# 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\
**Page:** 39

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**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\
**Post date:** [August 25, 2023, 12:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-jeopardy/930083/762 "2023-08-25T12:19:40Z")

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What is JC Penney?

New category:

**Colorful movies**

1. This 1985 Spielberg movie was nominated for eleven Academy awards but won none.

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**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\
**Post date:** [August 25, 2023, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-jeopardy/930083/763 "2023-08-25T14:27:12Z")

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What is _The Color Purple_?

1. Paul Newman finally won his Oscar in this 1986 movie.

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**Author:** ![Mike\_H](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecd19e/32.png) [@Mike\_H](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mike_H)\
**Post date:** [August 25, 2023, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-jeopardy/930083/764 "2023-08-25T14:50:08Z")

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What is _The Color of Money_?

1. Divine eats something brown in this 1972 cult movie directed by John Waters.

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**Author:** ![Wheelz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wheelz/32/5718_2.png) [@Wheelz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wheelz)\
**Post date:** [August 25, 2023, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-jeopardy/930083/765 "2023-08-25T15:35:28Z")

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What is _Pink Flamingos_?

1. The King goes tropical in this 1961 island musical.

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**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\
**Post date:** [August 25, 2023, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-jeopardy/930083/766 "2023-08-25T15:43:54Z")

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What is _Blue Hawaii_?

1. Warren Beatty starred in this film about the Revolution in Russia, not baseball in Cincinnati.

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**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\
**Post date:** [August 25, 2023, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-jeopardy/930083/767 "2023-08-25T16:14:57Z")

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What is _Reds_?

pass

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**Author:** ![Mike\_H](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecd19e/32.png) [@Mike\_H](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mike_H)\
**Post date:** [August 25, 2023, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-jeopardy/930083/768 "2023-08-25T19:21:39Z")

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New Category:

Music Lyrics

Identify the song from the music lyrics.

1. "She’s precocious, and she knows just what it  
Takes to make a pro blush  
All the boys think she’s a spy, she’s got… " these.

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**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\
**Post date:** [August 25, 2023, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-jeopardy/930083/769 "2023-08-25T19:28:57Z")

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What are Bette Davis eyes?

1. Light a candle, curse the glare, draw the curtains, I don’t care

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**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\
**Post date:** [August 25, 2023, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-jeopardy/930083/770 "2023-08-25T19:30:26Z")

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What is “_Bette Davis Eyes?_”

1. “But February made me shiver  
With every paper I’d deliver  
Bad news on the doorstep  
I couldn’t take one more step”

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**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\
**Post date:** [August 25, 2023, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-jeopardy/930083/771 "2023-08-25T20:40:37Z")

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What is _Touch of Grey_ and _American Pie_?

1. “Seems to me, I could live my life  
A lot better than I think I am.”

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**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\
**Post date:** [August 25, 2023, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-jeopardy/930083/772 "2023-08-25T21:10:15Z")

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What is Working Man?

1. The sun is shining, the grass is green, the orange and palm trees sway, there’s never been such a day in Beverley Hills, L.A.

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**Author:** ![Bicycle\_Bill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bicycle_bill/32/6208_2.png) [@Bicycle\_Bill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bicycle_Bill)\
**Post date:** [August 25, 2023, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-jeopardy/930083/773 "2023-08-25T22:45:39Z")

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What is _White Christmas_?  
_…(this is from the seldom-heard verse that leads into the part that everybody knows)_

1. But the band’s on the bus  
And they’re ready to go  
Gotta drive all night to do a show  
In Chicago.

_ **-“BB”-** _

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**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\
**Post date:** [August 25, 2023, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-jeopardy/930083/774 "2023-08-25T22:49:06Z")

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What is “The Load-Out”?

New category:

**Styx songs**

1. This song, sung alternately by James Young and Tommy Shaw, is about the alternating highs and lows of drug addiction

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**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\
**Post date:** [August 26, 2023, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-jeopardy/930083/775 "2023-08-26T00:49:01Z")

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What is Snowblind?

1. It doesn’t take a modren man to know that this opening track revolves around a character named for a World War II graffiti

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**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\
**Post date:** [August 26, 2023, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-jeopardy/930083/776 "2023-08-26T01:24:05Z")

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What is “Mr. Roboto”? (The character was Robert Orin Charles Kilroy, played by Dennis DeYoung.)

1. A jet-fuel genius might relate to this song about idling the day away from the _Paradise Theater_ album.

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**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\
**Post date:** [August 26, 2023, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-jeopardy/930083/777 "2023-08-26T01:31:39Z")

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What is “Too Much Time on My Hands?”

1. In this song, the singer compares himself to “a lonely soldier off to war” and a “lonely sailor out to sea”.

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**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\
**Post date:** [August 26, 2023, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-jeopardy/930083/778 "2023-08-26T01:51:17Z")

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What is “Man in the Wilderness”?

1. A man giddily contemplates shacking up with his girlfriend.

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**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\
**Post date:** [August 26, 2023, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-jeopardy/930083/779 "2023-08-26T01:54:59Z")

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What is “Lady”?

New category: Music Cities (we name several artists, you name the city associated with them)

1. MC5, the White Stripes, the Temptations

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**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\
**Post date:** [August 26, 2023, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-jeopardy/930083/780 "2023-08-26T01:56:45Z")

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> [@Smapti](#):
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> What is “Lady”?

Incorrect! The answer is “Lorelei.”

Please continue

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**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\
**Post date:** [August 26, 2023, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-jeopardy/930083/781 "2023-08-26T02:03:34Z")

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What is Detroit?

1. R.E.M., of Montreal, the B-52s

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