Final Jeopardy: Literary Terminology (5-22-26)
Here are some more clues from the 5/22/2026 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.
COFFEE OR TEA? ($1200) Despite its name, this grade of tea leaf abbreviated OP doesn’t have a citrus flavor
YOINK! ($1600) Often in an office hierarchy, this 2-word act has been defined as taking “advantage of a situation in order to take control”
ACCENTED WORDS ($2000) You could say this procession is spelled with an accent grave
RECORD LABELS ($1200) After releasing Nirvana’s low-budget debut album in 1989, this Seattle-based label became synonymous with the grunge movement
($1600) This jazz label founded in 1939 shares its name with a chain of live jazz clubs, including a famous one in Greenwich Village
($2000) This classical music label says it was named “after an altogether splendid figure from Greek mythology”
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SNEAK PEEK CATEGORY: BEYOND REDEMPTION (starts with “re”, comes after redemption in the dictionary)
($200) To subdue or to make smaller, like a waistline
($400) A movement of troops from one area to another
($600) This type of fix “of grievances” is in the First Amendment
($800) To increase one’s efforts with intensity, perhaps twice as much
($1000) Adjective meaning emitting a suggestive odor
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Not much of a game. The law school administrator botched one of the legal clues. Unlike Jeff, I knew all 3 DDs but not Final. Chris wrote it down right away. I got Tom Brown’s college and the OP tea. I’ve been to the college but have never tasted tea. I thought I’d nail the record labels but knew only the Dylan one.
Are you sure the $400 “redemption” answer is regroupment? I thought it was redeployment. I could be wrong. (And I saw your reply to Jason right after posting mine.)
You’re right, Howard, it’s redeployment. I must have thought Ken was talking to me when he said the answer was right 🤣
I fixed it.
I just showed up (hope I don’t say anything dumb) to say Chris named my alma mater – the Virginia Military Institute (VMI)! The case was decided 4 years after I was graduated. A few things: this was the case that was the rock of Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s career. Also, Clarence Thomas had to recuse himself, because his son Jamal was a cadet there at that time!
I was 3/3 on DD. but had NO clue on FJ. Ken doesn’t speak French, I notice, because it’s not pronounced “accent grave”, like a place you bury someone, but “gräv”, or “grahve”. The one with which you are likely more familiar is the “accent aigu” (like é).
Hi, Jason! Thanks for the info on that VMI case. Very interesting.
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Idk if Ken speaks French for real but he certainly does a good job with foreign pronunciations. Saying “grave” instead of “grahve” was intentional because the clue was about a word associated with funerals
No, he purposely pronounced it that way because it was relating to a funeral. The hosts go over every single clue for every game taped later that day with the writers/producers. Which is why they virtually always properly pronounce even the most unique foreign words, and correct the contestants when they say them incorrectly. There were 2-3 tonight but he didn’t correct all of them.
It would have been so much better if the clue read “grave, not grahve” — less confusion.
And even though the category was a generic Accented Words, you really had to know francais to get through it. The last class I took was in 1969 but I still retain a pretty good working knowledge.
Well, Ken does what Alex did with Latin, namely, the Descartes quote: “cogito, ergo sum”. They both pronounce the G as soft, but C’s and G’s are all hard. So, it’s not “KAHJ-ee-toe”, but “Koh-GEE-toe” with that “gee” not being the English “gee”, but more like “ghee”.
Chris became the sixth giant killer to win his third game after defeating a superchampion.
I’ve been wondering lately if there’s a curse on the Daily Doubles. Bet big and you lose. Jeff was its latest victim.