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

The Daily Box Scores are released at 8 pm Eastern

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”

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