Below you’ll find the Final Jeopardy clue for August 21, 2024. The encore presentation for the 2024 Jeopardy Invitational Tournament is still going, this time with contestants Matt Jackson from Washington, DC, Alan Lin from California, and Terry O’Shea from New York. They will not only win prize money for placing high, but some will earn a place in the Jeopardy Masters tournament. It will take awhile before Season 40 restarts in September. As a follow-up to yesterday’s game, this episode will be a repeat of the match that aired on March 22, 2024. This is the question and answer for Final Jeopardy on 8/21/2024, plus the wagers and ultimate winner of this tournament match.
Final Jeopardy Question for August 21
The Final Jeopardy question for August 21, 2024 is in the category of “From The Ancient World” and has the following clue:
“Captured in Egypt by the British Army 1801” is painted on the side of this artifact named for the city where it was found
As normal, we won’t reveal the answer here in case you want to figure it out. It has been placed instead at the end of this article.
Final Jeopardy Wagers and Winner for August 21
Matt became the winner for the August 21, 2024 match, with him earning enough money in Double Jeopardy to make Final Jeopardy moot. He was one of two contestants to get the answer correct, though the wagers were particularly low given his runaway win.
Matt began with $41,200 heading into Final Jeopardy and only wagered $121, ending up with $41,321 and becoming a semi-finalist. Alan had $14,000 and decide to wager just $1, finishing with $14,001 in second place.
Meanwhile, Terry only had $5,800 and got a part of the answer right, but the judges deemed his answer incomplete. This meant that his wager of $5,800 ended with him having $0 in third place.
Final Jeopardy Answer for August 21
The correct answer for Final Jeopardy on August 21, 2024 is “What is Rosetta Stone?”
A slab of granodiorite, the Rosetta Stone has three inscriptions of a decree by King Ptolemy V Epiphanes in 196 BC. Since the inscriptions were in Demotic, Ancient Egyptian, and Ancient Greek, this artifact was used as a way for historians to decipher and translate texts between the three languages. The French first discovered the tablet in Egypt in 1799 before the British took the stone under the terms of the Capitulation of Alexandria in 1801. This is the reason behind the inscription in the clue about it being captured by the British Army.
