Wrong on Jeopardy!

I've been trying to keep track of the funniest wrong answers on Jeopardy!, or easy questions where no one gets it right. (And here I qualify my statement: these aren't necessarily easy questions, but they should be easy for anyone who manages to get onto this show, or at least one out of three people who manage to get onto this show.)

Questions where no one got the answer

Category: Aircraft Carriers. Photo clue shown of a jet landing on a deck. The question was something like, This device catches the rear of the plane as it lands. (The tail hook)

Category: Sax Education. The question was essentially, Who played sax with Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band? None of them knew the name Clarence Clemons. Later, none of them could come up with Charlie Parker based on a photo of him, either.

What state did FDR take his last train trip to? (Georgia, where he died at Hot Springs... which is pretty well-known, isn't it? I thought the last train trip part was an easy inference if you knew that he died in Hot Springs.)

Category: Magazines. This four-letter-named magazine launched around the same time as LIFE and closed around the same time in the 1970s. (Look... now totally forgotten, I guess.)

Category: Before & Actor: "Gidget" actor who scores for 3 points in football. (Sally Field goal. The second part is completely easy, which tells me none them had any idea that Sally Field played Gidget, if they've ever heard of Gidget. Note that they had no trouble with the Before & Actor question format in general, and this wasn't the first question they heard in the category.)

Don Adams' character's secret agent number on the show Get Smart is also a phrase that means "to get rid of someone or something." (No one knew the number 86 from the show, which is not that surprising for three youngish people, but they also didn't pick up on the phrase hint.)

Complete the quote from Thoreau's Walden: The mass of men lead lives of quiet... this. (Lots of desperation among the three players trying to think of this answer, but no verbalization of it.)

Category: America in the 1700s. Complete the name of this Jonathan Edwards sermon: Sinners in the Hands of... this. (God must be angry about the shared lack of knowledge among these three players.)

Laughably funny answers, where no one ended up with the correct answer

Category: Book Character Does This. Leaves town, suspected of Huck's murder, gets on a raft with Huck. Wrong answer: Who is Tom Sawyer. [Correct answer, of course... Jim]

To respect native people who aided runaway slaves, artists like Flagboy Giz wear beaded suits for this event — February 21 in 2023. Wrong answer: What is Juneteenth? [Correct answer... Mardi Gras]

Category: America in the 1700s. I didn't get the exact wording, but the question was essentially, What colony is associated with James Oglethorpe? Wrong answer: Massachusetts. [Another Georgia question!]

Category: Numerical Words & Phrases. The basic form most taxpayers use to report income and file their taxes. Wrong answer #1: W2. Answer #2: W4. None of them know what a 1040 is, which is kind of shocking.

This nickname of Shakespeare is partly based on the place of his birth. Wrong answer #1: What is the Bard of Stratford. Wrong answer #2: What is the Bard of Stratford upon Avon. [Who doesn't know that Shakespeare is the Bard of Avon?]

Category: Pop Instrumentals. This monster hit by the Edgar Winter Group got its title from the way it was pieced together in the editing process. Wrong answer: What is "The Monster Mash"? [This is a real Boomer question, but the wrong answer is... man. Don't you want to hear that mash-up?]

Mayim Bialik sometimes has a hard time keeping a straight face when responding that these answers are incorrect. It's kind of fun to watch. That "Monster Mash" answer almost got her today.