Alex Trebek, RIP Answer

11/08/2020

A. The answer “This friar who headed the Spanish Inquisition also persuaded Ferdinand & Isabella to expel the Jews” [Question: Who was Torquemada?] appeared in the category EUROPE TO NO GOOD.

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B. The answer “As the rest of the Jews entered the promised land, Moses died aged about 120 on this mount” [Question: What was  Mt. Nebo?] appeared in the category EVERYTHING’S COMING UP MOSES.

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C. The answer “In this author’s Night, Moshe the Beadle warns the Jews of Sighet about the looming holocaust, but they don’t listen” [Question: Who was Elie Wiesel?] appeared in the category MEET THE BEADLES.

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D. The answer “Joseph II freed the serfs & ended discrimination against Jews during his 18th century reign as this emperor” [Question: What was Holy Roman Emperor?] appeared in the category SERFS UP.

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E. The answer “For his role in Nazi Germany’s mass murder of the Jews, he was hanged in Israel May 31, 1962” [Question: Who was Adolf Eichmann?], appeared in the category NAMES IN THE NOOSE.

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