Final Jeopardy from the 2024 ToC Semifinals and Finals

Here are the Final Jeopardy questions and answers for the semifinals and final matches of the 2024 Tournament of Champions. The links go to the summer rerun recaps.

Tue, Aug 6 – Correct answers: 0
ANCIENT DRAMA: From the 470s B.C., Aeschylus’ earliest surviving work has this title; he’d fought them repeatedly in the preceding years show

Wed, Aug 7 – Correct answers: 1
LITERATURE & RELIGION: This city now in Turkey is the addressee of one of the New Testament epistles & the setting for “The Comedy of Errors” show

Thu, Aug 8 – Correct answers: 0
WORD ORIGINS: A radical in an 1833 failed uprising in Germany, Ludwig von Rochau coined this term for acts taken for practical reasons not ethics show

Those Final Jeopardy! clues were tough! Only one right over 3 days!

There were 6 final matches:

Fri, Aug 9 – Correct answers: 2
WORLD THEATER: This 1867 play has a reindeer hunt & a king dwelling in snowy mountains but its title character also spends time in Morocco & Egypt show

Mon, Aug 12 – Correct answers: 3
BOOKS OF THE BIBLE: This book is named for a tribe of Israel that carried out judgment of the idolaters of the golden calf show

Tue, Aug 13 – Correct answers: 3
THE UNITED NATIONS: Of the 9 countries that have produced a U.N. Secretary-General, this nation is the only one from its hemisphere show

Wed, Aug 14 – Correct answers: 1
HISTORIC AMERICANS: Near Kirkbean on Solway Firth, U.S. Vice Admiral Jerauld Wright presented a memorial plaque honoring this man show

Thu, Aug 15 – Correct answers: 2
EURASIA: Zvartnots International Airport serves this capital & has the code EVN, all letters found in the city’s name show

Fri, Aug 16 – Correct answers: 1
THE HUMAN BODY: This glandular organ that starts to shrink at puberty is known for being where the cells key to adaptive immunity develop show

The finalists did way better with the final clues. There were no triple stumpers and only 2 out of 6 got one correct response. All told, the finalists got 12 correct responses out of a possible 18.

Here’s the way the HISTORIC AMERICANS clue played out. The clue indicated a Scottish-American naval hero. Who could it be?