Final Jeopardy: Military History (2-27-24)

The Final Jeopardy question (2/27/2024) in the category “Military History” was:

A prototype of this craft was deployed in August 1955; it made headlines in May 1960

Today’s Tournament of Champions’ quarterfinal match features: Hannah Wilson, a puzzle designer from Chicago, IL; David Sibley, an episcopal priest from Walla Walla, WA; and Yungsheng Wang, a deputy public defender orig. from Lafayette, LA.

Round 1 Categories: Inaugural Addresses – Clothes – Classical Mythology – Television – Antonymic Pairs – Little Gnome Facts

David found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Inaugural Address” under the $600 clue on the 5th pick of the round. He was the only one on the board with $2,800. David bet $2,800 and he was RIGHT.

Taft talked of the building of this “controlled by Colonel Goethals & his fellow army engineers” show

WHAT IS THE PANAMA CANAL?

David finished in the lead with $7,600. Hannah was in second place with $3,800. Yungsheng was last with $2,400. All clues were shown.

Round 2 Categories: “B”eginnings – Where Is That? – Artists on Film – A World of Depressions – Awards & Honors – A Nice Short Story Spoiled

Hannah found the first Daily Double in “‘B’eginnings” under the $1,200 clue on the 5th pick of the round. She was in the lead with $9,000, $1,400 more than David in second place. Hannah bet $7,000 and she was RIGHT.

A Norse god begins this word that means a nonsensical jumble of words show

WHAT IS BALDERDASH?

On the next selection, Hannah found the last Daily Double in “Where is That?” under the $2,000 clue. She was in the lead with $16,000 now, $8,400 more than David in second place. Hannah bet $10,000 and came up with Olduvai. That was WRONG.

A research center established by Jane Goodall: a national park in Tanzania named for this stream show

WHAT IS GOMBE?

David finished in the lead with $18,800. Hannah was in second place with $13,200. Yungsheng was last with $3,200. All clues were shown.

ALL of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.

WHAT IS THE U-2 SPY PLANE?

The first flight of the U-2 spy plane prototype took place on 8/1/1955 (per The Cold War Museum) The Office of the Historian’s article, U-2 Overflights and the Capture of Francis Gary Powers, 1960, explains when and why the U-2 spy plane was created. The U-2 flew at altitudes over 70,000 feet. It was believed it could fly over Soviet airspace undetected by radar. You may be surprised to learn that the Soviets knew about the planes before the 1960 May Day incident, when CIA pilot Francis Gary Powers’ U-2 was shot down by the KGB. With Powers’ capture, the Soviets had proof of U.S. spying.

The entire matter was extensively covered by the media, from Powers’ capture to his eventual exchange for Soviet spy, Rudolf Abel. In addition to many books and documentaries, Powers was portrayed by Lee Majors in 1976’s “The True Story of the U-2 Incident”; and by Austin Stowell in 2015’s “Bridge of Spies”.

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Yungsheng bet it all and doubled his score to $6,400.

Hannah bet it all as well and doubled her score to $26,395.

David bet $7,601 and won the game with $26,401. So, it’s David Sibley who is headed to the semifinals.

A triple stumper from each round:

ARTISTS ON FILM ($2000) Yes, dahling, that was Zsa Zsa Gabor playing dancer Jane Avril to Jose Ferrer’s Toulouse-Lautrec in this 1952 film

A NICE SHORT STORY SPOILED ($2000) Turns out O. Henry’s “Ransom of” him ends up costing the kidnappers $250 just to get the dad to take the kid off their hands

More clues on Page 2

2 years ago: NONE of the players got this FJ in “American Women”

In 1914 she received a patent on a trefoil emblem, which she would transfer to an organization a few years later show

WHO IS JULIETTE GORDON LOW?

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