Final Jeopardy Clues: 5-11 to 5-15-20

Here are the Final Jeopardy questions and answers for the week of May 11 through May 15, 2020. The last two matches of the 2020 Greatest of All Time Tournament reran this week, followed by the 11/30/2004 game that Ken Jennings lost.

Mon, May 11 – Correct answers: 3
U.S. POLITICAL HISTORY: These 2 now-defunct parties each gave the U.S. 4 presidents in the 19th century show

Tue, May 12 – Correct answers: 0
21st CENTURY OSCAR WINNERS: These 2 foreign-born directors have each won 2 Best Director Oscars but none of their films has won Best Picture show

Wed, May 13 – Correct answers: 2
IT’S ALL GREECE TO ME: This area of Greece, home to Pan, is synonymous with a rural paradise; it’s a setting for Virgil’s shepherd poems the “Eclogues” show

Thu, May 14 – Correct answers: 1
SHAKESPEARE’S TRAGEDIES: He has 272 speeches, the most of any non-title character in a Shakespeare tragedy show

Fri, May 15 – Correct answers: 1 (out of 2 left in FJ!)
BUSINESS & INDUSTRY: Most of this firm’s 70,000 seasonal white-collar employees work only 4 months a year show

I really have no opinion on the first four GOAT clues, other than I think the results would have been about the same if they had appeared as FJs in regular games. Ken Jennings’ last game has been analyzed to death at this point, so I’m not going to go there. Instead, let us take a look at the rest of the FJs for that week and wonder whether Ken watched them and said “I knew that!”

Wed, 12/1/04 – Correct answers: 0
THE 18th CENTURY: In 1790 the HMS Pandora sailed thousands of miles specifically to bring back this man, but failed show

Thu, 12/2/04 – Correct answers: 1
VOCABULARY: This adjective for scholars & “Jeopardy!” champs is from the Latin ex, “out or away” & rudis, “rudeness” show

Fri, 12/3/04 – Correct answers: 1 (out of 2 left in FJ!)
U.S. CITIES: Of the USA’s 10 most populous cities, 1 of the 2 that dropped in population from 1990 to 2000 show

Go to Jeopardy!’s YouTube channel, to see all the videos they’ve put up this past week.