Final Jeopardy: Military History (6-5-26)
Here are some more clues from the 6/5/2026 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.
THE KING IS UNWELL ($800) A Wikileaks cable revealed that King Bhumibol of this country suffered from depression, a symptom of Parkinson’s Disease
YOU IN DANGER, LITERARY GIRL ($2000) After she sets Thornfield ablaze, it doesn’t end well for Mr. Rochester’s first wife, named this
Jackie & Seth got all the clues in TV, RECENTLY:
($200) In 2025, 23 women hit the playing field with 66-year-old ex-NFLer Mel Owens, who suited up in this title role
($400) Going down in a plane crash was only the start of Xavier Collins’ Season 2 troubles; just another day in this Hulu drama
($600) This HBO series finally returned for Season 3 in 2026, featuring Eric Dane’s last role, playing Jacob Elordi’s dad
($800) Breaking news… well, at least recent news: In 2024 this actress was up for an Emmy for playing Alex Levy on “The Morning Show”
($1000) To exclude unwanted events from his documentary, this Tracy Morgan guy has his phone play The Beatles because that ain’t in the budget
TV, RECENTLY ANSWERS: show
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SNEAK PEEK CATEGORY: Peter got all the clues in DIDN’T AGREE WITH HIM:
($200) Sir Arthur Eddington with Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar that these ultimately can collapse into new, very dense objects
($400) Edmund Burke with this man who cheered the French Revolution; a book by Yuval Levin say their debate began left vs. right
($600) Historian Fritz Fischer: With the view associated with P.M. Lloyd George that the major powers “slithered” into this war
($800) Frederick Crews: In many books with this Austrian, for example with his treatment of his patient Dora
($1000) William F. Buckley, Jr., about pretty much everything with this writer in 1968 televised debates
ANSWERS: show
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Well, this was hardly a competitive game, but it certainly was a challenging one (at least for us). Regarding the FJ, all that we could come up with was the Civil War. Yeah, we sort have figured that this response would be dead on arrival. Anyways, I would have hardly described the conflict with the Barbary Pirates as a war, but rather as a little squirmish at sea.
Pete in the seat was just too dominant, but props to Jackie in her valiant attempt to be relevant. Poor Seth crashed on the DDs. I knew only the first one, and said War of 1812 for Final. I did poorly overall today. Pete may be from Corona, CA, but his accent tells me he’s from the Deep South. He’s terribly smart.
I asked my daughter about that first DD. I was saying Peter must have been wishing he got that one and asked her, don’t they teach that in history anymore? She said they learned it in middle school but it’s been a long time. 🤣 That wouldn’t even be 20 years for her. I learned it something like 60 years ago. She said, yeah, but you love history.
P.S. I am 25 years older than my oldest kid, but I am 42 years older than Nikki.
Similarly, I was just turning 27 when #1 was born and 41 when #5 hatched. Wife was 3 years older.
@Howard, it’s fun in some ways, though. People would ask my daughter-in-law if she was Nikki’s aunt, and she’d have to say, no, she’s my sister-in-law.
OK, this time, there is no doubt – Ken ABSOLUTELY mangled “Kalakaua”. He said “Kuh-LOCK-kah-wah”. Say that on Kalakaua Avenue in Honolulu (in Waikiki), and you get punched in the mouth. It is MUCH more simple to say (as is much of the Hawai’ian language – lyric and sonorous) – “Kah-lah-cow-ah” No emphasis on any syllables.
I am not sure if they would have given me FJ – I said “Barbary Pirates”. That’s where a celebrated Marine, Presley O’Bannon, served. Although acclaimed in the USMC, he was only in the Marine Corps for about 6 years. He was given the first Mameluke sword, and, due to his achievements, this sword became the official sword of USMC officers to this day (with a brief period 1859-1875 where another sword was mandated).
Hi, Jason! I don’t think Ken could have okayed Barbary Pirates because of the word “conflict” in the clue. I think that indicates that the response had to include words like “war” or “battle”
I’m surprised Ken didn”t look up Kalakaua. I’m sure he looks up a lot of stuff but he’s still bound to mess up here and there, like that time with Medvedev. I still remember this one time with Alex Trebek, introducing a contestant from Parsippany, NJ, with the emphasis on PAN. 🤣
P.S. Not that I think I never say words wrong — if you brought this topic up in front of my kids, they would make me say robot.
Personally, I would have given you at least a half point for the FJ response Jason.
Half right is half wrong which is all wrong!! Haha
Not a great week for Final but a great week for Peter who swept this week. Darn those daily doubles to Seth. He became the first player since Marissa to miss all three daily doubles.