Final Jeopardy Clues: 3-25-24 to 3-29-24

Here are the Final Jeopardy questions and answers for the week of March 25 through March 29, 2024.

Mon, March 25 – Correct answers: 0
NOTORIOUS FIGURES: Never even a soldier, this man lied that his nickname came from a shrapnel wound while fighting in the Argonne show

Tue, March 26 – Correct answers: 2
ELEMENTS: In his “Natural History” Pliny described it as “argentum vivum” show

Wed, March 27 – Correct answers: 1
OLD WORDS: First appearing in an English dictionary in 1623, mesonoxian means pertaining to this word show

Thu, March 28 – Correct answers: 0
20th CENTURY BOOKS: TIME mentioned “cruelty & enforced conformity” when summing up this novel with a “stonily silent narrator” show

Fri, March 29 – Correct answers: 2
U.S.S.R.I.P.: Of the 15 countries formed by the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, this one is alphabetically last show

There were 2 correct responses for 2 final clues this week and 0 correct for 2 others. Of the ones with 2 answers, I thought the alphabetically last country was the easiest, although one of the responses was really wrong. The wrong response on the Element clue was “What’s going on?”, a remark meant as a joke. Contestants often do that when another player “can’t be caught.” Of the 2 triple stumpers, Friday’s clue was probably the hardest if you agree that the “nickname” hint was better than the “stonily silent narrator” hint.

The quarterfinal matches in the first Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament resumed, adding 5 more semifinalists to the list.

$41,200 Matt Jackson
$40,200 Larissa Kelly
$33,601 Andrew He
$28,801 Victoria Groce
$26,800 Amy Schneider
$22,000 Jennifer Quail
$18,401 David Madden
$7,600 Sam Kavanaugh

There is one more quarterfinal on Monday (Lilly Chin, Colby Burnett, Sam Buttrey), then the semifinals will begin.

Here is the TRENDING category from Wednesday’s game.