Honorverse Jeopardy

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In this book was mentioned about the first treecat in captivity dying.

Why must Jeopardy answers be in the form of a question?
The easy answer is "the rules say so"... but to be correct, you have to go back to the origin of the show. Merv Griffin was talking to his wife about trying to create a new game show in the wake of the scandals of the late '50s and early '60s. At the core of the scandals was the fact that contestants were given the answers to the questions in advance. Merv's wife suggested a game where the answers were given -- when Griffin said he didn't really want to go to jail, his wife gave him an example. She said "5280", to which he said "How many feet are in a mile?". Within days, development had begun on "What's The Question", later renamed "Jeopardy!"

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In this book was mentioned about the first treecat in captivity dying.

Jonathan_S wrote:

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In this book was mentioned about the first treecat in captivity dying.

Which is At All Costs?

Jonathan_S wrote:

cthia wrote:Take correct answer for 1000-thanks...

In this book was mentioned about the first treecat in captivity dying.

Which is At All Costs?

He accessed the relevant portion of her record, and something suspiciously like a snort escaped before he could throttle it. He turned it into a reasonably convincing coughing fit, but his mouth quivered as he scanned the appended note. Buzzed the Commandant's boat during the Regatta, had she? No wonder Hartley had lowered the boom on her!

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He accessed the relevant portion of her record, and something suspiciously like a snort escaped before he could throttle it. He turned it into a reasonably convincing coughing fit, but his mouth quivered as he scanned the appended note. Buzzed the Commandant's boat during the Regatta, had she? No wonder Hartley had lowered the boom on her!

In this modern day very popular film, something very similar happened.

cthia wrote:

Jonathan_S wrote:In this book was mentioned about the first treecat in captivity dying.

Which is At All Costs?

At All Costs wrote:Sphinx's treecats had been a sore point with Manpower and Mesa literally for centuries. The possibility of unlocking the secret of telepathy had been impossible for the bioengineers of Mesa to resist, but they'd been remarkably unsuccessful in obtaining specimens. In fact, they'd managed to obtain only one living treecat in over three hundred T-years, and they'd discovered quickly that a treecat in captivity simply died.

He accessed the relevant portion of her record, and something suspiciously like a snort escaped before he could throttle it. He turned it into a reasonably convincing coughing fit, but his mouth quivered as he scanned the appended note. Buzzed the Commandant's boat during the Regatta, had she? No wonder Hartley had lowered the boom on her!

Strapakai wrote:
What is Top Gun?

Jonathan_S wrote:

At All Costs wrote:Sphinx's treecats had been a sore point with Manpower and Mesa literally for centuries. The possibility of unlocking the secret of telepathy had been impossible for the bioengineers of Mesa to resist, but they'd been remarkably unsuccessful in obtaining specimens. In fact, they'd managed to obtain only one living treecat in over three hundred T-years, and they'd discovered quickly that a treecat in captivity simply died.

I'm 90% sure this was the first published mention, although there's an outside chance it got mentioned in some anthology that I've forgotten about and couldn't quickly check.