Final Jeopardy: Modern War (2-28-22)

Today’s Final Jeopardy question (2/28/2022) in the category “Modern War” was:

Called the longest siege of a capital in modern history, the assault on this city lasted from 1992 to 1996

3x champ Christine Whelchel, a piano teacher and church organist from Spring Hill, TN won $59,601 last week. In Game 4, she takes on these two players: Joe Choo, a student from Las Vegas, NV; and Ellen Pratt, a strategic projects director from Boston, MA.

Round 1 Categories: American History – Sports by Their Honors – Small Adjectives – 2-Word Book Titles – Kickin’ It – Old School

Christine found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “American History” under the $400 clue on the 2nd pick of the round. She had $200 from answering the first clue in the category correctly. Christine bet the $1,000 allowance and she was RIGHT.

5 years before his famous ride, Paul Revere made a print depicting this bloody March 5, 1770 event show

WHAT IS THE BOSTON MASSACRE?

Christine finished in the lead with $8,400. Ellen was second with $2,600 and Joe was last with $200. All clues were shown.

Round 2 Categories: Colors in Nature – Around the World – The Pickle Barrel – Letters from Famous People – Backing Bands – Homophones to the Letter

Ellen found the first Daily Double in “Around the World” under the $1,600 clue on the 7th pick of the round. She was in second place with $4,600, $4,200 less than Christine’s lead. Ellen bet $1,600 and she was RIGHT.

11,200-foot Mount Koussi in Northern Chad is the highest summit in this area of more than 3 million square miles show

WHAT IS THE SAHARA DESERT?

Christine got the last Daily Double in “Letters from Famous People” under the $1,200 clue on the 11th pick of the round. She was in the lead with $10,000, $5,800 more than Ellen in second place. Christine bet $3,000 and took a shot at it with Keats. That was WRONG.

This Irish poet’s great love Maud Gonne addressed him in letters as “My Dear Willie” show

WHO IS WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS?

Christine finished in the lead with $11,800. Ellen was second with $7,000. At negative $1,400, Joe was out of the game at this point. All clues were shown.

Only ONE of two contestants left in Final Jeopardy! got it right.

WHAT IS SARAJEVO?

The Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (1945-1992) consisted of 6 socialist republics: Bosnia and Herzegovina (B&H), Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia, and Slovenia. B&H declared independence on 3/3/1992. On 4/6/1992, the USA and European Economic Community recognized B&H’s independence. That was swiftly followed on the same date by the Serbs laying siege to the capital city of Sarajevo. From thenagain.info: “Approximately 400,000 residents were trapped in the siege, and they were cut off from food, medicine, water, and supplies of electricity. Thousands of civilians were killed and wounded, and every imaginable offense against human rights was committed….”

A peace agreement known as The Dayton Agreement put an end to the Bosnian War about 3.5 years later. It was formally signed on 12/14/1995 in Paris. However, the siege of Sarajevo was not officially ended until 2/29/1996. In the aftermath, the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) indicted and convicted several siege leaders of crimes against humanity. At least one, Momčilo Perišić, was released from prison after his conviction was overturned in 2013. The final appeal of another, Ratko Mladić, was just rejected last year on 6/8/2021 and his life imprisonment sentence was confirmed.

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Ellen thought it was Kuwait City. She lost her $5,500 bet and finished with $1,500.

Christine got it right. She bet $2,201 and won the game with $14,001. Her 4-day total is $73,602.

2 triple stumpers from 2-WORD BOOK TITLES:

($400) Like the autobiographical hero of this novel, just after WWII William Styron was a young Southerner living in Brooklyn

($600) In this William Goldman novel, a graduate student must flee a Nazi & his henchmen

More clues on Page 2

2 years ago: TWO of the players got this FJ in “Music Stars”

On July 26, 1972 he testified before a Senate Subcommittee on national penitentiaries. show

WHO IS JOHNNY CASH?

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