Final Jeopardy: 7-7-14 to 7-11-14

Here are the Final Jeopardy questions and answers for the week of July 7, 2014, with links to the full recaps.

Mon, July 7 – Correct answers: 0
“Features” at the website of this agency include “protection “, “investigations” & “know your money”. show

Tue, July 8: Correct answers: 3
Appropriately, this word from Latin for “unfold” isn’t in the first edition of “Origin of Species”, but does appear in later editions. show

Wed, July 9 – Correct answers: 0
The constitution of this country allows the monarch to abdicate, which has happened in 1948, 1980 & 2013. show

Thurs, July 10 – Correct answers: 1
This adjective can mean “delicate”, “heavenly” or, in chemistry, “related to C4H10O”. show

Fri, July 11 – Correct answers: 2
Published in 1925, it still sells 500,000 copies a year & was on the bestseller lists in 2013. show

This week, returning champ (last Fri – $33,199), Kay Thanaporn was defeated on Monday by Justin Nigro ($14,000). Campbell Warner stuck around for 2 games ($37,200) and Jen Fiero finished the week as a 2x champ ($36,000). There were two triple stumpers in FJ. Last week, there was only one.

Here is the trailer to “Midnight Cowboy”, the film that won the 1969 Best Picture Oscar.

No one in Friday’s game knew the film’s name just based on the name of Dustin Hoffman’s character. Ordinarily, that would lead to an immediate Dustin Hoffman Movie Quotes post, but because of the discussion about it, it was decided that a post for every Oscar winning movie would be a very cool and worthwhile project. So check out the Best Picture winner: Midnight Cowboy: 1969 Best Picture, complete with Jeopardy! clues on the film.

“Midnight Cowboy” star, Jon Voight, by the way, has just been nominated for an Emmy for his role as Mickey Donovan on the Showtime series, “Ray Donovan”. We’ll get Dustin’s quotes done, too, somewhere along the line.