Final Jeopardy Clues: 1-15-24 to 1-19-24

Here are the Final Jeopardy questions and answers for the week of January 15 through 19, 2024.

Mon, January 15 – Correct answers: 0
ON THE STAGE: Paul Robeson said that even as this character “kills, his honor is at stake… the honor of his whole culture is involved” show

Tue, January 16 – Correct answers: 1 (out of 2 left in FJ!)
NEW NATIONS: In September 2023 the U.S. recognized 2 new nations in free association with New Zealand: Niue & this archipelago show

Wed, January 17 – Correct answers: 1
19th CENTURY AMERICA: An 1884 article calls this newly completed structure “the highest work of man” & disagrees with those who call it “a great chimney” show

Thu, January 18 – Correct answers: 0
20th CENTURY HISTORY: After the Vietnam War, Vietnam got bogged down in a campaign against this leader whom it managed to overthrow in 1979 show

Fri, January 19 – Correct answers: 2
AMERICAN ARTISTS: In the 1920s he used wire, string & other materials to fabricate “models in motion” for a miniature circus scene show

The easiest Final Jeopardy! clue this week appears to be Friday’s, with 2 correct responses. It’s hard to judge the difficulty level of the 2 triple stumpers. The responses to the Paul Robeson clue clearly showed the players didn’t know much, if anything, about him. Thursday’s panel all had the same wrong answer to that clue. No matter what you infer from that, here’s one observation we can make: neither panel had much of a change of getting either of those clues right.

On Monday, last week’s Second Chance Tournament wrapped up with Long Nguyen winning and advancing to Champions Wild Card. On Tuesday, the first of a long string of Champions Wild Card quarterfinals began. If you click on this link and look at the right-hand SCHEDULE tab, you will see that there are 2 groups of Champions Wild Card tournaments, with 14 games in each. So it’s 3 down and 25 more matches to go before Champions Wild Card is over on 2/22/2024.

Here is the “80s Pro Wrestling ” category from Tuesday’s game.