# 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:** 53
**Author:** ![SpoilerVirgin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4491bb/32.png) [@SpoilerVirgin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SpoilerVirgin)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2023, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-jeopardy/930083/1044 "2023-11-23T00:24:10Z")
What is Alice’s Restaurant 1. A footrace held on or around Thanksgiving day is often called this. ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2023, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-jeopardy/930083/1045 "2023-11-23T02:04:47Z")
What is Turkey Trot? 1. This NFL teams has played on Thanksgiving every year since 1934; it has never played in Super Bowl. ---
**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:** [November 23, 2023, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-jeopardy/930083/1046 "2023-11-23T03:15:15Z")
Who are the Detroit Lions? 1. This department store hosts the annual New York City Thanksgiving Day parade. ---
**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:** [November 23, 2023, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-jeopardy/930083/1047 "2023-11-23T04:27:20Z")
What is Macy’s? 1. This nickname for the day after Thanksgiving was first documented by the New York Times in 1975 ---
**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:** [November 23, 2023, 7:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-jeopardy/930083/1048 "2023-11-23T07:33:16Z")
What is Black Friday? Staying with the color scheme, **Paint It Black** _(the word ‘black’ will appear in each correct response)_ 1. October 29, 1929 _ **-“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:** [November 23, 2023, 8:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-jeopardy/930083/1049 "2023-11-23T08:16:39Z")
What is Black Tuesday? 1. This combination of ace and a 10 is usually an automatic win in the card game of the same name ---
**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:** [November 23, 2023, 8:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-jeopardy/930083/1050 "2023-11-23T08:47:04Z")
What is blackjack? 1. This pirate was born Edward Thatch around 1680. ---
**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:** [November 23, 2023, 9:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-jeopardy/930083/1051 "2023-11-23T09:58:07Z")
Who is Blackbeard? 1. Rowan Atkinson played the titular characters in this British historical sitcom ---
**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:** [November 23, 2023, 10:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-jeopardy/930083/1052 "2023-11-23T10:46:29Z")
What is Blackadder? 1. Kate Mulgrew is among the stars of this, Netflix’s longest-running and perhaps most-critically-acclaimed series. ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2023, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-jeopardy/930083/1053 "2023-11-23T16:11:55Z")
What is “Orange is the New Black”? Next category: **Netflix original series** 1. This period series follows the life of Queen Elizabeth II. ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2023, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-jeopardy/930083/1054 "2023-11-23T16:28:00Z")
What is _The Crown_? 1. A group of friends in small-town Indiana experience odd events during the 1980s. ---
**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:** [November 23, 2023, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-jeopardy/930083/1055 "2023-11-23T21:12:20Z")
What is Stranger Things? 1. A teenage soldier turned resistance fighter discovers a sword that gives her magic powers in this reboot of an '80s action series ---
**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:** [November 28, 2023, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-jeopardy/930083/1056 "2023-11-28T19:04:12Z")
What is _She-Ra and the Princesses of Power_? I googled it, since you killed the thread again! 1. This show follows 1960s chess champion Beth Harmon (Anya Taylor-Joy) on her rocky road to stardom. ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2023, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-jeopardy/930083/1057 "2023-11-28T19:10:38Z")
What is _The Queen’s Gambit_? 1. This series follows the life of woman on the autism spectrum who goes to work for a prestigious law firm. ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2023, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-jeopardy/930083/1058 "2023-11-28T23:16:46Z")
What is _Extraordinary Attorney Woo_\*? New Category: **Korea** 1. This seaport on the west coast of the Korean peninsula was the site of a major amphibious assault. \* Technically not a Netflix Original series, as it aired on regular Korean TV before being acquired by Netflix. But hey. ---
**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:** [November 29, 2023, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-jeopardy/930083/1059 "2023-11-29T05:04:21Z")
What is Incheon? 1. The largest deployment of force into the DMZ since the ceasefire, codenamed after this fictional lumberjack, was launched in order to cut down a tree that obscured US forces’ view of the other side ---
**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:** [November 29, 2023, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-jeopardy/930083/1060 "2023-11-29T05:06:44Z")
What is Operation Paul Bunyan? 1. The official writing system of the Korean language, it consists of ten vowels and fourteen consonants. \ ***-“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:** [November 29, 2023, 5:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-jeopardy/930083/1061 "2023-11-29T05:12:19Z")
> [@Bicycle\_Bill](#): > > What is Operation Paul Bunyan? Bzzzt! The clue was asking for the name of the lumberjack, not the operation. ---
**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:** [November 29, 2023, 5:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-jeopardy/930083/1062 "2023-11-29T05:18:17Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > > [@Bicycle\_Bill](#): > > > > What is Operation Paul Bunyan? > > Bzzzt!! The clue was asking for the name of the lumberjack, not the operation. Life-long residents (of which I am one) of Bunyan’s home territory, the Upper Midwest, know that the legendary lumberjack’s seldom-used first name was indeed ‘Operation’ – much like Ulysses S. Grant’s real first name was ‘Hiram’. So there! _ **-“BB”-** _ ---
**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:** [November 29, 2023, 10:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-jeopardy/930083/1063 "2023-11-29T10:24:16Z")
> [@Bicycle\_Bill](#): > > The official writing system of the Korean language, it consists of ten vowels and fourteen consonants. What is Hangul? 1. This unfinished building stands more than 1,000 feet above the streets of Pyongyang. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-jeopardy/930083.md?page=52) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-jeopardy/930083.md?page=54)