Final Jeopardy: 6-15-15 to 6-19-15

Here are the Final Jeopardy questions and answers for the week of June 15, 2015 with links to the full recaps.

Mon, June 15 – Correct answers: 3
He rhymed the title character of one of his best-known poems with “drew on,” “threw on” and “ruin”. show

Tue, June 16 – Correct answers: 2
“A reviewer… wrote that my pictures didn’t have any beginning or any end. He didn’t mean it as a compliment, but it was.” show

Wed, June 17 – Correct answers: 3
In her 30s, this Texan was up for Best Actress in 2002 and 2003; she won Best Supporting in 2004 in a Civil War drama. show

Thurs, June 18 – Correct answers: 2
Published for the first time in 2014, her “Pioneer Girl” was initially rejected, revised and transformed into a fictional series. show

Fri, June 19 – Correct answers: 3
Everything changed in 1924 after he observed “I have found a Cepheid variable in the Andromeda Nebula.” show

It was a great week for FJ, with no triple stumpers and 3 triple solves and it was a great week for Brennan Bushee. He defeated 3x champ Darren Harris-Fain on Monday and remained champ all week. We’ll be seeing him for his 6th game on Monday.

Best Contestant Story of the Week: You might say it was a hoot! On Wednesday, Kevin Ruby shared the details of a hair-raising encounter with an owl from his marathon training days: “I was running by a cemetery at 5 in the morning and I was attacked by a giant barred owl.” Kevin said the owl presumably mistook his hat for a squirrel, plucked it off his head and dropped it into the cemetery. He said he picked up his hat and “that’s when my life become sort of a horror movie for about 2 minutes!”

Here is the “Movie Role, TV Role” category from Friday’s game.