Final Jeopardy Clues: 8-23 to 8-27-21

Here are the Final Jeopardy questions and answers for the week of August 23rd through August 27, 2021:

Mon, Aug 23 – Correct answers: 1 (orig. airdate: 11/23/09)
ODD TITLES: Gilbert & Sullivan’s “Mikado”, not Milne, gave us this hyphenated title for a pompous functionary show

Tue, Aug 24 – Correct answers: 2 (orig. airdate: 12/9/2009)
HISTORIC AMERICANS: His collection of books suffered disastrous fires at the home called Shadwell in 1770 & at the Library of Congress in 1851 show

Wed, Aug 25 – Correct answers: 2 (orig. airdate: 11/9/2011)
FRENCH HISTORY: She said, “I told my plans to no one. I was not killing a man, but a wild beast that was devouring the French people.” show

Thu, Aug 26 – Correct answers: 2 (orig. airdate: 11/14/2011)THE PRESIDENTIAL CABINET: 7 women have been the Secretary of this, the most for any department in the President’s cabinet show

Fri, Aug 27 – Correct answers: 0 (orig. airdate: 1/15/2009)
MYTHOLOGICAL NAMES: With depths of up to 30,000′, ocean trenches make up a zone named for this brother of Poseidon & his domain show

This was a week of reruns of another 5 favorite Alex Trebek shows. These 5 episodes were also shown consecutively in the week of 12/28/20 to 1/1/21. I didn’t recap the final clues at the time, so here they are. Again, I am not making an image of the winners because of the random dates.

Here is the Operatic Costumes category from the episode that was shown on Wed, August 25th.