Final Jeopardy: 7-30 to 8-3-18

Here are the Final Jeopardy questions and answers for the week of July 30 through August 3, 2018, a rerun of the 2017 ToC Quarter-Final that originally ran from November 6 through November 10, 2017.

Mon, July 30 – Correct answers: 3
MUSIC HISTORY: This 1880 piece was written more than 6 decades after the Battle of Borodino, the conflict it commemorates. show

Tue, July 31 – Correct answers: 1
LANDLOCKED COUNTRIES: South of the Tropic of Capricorn, this kingdom is the world’s southernmost landlocked country. show

Wed, August 1 – Correct answers: 2
19TH CENTURY POETS: In 1824 he was refused burial in Westminster Abbey for “questionable morality”; in 1969 he got a memorial stone there. show

Thu, August 2 – Correct answers: 1
U.S. HISTORY: A street-corner occupation that saved many in the Depression was aided by a 1930 tops-in-the-U.S. crop in this state. show

Fri, August 3 – Correct answers: 1
AWARDS & HONORS: The Victoria Cross is for military bravery; this Cross first given in 1940 & named for Victoria’s great-grandson is for civilian bravery. show

If you missed any of the games, click on the date for the recap with the Daily Doubles and a triple stumper or two. More clues from this week’s games are on Fikkle Fame’s archive.

By general consensus, Monday’s clue was this week’s easiest and Wednesday’s was the only one that went 2/3 so that must have been the second easiest. The rest of them only produced one right response and you can rate them on your own scale of hard and easy topics. In my personal opinion, Thursday’s was the easiest to go astray with.

We don’t need an image of the semi-finalists and Wild Card winners this week. Here is a video tweeted by Jeopardy! of all the semi-finalists:

The quarterfinals of the #TournamentOfChampions presented by @Consumer_Cell are officially in the books! Did your favorite contestant make it through? pic.twitter.com/816qF5yIcq

— Jeopardy! (@Jeopardy) November 11, 2017

The scores for the Semi-Finalists and Wild Cards are on Friday’s recap. This week, they played for a chance to move forward and those who did not make the cut went home with $5,000. Next week, every player starts off again at zero. The winners of the first 3 matches will move forward and compete in a 2-day final.