Final Jeopardy Clues: 5-31 to 6-4-21

Here are the Final Jeopardy questions and answers for the week of May 31st through June 4, 2021:

Mon, May 31 – Correct answers: 2
THE BUSINESS OF TELEVISION: The day it debuted in 1980, this network with an Italian name aired a Carnegie Hall celebration of Aaron Copland’s 80th birthday show

Tue, June 1 – Correct answers: 2
AROUND THE WORLD: In the 1860s a zoologist proposed that this island was once part of a lost continent he dubbed Lemuria show

Wed, June 2 – Correct answers: 2
NEWSPAPER NAMES: Used as a newspaper name from New York to San Diego, it was an ancient Roman official who represented the people’s interests show

Thu, June 3 – Correct answers: 3
17th CENTURY FRENCHMEN: Pope Urban VIII once said, “if there is a God,” this French minister “will have much to answer for. If not, he had a successful life” show

Fri, June 4 – Correct answers: 0
17th CENTURY WRITING: This 17th century work quotes the Book of Job, “Behold the giants groan under water, and they that dwell with them” show

2 players got FJ right for the first 3 days of the week. On Thursday, everyone came in with the correct response, making that clue the week’s easiest. On Friday, nobody got it so, yeah, that was the hardest!

Amanda Ganske returned for her 4th game but, once again, all hopes for a 4x champ were dashed when Kevin Hirsh won. Robin Lozano sent Kevin home on Tuesday and John Alba Cutler defeated her on Wednesday. Julia Markham Cameron won on Thursday and Friday and she will return next Monday for Game 3. Kevin had the top payday of the week and the players raised a total of $98,752 for Mayim Bialik’s charity, the National Alliance on Mental Illness

Here’s the Nobel Prize Oddities category from Thursday’s game: