Final Jeopardy: Sports Venues (5-21-26)

Here are some more clues from the 5/21/2026 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.

A REPUBLIC ($200) The pink Palacio de Lopez in Asuncion is where this republic’s government business gets done

($600) Nouri al-Maliki was Prime Minister of this country from 2006 to 2014; in 2026 the U.S. said not to bring him back

WHERE THE RESOURCES ARE ($400) Kiritimati Island doesn’t have a ton of resources, but it does have these fruits, so there’s no copra shortage

($2000) This stuff doesn’t occur in metallic form in nature, but if you want to make it, maybe talk to bauxite-rich Brazil

THE DYE IS CAST ($2000) Discovered by British chemist Willim Perkin, the first successful synthetic dye was this purple named for the mallow plant

WHAT’S THE DIFFERENCE? ($1200) Unlike opera, this form doesn’t use costumes or scenery

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SNEAK PEEK CATEGORY: CONTAINS A TEXTING ABBREVIATION
($400) NGL: “coming” apart, either figuratively or because adhesive is failing
($800) TIL: a prison generically, as well as one historic one
($1200) IRL: a chamber controlling movement between 2 dissimilar spaces
($1600) KK: to bend in the center into a doubled-up position, like a diver
($2000) IMO: 13-letter word meaning cowardly

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