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
($2000) 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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Oh, I forgot to say i noticed the Wright / Right thing I mentioned last week. Only Wright was the right response. Also, i could swear Ruey said WrightS brothers and Ken let that slide.
Another thing I wondered about was when Jamie put a V in the missing name from the book title instead of a W. Did he think it was spelled with a V or did he think it was W pronounced like a V?
Not the worst game of Jamie’s run, but he used his speed and wide-ranging knowledge to create separation. I too said “clay pigeon” knowing it was incorrect. The first two DDs were cinches, 3rd was very difficult. The $2000 river stumper wasn’t hard to figure out from one of the cities’ names. How did no one know the word for an overdue bill? In my youth it was also half of a common two-word phrase for a troublemaker.
Well, Jamie won the game with another clear runaway. Good for him! As for me, I didn’t perform all that well, and regarding the FJ, I wouldn’t have referred to a flying saucer as being a mysterious object. Rather, I would have labeled it as extraterrestrial. Perhaps that was what threw all of the contestants as well as myself.
That really would have been giving it away, Rick.
Amazing, Andrew! I sent Nikki a “Wake Me Up Before You Go Go” text this morning before I tried to take a little nap.