Final Jeopardy Clues: 7-17-23 to 7-21-23

Here are the Final Jeopardy questions and answers for the week of July 17 through July 21, 2023.

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

Mon, July 17 – Correct answers: 2
GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS: In 1867 he wrote to General Rousseau, “on arriving at Sitka… you will receive from the Russian commissioner the formal transfer”? show

Tue, July 18 – Correct answers: 3
MAN-MADE OBJECTS: Around since 1998, it’s now roughly the length of a football field & travels at about 5 miles per second show

Wed, July 19 – Correct answers: 2
FAMOUS PAINTINGS: A German guidebook to a 1937 World’s Fair dismissed it as a “hodgepodge of body parts that any four-year-old could have painted” show

Thu, July 20 – Correct answers: 1
19th CENTURY BRITISH POEMS: The author of this unfinished epic poem was unsure if he wanted the title character to “end in Hell–or in an unhappy marriage” show

Fri, July 21 – Correct answers: 1
NUMBERS OLD & NEW: Expressed in today’s numbers, it’s the sum total if you add the 7 Roman numerals together show

Tuesday’s clue was the only one everyone got. The other 4 clues were evenly divided between one and two correct responses. The hardest of those 4 was between the last two days of the week, depending on what you’re good at. 19th century poetry clues rarely stump me but I’m about as close to hopeless at math as someone can get.

Jeopardy! champs, week of July 17, 2023

Daniel Moore was the returning champ on Monday. He was still champ at the end of Tuesday’s game but David Bederman won Wednesday’s game. David won on Thursday, too. On Friday, Taylor Clagett won the game. We think most Jeopardy! fans will know just from the picture that the last 2 games of the week had surprise endings.

Here is the “Before and After” from Thursday’s game.