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Here’s today’s Final Jeopardy (in the category The 20th Century) for Wednesday, May 20, 2026 (Season 42, Game 183):
51 days after this event, Edward Teller said the United States had lost “a battle more important & greater than Pearl Harbor”
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Today’s Jeopardy! contestants:
Chris D’Angelo, a content manager from Washington, D.C.
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Allegra Rosenberg, a writer originally from Skokie, Illinois
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Tristan Williams, a data scientist originally from Lincoln, Nebraska (10-day total: $221,902)
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Andy’s Pregame Thoughts:
Yesterday on Jeopardy!, Tristan Williams became the 21st player in Jeopardy! history to win at least 10 games in regular play; the previous 20 have all won game #11. Will that streak continue today, or will Allegra Rosenberg or Chris D’Angelo, our challengers today, end that amazing run?
One thing I have once again noticed—and this is, quite frankly, a damning indictment of many within this Jeopardy! community—the reaction of many Americans on social media to Tristan’s run compared to Jamie Ding’s run is absolutely shocking. I have not seen nearly as many negative comments surrounding Tristan than I have about Jamie—and I think we all know exactly why that is. And to those who like to tell me about how wrong I am and how I shouldn’t be making anything about race—you are just as much of a problem, as you are providing cover for the actual racists to act with impunity.
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Correct response: What was the launch of Sputnik?
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When the Soviet Union successfully launched the first artificial satellite—Sputnik—on October 4, 1957, it sent the United States of America into a shocked panic. The Americans were immediately seen as losing the “space race” to the Russians at that point, leading to an immediate change in funding priorities; within a year, the National Defense Education Act was passed, whose preamble stated, “The present emergency demands that additional and more adequate educational opportunities be made available.”
I don’t know how this Final Jeopardy clue will play today; it feels a little on the tougher side to me, but I’ve been wrong before.
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