Final Jeopardy: 10-5-15 to 10-9-15

Here are the Final Jeopardy questions and answers for the week of October 5 through October 9, 2015.

Mon, Oct 5 – Correct answers: 2
From the Latin for “buy back”, it once referred to buying a slave’s freedom & today can refer to being saved from sin. show

Tue, Oct 6 – Correct answers: 2
“To explain… Harry by the artless division into wolf and man is a hopelessly childish attempt”, he wrote in 1927. show

Wed, Oct 7 – Correct answers: 2
Charlton Heston’s wardrobe in 1954’s “Secret of the Incas” inspired the clothes worn by this adventurous character 27 years later. show

Thurs, Oct 8 – Correct answers: 1
Since Bulgaria joined in 2007, the E.U.’s 3 official alphabets have been our Latin one and these 2. show

Fri, Oct 9 – Correct answers: 2 (out of 2 left in FJ)
As part of its 30th anniversary celebration in 2014, this video game used the slogan “we all fit together.” show

This week’s clues were not particularly challenging, yet there were no triple solves. There might have been on Friday but there were only two players left in FJ. Hard to say what the easiest was but we’d vote for Indiana Jones. The lady who didn’t get that one did write down the right film to show she knew it but blanked out on the character’s name. The lady who didn’t make it to FJ on Friday probably knew Tetris, but it hardly mattered since Matt Jackson clobbered just about everybody this week. Four of his games were runaways.

So it was another one champ week starring Matt. He came in a 6-day champ and by the end of the week, he was tied with Arthur Chu at 11 wins but, unlike Chu, he made it over the $300K mark. FYI, Julia Collins’ 11-day total was $231,310 in her 11th game.

Here’s the video from Tuesday’s game when Matt got dinged for $2,000 and, uh, grimaced seems like a good description. It includes his FJ answer when he showed his displeasure once again.

There was also quite a bit of controversy over Matt’s Sports Nobility Daily Double bet. That’s covered in $5 or $5000.