Final Jeopardy Clues: 12-13 to 12-17-21

Here are the Final Jeopardy questions and answers for the week of December 13 through December 17, 2021.

Mon, Dec 13 – Correct answers: 1
KINGS & QUEENS: Due to legislative action of 1707, she was officially the last monarch of independent Scotland show

Tue, Dec 14 – Correct
answers: 0
20th CENTURY PHYSICS: Puzzlingly heavy & long-lived particles discovered in the 1940s were dubbed this adjective later applied to even smaller particles show

Wed, Dec 15 – Correct answers: 0
AWARDS: The Theodore Roosevelt Rough Rider Award honors influential people from this state, including Western author Louis L’Amour show

Thu, Dec 16 – Correct answers: 0
WORLD WAR II GEOGRAPHY: Body-of-water battles included the Coral Sea, Philippine Sea & this one that allowed Japan to seize Jakarta show

Fri, Dec 17 – Correct answers: 1 (out of 2 left in FJ!)
FRENCH ARTISTS: The catalog of MoMA’s first exhibition called this artist who died in 1891 a “man of science” & “inventor of a method” show

In the last week of any tournament, we think most viewers want the Final clues to be challenging. However, this was a week of real “Papa Bear” clues — too hard. Tuesday’s clue in Physics was the hardest. Wednesday’s was the runner-up. Of the two clues that got one right response, it’s a toss up which was easiest. I didn’t get any of them!

Sam Buttrey, Ed Hashima and Alisa Hove were the winners of the three semi-final matches last week. They played the last two matches that were shown on Thursday and Friday. Here they are in Jeopardy!’s “Overheard” video discussing, among other things, the last Final Jeopardy! clue of the tournament: