Final Jeopardy: 10-2 to 10-6-17

Here are the Final Jeopardy questions and answers for the week of October 2 through October 6, 2017.

Mon, October 2 – Correct answers: 1
This artist from Iowa once said, “All the really good ideas I’d ever had came to me while I was milking a cow” show

Tue, October 3 – Correct answers: 1 (out of 2 left in FJ)
He said, “Never again shall it be that this beautiful land will again experience the oppression of one by another” show

Wed, October 4 – Correct answers: 1
The latitude & longitude given by the narrator of this 1938 play would set it in Massachusetts, not New Hampshire show

Thu, October 5 – Correct answers: 1
He played Shakespearean title characters four times, receiving a Best Actor Oscar nomination each time show

Fri, October 6 – Correct answers: 1
They begin with the same 3 letters: the most densely populated country in Europe & the least densely populated in Asia show

If you missed any of the games, click on the date for the recap with the Daily Doubles and a triple stumper or two. More clues from this week’s games are on Fikkle Fame’s archive.

It wasn’t exactly a stellar week for FJ responses, was it, but it was a perfect week of just one right. The current champ, Austin Rogers, had 4 of them. Wednesday’s correct response came from Jay Hancock. That one was the toughest, in our opinion. We didn’t think the others were that tough, but surely, Monday’s should have been the easiest. Jeopardy! has clues about the “American Gothic” painting and painter on the regular.

Austin Rogers returned for his 5th game on Monday and by Friday, he was a 9x champ with winnings of $332,400. He appeared on Good Morning America before the week was out and there are some highlights in the video above.

As for the Top 10 Daily Payouts in Season 34, as of 10/6/2017, Austin has taken over most of it. We were saying in last week’s recap that he set the bar high. This week, he set it VERY high!

  1. $69,000 Austin Rogers – 10/3/2017
  2. $65,600 Austin Rogers – 10/2/2017
  3. $36,200 Austin Rogers – 9/28/2017
  4. $36,000 Austin Rogers – 9/26/2017
  5. $29,200 Betsy Knudson – 9/19/2017
  6. $28,801 Jen Sosnowski – 9/13/2017
  7. $28,600 Austin Rogers – 10/5/2017
  8. $27,900 Laura Kelsay – 9/12/2017
  9. $27,000 Austin Rogers – 9/29/2017
  10. $25,500 Austin Rogers – 10/6/2017
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4 Responses

  1. Cece says:

    Top 10 Daily Payouts, only 7 out of 10? Wimp. I kid 🙂

    Anyway, he had a hair cut?! I liked the messy hair better; it fit beautifully with his crazy persona, imo.

    • VJ says:

      I like the new do myself, Cece, and what was with this response to being asked about it –“Scissors exist.” They existed before he headed out to L.A. He’s “always on”

      • Cece says:

        I don’t like the new do for the exact reason the reporter described it as “Jeopardy-esque” (something like that). Translation: nerd-esque, lol.

        Yes, he’s “always on.” Btw, in my imaginary game, Ben Ingram would star along Austin and Matt. Ben would bring some semblance of sanity into the mixture, but not interject too much into the madness.