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Here’s today’s Final Jeopardy (in the category 18th Century Works) for Tuesday, April 21, 2026 (Season 42, Game 162):
Ironically, it was the mayor of Strasbourg, a victim of the guillotine, who requested the composition of this
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Today’s Jeopardy! contestants:
Max Ernst, a software engineer from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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Lydia Sekscenski, a sales consultant from Wallingford, Connecticut
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Jamie Ding, a bureaucrat & law student from Lawrenceville, New Jersey (27-day total: $753,000)
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Yesterday, Jamie Ding cleared the $750,000 mark, taking his 27th win in the process. Today, he faces off against Lydia Sekscenski and Max Ernst in a bid for victory number 28. Jamie is also making his way up the all-time winnings list, with a number of potential targets, including Victoria Groce and David Madden, if Jamie wins enough today.
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Correct response: What is “La Marseillaise”?
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“La Marseillaise”, known today as the French national anthem, was composed in 1792 by Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle under request from Baron Philippe-Frédéric de Dietrich, then Mayor of Strasbourg, who wanted a song “that will rally our soldiers from all over to defend their homeland that is under threat”. Originally titled “Chant de guerre pour l”Armée du Rhin”, or “War Song for the Army of the Rhine”, it gained its current title after it was sung by volunteers from Marseille on their march to Paris in 1792.
This feels like a relatively straightforward clue where the biggest challenge is “making sure your response is at least phonetically correct with enough syllables”.
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