Jeopardy! Round, Double Jeopardy! Round, or Tiebreaker Round clues (37 results returned)

#8972, aired 2023-11-14BILLIONS & BILLIONS $2000: Following this 19th century war, France was forced to pay its neighbor 5 billion francs in reparations the Franco-Prussian War
#8815, aired 2023-02-24I LIKE TO SCIENCE! $1000: He had a pretty good 19th century run, including saving France's beer, wine & silk industries Pasteur
#2, aired 2022-10-0219th CENTURY NOVELS $1000: France's 1812 invasion of Russia is the subject of this sprawling Tolstoy novel War and Peace
#8462, aired 2021-08-1019th CENTURY MUSIC $1200: Invented in France in the 1820s, this instrument seen here gets its name from the Latin for "horn" a cornet
#8166, aired 2020-02-2419th CENTURY HISTORY $800: Until 1875 the Suez Canal was owned by Egypt & France, then financial problems forced Egypt to sell its shares to this country the United Kingdom
#8141, aired 2020-01-20FRENCH ARTS & CULTURE $1200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew is at the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia, PA.) The 20th century painting here of southern France is by Jean, great-grandson of this 19th century French romantic author Victor Hugo
#7522, aired 2017-05-02SCIENCE & NATURE $200: In the 19th century the plant pest Phylloxera vitifoliae nearly wiped out this industry in France, Italy & Germany wine
#6829, aired 2014-05-0119th CENTURY FRANCE $400: At dinner on Nov. 30, 1809, he told his wife that he had to find a new one who could produce an heir Napoleon Bonaparte
#6829, aired 2014-05-0119th CENTURY FRANCE $800: Attending the 1867 Paris World's Fair, Jules Verne became fascinated with a navy exhibit on a submersible & wrote this novel Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
#6829, aired 2014-05-0119th CENTURY FRANCE $1200: In 1894 he was convicted of selling military secrets to the Germans but was exonerated 12 years later Dreyfus
#6829, aired 2014-05-0119th CENTURY FRANCE $1,500 (Daily Double): In June 1830 French troops seized this North African capital from the Ottomans & Berbers Algiers
#6829, aired 2014-05-0119th CENTURY FRANCE $2000: When this Paris dance hall opened in October 1889, its owners gave it the nickname "The First Palace of Women" the Moulin Rouge
#6768, aired 2014-02-0519th CENTURY OPERA $2000: Like its heroine, "The Italian Girl in Algiers" did some traveling as this composer's first opera staged in France & Germany Rossini
#6688, aired 2013-10-16HO CHI MINH CITY $200: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.) Saigon's cathedral was built in the 19th century using bricks from Marseille & other material entirely imported from France; in 1959, the statue of the Virgin Mary was added, & the cathedral got this name, like another famous French church Notre-Dame
#6518, aired 2013-01-09SUPERSTARS OF SCIENCE $600: This 19th century chemist saved France's beer, wine & silk industries Pasteur
#6321, aired 2012-02-27SOCIAL STUDIES $800: David S, Barnes' "The Making of a Social Disease" is subtitled this lung illness "in 19th century France" tuberculosis
#5888, aired 2010-03-31THERE MIGHT BE BLOOD $1600: In 19th century France, this aquatic worm was raised on farms by the thousands for medicinal purposes leeches
#5650, aired 2009-03-1319th CENTURY FRANCE $200: Twain said of this dance, "I placed my hands before my face for very shame, but I looked through my fingers" the cancan
#5650, aired 2009-03-1319th CENTURY FRANCE $400: We don't know if she was statuesque, but Rose Beuret was the longtime love of this sculptor Rodin
#5650, aired 2009-03-1319th CENTURY FRANCE $800: In the 1870s this type of bon vivant, so called for the wide streets he frequented, came into vogue a boulevardier
#5650, aired 2009-03-1319th CENTURY FRANCE $1,000 (Daily Double): He designed a towering Gallery of Machines for the Paris Exposition of 1867 (Gustave) Eiffel
#5650, aired 2009-03-1319th CENTURY FRANCE $1000: This son of the King of Holland followed uncle Napoleon's example & became Emperor of the French in 1852 Napoleon III (or Louis-Napoleon)
#5200, aired 2007-03-30BILLIONS & BILLIONS $2000: Following this 19th century war, France was forced to pay its neighbor 5 billion francs in reparations the Franco-Prussian War
#4791, aired 2005-06-06THAT'S JUST CLASSIC! $1600: This group persecuted in France in the 16th century was the title subject of a 19th c. opera by Meyerbeer the Huguenots
#4602, aired 2004-09-1419th CENTURY AMERICA $1200: In April 1824 the U.S. & this country agreed to 54 deg. 40 min. N. latitude as the southern limit of its west coast claims Russia
#4485, aired 2004-02-2019th CENTURY AMERICA $400: This 1803 territorial acquisition from France doubled the area of the United States the Louisiana Purchase
#4320, aired 2003-05-16OLD EUROPE $600: Written in 19th century France, it became the anthem of worldwide Marxism [audio clue] "The Internationale"
#4221, aired 2002-12-30FRENCH LIT $400: Begun in 1845 & published in 1862, this Victor Hugo work condemns the social injustices of 19th century France "Les Miserables"
#3572, aired 2000-02-2919th CENTURY WOMEN $800: In 1848 a feminist paper called for this novelist, famous all over France, to run for office; she declined George Sand
#3160, aired 1998-05-01THE 19th CENTURY $1000: In 1889 France's Compagnie Universelle du Canal Interoceanique went bust trying to build this the Panama Canal
#2075, aired 1993-09-17THE 19th CENTURY $400: On October 4, 1830 Belgium declared its independence from this country Holland (or the Netherlands)
#1600, aired 1991-07-12FOOD $500: Port Salut is one of these made originally by Trappist monks in 19th century France cheese
#1400, aired 1990-10-05MUSICALS $400: 1 of the 2 current musicals on Broadway set in 19th century France (1 of) Les Misérables (or Phantom of the Opera)
#606, aired 1987-04-0619th CENTURY EUROPE $600: Ency. Americana says it was the cause of a cotton crisis in France during the 1860s the United States Civil War
#443, aired 1986-05-2119TH CENTURY AMERICA $300: It was the 1st state admitted to the Union after the land purchase from France in 1803 Louisiana
#423, aired 1986-04-23THE 19th CENTURY $400: The 2-year war with this country from 1846-48 cost the U.S. almost $100 million Mexico
#344, aired 1986-01-02SPORTS TRIVIA $1000: Type of wrestling developed in 19th century France, not in ancient times Greco-Roman

Final Jeopardy! Round clues (5 results returned)

#8551, aired 2022-01-1019th CENTURY NOTABLES: On his deathbed in France in 1890, he told his brother, "The sadness will last forever" Vincent van Gogh
#7515, aired 2017-04-2119th CENTURY EUROPE: Published in L'Aurore on January 13, 1898, it caused its author to be convicted of libel J'accuse
#7441, aired 2017-01-0919th CENTURY NOTABLES: Calling him a red-headed madman, in 1889 a group of his neighbors signed a petition to ban him from his home in Arles, France Vincent van Gogh
#7357, aired 2016-09-1319th CENTURY MILITARY MEN: In 1895 he wrote to his family that with "superhuman strength" he would "discover the truth... on the tragic affair" Alfred Dreyfus
#3631, aired 2000-05-2219th CENTURY CRIMES: It resulted from the perpetrator's delusion that he was going to be ambassador to France The Garfield Assassination

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