Final Jeopardy Clues: 12-23 to 12-27-19

Here are the Final Jeopardy clues and daily payouts for the week of December 23 through December 27, 2019.

Mon, Dec 23 – Correct answers: 1
BRITISH AUTHORS: In 2016 the OED celebrated his 100th birthday by adding words connected to his writings, including scrumdiddlyumptious show

Tue, Dec 24 – Correct answers: 0
HISTORIC AMERICAN CITIES: Damage from Hurricane Matthew in this city in 2016 revealed a plot of colonist graves from perhaps as long as 430 years ago show

Wed, Dec 25 – Correct answers: 2
ORGANIZATIONS: Founded by students at William & Mary in 1776; its members include 17 U.S. Presidents, 41 Supreme Court justices & more than 140 Nobel laureates show

Thu, Dec 26 – Correct answers: 1
19TH CENTURY HISTORY: Wanting more French influence in the area he called Latin America, Napoleon III installed an emperor in this country show

Fri, Dec 27 – Correct answers: 2
ART FIRSTS: The first French museum to buy this type of painting was the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Lyon, in 1901 show

Tuesday’s clue proved to be the hardest by virtue of stumping the entire panel. Then there were two FJ’s that only produced one correct response. The remaining two went 2 out of 3. So there was no clear “easiest.” At any rate, the easiest one for me was on Thursday.

2x champ Eric Smith was defeated on Monday by Robin Miner-Swartz. She won again on Tuesday but lost to Alex Hookway on Wednesday. Karen Farrell ran away with Thursday’s game and she won again on Friday. Alex Hookway had the week’s top payday.

Here is the FBI Headquarters category from Monday’s game from Jeopardy!’s youtube channel: