Final Jeopardy: 2-15-16 to 2-19-16

Here are the Final Jeopardy questions and answers for the week of February 15th through 19th, 2016.

Mon, Feb 15 – Correct answers: 0
In one version of a 19th c. quote, “There is room and health… away from the crowds” so you’re urged to do these 2 words. show

Tue, Feb 16 – Correct answers: 3
Exhibited in the British Museum since 1802, it was the centerpiece in a 1999 exhibition called “Cracking Codes”. show

Wed, Feb 17 – Correct answers: 1
This man who was in “The Godfather” & “Apocalypse Now” is the only living actor in 6 or more films on the list. show

Thurs, Feb 18 – Correct answers: 0
This children’s author considered using the anagrams Edgar Cuthwellis & Edgar W.C. Westhill for his pen name. show

Fri, Feb 19 – Correct answers: 3
In 2015 a street connecting with Frank Sinatra Drive & Dean Martin Drive in Las Vegas was renamed in his honor. 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.

After the 2-week break for the College Championship, reigning champ Chris Becker returned and won 2 more games. He was defeated on Wednesday, despite two big $10,000 scores on Daily Doubles, when Tim Kutz had the only correct FJ answer and won the match with that $46,599 you are seeing below. Tim continued to win on Thursday and Friday and our hopes for a 4x (or more) champ are all pinned on his return next Monday. Go Tim!

Here are a couple of clues from the category “Race” in Monday’s game.

How odd that they only made a clip of two clues. The $200 clue was chosen before the commercial break and the last 4 were left on the board till the very end of the game. The round ran about 2 minutes longer than usual and that time was taken away from the Double Jeopardy! round.

On Friday, there was a rejected mispronunciation and an accepted one right in the same game. Pat put an extra “r” sound in Algarve. That’s a no-no. Mitch pronounced Aquinas the way you start out saying aqua and used a short “i” sound, but didn’t add anything. We’re just assuming the “of” he threw in there was okay because other languages use it. (Example: Italian – Tommaso d’Aquino).

Good for you! Ever notice how Alex Trebek sometimes ends a chat with a contestant by saying those 3 words? Sometimes it just seems inappropriate like this past Wednesday when he said it to Katie after she told him she fell through a floor in an abandoned building while amateur ghost-hunting. “How loudly did you scream,” Trebek asked. “I don’t think I did,” Katie replied, “It just happened and it was only after I realized what happened that any noise came out.” One may have thought he would ask if she was hurt. “Okay,” he responded, “Well, good for you. Be careful.”