Final Jeopardy June 2017 Summary
June 5, 2017
Final Jeopardy Category:
World Transportation
Final Jeopardy Clue
It traverses hundreds of bridges, the longest stretching 2 miles across the Amur River
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Final Jeopardy Answer / Question:
Trans-Siberian Railway
June 6, 2017
Final Jeopardy Category:
Oscars
Final Jeopardy Clue:
This man received 2 honorary Oscars in his career, & the actor who played him on film received a 1992 nomination for the role
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Final Jeopardy Answer / Question:
Charlie Chaplin
June 7, 2017
Final Jeopardy Category:
British Kings
Final Jeopardy Clue:
Bearing Roman numeral I, he subdued Wales & was called the “English Justinian” for his legal reforms
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Final Jeopardy Answer / Question:
Edward I
June 8, 2017
Final Jeopardy Category:
World War II Heroes
Final Jeopardy Clue:
Credited with saving thousands of lives before his disappearance, in 2016 he was officially declared dead by Sweden
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Final Jeopardy Answer / Question:
Raoul Wallenberg
June 9, 2017
Final Jeopardy Category:
Constellations
Final Jeopardy Clue:
The brightest star in Scorpius is named this, meaning “rival” of the god equivalent to Mars
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Final Jeopardy Answer / Question:
Antares
June 12, 2017
Final Jeopardy Category:
Geography
Final Jeopardy Clue:
Cross the Strait of Bonifacio & you go between the 2nd- & 4th-largest Mediterranean islands & between these 2 countries
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Final Jeopardy Answer / Question
Italy and France
June 13, 2017
Final Jeopardy Category:
16th Century names
Final Jeopardy Clue:
In his 1557 almanac this French doctor predicted, “Immortal I shall be in life, and in death even more so”
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Final Jeopardy Answer / Question:
Nostradamus
June 14, 2017
Final Jeopardy Category:
Books and Authors
Final Jeopardy Clue:
His first novel, from 1920, incorporated some of his pieces from the Nassau, a Princeton literary magazine
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Final Jeopardy Answer / Question:
F. Scott Fitzgerald
June 15, 2017
Final Jeopardy Category:
Recent Oscar Winners
Final Jeopardy Clue:
For his portrayal of a famous man born in the 1940s, he was the first actor born in the ’80s to win the Best Actor Oscar
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Final Jeopardy Answer / Question:
Eddie Redmayne
June 16, 2017
Final Jeopardy Category:
Classical Music
Final Jeopardy Clue:
Scholars think this 1810 piano piece was dedicated to Elisabeth Rockel or Therese Malfatti, a student of the composer
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Final Jeopardy Answer / Question:
Fur Elise
June 19, 2017
Final Jeopardy Category:
Airlines
Final Jeopardy Clue:
On June 17, 1929 this airline’s first passenger flight left Dallas, making stops at Shreveport, Monroe & Jackson
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Final Jeopardy Answer / Question:
Delta
June 20, 2017
Final Jeopardy Category:
Shakespeare titles
Final Jeopardy Clue:
The verse from the Sermon on the Mount following “judge not, that ye be not judged” inspired this Bard comedy title
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Final Jeopardy Answer / Question:
Measure for Measure
June 21, 2017
Final Jeopardy Category:
Sports and Politics
Final Jeopardy Clue:
After moving to Johannesburg in 1903, he formed the Passive Resisters Soccer Club
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Final Jeopardy Answer / Question:
Mohandas Gandhi
June 22, 2017
Final Jeopardy Category:
Europe 1962
Final Jeopardy Clue:
Rudolf Abel & this American are most associated with Germany’s Glienicke Bridge on February 10, 1962
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Final Jeopardy Answer / Question:
Gary Powers
June 23, 2017
Final Jeopardy Category:
1960 Books
Final Jeopardy Clue:
Wherever I sat… I would be sitting under the same glass this, the title of the author’s only novel
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Final Jeopardy Answer / Question:
The Bell Jar
June 26, 2017
Final Jeopardy Category:
Oscars
Final Jeopardy Clue:
Later an Oscar winner, she appeared as the child baptized towards the end of “The Godfather”
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Final Jeopardy Answer / Question:
Sofia Coppola
June 27, 2017
Final Jeopardy Category:
Literary References
Final Jeopardy Clue:
An homage to a 1953 novel, this number appears as an error code when a user tries to access a web page with censored content
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Final Jeopardy Answer / Question:
451
June 28, 2017
Final Jeopardy Category:
Entrepreneurs
Final Jeopardy Clue:
In the 1960s M.T. Lott was one of the fictitious names he used to buy 27,000 acres in Florida
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Final Jeopardy Answer / Question:
Walt Disney
June 29, 2017
Final Jeopardy Category:
Nations of the World
Final Jeopardy Clue:
Its contiguous territory covers 36 degrees of latitude, the longest stretch of any country not in the top 10 in area
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Final Jeopardy Answer / Question:
Chile
June 30, 2017
Final Jeopardy Category:
Plants
Final Jeopardy Clue:
Made famous by a 1959 musical, the flower seen here graces a coin of this European country
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Final Jeopardy Answer / Question:
Austria