Final Jeopardy: 7-15-19 to 7-19-19

Here are the Final Jeopardy questions and answers for the week of July 15 through July 19, 2019.

Mon, July 15 – Correct answers: 2
WOMEN AUTHORS: An award for works of horror, dark fantasy & psychological suspense honors this author who came to fame with a 1948 short story show

Tue, July 16 – Correct answers: 2
EUROPEAN COUNTRY NAMES: Resolving a decades-long dispute with its neighbor to the south, in 2019 this 28-year-old republic added “North” to its name show

Wed, July 17 – Correct answers: 1
17th CENTURY NAMES: In the 1670s English author Charles Cotton built a fishing cabin on the banks of the River Dove to honor this friend & author show

Thu, July 18 – Correct answers: 3
NOTORIOUS: The death penalty has been carried out only once under Israeli law–in 1962, for this man show

Fri, July 19 – Correct answers: 1 (out of 2 left in FJ)
STATES’ GOVERNORS: It’s the only state to have had 4 female governors, 3 of whom served consecutively between 1997 & 2015 show

Despite a couple of toughies, there were no triple stumpers in FJ this week. We thought Wednesday’s and Friday’s were hardest. At least you knew Wednesday’s clue had something to do with fishing so we think Friday’s was the hardest. The easiest were on Monday and Thursday, and the latter proved to be the sole triple solve of the week.

3x champ Sam Kavanaugh won 2 more games (in a big way) this week, finishing up as a 5x champ. Roey Hadar took the honors on Wednesday but was defeated in a tie-breaker by Nathan Kaplan on Thursday. Jason Zuffranieri won on Friday and he will be back on Monday to kick off the last week of Season 35.

Sam had some stellar payouts during his 5-game runout but the stellar-est was on Tuesday, July 16th and landed him at No. 4 on my list of the Top 15 Daily Payouts of Season 35.

As noted before, this list only reflects a contestant’s highest payout, otherwise James Holzhauer would be dominating that list. As it is, he is now the only player for all 10 spots in the Single-Game Winnings column in Jeopardy!’s Hall of Fame.

Check out James Holzhauer’s Jeopardy Statistics for a quick look at his FJ and DD bets in all his games. More 10 games or more Jeopardy! champs.

Here is the Apollo Missions category from Friday’s game:

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