# This... Is... Jeopardy!
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-jeopardy/930083
**Category:** Thread Games
**Created:** [January 9, 2021, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-jeopardy/930083 "2021-01-09T01:00:50Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Wheelz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wheelz)
#### Post date: [January 9, 2021, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-jeopardy/930083/1 "2021-01-09T01:00:50Z")
I think this is a fun idea; let’s see if it gets any traction.
Here’s how it’ll work: The first player (that’d be me) will come up with a category, and then post a Jeopardy!-like clue which fits the category.
The first player to post the correct response to the clue (in the form of a question) can then post another clue _in the same category_ for the next player to answer, and so on.
Whoever provides the correct response to the fifth clue in a category picks a new category and clue. The categories can be as clever or as mundane as you like, but if an explanation is needed, please provide one.
Assigning dollar values to the clues would probably be too confusing, so let’s just number them 1-5.
Let’s try to keep googling to a minimum (honor system) - but if there’s a clue that stumps everybody, we’ll do what we gotta do.
Make sense? Let’s play!
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### Author:  [@Wheelz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wheelz)
#### Post date: [January 9, 2021, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-jeopardy/930083/2 "2021-01-09T01:01:08Z")
The first category is **Broadway Musical Numbers.**
Each correct response will literally be a number.
1. In “The Music Man,” this was the number of cornets behind the 76 trombones.
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### Author:  [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)
#### Post date: [January 9, 2021, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-jeopardy/930083/3 "2021-01-09T01:48:37Z")
What is 110?
1. This musical’s title commemorates a famous year in American history.
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### Author:  [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)
#### Post date: [January 9, 2021, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-jeopardy/930083/4 "2021-01-09T01:54:58Z")
What is 1776?
1. In “Guys and Dolls,” this is the number of years that Nathan and Adelaide have been engaged.
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### Author:  [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)
#### Post date: [January 9, 2021, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-jeopardy/930083/5 "2021-01-09T02:34:00Z")
What is 14?
1. In _A Chorus Line,_ what were Val’s pre-plastic surgery Dance and Looks scores?
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### Author:  [@Ponderoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponderoid)
#### Post date: [January 9, 2021, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-jeopardy/930083/6 "2021-01-09T03:08:23Z")
What are 10 and 3?
1. This many girls were cast to play the title role in each production of _Matilda the Musical_.
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### Author:  [@Wheelz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wheelz)
#### Post date: [January 9, 2021, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-jeopardy/930083/7 "2021-01-09T18:14:31Z")
[OK, I consulted Mr. G to move this one along.]
What is 4?
The next category is **Baseball**.
1. June 2, 1925 was a bad day to get a headache for this Yankee first baseman - Lou Gehrig took his starting spot and kept it for the next 2,130 games.
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### Author:  [@mikecurtis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mikecurtis)
#### Post date: [January 9, 2021, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-jeopardy/930083/8 "2021-01-09T18:41:36Z")
Who is Wally Pipp?
Sidetrack: the headache story though ubiquitous is untrue
> In the case of Wally Pipp there was no inopportune headache, no “delightful and romantic story” — just a case of a slumping player who lost his job to an up-and-comer and never got it back. But his replacement was the stuff of legend (the indestructible ballplayer finally felled by a fatal disease), and so he became part of a legend that mixed fact and fiction and grew so large even some of the participants came to believe in its fictional aspects.
.[Wally Pipp's Career-Ending 'Headache' | Snopes.com](https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/wally-pipp-headache/)
Next answer:
2. The team that fielded the famous double play combo of Tinker to Evers to Chance
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### Author:  [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)
#### Post date: [January 9, 2021, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-jeopardy/930083/9 "2021-01-09T19:06:06Z")
Ah, _Baseball’s Sad Lexicon._
What is The Chicago Cubs?
Next answer:
3. The New York Yankees all-time hits leader
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### Author:  [@Railer13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Railer13)
#### Post date: [January 9, 2021, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-jeopardy/930083/10 "2021-01-09T19:44:23Z")
Who is Derek Jeter?
1. He was the first baseball player to be unanimously selected to the Hall of Fame.
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### Author:  [@Wheelz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wheelz)
#### Post date: [January 10, 2021, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-jeopardy/930083/11 "2021-01-10T02:32:42Z")
Who is Mariano Rivera?
1. When a batter strikes out, this position player is credited with a putout.
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### Author:  [@mikecurtis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mikecurtis)
#### Post date: [January 10, 2021, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-jeopardy/930083/12 "2021-01-10T04:11:34Z")
I’m gonna make a guess here, because a fielder usually gets the putout on other plays, and say
Who is the catcher?
Assuming I’m correct…
The new category is:
**famous lines from plays** (name the play)
1. “Now is the winter of our discontent…”
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### Author:  [@Wheelz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wheelz)
#### Post date: [January 10, 2021, 5:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-jeopardy/930083/13 "2021-01-10T05:18:22Z")
(Catcher is indeed correct.)
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### Author:  [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)
#### Post date: [January 10, 2021, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-jeopardy/930083/14 "2021-01-10T05:24:27Z")
Okay, since “catcher” is correct, we’re going with **Famous Lines from Plays**.
What is _Richard III_?
1. “I am now a checkerboard chick!”
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### Author:  [@mikecurtis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mikecurtis)
#### Post date: [January 10, 2021, 9:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-jeopardy/930083/15 "2021-01-10T09:51:46Z")
We’ll, if no one else is in…
What is Hairspray?
1. Kiss today goodbye, and point me towards tommorow.
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### Author:  [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)
#### Post date: [January 10, 2021, 10:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-jeopardy/930083/16 "2021-01-10T10:13:30Z")
What is “A Chorus Line”?
1. I am the opposite of a stage magician. He gives you illusion that has the appearance of truth; I give you truth in the pleasant disguise of illusion.
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### Author:  [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)
#### Post date: [January 10, 2021, 12:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-jeopardy/930083/17 "2021-01-10T12:57:02Z")
What is _The Glass Menagerie_?
1. When you speak of this, and you will, be kind.
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### Author:  [@mikecurtis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mikecurtis)
#### Post date: [January 10, 2021, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-jeopardy/930083/18 "2021-01-10T19:04:07Z")
What is Tea and Sympathy?
New category" **Lead Singers** (name the band)
1. Cherie Currie
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### Author:  [@Railer13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Railer13)
#### Post date: [January 10, 2021, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-jeopardy/930083/19 "2021-01-10T19:12:50Z")
What is The Runaways?
1. Geddy Lee
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### Author:  [@mikecurtis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mikecurtis)
#### Post date: [January 10, 2021, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-jeopardy/930083/20 "2021-01-10T20:51:38Z")
I’m sorry. We were looking for the twin sister act of [Cherie and Marie](https://youtu.be/F0BL2qST-Cs). 😆
Who is Rush?!
1. Ian Gillan
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