Final Jeopardy: 3-19 to 3-23-18

Here are the Final Jeopardy questions and answers for the week of March 19 through March 23, 2018.

Mon, March 19 – Correct answers: 2
U.S. GOVERNMENT: Before signing the bill creating this, Pres. George W. Bush noted its “nearly 170,000 employees” & “a new kind of war” show

Tue, March 20 – Correct answers: 1
ROMAN HISTORY: Of this battle in 31 B.C., Virgil wrote, “Neptune’s fields grow red with fresh slaughter” show

Wed, March 21 – Correct answers: 3
FILMS OF THE 1960s: Bernard Herrmann scored this 1960 black & white thriller using only the string section of an orchestra show

Thu, March 22 – Correct answers: 1
WORLD GEOGRAPHY: The Greek islands of Lesbos & Rhodes are each about 10 miles from the mainland of this other country show

Fri, March 23 – Correct answers: 1
UNREAL ESTATE: Some of the features of this title place of an 1883 novel are Mizzen-Mast Hill & Captain Kidd’s Anchorage show

The hardest clue this week, in our estimation, was on Tuesday. The easiest for the players was definitely Wednesday on the iconic 1960 thriller and frequent clue topic. However, the clues on Thursday and Friday were far from hard and should have met with better results. As I have said more than once, Robert Louis Stevenson is a 19th century poet and writer I greatly admire. He only lived for 44 years but what a fascinating life he had. I highly recommend reading a bio on him.

Rahul Gupta was the returning champ on Monday, but he lost to Lisa Mueller. Nobody topped her $16,800 payday for the rest of the week, not even Lisa when she won again the next day. On Wednesday, Rebecca Zoshak sent Lisa home, then lost to Lynn Klyde-Allaman on Thursday. Tristan Mohabir won Friday’s game and will be the returning champ come Monday. No big paydays this week meant no changes to the Top 10 payouts of Season 34.

Here are some highlights from Lisa Mueller’s game, including the chat segment where Alex told her “You’re lucky to be here.” OMG!