Can you answer these 'Jeopardy!' questions about WWI?
One of the thrills of watching "Jeopardy!" at home is playing along from the comfort of your couch. The beloved game show tests your knowledge in a variety of categories, including geography, art, literature, and science. But clues about history are one of the series' most defining features—and military history in particular pops up in nearly every episode. Sure, some of what's asked will be familiar to anyone with a passing knowledge of major world events, but as contestants move down to the harder questions at the bottom of the board, you might find yourself stumped.
That is, of course, unless military history is one of your areas of expertise. To find out, we're taking a look at a wide range of clues about World War I that were included on the show. Stacker compiled this list of "Jeopardy!" questions about World War I using J! Archive, which includes decades of past games to peruse. Try to see how many of these WWI stumpers you can solve—you won't win any money, but you can certainly impress your friends.
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
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
