Final Jeopardy: 20th Century Names (5-19-26)

Here are some more clues from the 5/19/2026 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.

WHAT’S YOUR ANGLE? ($600) It’s the type of angle illustrated here; so why don’t you use it?

TV SHOWS BY COUPLE ($400) Dylan & Brenda, upscale sweethearts

KEVIN & KAREN PATRA OF ANCIENT EGYPT ($1000) “That plinth is too tall!” the Patras are awful HOA members in this city near modern Cairo, once paired as capital with Thebes

AMERICAN LITERATURE ($1600) He won a Nobel Prize for Literature in 1930 shortly after his novel “Dodsworth” had been published

SCIENCE ($2000) In 1801 Thomas Young showed light is a wave–so it has a wavelength, which he quite accurately put at 22.7/1,000,000″, about 576 of these

THERE’S A WORD FOR THAT ($800) Used affectionately, this slangy 4-letter word is when an animal has its tongue handing partway out

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SNEAK PEEK CATEGORY: 1 HISTORICAL FIGURE, 2 PLAYS
($400) Thomas Jefferson sings in “1776” & pops up in Act 2 of this show asking, “What’d I miss?”
($800) This British royal is a character in “The Lion in Winter” & in “Holy Warriors”, a theatrical fantasia about the crusades
($1200) John Wilkes Booth is featured in “Tyrants” & in this musical along with guys like John Hinckley
($1600) The cast of both “Barnum” & the 2026 “Greatest Showman” musical include this woman, aka “The Swedish Nightingale”
($2000) Cardinal Wolsey is just one of the many historical figures who appears in both Shakespeare’s “Henry VIII” & this Robert Bolt play

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