Final Jeopardy Clues: 5-6-24 to 5-10-24

Here are the Final Jeopardy questions and answers for the week of May 6 through May 10, 2024.

Mon, May 6 – Correct answers: 1
HISTORIC GROUPS: Like their uniform, the flag of this group created in 1506 has stripes of red, blue & yellow, the colors of the Medici family show

Tue, May 7 – Correct answers: 1
FAMOUS CHARACTERS: She’s introduced in an 1845 novella in which she wears a short skirt with her mantilla thrown back to show her shoulders show

Wed, May 8 – Correct answers: O
RHYME TIME: OPERA VERSION: Telling the story of a duke, a jester & the jester’s daughter, it was written by poet Francesco Maria Piave show

Thu, May 9 – Correct answers: 1
1980s FADS: A November 29, 1983 N.Y. Times article about these used “near-riot”, “adoptable”, “waiting for 8 hours” & “my life (is) in danger” show

Fri, May 10 – Correct answers: 2
20th CENTURY BOOKS: A review said this 1966 book about real events “will cause a good deal of myopic squabbling about just what a novel is” show

This certainly wasn’t the best week ever in the FJ! department. The worst FJ! was Wednesday’s Rhyme Time clue. No one got the correct opera so we just don’t know if they would have accepted the one-word opera name because of its internal rhyme, but Ken Jennings said it was a 2-word answer. The easiest was the Friday’s 20th century novel.

Weckiai Rannila lost her 4th game on Monday to Matthew Smith who won $26,400. Matthew was defeated by Allison Gross on Tuesday when she won $9,599. On Wednesday, no one got FJ! right, but Allison’s $9,999 won the game. On Thursday, a correct answer in FJ! helped Allison win $25,000. So that was a total of $44,598 for Allison. She lost on Friday, when Will Stewart won $25,601.

All in all, Jeopardy! paid out $96,599 to 3 champs and $25,000 to the runners-up.

Here is the PREPOSITIONAL BOOK TITLES category from Friday’s game.