Final Jeopardy: 2-18-19 to 2-22-19

Here are the Final Jeopardy questions and answers for the week of February 18 through February 22, 2019.

Mon, Feb 18 – Correct answers: 0
BRITISH AUTHORS: Born in 1866, he has been called “The Shakespeare of science fiction” show

Tue, Feb 19 – Correct answers: 2
BROADWAY MUSICALS: The title of this musical that opened in 1956 came from the last line of a nursery rhyme about a structure that spanned the Thames show

Wed, Feb 20 2019 All-Stars Tournament began. There was no Final Jeopardy! clue in this game and they only played the Jeopardy! round.

Thu, Feb 21 – Correct answers: 1
AFRICAN GEOGRAPHY: The 7-letter names of these western- & easternmost mainland countries begin with the same letter show

Fri, Feb 22 – Correct answers: 2
WOMAN IN U.S. HISTORY: In 1901 this activist was jailed for inspiring the assassination of William McKinley, but the charge was later dropped show

In the first two regular games, neither FJ was particularly hard. Monday’s triple stumper was surprising indeed. In the two All-Star games, Friday’s was harder than Thursday’s but again, the easiest one had the lowest correct responses. Just goes to show ya– ya never know!

Amanda Holm played her second game on Monday but lost by a dollar to Rachel Fabi. On Tuesday, Rachel lost to Dana Wayne. We’ll be seeing Dana again after the All-Stars Tournament wraps up.

The daily scores for the two All-Star matches are shown above. They were added together and Brad Rutter’s team came out on top with $58,200. David Madden played FJ for Team Brad on Thursday and that’s Larissa Kelly on Friday. Team Captains Colby Burnett and Buzzy Cohen were Larissa’s opponent. Colby’s FJ score for Friday was $11,000 so it was actually the highest that day, before the scores were added together.

Top 15 Daily Payouts of Season 35: No changes.

Here’s the All-Stars Insider with the highlights of this week’s All-Stars games, presented by Jimmy McGuire of the Clue Crew. Jimmy chats with Team Brad and there’s more, including the Fantasy League Sweepstakes points. Don’t skip over the intro or you’ll miss Alex Trebek telling the players: “Just when I thought I was all done with you guys, you suck me back in.”