Final Jeopardy Clues: 10-16-23 to 10-20-23

Here are the Final Jeopardy questions and answers for the week of October 16 through 20, 2023.

Mon, October 16 – Correct answers: 1
THE NOBEL PRIZE IN PHYSICS: Barry Barish, who shared the 2017 Prize for detecting gravitational waves, called his award “a win for” this predecessor show

Tue, October 17 – Correct answers: 1
MILITARY HISTORY: A 1918 article titled “Do Not Shoot at” these said hunters were interfering with the U.S. Signal Corps’ training of them show

Wed, October 18 – Correct answers: 3
NATURAL LANDMARKS: The Washburn-Langford-Doane expedition happened upon it in 1870 & named it for the regularity of its activity show

Thu, October 19 – Correct answers: 1
NAMES: The name Jennifer is an alteration of this name that in early Welsh literature belonged to the “first lady of the island” show

Fri, October 20 – Correct answers: 2
LANGUAGES OF ASIA: Meaning “palace”, this word in the name of a UNESCO World Heritage Site follows Jal & Lal in the names of other historic structures show

Everyone got the LANDMARKS clue on Wednesday, just as predicted by one and all on Spoiler Talk so that was the week’s easiest clue. One correct response showed up for 3 cluesk. Thursday’s clue doesn’t count in assessing the hardest because the two wrong responses were joke answers. We’ll go with the PHYSICS FJ! for hardest. Some thought it was confusing without a time period or whether it was referring to a Nobel predecessor or just a predecessor in the same field. As for the MILITARY FJ!, I have no clue why two players thought “training” referred to inanimate objects.

The first two games of the week were semi-finals and these 4 contestants advanced to the semi-finals. Sam Stapleton was already a finalist after winning the first semi-final on 10/13/23. Josh Saak won Monday’s semi-final and Lucy Ricketts won on Tuesday.

Sam, Josh and Lucy then competed in two final matches on Wednesday and Thursday. Josh won the whole shebang, earning a spot in the next Tournament of Champions and $100K.

On Friday, a second Champions Wild Card tournament began with the quarter-finals. There are 4 of these tournaments altogether. They are being referred to by the four suits in a deck of cards: (1) spades, (2) diamonds, (3) clubs and (4) hearts. There are 14 matches in each tournament. Three more comes to 42 matches and we’ve already seen one, so there will be 41 more Champions Wild Card matches.