as kindling.
Andrew found an early airing of Jeopardy to give him an advantage on a show-watching date.
Andrew picked up another half-dozen correct responses to continue to lead after 30.
Statistics after the Jeopardy round:
Andrew 14 correct 2 incorrect
Brenden 7 correct 2 incorrect
Denise 5 correct 1 incorrect
Scores after the Jeopardy! Round:
Andrew $5,600
Brenden $2,200
Denise $2,000
Double Jeopardy! Round:
(Categories: Irish First Names; Dual Roles; Geoverlaps; Books & War; Same Vowel Pair Twice; Pimp My Actinide)
Missing DD2 didn’t faze Andrew; he was correct on five $2,000 clues, got $4,000 from DD3, and cruised to a runaway in a round where he had 19 correct responses (and was 1 correct response away from a $30,000 Coryat.)
Statistics after Double Jeopardy:
Andrew 33 correct 4 incorrect
Brenden 12 correct 3 incorrect
Denise 8 correct 1 incorrect
Total number of unplayed clues this season: 30 (0 today).
Scores going into Final:
Andrew $28,800
Brenden $6,600
Denise $5,200
This Final Jeopardy proved to be a Triple Stumper; Andrew’s runaway makes him a 6-day champion.
Tonight’s results:
Denise $5,200 – $1,401 = $3,799 (What is Love U <3 Fam)
Brenden $6,600 – $3,801 = $2,799 (What is ? Hi Zinnia!)
Andrew $28,800 – $8,800 = $20,000 (What is Ford’s Theatre?) (6-day total: $137,804)
Other Miscellaneous Game Statistics:
Daily Double locations:
1) BIRD WORDS $800 (clue #7)
Andrew 1800 -1800 (Denise -800 Brenden 400)
2) GEOVERLAPS $1600 (clue #3)
Andrew 8000 -2000 (Denise 2000 Brenden 2200)
3) IRISH FIRST NAMES $1200 (clue #19, $6400 left on board)
Andrew 21200 +4000 (Denise 3600 Brenden 7000)
Overall Daily Double Efficiency for this game: -106
Clue Selection by Row, Before Daily Doubles Found:
J! Round:
Andrew 4 5 5 4*
Denise 4
Brenden 3 1
DJ! Round:
Andrew 3 4* 5† 4 5 5 4 4 5 5 4 3 3*
Denise 3 3
Brenden 2 3 4 5
† – selection in same category as Daily Double
Average Row of Clue Selection, Before Daily Doubles Found:
Andrew 4.24
Denise 3.33
Brenden 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 $29,800 Coryat, 33 correct, 4 incorrect, 57.89% in first on buzzer (33/57), 1/1 on rebound attempts (on 4 rebound opportunities)
Denise $5,200 Coryat, 8 correct, 1 incorrect, 15.79% in first on buzzer (9/57), 0/0 on rebound attempts (on 5 rebound opportunities)
Brenden $6,600 Coryat, 12 correct, 3 incorrect, 21.05% in first on buzzer (12/57), 3/3 on rebound attempts (on 3 rebound opportunities)
Combined Coryat Score: $41,600
Lach Trash: $5,200 (on 5 Triple Stumpers)
Coryat lost to incorrect responses (less double-correct responses): $7,200
Lead Changes: 3
Times Tied: 1
Player Statistics:
Andrew Hayes, career statistics:
142 correct, 18 incorrect
9/10 on rebound attempts (on 26 rebound opportunities)
38.60% in first on buzzer (132/342)
7/12 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $14,200)
4/6 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $18,967
Denise LeBlanc-Bock, career statistics:
8 correct, 2 incorrect
0/0 on rebound attempts (on 5 rebound opportunities)
15.79% in first on buzzer (9/57)
0/0 on Daily Doubles
0/1 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $5,200
Brenden Monroe, career statistics:
12 correct, 4 incorrect
3/3 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: $6,600
Andrew Hayes, to win:
7 games: 59.494%
8: 35.395%
9: 21.058%
10: 12.528%
11: 7.454%
Avg. streak: 7.469 games.
Andy’s Thoughts:
- In hindsight, it makes sense that one might confuse “Grouse” with “Quail”.
- Due to today’s runaway, no wagering suggestions need to be posted.
- Today’s box score will be linked to when posted by the show.
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I knew what happened there but not the name of the motel.
Sad to say I didn’t learn anything about MLK’s assassination in school. (Considering where I went to school, that’s not surprising.)
I figured out rather quickly what the Final was referring to, but my only problem was remembering the name of the motel. Fortunately I was able to do so within 30 seconds. I would’ve been disappointed in myself otherwise.
I am really surprised that Andrew didn’t at least guess SOMEPLACE in Memphis instead of someplace in DC since he is from Tupelo, Mississippi, barely over 100 miles from Memphis. I would have thought that anyone who spent hardly any time within 150 miles of Memphis would associate Stax with Memphis.