Tonight’s contestants are… Round 1 Round 2 Final Jeopardy Tonight’s contestants are… Mr. Burns Bart Apu
$100 x $200 $300 $400 $500 Round 1 – The New Nation World War II Final Jeopardy Scores World War II East Asia Indian Sub-continent Africa Middle East & Cold War X
$100 British Prime Minister who hated appeasement and defied Hitler’s attempts to invade the U.K.
$100 Who was… Winston Churchill? Scores
Totalitarian dictator of Italy. $200 Totalitarian dictator of Italy.
$200 Who was… Benito Mussolini? Scores
Japanese leaders during World War II (two people). $300 Japanese leaders during World War II (two people).
Emperor Hirohito and Hideki Tojo? $300 Who was… Emperor Hirohito and Hideki Tojo? Scores
Totalitarian leader of Nazi Germany. $400 Totalitarian leader of Nazi Germany.
$400 Who was… Adolf Hitler? Scores
$500 Totalitarian leader of the Soviet Union, creator of the Five Year Plans, collectivization of agriculture, government industrialization, purges, artificial famine, gulags, etc.
$500 Who was… Joseph Stalin? Scores
$100 Leader of the nationalist forces during the Chinese Civil War, he fled to Taiwan.
Chiang Kai-Shek (Jiang Jeishi)? $100 Who was… Chiang Kai-Shek (Jiang Jeishi)? Scores
$200 Leader of the communist forces during the Chinese Civil War, he established the People’s Republic of China and launched the Cultural Revolution and the Great Leap Forward.
$200 Who was… Mao Zedong? Scores
$300 Chinese leader who allowed for capitalist economic reforms but maintained communist political control over the Chinese government during the Tiananmen Square protests.
$300 Who was… Deng Xiaoping? Scores
Daily Double Wager
$400 Leader of the Vietnamese struggle for independence against France and the communist North Vietnamese struggle against the South & U.S. Daily Double Worst. Answer. Ever. Wager
$400 Who was… Ho Chi Minh? Scores
$500 Leader responsible for the Cambodian genocide under the Khmer Rouge, which killed artists, technicians, the upper class, former government officials, etc.
$500 Who was… Pol Pot? Scores
$100 Leader of the nonviolent, passive resistance movement for Indian independence from British rule.
$100 Who was… Mohandas Gandhi? Scores
$200 Ally of Gandhi and first president of the Republic of India, he instituted a program of industrialization and outlawed caste discrimination.
$200 Who was… Jawaharlal Nehru? Scores
$300 Muslim ally of Gandhi, he later became the first president of Pakistan.
$300 Who was… Muhammad Ali Jinnah? Scores
$400 Daughter of Jawaharlal Nehru, she became the first female prime minister of India as it developed nuclear weapons, adopted closer relations to the Soviet Union and adopted Five Year Economic Plans.
$400 Who were… Indira Gandhi? Scores
$500 U.S. civil rights leader who adopted many of Gandhi’s nonviolent tactics.
$500 Who was… Martin Luther King, Jr.? Scores
$100 Leader of the mostly nonviolent independence movement in the Gold Coast (Ghana).
$100 Who was… Kwame Nkrumah? Scores
Leader of the Algerian struggle for independence from France. $200 Leader of the Algerian struggle for independence from France.
$200 Who was… Ahmed ben Bella? Scores
$300 Leader of the Kenyan independence movement, he was jailed for his supposed association with the Mau Mau rebel movement.
$300 Who was… Jomo Kenyatta? Scores
$400 Leader of the African National Congress (ANC) who led the fight against apartheid and became the first black president of South Africa.
$400 Who was… Nelson Mandela? Scores
$500 South African archbishop who fought against apartheid and helped to establish a commission on truth and reconciliation.
$500 Who was… Desmond Tutu? Scores
$100 Female Prime Minister of Israel who led Israel to victory during the Yom Kippur War and pursued those responsible for the 1972 Munich Olympic Massacre.
$100 Who was… Golda Meir? Scores
$200 Egyptian president who nationalized the Suez Canal and built the Aswan High Dam.
$200 Who was… Gamal Abdel Nasser? Scores
$300 Leader of Cuba who formed an alliance with the Soviet Union after the Bay of Pigs invasion and allowed the Soviets to place nuclear missiles in Cuba.
$300 Who was… Fidel Castro? Scores
$400 Female prime minister of Britain in the 1980s who was a staunch anticommunist, increased NATO military presence in Europe and led the Falklands War against Argentina.
$400 Who was… Margaret Thatcher? Scores
$500 Last leader of the Soviet Union, he established a policy of perestroika (economic restructuring) and glasnost (political openness), then the Soviet Union crumbled.
$500 Who was… Mikhail Gorbachev? Scores
$100 U.S. president for most of World War II, he kept the U.S. isolated, then provided aid to the Allies and finally declared war after the Pearl Harbor attack.
$100 Who was… Franklin Roosevelt? Scores
$200 U.S. president at the end of World War II, he made the decision to drop the atomic bombs on Japan.
$200 Who was… Harry Truman? Scores
$300 Supreme Commander of the Allied forces in Europe, he planned the D-Day invasion (Operation Overlord).
$300 Who was… Dwight Eisenhower? Scores
$400 U.S. general who planned the island hopping campaign in the Pacific and led the occupation of Japan after World War II.
$400 Who was… Douglas MacArthur? Scores
$500 U.S. general who proposed a plan to help rebuild Germany and western Europe after World War II.
$500 Who was… George Marshall? Scores
Final Jeopardy Question Economic Theorists Final Jeopardy Question Scores
German economic philosopher who assisted Karl Marx in writing The Communist Manifesto.
Who was… Friedrich Engels? Scores
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