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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