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Here’s today’s Final Jeopardy (in the category 20th Century Phrases) for Wednesday, April 22, 2026 (Season 42, Game 163):
Before this 2-word term came to mean a type of mysterious object, trapshooters used it to refer to their targets
(correct response beneath the contestants)
Today’s Jeopardy! contestants:
Ruey Yen, a baseball usher, sports blogger & physicist from Los Angeles, California
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Suzanne Perla Blank, a retired stay-at-home mom originally from Queens, New York
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Jamie Ding, a bureaucrat & law student from Lawrenceville, New Jersey (28-day total: $774,601)
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Andy’s Pregame Thoughts:
Jamie Ding has moved to 28 victories after a bit of a scare last night—one where the only debatable visible piece of orange he wore was a pocket square that still looked more red than orange to me. Certainly, after what was likely seen as Jamie’s worst game statistically, I’d be wanting to make sure I wore visible orange from here on out. In any case, we have Ruey Yen and Suzanne Perla Blank as our challengers today as Jamie looks to get to his 29th victory. One thing is for certain: Jamie will pass the 900-correct-response mark in today’s game.
In another Jamie stat, yesterday’s game saw only the 9th instance in 28 games where Jamie failed to give a correct response in a category. (For comparison’s sake, Ken’s “0 correct in a category” count was 12 through 28 games.)
It should also be noted that, due to ABC’s coverage of the NFL draft tomorrow and Friday, there will be pre-emptions if you watch the show on an ABC local affiliate. Check your local listings or Matt Carberry’s Google sheet for the rescheduled time.
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Correct response: What is flying saucer?
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In 2015, when The New York Times was looking back upon the origin of various terms and when they entered the public consciousness, Mark Bulik wrote, “the first times they showed up, they were being shot at. But those references to ‘flying saucers’ appeared in articles about skeet shooting, and came from writers seeking a synonym for the clay disks.” But come the UFO craze of 1947, the term gained a different meaning: as a synonym for the unidentified flying objects that many Americans felt were invaders from outer space.
Word/phrase origin Final Jeopardy clues always tend to play on the more difficult side on the show; it would not surprise me if this only saw 0 or 1 correct responses.
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