Final Jeopardy: Composers (3-19-26)
Here are some more clues from the 3/19/2026 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.
LET’S DANCE! ($1000) This dance didn’t even begin as a dance–blame it on the same-named Brazilian cool jazz musical form that evolved from samba
OCEANS & RIVERS ($1200) On Fidalgo Island, Washington, the scuttled World War I era ship Le Merced is one of these, a compound word for a type of barrier
THE ONLY CONSONANT ($1200) A type of energy field said to emanate from a living being: R
($1600) Driving directions might include“hang” one: L
LEPROSY, ANCIENT & MODERN AFFLICTION ($400) The smallest host of the bacterium that causes leprosy is this one-celled organism with a name that means “change” in Greek
TV LAW ($2000) This series, starring Emayatzy Corinealdi, is based on defense attorney Sean Hawley & titled after a classic Jay-Z album
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SNEAK PEEK CATEGORY: NON-SPANISH VOCABULARY
($200) This type of wandering fellow does not begin with a silent “H”– he’s not a woodwind
($400) This fruit that can be turned into delicious jam is pronounced with one syllable, not 2 like the Spanish number
($600) Decisión has an accent mark but this English word for scorn doesn’t; in the King James Bible “Thou shalt have all the heathen in” it
($800) This Pepperidge Farm sandwich cookie that shares a name with an Italian city does not have a tilde over the “N”
($1000) You don’t have to roll the double R in this ery mild swear word from the song “It’s a Great Day for the Irish”
ANSWERS: show
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I’m watching Dr. Loveless and Antoinette sing Brahms’ Lullaby on The Wild West Show , the one with words that starts ‘Lullaby and goodnight, with roses delight”
Crazy!
I always like to see a 3-way competitive game. Lots of knowable clues. Maybe I’m nitpicking, but the clue about the boxer before a name change should have been Cassius Clay, not Muhammad Ali. I blanked on Final but thought the first and third DDs were creampuffs.
Knew the Zamperini author but unfortunately mispronounced her surname. The dance that evolved from the samba was a big deal in the early to mid-60s, as was one of my favorite songs, “Girl from Ipanema.” Can’t believe no one knew the single-celled organism. The hang one “L” wasn’t too tough but you had to know it, not really guessable.
I didn’t think any of them got the Eydie Gorme reference for that dance, so I linked to the song.
I was quite fond of her hubby Steve Lawrence’s songs when I was a child. I would go out in the hall and dance on the stairs when “Footsteps” came on the radio.
This is the kind of FJ! when you slap your forehead in disbelief if you don’t get it in time. 🤣 I thought they wanted the title of the piece at first but switched to the composer alone in time. I still think they would have accepted Brahms Lullaby, though, since his name’s right there.
Jamie is now qualified for the Tournament of Champions having won 5 games. We’ll see if he can sweep the entire week tomorrow.