Final Jeopardy: The 20th Century (5-20-26)
Here are some more clues from the 5/20/2026 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.
U.S. NATIONAL PARKS ($1600) Bryce Canyon National Park is known for these rock formations created by millions of years of weathering and erosion
($2000) You’ll need a permit for the Angels Landing hike in this national park about 160 miles northeast of Las Vegas
“ORA” FARMING ($1200) If you can’t say something nice, go ahead & say something insulting or this synonym
The players got all the clues in THE ORIGINAL LANGUAGE:
($400) of “Love in the Time of Cholera”
($800) of Camus’ “The Plague”
($1200) of “Pippi Longstocking”
($1600) of “All Quiet on the Western Front”
($2000) of “The Unbearable Lightness of Being”
ORIGINAL LANGUAGE ANSWERS: show
The Daily Box Scores are released at 8 pm Eastern
SNEAK PEEK CATEGORY: WANNA BET?
($200) This type of bet in which 2 or more different things need to happen sounds like a French word meaning “speak”
($400) Prop bets for Super Bowl 60 included whether or not Sam Darnold of this team would score more than 1.5 touchdowns
($600) Unless the dealer’s showing an ace, this alliterative blackjack bet is sound strategy whenever you’re showing 11
($800) At the horse track, it’s picking 3 horses in the correct finish order; it’s also come to refer to any triple grouping
($1000) Don’t pass & hardways are bets in this casino game where a supple wrist can do you wonders
ANSWERS: show
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The bets show what actual IQ of a player is. Not clear why Tristan bet $3,100 at FJ – wrong strategy. The best startegy for him was not to bet anything.
Tristan’s wager was brilliant. Chris more or less had to wager at least $6601 in case Tristan doubled to $19400. Tristan could win only if Chris got Final wrong. $3101 was correct in case Chris wagered $0 and Tristan was correct on Final. If they’d both missed Final, Tristan would win with $6599 and Chris would sink to $6199, assuming he made the larger wager.
“In case Chris wagered $0”. Are you kidding?
Terrific finish, despite the wrong answers/missed DDs/stumpers. When we were kids, the proprietor at the local store that sold candy/magazines/cigarettes/newspapers called me Sputnik and my sister Little Sputnik. Why, I don’t know, and he probably did that for all the kids.
I was thinking the bombing of Japan like Allegra. I loved the Wanna Bet category but otherwise blew the DDs/FJ and the few stumpers. I worked in a casino long ago and still deal at private functions and fundraisers.
I knew the first DD because of Yul Brynner and Gina Lollobrigida. I knew the spinal DD from working in a personal injury law firm.
I loved the Wanna Bet category too. It brought back memories of beginners luck. 😃
It was another fabulous game, and Chris emerged as the new Jeopardy champion. As for me, I was stumped in FJ. Personally, I wouldn’t have described the Sputnik launch as having been a greater loss to the United States than the battle at Pearl Harbor, but I suppose that the physicist was entitled to his opinion.
Darn Those Daily Doubles! Most importantly, for the 1st time in J! History, a 10-Day Champion lost Game 11. It had to happen sooner or later to that streak.
Didn’t matter if Tristan was right or not. He would win if Chris got it wrong
Chris is the giant-killer as he becomes the new champion. Had Chris not crossed off his initial response, Tristan would have been an 11 day champion. Tristan still made the right bet in Final if Final was a triple stumper.
So Tristan is the first superchamp to lose Game 11. Ah, well, he had a good run. I laughed out loud at the same time as Tristan when he laughed at his own Dave Clark response.
Congrats to Chris. He was quicker on the buzzer than Tristan it seemed, so maybe he has the stuff to go on a run. Still, the pre-FJ! scores were mighty low for a game with so few triple stumpers because of the DDs.