Jeopardy today

[spamsink]

Category "Foreign words and phrases", $2000:

It comes before "Ukraini" to mean "Glory to Ukraine"; it's also a common nickname.

A contestant has answered "Slava" correctly; how do they know that? :)

Comments

[vak]

Nice. 😀

Well, there is article in wikipedia in 37 languages: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slava_Ukraini

[spamsink]

It is unlikely they remember the whole of Wikipedia. Perhaps, there is a crowdsourced list of current memes to study for the prospective contestants.

[a_quantum]

Слуцкий всё объяснил:

"Глория" - по-русски значит "Слава",-
Это вам запомнится легко.