Today’s Final Jeopardy – July 12, 2017

Here’s today’s Final Jeopardy (in the category World Leaders) for Wednesday, July 12, 2017:

A landmark 1957 N.Y. Times story called him “a powerful six-footer, olive-skinned…with a straggly beard”

(correct response beneath the contestants)

Today’s contestants:

Sara-Jane Whitaker, an office clerk from Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Gavin Borchert, a writer & editor from Seattle, Washington

Kelly Lasiter, an administrative assistant from Granite City, Illinois (1-day total: $22,800)

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When the 1957 article was published, even the U.S. embassy in Havana was not even sure if Castro was still alive; Fulgencio Batista’s regime had claimed in December 1956 that Castro had died. But Castro’s resistence movement was revived by the 1957 series of articles by Herbert L. Matthews, and by 1959, Castro was in power.

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