Final Jeopardy Clues: 10-18 to 10-23-21

Here are the Final Jeopardy questions and answers for the week of October 18 through October 22, 2021.

Mon, Oct 18 – Correct answers: 1
NAMES ON THE MAP: From 1824 to 1825 this hero toured all 24 states & an Indiana city was named for him show

Tue, Oct 19 – Correct answers: 1
CONTEMPORARY AUTHORS: He has studied Cordon Bleu cooking, but is known for his 1981 creation of a character with unconventional taste in cuisine show

Wed, Oct 20 – Correct answers: 2
19th CENTURY SUPREME COURT DECISIONS: The first “self-evident” truth in the Declaration of Independence was quoted & found not to apply to this plaintiff
show

Thu, Oct 21 – Correct answers: 2
WORLD GEOGRAPHY: This country of 16,600 square miles has a possession that’s more than 50 times as large show

Fri, Oct 22 – Correct answers: 2
1970s TOP 40 HITS: Seeing a poster for a production of “Cyrano de Bergerac” in a seedy Paris hotel & ladies of the evening nearby inspired this hit show

We had no triple solves and no triple stumpers this week. The first two clues went 1 out of 3, and the last 3 went 2 out of 3. I thought that the clues on Wednesday and Thursday were the easiest and everyone would get them. The hardest was Tuesday’s clue. Perhaps a mention of Chianti would have helped.

Jonathan Fisher added 5 more wins to the 5 games he won last week for a 10-day total of $230,100. Three games were runaways. His biggest payday was on Wednesday, the only one over $30K win he’s had so far. Without a runaway that day, he was forced to bet more than he normally would.

Watch Jonathan answer every clue correctly in Friday’s META”FOR”S category: