Final Jeopardy: Famous Lists (5-4-26)
Here are some more clues from the 5/4/2026 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.
QUATRO DE MAYO ($400) On May 4, 2000, Brits made Ken Livingstone the first person directly elected to this office, no Lord
L.A. ART & MUSIC ($200) A landmark outside a landmark, “Urban Light” at LACMA is made up of 202 cast-iron these, refurbished by artist Chris Burden
($600) A USC recital hall is named for 9-time Oscar-winning composer Alfred of this family, father of Thomas & David
NAME YOUR DAUGHTER FROM THE U.S. MAP ($2000) George Washington helped lay out this place on the Potomac & drilled troops there during the French & Indian War
ZERO YEAR ENTERTAINMENT ($1200) December 8th, 1980 brought sadness with the death of John Lennon but joy to my generation as this beloved comic strip was launched
($1600) 2020 was a good year for home-based entertainment like this game where you play as Zagreus, Prince of the Underworld
EPONYMS ($1600) The familiar rhythm heard here is known as this pioneering rock & roller’s “beat” (sorry, no preview)
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SNEAK PEEK CATEGORY: BOOKS & AUTHORS
($400) The 2025 political thriller “First Gentleman” is the third collaboration from Bill Clinton & this mega best-selling author
($800) Unsuccessful sci-fi author Kilgore Trout appears in several novels by this author, including “Breakfast of Champions
($1200) Thomas Harris introduced Hannibal Lecter in this colorful novel that predated “The Silence of the Lambs”
($1600) The author of this 1897 novel used “An Account of the Principalities of Wallachia and Moldova” as a reference
($2000) Of Indian descent, this author of “Interpreter of Maladies” wrote her third novel, “Whereabout”, in Italian
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Great game, lots of gettable clues, 3 sharp players, good scores. They hit the first two DDs before I could try to get them. 3rd one was easy. I totally should have known Final, considering my age and that I know all the words. Interesting how Matt from Arlington appeared on a show with an Arlington category. Reminded me of how I got smoked on the big-$ clues in Classical Music by a classical music DJ. Made all the difference between winning and losing narrowly.
My bro-in-law lives in LA and worked for decades at LACMA. He’s into fine arts and music and would have loved that category. Surprised no one knew the musical family, although the clue didn’t mention probably the most famous one of the bunch. Comic strip clue was tough but I remembered it well. Same with the pioneering rock and roller.
That was pretty cool how Stephanie and Matt caught up after Madeline got the back-to-back DDs. They all played so well and the icing on the cake: the last clue wasn’t one of those ones where you just know the leader is going to win, even though it turned out that way.