Final Jeopardy: 10-19-15 to 10-23-15

Here are the Final Jeopardy questions and answers for the week of October 19 through October 23, 2015.

Mon, Oct 19 – Correct answers: 1
The first 2 Spanish actors to win acting Academy Awards, they got married soon after they both had won. show

Tue, Oct 20 – Correct answers: 3
A line from this 1995 novel is “the infant glistened a scandalous shade of pale emerald”. show

Wed, Oct 21 – Correct answers: 2
Besides the U.K., it’s the only country that the prime meridian touches that starts with a vowel. show

Thurs, Oct 22 – Correct answers: 3
There were about 900 casualties in the 1862 Battle of Secessionville, fought in this state. show

Fri, Oct 23 – Correct answers: 1 (out of 2 left in FJ)
The flower pictured here (SEE RECAP) is called this, also a disparaging term for people on the political left. show

So, yes! We had two triple solves this week and no triple (or even double) stumpers. We vote for Tuesday’s FJ as the easiest of the week. None of them were killer hard though, were they?

We saw 4 champs this week. Dean Meyer won on Monday sending returning 2x champ Josh Silverman home. Robert Arrowood defeated Dean on Tuesday and Dennis Golin beat him on Wednesday. That day Dennis had the highest single day total of the week and things looked pretty promising after another win on Thursday, but Sean Anderson won Friday’s game.

Nevertheless, Dennis provided us with some fun moments. Okay, the Metternich thing probably wasn’t that amusing to everyone but it did yield a made-up quote that we just have to immortalize below.* The DD crash and burn on Friday was really a bummer but, in between, there was the hilarious “herb” moment.

* I did not look a darned bit like Grigory Potemkin ~ Klemens von Metternich