10 Jeopardy! Clues October 16, 2018

Here are two categories from the 10-16-2018 Jeopardy! match. The players got all the clues in each of them.

WAR FARE
($200) World War II P.O.W.s looked forward to the arrival of food-filled parcels from this international organization
($400) In winter 1777 a quartermaster reported he had just 25 barrels of flour & a little pork to feed an army camped here
($600) Nikita Khrushchev wrote, “without” this Hormel product, “we wouldn’t have been able to feed our army” in WWII
($800) In 1918 U-boats cut food shipments to England, where even the King had this type of card allotting staples like milk & flour
($1000) Union soldier of the Civil War subsisted largely on tough biscuits with this durable name

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IF 1800s AMERICA HAD TODAY’S TECHNOLOGY
($400) Sure, you could send a letter using this horseback service; let’s see– 200 miles a day for 2,000 miles… or maybe just email
($800) Instagram @timothyosullivan is a downer with shots like “A Harvest of Death” from this July 1863 battlefield
($1200) From Louisa May Alcott’s blog in 1871: “This aptly titled 1st sequel– done! Jo runs a school for boys! Now… party time!”
($1600) This President is on Twitter again– “People are saying I’m ill. Tippecanoe is fine– no cold! Best month ever, that I can tell you!”
($2000) Mapquest really helped Lewis & Clark when they set out from this Midwest city on the Mississippi on May 14, 1804

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