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submitted 11 months ago by RedDawn@hexbear.net to c/askchapo@hexbear.net

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?

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[-] Ho_Chi_Chungus@hexbear.net 15 points 11 months ago

spoilerit's uhhh... Pol Pot, right?

[-] GinAndJuche@hexbear.net 10 points 11 months ago

Ding ding ding

[-] GinAndJuche@hexbear.net 12 points 11 months ago

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

[-] solitaire@infosec.pub 11 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 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@hexbear.net 9 points 11 months ago

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

[-] VHS@hexbear.net 9 points 11 months ago

spoilerPol 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@hexbear.net 6 points 11 months ago

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

[-] regul@hexbear.net 3 points 11 months ago

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

[-] RedDawn@hexbear.net 2 points 11 months ago
[-] regul@hexbear.net 2 points 11 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@hexbear.net 2 points 11 months ago

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

[-] regul@hexbear.net 2 points 11 months ago

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

[-] RedDawn@hexbear.net 2 points 11 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@hexbear.net 4 points 11 months ago

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

[-] ProfessorOwl_PhD@hexbear.net 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 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

[-] infuziSporg@hexbear.net 2 points 11 months ago

uuuuuhhhhhh Gommunism Bad?

[-] Vampire@hexbear.net 1 points 11 months ago
[-] RedDawn@hexbear.net 6 points 11 months ago

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

[-] Vampire@hexbear.net 3 points 11 months ago

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

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