Final Jeopardy: 5-4-15 to 5-8-15

Here are the Final Jeopardy questions and answers for the week of May 4th with links to the full recaps.

Mon, May 4 – Correct answers: 1
Harriet Hemenway’s boycott of the feathered hats of her social circle inspired the 1905 founding of this. show

Tue, May 5 – Correct answers: 2
Interestingly, at the start of this novel, Prince Oblonsky, the title character’s brother, has been unfaithful. show

Wed, May 6 – Correct answers: 3
In 1906 this city’s Academy of Fine Arts admitted Egon Schiele; in 1907 it rejected Adolf Hitler. show

Thurs, May 7 – Correct answers: 0
For the first time in almost 100 years, this pro team has an official mascot, a bear named Clark. show

Fri, May 8 – Correct answers: 1
On August 15, 1941, convicted Nazi spy Josef Jakobs became the last person to be put to death here. show

Same as last week, we had one triple stumper and one triple solve, but it was not a one-champ week. We had two champs: Scott Ylinen took 7x winner Greg Seroka down on Monday and hung in there for 3 games. On Thursday, he was defeated by Andrew Haringer who won his second game on Friday.

Jeopardy Champs: Week of 5-4-15

We heard about plane crashes and tiger cub bites in this week’s chats but the most attention-getting moment of the week was “The Crucible Snap” executed by Louis Virtel when he got the right answer in the second Daily Double on Friday.

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  1. Cece says:

    Yeah – The “Getting The DD Correct Snap” — instant classic! They should make it mandatory from now on. 🙂