this post was submitted on 10 Nov 2023
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Riddle me this; Why do Americans frame their answers like questions? Is it some weird meme or something?
It's the rules of the gameshow Jeopardy. The gimmick is the game will give you an answer, you have to guess the question, so all responses must be in the form of a question to count.
So for the prompt:
"This Actor portrayed the captain of the Enterprise in all but the pilot episode of the original Star Trek series."
You would answer:
"Who is William Shatner?"
How bizarre.
Why not just ask questions the usual way?
edit: Evidently everyone really loves this show, as they are downvoting me like crazy for not having heard of it and finding it weird.