invaded that country on Feb. 24.Host Ken Jennings read the $800 clue in the category “Bordering Russia”: ”The Kerch Strait — along with serious border issues — separates Russia from this country on the Black Sea.”The answer, of course, was Ukraine.The 1.9-mile-long strait separates Russia from Crimea to its west and Ukraine to the north.
Russia annexed Crimea in 2014 and subsequently built a bridge across the strait to connect the two in 2018. pic.twitter.com/WuxoWMGD32The long-running game show apparently attempted to get ahead of any possible outrage about the segment by tweeting a warning message at 5:11 p.m.
ET Friday.“Please note the clue in today’s show concerning Russia and Ukraine was recorded on Jan. 11, 2022,” the show wrote in the post, although it did not specify what was in the clue at the time.Please note the clue in today's show concerning Russia and Ukraine was recorded on Jan.
11, 2022.The Post has reached out to Sony — which produces the show — for comment.One commenter found the timing to be eerie. “Who would [have] thought they would be a major topic in the daily news only a few weeks later,” they offered. “Spooky.”Another thought that the show should have known that a war might be happen, writing, “Y’all didn’t know an invasion was imminent?
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