Final Jeopardy: 1-29 to 2-2-18

Here are the Final Jeopardy questions and answers for the week of January 29 through February 2, 2018.

Mon, January 29 – Correct answers: 3
THE 1960s – It was already a crime to alter one of these; a 1965 law passed 393-1 in the house criminalized burning one too show

Tue, January 30 – Correct answers: 1
LITERATURE & MYTHOLOGY – The “very name embodies the idea of flight”, says one analysis of a 20th century novel in describing this main character. show

Wed, January 31 – Correct answers: 2
FOOD BRANDS: Seen here is the location of the first plant of this company show

Thu, February 1 – Correct answers: 1
U.S. AUTHORS: In his 1958 essay “Essentials of Spontaneous Prose”, he compared a writing technique to a jazz musician’s style. show

Fri, February 2 – Correct answers: 1
OFFICIAL STATE SONGS: Composers of this State’s various official songs include Richard Rodgers & Woody Guthrie. 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.

Just like last week, the easiest FJ for the panel was on Monday if you’re going by how many got it right. Wednesday’s FJ with both parts of the answer looking back at you on the image, however, was just too darn easy for an FJ. All the others just went one out of three. Surely, Friday’s clue was easier than the two Lit clues.

Jennifer Tomassi returned for her second game on Monday but was defeated by Ryan Fenster. He entertained us for the rest of the week with his wild guesses (comin’ atcha like an ex-president!) and some rather amazing comebacks. As a 4x champ with total winnings of $90,198, he also landed a spot on the 2018 ToC list. The bad guesses caught up with Ryan on Friday and Jenny Rhodes will be the returning champ on Monday.

Do you really want to watch that football category again? There’s a bunch of videos on youtube, and Jeopardy! has it on their channel. Alternatively, here is Charles playing Alexa on Friday, February 2nd. He had a tough week with J6 and, to top it off, Alexa calculated his weekly score wrong.