Final Jeopardy: 9-19-16 to 9-23-16

Here are the Final Jeopardy questions and answers for the week of September 19 through September 23, 2016.

Mon, September 19: – Correct answers: 2
In 1948 he wrote he had an idea for a novel in which 2 guys hitchhike to Calif. “in search of something they don’t really find”. show

Tue, September 20 – Correct answers: 1 (out of 2 left in FJ)
In 2015 this character was made an honorary citizen of Japan after over 60 years of residence there. show

Wed, September 21 – Correct answers: 1
Embracing the future & new technology in 1962, Purdue established the 1st college dept. in the U.S. For this 2-word discipline. show

Thurs, September 22 – Correct answers: 2
The heroine of this opera sings, “If you come to give me, so cruel, your last goodbye, the dark vortex of the Nile will be my grave” show

Fri, September 23 – Correct answers: 0
The Zambezi River reaches the ocean in this country that lends its name to the body of water where it happens show

If you missed any of the games, click on the date for the recap with the Daily Doubles and a triple stumper or two. More clues from this week’s games are on Fikkle Fame’s archive.

After becoming this season’s first 2x champ, Siddarth Hariharan returned on Monday. He was defeated by Seth Wilson who then went on to win every single game for the rest of the week. By Friday, Seth had raked in $127,700 and was a 5x champ. His biggest one-day haul was $31,200 on Tuesday. In addition to our first 5-day champ of the season, we also saw the first runaway game on Thursday and the first 2 player Final on Tuesday.

Here is the “Word Puzzles” category from Thursday’s match:

You can also see highlights of Seth’s 5 games on J!Buzz.

Finally, Jeopardy! had a typo in the $400 clue in “It’s Plain to See It’s 33” category on Friday: Chris Farley was 33 when he died, but that was in 1997 not 1992.