Final Jeopardy: Nonfiction (3-17-22)

Here are some more triple stumpers from the 3/17/2022 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.

BALLET ($400) Choreographers like Alexander Gorsky have made this Moscow ballet co. that dates to 1776 one of the world’s leading companies

($600) As the costuming indicates, Giselle is this kind of country girl, also the name of a pas de deux in the ballet

7-LETTER GRAB BAG ($800) These two events occurred simultaneously in early morning Cambridgeshire in 2011
[one] and [two]

($1000) Also called freerunning, this French-sounding word allows one to overcome obstacles in leaps & bounds

SPORTS WITH NO BALLS ($200) What you’re playing or watching if a drop pass is followed by a pad save

($600) A shammy towel is key; Olympian Jennifer Abel used a black one

LET’S HAVE A CONFLUENCE ($1200) The Rideau River got its name meaning “curtain”, from the falls that form when it joins this one at a national capital

($2000) Austria-Hungary, Germany & Russia formerly met at a river junction known as Three Emperors’ Corner now in this country

MOVIE & TV ROLE IN COMMON ($400) Harrison Ford in a few films; John Krasinski on Prime

($1200) Howard Keel in the 1953 film “Calamity Jane”; Keith Carradine in “Deadwood”

HISTORY QUICK TAKES ($400) Rebellion is in the air & in the photo (image) seen here, showing fighters in this 1900 uprising

CHEMICAL PEOPLE ($800) Around 600 B.C. Thales of Miletus devised a system in which this one of the 4 classical elements was the basis of all things

($1200) This English chemist analyzed ancient Egyptian pigments but is remembered for funding an American institution

The players missed 3 clues in “X”s & “O”s”
($400) Heard here, it’s a cousin to the glockenspiel
($800) It’s the side of a coin with the principal design
($1200) From Green for “dry” & “writing”, this 10-letter word was described in 1948 as “a revolutionary process of inkless printing”
($1600) It’s defined as government by the few
($2000) It’s a gesture such as a bow to show reverence or respect

ANSWERS: show

Sneak Peek clues — CIRCUMFLEXING ON YOU
($200) Arrêter translates to this 4-letter word, if you’re reading our signs correctly
($400) A Frenchman who’s living in fantasy builds châteaux en Espagne, literally these in Spain; we build them “in the air”
($600) Août is French for this traditional vacation time
($800) La fenêtre is one of these in your home
($1000) Literally “black beast”, this 2-word French term refers to a specific thing that one strongly dislikes doing

ANSWERS: show