Jeopardy Invitational Tournament Quarterfinal FJ! Clues

The last two weeks of Jeopardy! reruns were mainly quarterfinals in the Invitational Tournament that original aired from March 20, 2024 through April 1, 2024. The contestants were all former champs so, in essence, it was a Tournament of Champions, only the champs came from many different seasons. Of course, the material was expected to be harder than regular daily episodes and, as you can see, the Final Jeopardy clues certainly were.

Wed, March 20 – Correct answers: 1
TRAILBLAZERS: The foremost member of the “Sochi Six”, which was similar to a previous U.S. group, he died in a plane crash in 1968 show

Thu, March 21 – Correct answers: 2
20th CENTURY NOVELS: Virginia Woolf disliked this book that was “cutting out the explanations and putting in the thoughts between dashes” show

Fri, March 22 – Correct answers: 2
FROM THE ANCIENT LAND: “Captured in Egypt by the British Army 1801” is painted on the side of this artifact named for the city where it was found show

Mon, March 25 – Correct answers: 0
NOTORIOUS FIGURES: Never even a soldier, this man lied that his nickname came from a shrapnel wound while fighting in the Argonne show

Tue, March 26 – Correct answers: 2
ELEMENTS: In his “Natural History” Pliny described it as “argentum vivum” show

Wed, March 27 – Correct answers: 1
OLD WORDS: First appearing in an English dictionary in 1623, mesonoxian means pertaining to this word show

Thu, March 28 – Correct answers: 0
20th CENTURY BOOKS: TIME mentioned “cruelty & enforced conformity” when summing up this novel with a “stonily silent narrator” show

Fri, March 29 – Correct answers: 2
U.S.S.R.I.P.: Of the 15 countries formed by the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, this one is alphabetically last show

Mon, April 1 – Correct answers: 1
NOVEL TITLE OBJECTS: A girl in a 1950 novel walks into this & “got in among the coats and rubbed her face against them” show

Even though none of the FJ! clues produced 3 correct responses, 2 players got 4 of the FJ! clues right. Only one player got 3 of the FJ! clues right and nobody got 2 of the FJ! clues right.