# 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:** ![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:** [September 4, 2023, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-jeopardy/930083/822 "2023-09-04T13:41:07Z")

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What are the genitals?

1. The book of Exodus forbids one from boiling a kid in this

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**Author:** ![gkster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gkster/32/14107_2.png) [@gkster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gkster)\
**Post date:** [September 4, 2023, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-jeopardy/930083/823 "2023-09-04T16:09:28Z")

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What is its mother’s milk?

1. One of the commandments warns against doing this to your neighbor’s wife, male or female servant, ox or donkey (or ass, in the older translations)

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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:** [September 4, 2023, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-jeopardy/930083/824 "2023-09-04T16:27:26Z")

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What is covet?

1. The Golden Calf was responsible for the inclusion of this Commandment.

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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:** [September 4, 2023, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-jeopardy/930083/825 "2023-09-04T21:32:24Z")

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> [@ekedolphin](#):
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> What are the genitals?

The judges would have preferred you be more specific - we were looking for the penis, or as the KJV refers to it, the “privy member”.

Carry on.

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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:** [September 5, 2023, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-jeopardy/930083/826 "2023-09-05T01:29:38Z")

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What is “thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image” (KJV)?

(Note to the judges: this could be, depending on the numbering system, either part of the first or the entire second commandment)

According to Deuteronomy (KJV), you shall not do this to the ox when he treadeth out the corn.

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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:** [September 5, 2023, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-jeopardy/930083/827 "2023-09-05T01:31:19Z")

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I can think of a lot of things you shouldn’t do to an ox.

Sorry. Carry on.

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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:** [September 5, 2023, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-jeopardy/930083/828 "2023-09-05T01:50:19Z")

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What is muzzle the ox?  
(you might want to diaper it, though, to avoid dung in the grain) 😆

_(and even though SunUp forgot to mark it as such, that was the fifth question in the **“Thou Shalt Not”** category, so…)_

**Spacecraft**

1. The individual names given to each of the Project Mercury capsules had this number appended.

_ **-“BB”-** _

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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:** [September 5, 2023, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-jeopardy/930083/829 "2023-09-05T02:01:02Z")

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What is 7? (and sorry for the numerical omission on the previous question)

1. A testbed for the NASA shuttle program, this spacecraft shared its name with an Alabama town and eight different U.S. Navy ships.

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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:** [September 5, 2023, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-jeopardy/930083/830 "2023-09-05T03:25:51Z")

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What is Enterprise?

1. Months of preparation, including removal of streetlights and traffic signs, went into towing this vessel from LAX airport to its final destination as a museum ship

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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:** [September 5, 2023, 6:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-jeopardy/930083/831 "2023-09-05T06:57:11Z")

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What is the Space Shuttle Endeavour?

1. This was the mission number of the final, doomed flight of the Space Shuttle Challenger.

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**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\
**Post date:** [September 6, 2023, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-jeopardy/930083/832 "2023-09-06T03:35:04Z")

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What is STS-51-L?

1. In 1976, this unmanned NASA lander was the first spacecraft from Earth to successfully land on the planet Mars.

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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:** [September 6, 2023, 7:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-jeopardy/930083/833 "2023-09-06T07:40:20Z")

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What is Viking 1?

New category: **The Body Human**

1. This inflammation of the joints has been called “the disease of kings” from its association with a rich diet

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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:** [September 6, 2023, 12:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-jeopardy/930083/834 "2023-09-06T12:14:02Z")

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What is gout?

1. This substance makes up about 8% of the average human’s body weight.

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**Author:** ![Mighty\_Mouse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mighty_mouse/32/7776_2.png) [@Mighty\_Mouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mighty_Mouse)\
**Post date:** [September 6, 2023, 12:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-jeopardy/930083/835 "2023-09-06T12:23:47Z")

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What is blood?

1. This collective term for the collective term for tiny organisms living on or in our bodies has emerged in the last decade as realization grows about its scale and impact.

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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:** [September 6, 2023, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-jeopardy/930083/836 "2023-09-06T14:38:13Z")

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What is biodome?

1. This old-time spiritual song tells how each of the body’s bones are connected to one another.

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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:** [September 6, 2023, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-jeopardy/930083/837 "2023-09-06T16:09:53Z")

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What is The Skeleton Dance? And the answer to the previous question should be Microbiome.

1. A urine color chart is used to assess what?

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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:** [September 6, 2023, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-jeopardy/930083/838 "2023-09-06T16:22:52Z")

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What is hydration (or dehydration)?

New Topic: **Southeast Asia**

1. This portmanteau word, combining the names of two large adjoining nations, was often used for the Southeast Asian region.

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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:** [September 6, 2023, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-jeopardy/930083/839 "2023-09-06T19:12:16Z")

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> [@Rebo](#):
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> What is The Skeleton Dance?

I was looking for “Dry Bones” or “Dem Bones”, but after Googling it seems your answer could be used.  
Carry on.

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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:** [September 6, 2023, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-jeopardy/930083/840 "2023-09-06T19:15:10Z")

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OK I’ll go.

What is Indochina?

1. It’s both a city and a nation.

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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:** [September 6, 2023, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-jeopardy/930083/841 "2023-09-06T19:24:37Z")

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What is… Singapore?

1. Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam was previously known by this name.

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