This... Is... Jeopardy!

What is Shangri-La?

  1. This Wisconsin native was the U.S.'s top flying ace during WWII, shooting down 40 Japanese aircraft while flying a P-38 Lightning.

Who is Dick Bong?

  1. This captured German vessel, temporarily renamed USS Nemo to keep its capture a secret, can now be found on display in Chicago, IL

What is U-505?

New category:

U.S. Presidential Elections

  1. Running on the American Independent party ticket in 1968, this man was the most recent third-party candidate to win at least one electoral vote

Who is George Wallace?

  1. Accusations of plagiarism lead this Democratic candidate to withdraw from the 1988 primaries

Who is Joe Biden?

  1. Hannibal Hamlin was the first vice-president of this man; his second vice-president later became president and was impeached

Who is Abraham Lincoln?

  1. “Hanging chads” were a factor in this year’s presidential election.

What is 2000?

  1. This newly-reelected president was famously photographed holding a newspaper that incorrectly projected a win for his opponent

Who is Harry Truman?

The newspaper was the Chicago Tribune, and Truman was showing it off, after he won, from the back of a train. The Trib’s headline was “Dewey defeats Truman!”

New category:

Advertising slogans

  1. “Where’s the beef?”

What is Wendy’s?

  1. “I put that s**t on everything.”

What is Frank’s Hot Sauce?

  1. “Imagination at Work.”

What is GE?

  1. This trade association produced a commercial celebrating its centennial in 2019.

Answer: The NFL.

  1. “I can’t believe I ate the whole thing.”

AlkaSeltzer

  1. Edgar this is your tummy speaking

What is Malt-O-Meal?

New category: Namesakes.

  1. A 10th century Danish king inspired the name and logo of this wireless technology

What is Bluetooth?

  1. A British Army officer and estate manager in Ireland gave his name to this form of economic protest

What is Boycott?

  1. An Oxford Don reputedly swapped syllables between words by accident, but this usage named for him is now mostly deliberate, for humorous or bowdlerizing effect.

What is a Spoonerism?

  1. This ubiquitous food item was named after an 18th century earl who invented it as a way to eat without having to leave the gaming table.

What is a sandwich?

  1. The practice of redrawing political districts to benefit one’s party is named after this signer of the Declaration of Independence, who later served as governor of Massachusetts and vice-president of the United States.

Who is Elbridge Gerry?

New Category: Geography

  1. This body of water separated the Pillars of Hercules in ancient Greek nomenclature.

What is the Strait of Gibraltar?

  1. British explorers originally referred to this summit as “Peak XV”