Final Jeopardy Clues: 12-16 to 12-20-19

Here are the Final Jeopardy clues and daily payouts for the week of December 16 through December 20, 2019.

Mon, Dec 16 – Correct answers: 2
TV THEME MUSIC: A short piece for 2 guitars called “Strange No. 3” was the first part of the theme music for this drama series that debuted in 1959 show

Tue, Dec 17 – Correct answers: 2
MILESTONES IN U.S. HISTORY: Congress declared September 6, 2008 Louisa Swain day because Louisa did this in Wyoming on that date in 1870 show

Wed, Dec 18 – Correct answers: 1
PLANTS & TREES: One of Britain’s few native evergreen trees, it’s prized for bringing color to winter, & its foliage is often hung in homes show

Thu, Dec 19 – Correct answers: 1
SCIENCE & INNOVATION: In her 20+ years working for this company, Audrey Sherman of Saint Paul has been granted more than 130 patents show

Fri, Dec 20 – Correct answers: 3
CLASSIC FICTION: A 1902 work says of a riverboat journey, “We penetrated deeper and deeper into” this, the work’s title show

Two of last week’s clues only went 1 out of 3, and we thought that Wednesday’s was the hardest of those two. It was a real head-slapper after the fact, but what can ya do? I don’t even even think of the response as a tree (unlike Emily Bronte). The easiest was obviously the only triple solve on Friday.

Jennifer Quail returned as an 8x champ on Monday and lost to Kirby Copelin. Kirby lost on Tuesday to Rodolfo Yuichiro Bedoy. He was defeated by Dave Algase on Wednesday. Eric Smith took over on Thursday and won his second game on Friday. He’ll be back on Monday to try for a third win.

Here is the Baskin-Robbins category from Wednesday’s game from Jeopardy!’s youtube channel: