# This... Is... Jeopardy! **URL:** \ **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:** 43
**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 6, 2023, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-jeopardy/930083/842 "2023-09-06T20:04:21Z")
What is Saigon? 1. This is the only landlocked country in Southeast Asia. ---
**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, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-jeopardy/930083/843 "2023-09-06T20:57:29Z")
What is Laos? 1. This former French territory is home to a syncretic religion that reveres Victor Hugo as a prophet ---
**Author:** ![Cardigan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cardigan/32/187_2.png) [@Cardigan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cardigan)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2023, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-jeopardy/930083/844 "2023-09-06T21:12:20Z")
What is Viet Nam? The American Revolutionary War 1. This general was given the nickname “Boiling Water” in reference to his temperament. ---
**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, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-jeopardy/930083/845 "2023-09-06T21:45:43Z")
> [@knoodler](#): > > What is biodome? I think this would be Microbiome. Biodome is an educational museum in Montreal. Or a crappy movie from the 1990s, apparently. ---
**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 9, 2023, 7:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-jeopardy/930083/846 "2023-09-09T07:29:33Z")
beep-beep-beep “Who is Charles Lee?” 1. This young adult novel about the outbreak of the war won the Newberry Medal in 1944 ---
**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 9, 2023, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-jeopardy/930083/847 "2023-09-09T13:35:39Z")
What is _Johnny Tremain_? 1. The last major battle of the Revolutionary War was fought in and around this Virginia town. That was one of my favorite books as a kid! ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2023, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-jeopardy/930083/848 "2023-09-10T00:37:32Z")
What is Yorktown? 1. This '“most brilliant soldier” of the Continental Army" is memorialized by the sculpture of a boot on the site of his most important victory. ---
**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 10, 2023, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-jeopardy/930083/849 "2023-09-10T01:07:11Z")
Who is Benedict Arnold? 1. This battle, fought outside of Boston, would have been been a defeat for the colonists if the British had worn sunglasses. _ **-“BB”-** _ ---
**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 10, 2023, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-jeopardy/930083/850 "2023-09-10T01:08:56Z")
Who is Benedict Arnold? 1. This foreign contributor to the revolutionary cause was made a major general at the age of 19 but did not command troops until three years later ---
**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 13, 2023, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-jeopardy/930083/851 "2023-09-13T02:22:54Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > This foreign contributor to the revolutionary cause was made a major general at the age of 19 but did not command troops until three years later Who is the Marquis de Lafayette? New category: **Star Trek** 1. In this episode from _Deep Space Nine,_ Jake obsesses over trying to save his father throughout a long period of the former’s life. ---
**Author:** ![foolsguinea](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foolsguinea/32/14751_2.png) [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2023, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-jeopardy/930083/852 "2023-09-13T02:25:25Z")
What was the Battle of Bunker Hill, and who was the Marquis de Lafayette? New topic: **Tom Selleck roles** 1. This tall islander detective appropriately shares his name with big bottles and long firearm cartridges. ETA: Withdrawing my topic in favor of @ekedolphin 's ---
**Author:** ![foolsguinea](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foolsguinea/32/14751_2.png) [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2023, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-jeopardy/930083/853 "2023-09-13T02:27:08Z")
Gevalt, **@ekedolphin**! It’s been three days & we responded within 2-3 minutes of each other! ---
**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 13, 2023, 6:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-jeopardy/930083/854 "2023-09-13T06:10:18Z")
What is The Visitor? 1. These maintenance tunnels are also sometimes used to traverse the Enterprise when its turbolifts are down ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2023, 6:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-jeopardy/930083/855 "2023-09-13T06:59:11Z")
What are Jeffries Tubes? 1. Leonard Nimoy suggested this as a way for Spock to incapacitate an enemy without resorting to physical violence. ---
**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 13, 2023, 7:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-jeopardy/930083/856 "2023-09-13T07:33:54Z")
What is the Vulcan nerve pinch? 1. The son of this Enterprise navigator went on to become president of the Federation at the turn of the 25th century ---
**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 13, 2023, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-jeopardy/930083/857 "2023-09-13T19:27:09Z")
Who is Pavel Chekov? 1. These two officers from the USS _Cerritos_ accidentally traveled back to the time of Pike’s _Enterprise_ on _Star Trek: Strange New Worlds._ ---
**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 15, 2023, 9:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-jeopardy/930083/858 "2023-09-15T09:18:59Z")
Who are Ensigns Boimler and Mariner? New category: **Fandom nicknames** (We provide the nickname, you identify the fandom) 1. “Browncoats” ---
**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 18, 2023, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-jeopardy/930083/859 "2023-09-18T22:31:40Z")
What is “Firefly”? 1. Cheeseheads ---
**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 18, 2023, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-jeopardy/930083/860 "2023-09-18T22:49:23Z")
Who are the Green Bay Packers (NFL)? … although as a Wisconsin native and resident, I can vouch for the fact that this term is also used as a somewhat derogatory reference by FIBs and Gophers for ANYONE from the Badger State. 1. Little Monsters _ **-“BB”-** _ ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2023, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-jeopardy/930083/861 "2023-09-18T22:55:18Z")
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