Final Jeopardy: 20th Century Phrases (4-22-26)

Here are some more clues from the 4/22/2026 Jeopardy! game. Please don’t put the answers to these clues in the comments so people who missed the game can have a chance to answer them. It is okay to refer to them by category and clue value or by part of the clue.

FAMILIAR PHRASES ($800) A serious incident on April 14, 1970 led to this 5-word phrase being used humorously for less serious situations

DO I LOOK FAD IN THIS? ($800) If you ask me, every home needs a framed single-image random-dot stereogram on the wall, aka this brand of poster

POST-APOCALYPTIC PAGE-TURNERS ($2000) The 1961 Hugo for Best Science Fiction Novel went to Walter M. Miller Jr., author of “A Canticle for” this last name

RIVER CITIES & TOWNS ($1200) Amboise & Orléans

($000) Puerto Ayacucho & Ciudad Bolívar

DO NOT PICK THIS CATEGORY ($400) You are not authorized to proceed; you proceeding, aeronautically & rhymingly speaking, is a this

($800) Take a word for “told you to take”, like the doctor did, switch the “E” to an “O” & you get this word meaning the opposite, forbidden

($1200) Having violated the rules, you’re this adjective that also means your bill is overdue

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SNEAK PEEK CATEGORY: SONG STORY
($400) For the song “Baba O’Riley”, Pete Townshend of this band recalled the “desolation…at Woodstock”
($800) Adele said that this song was a “real ode” to the “little me” & “older me”– perhaps from “the other side”
($1200) This singer said “It is ironic that a song called ‘Ironic’ isn’t filled with ironies”o
($1600) After his GF left him for the streets of Ecuador, Billie Joe Armstrong wrote this song– “I hope you had the time of your life”
($2000) Eminem rhymes “walking by” with “caught a guy”, “an awkward eye” & Karl Kani” in this song about those who neglect Andre Young

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