Stacker compiled a list of "Jeopardy!" questions about World War II using J! Archive.
Clue #1
- Clue: With only 4 ships, this neighbor of Australia had the smallest navy
- Category: WWII TRIVIA
- Value: $100
- Date episode aired: October 04, 1985
Answer #1
- Answer: New Zealand
Clue #2
- Clue: The U.S. Navy had a ship whose sole purpose was to make this dessert
- Category: WWII TRIVIA
- Value: $200
- Date episode aired: October 04, 1985
Answer #2
- Answer: ice cream
Clue #3
- Clue: In 1942, approaches to the Mississippi River were mined by this type of German vessel
- Category: WWII TRIVIA
- Value: $300
- Date episode aired: October 04, 1985
Answer #3
- Answer: a U-boat (or a submarine)
Clue #4
- Clue: Over 5,000 of them were pilots in the Soviet air force
- Category: WWII TRIVIA
- Value: $500
- Date episode aired: October 04, 1985
Answer #4
- Answer: women
Clue #5
- Clue: After the invasion of Poland, Great Britain & this nation declared war on Germany on September 3, 1939
- Category: WWII
- Value: $100
- Date episode aired: January 12, 1999
Answer #5
- Answer: France
Clue #6
- Clue: Led by Anilewicz, the valiant fighters of this Polish city area held off Nazi attacks in 1943
- Category: WWII
- Value: $200
- Date episode aired: January 12, 1999
Answer #6
- Answer: The Warsaw Ghetto
Clue #7
- Clue: Gen. McAuliffe's famous one-word reply to a German demand for surrender during the Battle of the Bulge
- Category: WWII
- Value: $300
- Date episode aired: January 12, 1999
Answer #7
- Answer: "Nuts!"
Clue #8
- Clue: (VIDEO DAILY DOUBLE):Seen here, he commanded the British 8th Army from 1942 to 1944
- Category: WWII
- Value: DD: $500
- Date episode aired: January 12, 1999
Answer #8
- Answer: Gen. Bernard Montgomery (of El-Alamein)
Clue #9
- Clue: This admiral directed Japan's naval operations in the year following Pearl Harbor
- Category: WWII
- Value: $500
- Date episode aired: January 12, 1999
Answer #9
- Answer: Isoroku Yamamoto
Clue #10
- Clue: Secret destination of a Japanese strike force that set out from the Kuril Islands November 26, 1941
- Category: WWII
- Value: $100
- Date episode aired: December 10, 1999
Answer #10
- Answer: Pearl Harbor/Hawaii
Clue #11
- Clue: This term for bursting antiaircraft shells came from the German flugabwehrkanone
- Category: WWII
- Value: $200
- Date episode aired: December 10, 1999
Answer #11
- Answer: Flack
Clue #12
- Clue: Of 2, 5 or 10 million men, total drafted by the U.S. during the war
- Category: WWII
- Value: $300
- Date episode aired: December 10, 1999
Answer #12
- Answer: 10 million
Clue #13
- Clue: After Russia became our "friend", he was referred to in the press as "Uncle Joe"
- Category: WWII
- Value: $400
- Date episode aired: December 10, 1999
Answer #13
- Answer: Joseph Stalin
Clue #14
- Clue: This battle of June 1942, soon after the Battle of the Coral Sea, is considered the turning point of the Pacific war
- Category: WWII
- Value: DD: $500
- Date episode aired: December 10, 1999
Answer #14
- Answer: Midway
Clue #15
- Clue: Miyamoto Saburo's painting of generals Yamashita & Percival & the British WWII surrender of this island was used as Japanese propaganda
- Category: ART, OF WAR
- Value: $800
- Date episode aired: April 14, 2022
Answer #15
- Answer: Singapore
Clue #16
- Clue: Japanese soldier Hiroo Onoda fought WWII in this country until the 1970s, when he left the jungle & surrendered to President Marcos
- Category: DID I MISS ANYTHING?
- Value: $1,200
- Date episode aired: October 19, 2021
Answer #16
- Answer: the Philippines
Clue #17
- Clue: With attacks on Makin Island & Guadalcanal, Carlson's raiders were a daring WWII unit in this military branch
- Category: RAIDING
- Value: $800
- Date episode aired: July 06, 2018
Answer #17
- Answer: the Marines
Clue #18
- Clue: WWII pilot Tim Vigors felt a "taste of fear" aiding the evacuation of this French port in 1940
- Category: TIM FLIES
- Value: DD: $1,000
- Date episode aired: June 08, 2017
Answer #18
- Answer: Dunkirk
Clue #19
- Clue: To his troops this WWII general was "Dugout Doug" because he was rarely seen out of his tunnels in Corregidor
- Category: MILITARY NICKNAMES
- Value: $200
- Date episode aired: April 27, 2016
Answer #19
- Answer: (Douglas) MacArthur
Clue #20
- Clue: In WWII 28,000 aviators trained in & around this Florida Panhandle city
- Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY
- Value: $800
- Date episode aired: March 25, 2016
Answer #20
- Answer: Pensacola
Clue #21
- Clue: This group of islands was the only part of Britain occupied in WWII by the Germans
- Category: BRITISH HISTORY
- Value: $600
- Date episode aired: March 18, 2016
Answer #21
- Answer: the Channel Islands
Clue #22
- Clue: This WWII battle was named for the area of water between Australia & New Caledonia
- Category: HISTORY OF THE WORLD PART II
- Value: $2,000
- Date episode aired: October 13, 2015
Answer #22
- Answer: the Battle of the Coral Sea
Clue #23
- Clue: In 1998 the Alabama airfield where these black pilots received their training in WWII became a National Historic Site
- Category: NATIONAL HISTORIC SITES
- Value: $1,200
- Date episode aired: March 05, 2015
Answer #23
- Answer: Tuskegee
Clue #24
- Clue: This fortification covered the French frontier with Germany but not Belgium, so once it was flanked in WWII, it was useless
- Category: DRAWING THE "LINE"
- Value: $1,000
- Date episode aired: October 06, 2014
Answer #24
- Answer: the Maginot Line
Clue #25
- Clue: In WWII, in the face of the German advance, the retreating Soviet army adopted this policy, literally burning crops
- Category: WHAT'S YOUR POLICY?
- Value: $800
- Date episode aired: July 19, 2013
Answer #25
- Answer: scorched earth
