# 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:** 44

<div class="post-metadata">

**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 19, 2023, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-jeopardy/930083/862 "2023-09-19T01:22:53Z")

</div>

Who is ‘Weird’ Al Yankovic?

1. Bronies (be specific)

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\
**Post date:** [September 19, 2023, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-jeopardy/930083/863 "2023-09-19T04:11:42Z")

</div>

What are male fans of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic?

New category: **Internet Memes**

1. Clicking this link would unexpectedly bring up a music video of “Never Gonna Give You Up.”

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**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 19, 2023, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-jeopardy/930083/864 "2023-09-19T05:29:34Z")

</div>

What is rickrolling?

1. Written messages that can be interpreted two different ways are often followed by a picture of these two androids from the _Star Trek_ franchise.

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**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 19, 2023, 5:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-jeopardy/930083/865 "2023-09-19T05:56:00Z")

</div>

Who are Data and Lore?

1. A photo of this hip-hop artist, and host of the TV show _Pimp My Ride_, appears in a meme structured as “Yo Dawg, I herd you like (noun X), so I put an (noun X) in your (noun Y) so you can (verb Z) while you (verb Z).”

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**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 19, 2023, 6:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-jeopardy/930083/866 "2023-09-19T06:24:31Z")

</div>

Who is Xzibit?

1. This meme parodying negative depictions of the current US president often portrays him as a sinister figure with glowing red eyes

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**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 19, 2023, 7:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-jeopardy/930083/867 "2023-09-19T07:48:58Z")

</div>

What is Dark Brandon?

1. This internet meme is based off of a badly translated phrase from the opening cutscene of the Japanese video game _Zero Wing._

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**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 19, 2023, 8:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-jeopardy/930083/868 "2023-09-19T08:16:25Z")

</div>

What is “All Your Base Are Belong To Us”?

New category: **Stupid Answers**.

1. This metropolis can be found on the other side of the river from Kansas City

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\
**Post date:** [September 19, 2023, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-jeopardy/930083/869 "2023-09-19T15:13:43Z")

</div>

What is Metropolis?

1. The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier is dedicated to this deceased soldier.

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**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 19, 2023, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-jeopardy/930083/870 "2023-09-19T15:38:53Z")

</div>

Who is the Unknown Soldier?

1. This person is buried in Grant’s Tomb in New York City

And isn’t the answer to question 1 also Kansas City?

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\
**Post date:** [September 20, 2023, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-jeopardy/930083/871 "2023-09-20T15:52:10Z")

</div>

> [@gkster](#):
>
> And isn’t the answer to question 1 also Kansas City?

I was thinking of _Smallville_.

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**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 20, 2023, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-jeopardy/930083/872 "2023-09-20T16:04:07Z")

</div>

> [@knoodler](#):
>
> Smallville

Ok, I’ve never seen Smallville and was thinking of the real-life Kansas City MO and Kansas City KS.

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**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 20, 2023, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-jeopardy/930083/873 "2023-09-20T20:08:16Z")

</div>

“Kansas City” was the correct answer. Carry on.

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**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 20, 2023, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-jeopardy/930083/874 "2023-09-20T20:20:09Z")

</div>

Who is Grant?

1. This TV program about unsolved mysteries first aired in 1988

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**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 20, 2023, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-jeopardy/930083/875 "2023-09-20T21:30:07Z")

</div>

> [@gkster](#):
>
> 1. This person is buried in Grant’s Tomb in New York City
> 
> > [@Smapti](#):
> >
> > Who is Grant?

Hate to be _ **that** _ guy _**(who am I kidding? I LOVE being that guy!)**_, but the correct answer is actually ‘nobody’, as the bodies of General Grant and his wife are entombed – not buried – in sarcophagi, which are on a raised dais and watched over by the busts of Civil War generals.

_ **-“BB”-** _

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**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 20, 2023, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-jeopardy/930083/876 "2023-09-20T21:43:20Z")

</div>

> [@Bicycle\_Bill](#):
>
> Hate to be _ **that** _ guy _**(who am I kidding? I LOVE being that guy!)**_, but the correct answer is actually ‘nobody

Then the question doesn’t fit the category, since “Stupid Answers” must contain the answer within the clue.

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\
**Post date:** [September 20, 2023, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-jeopardy/930083/877 "2023-09-20T22:29:08Z")

</div>

This Jeopardy category is proving to be stupendously difficult.

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**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 20, 2023, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-jeopardy/930083/878 "2023-09-20T22:30:40Z")

</div>

> [@Smapti](#):
>
> This TV program about unsolved mysteries first aired in 1988

What is Unsolved Mysteries?

Um, pass.

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\
**Post date:** [September 20, 2023, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-jeopardy/930083/879 "2023-09-20T23:53:18Z")

</div>

1. It’s a synonym for dense, foolish, mindless, or empty-headed.

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**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 21, 2023, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-jeopardy/930083/880 "2023-09-21T01:49:29Z")

</div>

What is stupid? (this clue doesn’t actually meet the category either, BTW)

Time for an easier category: **Judaism**

1. The etrog, a type of this genus of sour fruits, is strongly associated with the festival of Sukkot

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**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 21, 2023, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-jeopardy/930083/881 "2023-09-21T04:43:11Z")

</div>

What is citron?

1. The Passover sacrifice recalls the time that the Lord passed over the houses of the Israelites of Egypt during this plague.

[Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-jeopardy/930083.md?page=43)

[Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-jeopardy/930083.md?page=45)
