Final Jeopardy Clues: 5-15-23 to 5-19-23

Here are the Final Jeopardy questions and answers for the week of May 15 through May 19, 2023.

Click on the dates to see the Jeopardy! recaps for those games.

Mon, May 15 – Correct answers: 3
PUBLICATIONS: The co-founder of this magazine that began in 1967 said its name comes primarily from a song title but noted a band name as well show

Tue, May 16 – Correct answers: 1
AUTHORS: In 1960 Jean-Paul Sartre wrote of this man’s “victorious attempt…to snatch every instant of his existence from his future death” show

Wed, May 17 – Correct answers: 2
U.S. NATIONAL MEMORIALS: Efforts recently began to reintroduce 2 species of oyster to help restore the contaminated waters of this, a national memorial show

Thu, May 18 – Correct answers: 2
BILLBOARD NO. 1 HITS: Billy Joel said, “I think the one time I didn’t write the music” before the lyrics was for this 1989 hit, “and I think it shows” show

Fri, May 19 – Correct answers: 3
THE USA: People going north on this route say they’re traveling “GAME”, an acronym regarding their beginning & ending points show

This was a better week in FJ! than most we have recently seen. We had 2 clues everyone got and 2 clues that 2 players got. The hardest was Tuesday’s clue, unless your specialty was philosophy like the current champ. Then it was probably the easiest. Otherwise the easiest had to be Monday’s magazine clue.

8x champ Hannah Wilson returned for Game 9 on Monday to try to add to her $229,801 winnings. 3x champ Ben Chan also returned and trounced everyone, running away with the game to the tune of $60,000! Ben repeated the runaway part for the rest of the week, but not the ginormous payday. He was within range of roughly half of it for the rest of the week, except for Friday. Ben is now an 8x champ. He has won $227,800.

Here is the “LITERARY MISMATCH” category from Friday’s game, plus Ben’s other DD and the $2K “Gaits” clue.