Final Jeopardy Clues: 12-19 to 12-23-22

Here are the Final Jeopardy questions and answers for the week of December 19 through December 23, 2022.

Click on the dates to see the Jeopardy! recaps for those games.

Mon, December 19 – Correct answers: 1
BRAND NAMES: Unable to make these candies perfectly round, the confectioner embraced this flawed name for the product show

Tue, December 20 – Correct answers: 0
CLASSIC SONGS: The shouts of excited children at a 1946 holiday parade are said to have inspired this perennial favorite show

Wed, December 21 – Correct answers: 2
CHILDREN’S LIT: The title object of this book “never looked more beautiful… each strand held dozens of bright drops of early morning dew” show

Thu, December 22 – Correct answers: 2
FAMOUS NAMES: In 2001 he published a book called “Banging Your Head Against a Brick Wall”; in 2002, “Existencilism” show

Fri, December 23 – Correct answers: 1
AMERICAN POEMS: In an 1847 poem this character sees her town of Grand-Pre burned, but finally reunites with her beau for a kiss before his death show

There was only one triple stumper this week and that was on Tuesday. The other 4 clues were evenly divided between one or two right responses. I guess the hardest clue was the triple stumper. So many Christmas songs! But you could say something similar about Monday– so many candies! We voted Wednesday’s Children’s Lit clue the easiest of the week.

Jeopardy! champs, week of December 19, 2022

Ray Lalonde returned for his third game on Monday and scored a runaway game. He continued to win for the rest of the week, although there were no more runaways so he had to work a little harder. Ray began the week as a 2x champ with $60,600 and ended as a 7x champ with $192,700.

Here’s the category “RIAN JOHNSON LOVES A WHODUNIT” from Friday’s game.