Final Jeopardy: 10-12-15 to 10-16-15

Here are the Final Jeopardy questions and answers for the week of October 12 through October 16, 2015.

Mon, Oct 12 – Correct answers: 3
Its restitchings over the centuries helped perpetuate the story of King Harold II being struck in the eye with an arrow. show

Tue, Oct 13 – Correct answers: 1
A critic said this 1956 poem was “a tirade… against those who do not share the poet’s… sexual orientation”. show

Wed, Oct 14 – Correct answers: 0
For its 50th anniv. In 2012, the roof of this landmark was temporarily repainted its original color, Galaxy Gold. show

Thurs, Oct 15 – Correct answers: 1
With an area of 4,000 square miles, it’s the only primarily Arabic-speaking country in the Middle East that has no desert. show

Fri, Oct 16 – Correct answers: 0
When translated, the full name of this Major League baseball team gets you a double redundancy. show

Judging from the lone triple solve, Monday’s clue must have been the easiest, although we thought every clue this week was relatively easy, except for Friday’s. That was a toughie to figure out in 30 seconds unless you had already heard of it, and none of the players had any prior knowledge of that little tidbit.

After surpassing Arthur Chu in both games and money, Matt Jackson came very close to beating Julia Collins in terms of money. But it was not to be and he lost his 14th game on Wednesday to Michael Baker. Michael was defeated by Josh Silverman on Thursday and Josh also won on Friday.

We will be seeing Matt again next month in the TOC. We will be seeing Josh on Monday, and we are sure Alex Trebek will call him Josh.

Yes, Alex Trebek called me John during the interview. When I asked the crew later if I should've corrected him, they said: Absolutely not.

— Josh Silverman (@jsilvcomic) October 17, 2015

Here’s is the category, “VWLLSS WRLD CPTLS.” from the Oct. 9 game. They had to name capitals when they were only given the consonants. They all missed Canada’s capital and we’re not sure if Alex Trebek was really astonished or pretending to be offended.