On Jeopardy today, the final clue.

Category: 20th Century History

Clue: After the Vietnam War, Vietnam got bogged down in a campaign against this leader whom it managed to overthrow in 1979.

None of the three contestants on Jeopardy got it right, how about the hexbears?

  • GinAndJuche
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    10 months ago

    It’s actually pathetic a teacher didn’t know that. I wouldn’t expect the other two, but damn.

  • soli@infosec.pub
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    10 months ago

    The question has already been answered so here is a semi-related anecdote.

    I watched The Grand Tour episode where they took boats from Cambodia to Vietnam not too long ago. It's an extremely deranged bit of television. Along the way, Clarkson stops to talk sincerely about "history". He bounces between teary-eyed valorisation of Americans during the war and passionate condemnations of Pol Pot. The juxtaposition implies the Americans were against Pol Pot and that the Vietnamese supported him, completely the opposite of reality.

  • CrispyFern [fae/faer, any]
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    10 months ago

    So far no one itt has got it right because they didnt format their answer as a question nerd

  • VHS [he/him]
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    10 months ago
    spoiler

    Pol Pot

    definitely commonly known among commies, i don't know how much of the amerikkkan public knows about it but it doesn't seem difficult for a Final clue

  • edge [he/him]
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    10 months ago

    I kind of want to go on Jeopardy at some point, but I'd probably just fuck it up.

    • regul [any]
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      10 months ago

      I've been on Jeopardy and fucked it up, AMA

        • regul [any]
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          10 months ago

          Bet it all on FJ when, mathematically, the correct bet was 0 when I was in second. Would have won betting 0, as it turns out.

          • RedDawn [he/him]
            hexagon
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            10 months ago

            Ouch, sorry to hear that. Sounds like something I might have done.

            • regul [any]
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              10 months ago

              Yeah. Still a lot of fun. Friends with the guy who beat me.

    • RedDawn [he/him]
      hexagon
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      10 months ago

      I hope to be on it some day, I’m better than most of the contestants that are on the show. I’ve never been picked to be on in yet though.

  • regul [any]
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    10 months ago

    I was yelling at my TV last night when none of them got it.

  • ProfessorOwl_PhD [any]
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    edit-2
    10 months ago

    Whomst'd've amongst us is Pol Pot

    Edit: 90% of what I know about him is he was CIA and got btfo by Vietnam

    • RedDawn [he/him]
      hexagon
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      10 months ago

      You had the incorrect guess as all three Jeopardy contestants, so don’t feel too bad.

      • Vampire [any]
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        10 months ago

        Ah I mean I read it as Vietnamese leader so I feel a but tricked