Can you answer these 'Jeopardy!' questions about WWI?
Stacker compiled a list of "Jeopardy!" questions about World War I using J! Archive.
Clue #1
- Clue: 40,000 Allied troops perished in the WWI campaign on this Turkish peninsula
- Category: THAT HAPPENED!
- Value: $800
- Date episode aired: December 14, 2018
Answer #1
- Answer: Gallipoli
Clue #2
- Clue: Not to be confused with the Ardennes, this French forest was the site of the biggest WWI battle fought by the AEF
- Category: WORLD WAR I
- Value: $1,000
- Date episode aired: October 17, 2018
Answer #2
- Answer: the Argonne
Clue #3
- Clue: 1918 date when WWI combat officially ceased
- Category: DATES
- Value: $400
- Date episode aired: February 27, 2019
Answer #3
- Answer: November 11
Clue #4
- Clue: During WWI she supported the French war effort by fitting ambulances with portable X-ray equipment
- Category: NOTABLE WOMEN
- Value: $400
- Date episode aired: March 13, 2019
Answer #4
- Answer: Marie Curie
Clue #5
- Clue: Walthère Dewé was a leader of this underground anti-occupation movement in Belgium in WWI as well as WWII
- Category: WORLD WAR II
- Value: $1,200
- Date episode aired: April 04, 2019
Answer #5
- Answer: the resistance
Clue #6
- Clue: This leading U.S. general of WWI was Army chief of staff from 1921 to 1924
- Category: GENERAL KNOWLEDGE
- Value: $800
- Date episode aired: May 01, 2019
Answer #6
- Answer: (John J.) "Black Jack" Pershing
Clue #7
- Clue: During WWI the U.S. Food Administration called for this alliterative, vegetarian day
- Category: A DAY ENDING IN Y
- Value: $1,000
- Date episode aired: October 04, 2019
Answer #7
- Answer: Meatless Mondays
Clue #8
- Clue: During WWI this celebrity visited troops headed overseas & gave tips about how to get out of German handcuffs
- Category: FAMOUS NAMES
- Value: $1,000
- Date episode aired: April 02, 2020
Answer #8
- Answer: Houdini
Clue #9
- Clue: WWI correspondent Nellie was literally "in the" these, which she described as "muddy & filthy"
- Category: NELLIE BLY
- Value: $800
- Date episode aired: December 13, 2019
Answer #9
- Answer: the trenches
Clue #10
- Clue: On WWI recruitment posters, James Montgomery Flagg drew this icon who is pointing & saying, "I want you for U.S. Army"
- Category: SYMBOLS
- Value: $200
- Date episode aired: September 14, 2017
Answer #10
- Answer: Uncle Sam
Clue #11
- Clue: During WWI he equipped a new lab for antisubmarine research on Eagle Rock Mountain near West Orange, New Jersey
- Category: HOW INVENTIVE
- Value: $800
- Date episode aired: July 13, 2017
Answer #11
- Answer: Edison
Clue #12
- Clue: The abdication of this German leader was announced on Nov. 9, 1918, & WWI ended 2 days later
- Category: RED-LETTER DAY
- Value: $400
- Date episode aired: September 21, 2015
Answer #12
- Answer: Kaiser Wilhelm II
Clue #13
- Clue: This WWI gas that sounds like a condiment is a vesicant, meaning it causes blisters
- Category: WAR
- Value: $400
- Date episode aired: January 21, 2015
Answer #13
- Answer: mustard gas
Clue #14
- Clue: This "field" is on the Belgian site where in WWI the U.S. Army's 91st division took heavy casualties
- Category: CEMETERIES
- Value: $800
- Date episode aired: January 03, 2013
Answer #14
- Answer: Flanders Field
Clue #15
- Clue: In WWI this man, later president of France, spent 2 years & 8 months as a prisoner of war
- Category: L'HISTOIRE FRANÇAISE
- Value: $1,200
- Date episode aired: October 17, 2012
Answer #15
- Answer: de Gaulle
Clue #16
- Clue: Dominique-Jean Larrey was the first to describe this skin condition common to the feet of WWI soldiers
- Category: ON FOOT
- Value: $800
- Date episode aired: December 04, 2006
Answer #16
- Answer: trench foot
Clue #17
- Clue: Lenin spent WWI in this country, but he was far from neutral on the subject
- Category: THE LENIN CLOSET
- Value: $800
- Date episode aired: March 22, 2004
Answer #17
- Answer: Switzerland
Clue #18
- Clue: It was the colorful WWI nickname of Manfred von Richthofen
- Category: COLORFUL PEOPLE
- Value: $800
- Date episode aired: June 07, 2002
Answer #18
- Answer: the Red Baron
Clue #19
- Clue: Gavrilo Princip sparked WWI when he killed Archduke Francis Ferdinand in this city in 1914
- Category: THE BALKAN SCENE
- Value: DD: $500
- Date episode aired: September 28, 2000
Answer #19
- Answer: Sarajevo
Clue #20
- Clue: As a WWI soldier, this Yugoslavian leader was caught & sent to Russia where he became a communist
- Category: HISTORY
- Value: $500
- Date episode aired: March 07, 1988
Answer #20
- Answer: Josip Broz or Tito
Clue #21
- Clue: In WWI Japan joined the Allies & seized this nation's Pacific islands
- Category: JAPANESE HISTORY
- Value: $200
- Date episode aired: November 01, 1989
Answer #21
- Answer: Germany
Clue #22
- Clue: During WWI the British called them "limps", the most common being the "B" type
- Category: TRANSPORTATION
- Value: $200
- Date episode aired: April 17, 1990
Answer #22
- Answer: blimps
Clue #23
- Clue: During WWI its regiment de marche was France's most decorated military unit
- Category: WORLD HISTORY
- Value: $200
- Date episode aired: June 14, 1991
Answer #23
- Answer: the French Foreign Legion
Clue #24
- Clue: During WWI James Montgomery Flagg produced a series of about 45 posters for this purpose
- Category: U.S. HISTORY
- Value: $600
- Date episode aired: November 26, 1991
Answer #24
- Answer: recruiting for the military
Clue #25
- Clue: During WWI the Russian fleet battled the Ottoman Turks in this sea
- Category: SEAS
- Value: $400
- Date episode aired: July 14, 1997
Answer #25
- Answer: Black Sea
