Final Jeopardy Clues: 5-4 to 5-8-20

Here are the Final Jeopardy questions and answers for the week of May 4 through May 8, 2020. First, we had a rerun of Ken Jennings’ first game ever, followed by rerun of the first 4 games in the 2020 Greatest of All Time Tournament.

Mon, May 4 – Correct answers: 2
THE 2000 OLYMPICS: She’s the first female track & field athlete to win medals in 5 different events at a single Olympics show

Tue, May 5 – Correct answers: 3
PRESIDENTS & THE BIBLE: “Silent” Calvin Coolidge was inaugurated in 1925 on a Bible open to this 6-word first line of the Gospel according to John show

Wed, May 6 – Correct answers: 2
ASTRONOMERS: This man’s name was given to a comet that crashed into Jupiter in 1994; he’s the only human whose remains lie on the moon show

Thu, May 7 – Correct answers: 3
INFLUENTIAL WRITING: Its second line is “All the powers of old Europe have entered into a holy alliance to exorcise this spectre: Pope & Czar, Metternich & Guizot…” show

Fri, May 8 – Correct answers: 1 (out of 2 left in FJ!)
19TH CENTURY LEADERS: Tall, lanky Joel Barlow was an ambassador carrying messages between these 2 world leaders, both mocked for being short show

Monday’s clue was just a regular FJ! in a game that aired 4 years after the event and before the person in question was stripped of those medals. Translation: it wasn’t’ that hard. I don’t think there was one in the remaining GOAT FJ!’S that could be classified as too difficult for the regular games. I’ve seen harder ones in regular games and I thought Friday’s was the easiest. By the way, President Monroe (the one wrong answer) was said to be six feet tall. One source described him as “well over” six feet and married to a woman who was less than five feet tall.

This is just one of the videos on Jeopardy!’s YouTube channel, featuring James Holzhauer, Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter. In this one, they talk about squinting, forgetting the categories while playing, Watson and how Brad, in one of his boo boos, managed to name a fictional character for Catherine the Great’s lover.