Francis Gary Powers, Jr. and Jeopardy!

15 Jeopardy Clues about Francis Gary Powers

12-08-2022 “U” IN HISTORY $800: This “Incident” resulted in the exchange of Rudolf Abel for Francis Gary Powers

03-05-2020 THE COLD WAR $800: In 1960 pilot Francis Gary Powers was shot down over the Soviet Union flying one of these spy planes

07-23-2019 THE POWERS THAT BE $400: Austin Stowell played U2 pilot Francis Gary Powers in this movie, a 2015 Best Picture Oscar nominee

09-13-2017 ARMY, NAVY, AIR FORCE OR MARINES $1,000 (Daily Double): Cold War figure Francis Gary Powers

05-14-2012 “POWER” PLAYERS $2000: Full name of the U2 pilot shot down over the Soviet Union in 1960

05-02-2008 “P”EOPLE $1600: On May 7, 1960 Soviet leader Khrushchev announced his nation was holding this American as a spy

01-19-2006 IT’S ALL ABOUT “U” $400: Francis Gary Powers was piloting one when he was shot down in 1960

03-29-2005 PILOTS $600: “Operation Overflight” is his account of his famous Cold War flight over the USSR

10-29-2004 THE CIA $2000: The atrium at CIA headquarters has a model of the plane in which this man was shot down by the Soviets in 1960

12-10-2003 HISTORY HAPPENED HERE $2000: On Feb. 10, 1962 this man & Soviet spy Rudolf Abel crossed the Glienicker Bridge in opposite directions

05-25-1999 FAMOUS NAMES $300: This famous U-2 reconnaissance pilot later became a helicopter traffic reporter

03-28-1995 THE COLD WAR $300: This U-2 pilot went on trial in Moscow in August 1960, pled guilty to espionage & was sentenced to 10 years

09-27-1994 20th CENTURY AMERICA $800: He & Frederic Pryor were prisoners exchanged for Soviet spy Rudolf Abel February 10, 1962

11-10-1989 THE SOVIET UNION $1000: We gave the Soviets this spy in 1962 to get back U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers

10-09-1986 AVIATION $200: It’s said this “NASA” plane was developed for the CIA; Francis Gary Powers was its best-known pilot

Final Jeopardy! clues

06-22-2017 EUROPE 1962: Rudolf Abel & this American are most associated with Germany’s Glienicke Bridge on February 10, 1962

10-30-2000 IN THE NEWS 2000: 40 years after a famous incident, he was awarded a DFC, POW Medal & Natl. Defense Service Medal posthumously