Jeopardy! Round, Double Jeopardy! Round, or Tiebreaker Round clues (23 results returned)

#8047, aired 2019-09-10THE 20th CENTURY $2000: In 1933 & in 1952 this Cuban toppled the regimes of other leaders; he himself was deposed in 1959 (Fulgencio) Batista
#7877, aired 2018-12-0420th CENTURY LEADERS $400: With Juan Carlos in the wings in '73, Francisco Franco quit as premier of this country but stayed as head of state Spain
#7877, aired 2018-12-0420th CENTURY LEADERS $800: On Aug. 15, 1945 he told his subjects Japan would surrender Hirohito
#7877, aired 2018-12-0420th CENTURY LEADERS $1600: In 1993, in what was reported as Moscow's fiercest fighting since 1917, this snowy-haired Russian president fended off a coup Yeltsin
#7877, aired 2018-12-0420th CENTURY LEADERS $2,000 (Daily Double): In 1990 this man succeeded in "rank" to the office of British prime minister (John) Major
#7877, aired 2018-12-0420th CENTURY LEADERS $2000: He ran things in Yugoslavia from 1945 to 1980 Tito
#7571, aired 2017-07-10FASCISM $400: This Italian was the first of 20th century Europe's fascist leaders Mussolini
#6950, aired 2014-11-2820th CENTURY HISTORY $1,000 (Daily Double): Clement Attlee succeeded Churchill in the middle of the 1945 conference of allied leaders held in this German city Potsdam
#5557, aired 2008-11-04FOREIGN-BORN LEADERS $1,000 (Daily Double): Born in New York City, Eamon de Valera served as this country's prime minister 3 times in the 20th century Ireland
#5476, aired 2008-06-0220th CENTURY WORLD LEADERS $400: Like mom like son: sadly, her son Rajiv was also assassinated Indira Gandhi
#5476, aired 2008-06-0220th CENTURY WORLD LEADERS $800: In 1958 he launched his Great Leap Forward program; it was a great disaster Mao
#5476, aired 2008-06-0220th CENTURY WORLD LEADERS $1200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents from Lima, Peru.) From 1990 to 2000, the palace behind me, here in Lima, was the home of this man, the first of Japanese descent to head another country (Alberto) Fujimori
#5476, aired 2008-06-0220th CENTURY WORLD LEADERS $1600: Wearing the hat of Chancellor for over 15 years, he was Germany's longest-serving leader since Bismarck Helmut Kohl
#5476, aired 2008-06-0220th CENTURY WORLD LEADERS $2000: His original name was Tafari Makonnen, but he ruled his country under this name Haile Selassie
#4900, aired 2005-12-2320th CENTURY WORLD LEADERS $200: He led his troops on a 6,000-mile march that began in October 1934 Mao Tse-tung
#4900, aired 2005-12-2320th CENTURY WORLD LEADERS $400: A 1952 coup led by Gamal Abdel Nasser forced this king's abdication King Faruk
#4900, aired 2005-12-2320th CENTURY WORLD LEADERS $600: Swiss-educated & staunchly pro-Western, he ruled his Middle Eastern country from 1941 until his ouster in 1979 the Shah of Iran
#4900, aired 2005-12-2320th CENTURY WORLD LEADERS $1,000 (Daily Double): In 1986 this president crossed the Pacific & went into exile in Hawaii Ferdinand Marcos of the Philippines
#4900, aired 2005-12-2320th CENTURY WORLD LEADERS $1000: At age 84 in 1940 he was put in charge of the Vichy State in France Marshall Pétain
#4644, aired 2004-11-11THE 20th CENTURY $800: In 1940, at age 5, Tenzin Gyatso was enthroned as the 14th one of these spiritual leaders Dalai Lama
#3830, aired 2001-04-06THE LAST HALF OF THE 20th CENTURY $400: In 1961 military leaders killed this Caribbean nation's dictator Rafael Trujillo Dominican Republic
#2280, aired 1994-07-01THE 20th CENTURY $200: In June 1984 8 Western leaders gathered in Normandy, France for the 40th anniversary of this D-Day
#978, aired 1988-11-30THE 20th CENTURY $600: The 1st commercial phone call sent via 1 of these was placed by LBJ to west European leaders in 1965 satellite

Final Jeopardy! Round clues (14 results returned)

#8718, aired 2022-10-1220th CENTURY LEADERS: In a September 3, 1939 speech, he said, "Everything that I have worked for... has crashed into ruins" Neville Chamberlain
#4, aired 2022-02-0920th CENTURY LEADERS: He's called "a flame of inspiration in freedom's darkest hour" in the proclamation making him an honorary U.S. citizen Winston Churchill
#8158, aired 2020-02-1220th CENTURY EUROPEAN LEADERS: In a 1930s broadcast, this man spoke of “A quarrel in a faraway country between people of whom we know nothing” Neville Chamberlain
#7602, aired 2017-10-0320th CENTURY WORLD LEADERS: He said, "Never again shall it be that this beautiful land will again experience the oppression of one by another" Nelson Mandela
#6904, aired 2014-09-2520th CENTURY LEADERS: In May 1980 over 200 leaders from more than 120 countries attended his funeral in Belgrade Tito
#6199, aired 2011-07-2120th CENTURY LEADERS: Time magazine first mentioned him in 1939, when his father sent him on a diplomatic errand from London to Glasgow John F. Kennedy
#6077, aired 2011-02-0120th CENTURY LEADERS: In 1950, 2 years after his murder, some of his ashes were enshrined at the Self-Realization Fellowship in Los Angeles Gandhi
#5512, aired 2008-07-22WORLD LEADERS: Born in Kiev & later a U.S. citizen, this leader became prime minister in 1969 of a country founded in the 20th century Golda Meir
#5473, aired 2008-05-2820th CENTURY LEADERS: He said, "An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last" Winston Churchill
#3627, aired 2000-05-16WORLD LEADERS: Early in the 20th century, he took one of many pseudonyms, Nguyen Ai Quoc, or "Nguyen the Patriot" Ho Chi Minh
#3132, aired 1998-03-2420th CENTURY LEADERS: He built the Valley of the Fallen, his final resting place, just north of El Escorial Francisco Franco
#2903, aired 1997-03-2620th CENTURY LEADERS: In 1914 Jan Smuts wrote of this man's departure, "The saint has left our shores, I hope forever" Mahatma Gandhi
#2625, aired 1996-01-1920th CENTURY LEADERS: His name means "son of the young lion" in Hebrew David Ben-Gurion
#2124, aired 1993-11-2520th CENTURY LEADERS: At age 13 in 1926, he was accepted as a novice at the abbey of Kykkos; he later taught there Archbishop Makarios

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