Final Jeopardy: 9-14 to 9-18-20

Here are the Final Jeopardy questions and answers for the week of September 14 through September 18, 2020, the first week of Jeopardy!’s Season 37.

Mon, Sept 14 – Correct answers: 1
FAMOUS BUILDINGS: This Rome building with a name from the Greek was described by Michelangelo as coming from “angelic and not human design” show

Tue, Sept 15 – Correct answers: 0
THE MUSIC BIZ: In 2019, at a 60th anniversary event in Detroit, this producer announced his retirement saying he had “come full circle” show

Wed, Sept 16 – Correct answers: 1 (out of 2 left in FJ!)
19th CENTURY AMERICANS: Obituaries called this man who died in 1820 a celebrated colonel, the first settler in Kentucky & a man who delighted in perils & battle show

Thu, Sept 17 – Correct answers: 2
20th CENTURY ARTISTS: “Los tres grandes” were Jose Clemente Orozco, David Alfaro Siqueiros & him show

Fri, Sept 18 – Correct answers: 1
ENGLISH POETS: An 1816 poem by him says, “That with music loud and long, I would build that dome in air, that sunny dome!” show

Alex Trebek gave his assessment of the premiere week of Season 37 before Friday’s game began: “”We had two games that were runaways. We had one player, a challenger, who didn’t make it into Final Jeopardy. We’ve had some substantial payoffs and one payday of less than $5,000. A great variety indeed.” There were also two instances of players crossing off the right answer and giving a wrong answer! That accounts for why there were no games when everyone got FJ!

To top all that off, there was a big hullabaloo on Tuesday over one player’s response getting rejected over spelling it with an “A”, and not an E. Multitudes insisted the two names are pronounced the same. Jeopardy! took the position that they are two entirely different names, regardless of whether they are pronounced alike. That is true. The two names do not have the same meaning, unlike sound-a-like variations such as Jon and John or Stephen and Steven. That was the only game this week where no one got FJ!

All new contestants were on board for the first game this week. Alex said that 4x champ Zach Newkirk will be returning in a few weeks. Cory Barger won on Monday and Tuesday. On Wednesday, she was defeated by David Ferrara. He lost to Joe Velasco on Thursday. On Friday, Sarah Twilley sent Joe home and she will begin the week with us next Monday.

From Jeopardy’s YouTube channel: Here is the first category (from Tuesday’s game) that featured Ken Jennings reading clues: