WWII on Jeopardy

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  1. CL1

    CL1 116th LAA and 92nd (Loyals) LAA,Royal Artillery

    Tjhey use the ten stations with the longest and steepest escalators and slide them down
     
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  2. Dave55

    Dave55 Atlanta, USA

  3. Dave55

    Dave55 Atlanta, USA

    The final category was Famous Americans.

    He was buried in 1969 in one of the World War II uniform jackets named for him.

    All three missed it with the answers Flak, Lindbergh, Flak

    Eisenhower Jacket
     
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  4. Slipdigit

    Slipdigit Old Hickory Recon

    I don't know Mr. Flak.

    What is he famous for?
     
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    Blutto Banned

  6. 8RB

    8RB Well-Known Member

    Being professors, of course they missed!
    The Japanese never seized Jakarta. At the time it was still called Batavia.
     
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  7. Dave55

    Dave55 Atlanta, USA

    A Double Jeopardy category was "On The Beach"

    "It is estimated that 4% of the sand on beaches in this French region is broken down shrapnel from D-Day"

    Contestant correctly answered Normandy.

    Anyone else skeptical of that number?
     
  8. Slipdigit

    Slipdigit Old Hickory Recon

    I am.
     
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  9. ltdan

    ltdan Nietenzähler

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  10. Dave55

    Dave55 Atlanta, USA

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  11. ltdan

    ltdan Nietenzähler

    Exactly!
    All sorts of websites refer to this study - which obviously no one had ever read:
    Because of the potential plasering of shrapnel and heavy minerals by waves and currents on the day we collected our sample, we do not know how representative it is of the beach sand as a whole. (Conclusion of the authors on the sample, page 2)

    Once again, an old insight comes true:
    It is scientifically proven that you can spread any nonsense if you claim that it is scientifically proven. :lol:

     
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  12. Dave55

    Dave55 Atlanta, USA

    They had a Nuremberg Trials category last night. There was only one question about a specific defendant, Goering. The clue described what he was charged with, that he was the head of the German air force which was called the Luftwaffe and also showed a picture of him in uniform. No one got it and nobody even tried a guess.
     
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  13. ltdan

    ltdan Nietenzähler

    Sounds to me like this fat, corrupt, coke-snorting uniform fetishist has fallen into oblivion. IMHO also a value in itself....
     
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  14. Wg Cdr Luddite

    Wg Cdr Luddite Well-Known Member

    I would like to say that is a win, except it isn't. The world must not forget who these bastards were and what they did.
     
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  15. Dave55

    Dave55 Atlanta, USA

    I agree. But what made me sad is that nobody tried even to guess. There isn't a penalty for a wrong answer so I inferred that none of the three could name even a single war criminal from the Nuremberg trials. And they passed the contestant screening process which used to mean the person was fairly well versed in history.
     
  16. Slipdigit

    Slipdigit Old Hickory Recon

    None of them tried to answer this one, either, in today's show
     

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  17. Slipdigit

    Slipdigit Old Hickory Recon

    No contestants rang in to answer this simple question yesterday. 20220524_111914.jpg
     
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  18. Dave55

    Dave55 Atlanta, USA

    I'll follow Jeff's format.

    Final Jeopardy on May 25. Category was Famous Speeches

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    One player missed it.
    Quality of the players is decreasing.
     
  19. Slipdigit

    Slipdigit Old Hickory Recon

    All three went down swinging with this question today in Final Jeopardy.

    I guess technically it isn't WWII, but close enough. 20220526_181210.jpg
     
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  20. Dave55

    Dave55 Atlanta, USA

    They might have a new writer since there have been several WWII related questions each week for a while.

    Category was 'Thirds'

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