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Today’s Final Jeopardy Question (hexbear.net)

submitted 1 year ago by RedDawn@hexbear.net to c/askchapo@hexbear.net

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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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[–] solitaire@infosec.pub 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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.