The final category was Cemeteries & Memorials. All three players missed it. Sad. 60,000 are at rest in a National Memorial Cemetery opened in 1949 in the crater of an extinct volcano in this state. Hawaii National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific - Wikipedia
The final category was Famous Americans. He was buried in 1969 in one of the World War II uniform jackets named for him. All three missed it with the answers Flak, Lindbergh, Flak Eisenhower Jacket
Being professors, of course they missed! The Japanese never seized Jakarta. At the time it was still called Batavia.
A Double Jeopardy category was "On The Beach" "It is estimated that 4% of the sand on beaches in this French region is broken down shrapnel from D-Day" Contestant correctly answered Normandy. Anyone else skeptical of that number?
That's a good paper but it analyzed sand on Omaha Beach. The question asked about the beaches in Normandy. Lots of sand in 50 miles of beach Plus all the beaches on the west shore of Contentin.
Exactly! All sorts of websites refer to this study - which obviously no one had ever read: Because of the potential plasering of shrapnel and heavy minerals by waves and currents on the day we collected our sample, we do not know how representative it is of the beach sand as a whole. (Conclusion of the authors on the sample, page 2) Once again, an old insight comes true: It is scientifically proven that you can spread any nonsense if you claim that it is scientifically proven.
They had a Nuremberg Trials category last night. There was only one question about a specific defendant, Goering. The clue described what he was charged with, that he was the head of the German air force which was called the Luftwaffe and also showed a picture of him in uniform. No one got it and nobody even tried a guess.
Sounds to me like this fat, corrupt, coke-snorting uniform fetishist has fallen into oblivion. IMHO also a value in itself....
I would like to say that is a win, except it isn't. The world must not forget who these bastards were and what they did.
I agree. But what made me sad is that nobody tried even to guess. There isn't a penalty for a wrong answer so I inferred that none of the three could name even a single war criminal from the Nuremberg trials. And they passed the contestant screening process which used to mean the person was fairly well versed in history.
I'll follow Jeff's format. Final Jeopardy on May 25. Category was Famous Speeches One player missed it. Quality of the players is decreasing.
All three went down swinging with this question today in Final Jeopardy. I guess technically it isn't WWII, but close enough.
They might have a new writer since there have been several WWII related questions each week for a while. Category was 'Thirds'