Final Jeopardy: Nobel Peace Prize Winners (10-6-22)

Here are some more triple stumpers from the 10/6/2022 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.

U.S. DIPLOMACY ($400) The British wanted to be part of this 1823 announcement, but Secretary of State John Quincy Adams said no

($1000) Ignorant of Japan, Commodore Perry carried a letter from the President to the figurehead emperor rather than this real ruler

WOMEN IN THE ARTS In 2015 this African American prima ballerina made her Broadway debut in “On the Town”

PHYSICS ($1600) “Moment of force” is another term for this force of rotation around an axis

($2000) Particles called gluons bind these other mysterious “flavored” particles together

The players missed 4 clues in INSIGNIFICANT IDIOMS:
($400) Something no longer of importance is this type of academic reference “to history”
($800) This idiom, illustrated here, originally meant a less prestigious vaudeville circuit; now it’s anything unimportant
($1200) In “It’s a Wonderful Life”, Bailey Building & Loan is described with this contemptuous term from the poker table
($1600) Used by the military, unavoidable harm in the course of an action is called this “damage”
($2000) This alliterative phrase for a negligible sum of money began as African-American slang

INSIGNIFICANT IDIOMS ANSWERS show