History Series / ThatsTheQuestion

!!GameShowTropes in use:

* Personnel:
** GameShowHost: Bob Goen, no stranger to the genre, 13 years after his last hosting gig (the short-lived ''Born Lucky'').
** StudioAudience: Averted, as with most GSN originals.
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Two-season wonder from {{GSN}} hosted by Bob Goen, in which two players competed in a word game that's a bit of a cross between ''Series/WheelOfFortune'' and ''Series/{{Jeopardy}}''.

* CriticalResearchFailure: Season 1 had this on several occasions.
** October 2, 2006: The first aired episode claimed the Mario Brothers debuted in ''Donkey Kong''. Mario '''did''' debut there (albeit as "Jumpman"), but Luigi's official debut was in ''Mario Bros.'' [[note]](One could argue that Luigi was in ''Donkey Kong'' since said game has a two-player mode, plus the fact that the intro of ''Donkey Kong Jr.'' shows two Marios carrying Donkey Kong's cage away.)[[/note]]
** October 3, 2006: Listerine is referred to as a company that makes "America's mouthwash". Not only is that not Listerine's tagline, it's not the only American mouthwash, and to top it all off ''isn't even a company'' - Pfizer manufactures it!
** October 6, 2006: The show calls the Pathfinder a Toyota car. It's actually a Nissan one.
** October 20, 2006: Claiming that a football field is 100 yards. It's actually 130 yards.

** To make matters worse, there were also research failures: calling the Pathfinder a Toyota car instead of Nissan, calling Listerine a company that makes "America's mouthwash" [[note]](that's not Listerine's tagline, it's not the only American mouthwash, and it's ''not even a company'' - Pfizer manufactures it)[[/note]], claiming that a football field is 100 yards [[note]](it's actually 130 yards)[[/note]], claiming the Mario Brothers debuted in ''Donkey Kong'' [[note]](Mario, as Jumpman, debuted in ''Donkey Kong''...but Luigi's debut was in ''Mario Bros.'')[[/note]], etc.

* RougeAnglesOfSatin: Season 1 had this in nearly every round, sometimes coupled with research failures (such as calling the Pathfinder a Toyota car instead of Nissan or claiming that the Mario Brothers debuted in ''Donkey Kong'' [[note]]Mario, or rather, Jumpman, ''did'' in debut in ''Donkey Kong'', but Luigi's debut was ''Mario Bros.''[[/note]]).
* TitleDrop: Bob said "That's the question!" every time the contestant correctly read the question.

* RougeAnglesOfSatin: Season 1 had this in nearly every round, sometimes coupled with research failures (such as calling the Pathfinder a Toyota car instead of Nissan or claiming that the Mario Brothers debuted in ''Donkey Kong'').

Two-season wonder from {{GSN}} hosted by Bob Goen, in which two players competed in a word game that's a bit of a cross between ''WheelOfFortune'' and ''Series/{{Jeopardy}}''.

* ForeignRemake: It's a remake of a Dutch game and, much like ''{{Lingo}}'', Season 1 was filmed on the Dutch set.

Two-season wonder from {{GSN}}, hosted by Bob Goen. In it, two players compete in a word game that's a bit of a cross between ''WheelOfFortune'' and ''Series/{{Jeopardy}}''.

The first question simply reveals one letter at a time until someone rings in, to determine who starts. From then on, Bob asks trivia questions. A randomizer hops along a blank word puzzle, which spells out a trivia question. Once the randomizer stops, the players take turns answering more trivia questions. They are given the answer, but scrambled with one letter added. Correctly unscrambling the answer drops down the extra letter into the word puzzle. If the contestant thinks they know the question, they may stop and read it for five points. Round 2 is the same, with doubled values. Also, the answer to the question is no longer spotted at the top of the round.

* BonusRound: A one-man version of the main game, basically. Doing better in the main game also gives you a better chance to win, since your points are converted straight across to seconds, then you get 10 more seconds at the end to guess the question and give the answer for $5,000. Fail, and you get just $500.

A two-season wonder from {{GSN}}, hosted by Bob Goen. In it, two players compete in a word game that's a bit of a cross between ''WheelOfFortune'' and ''Series/{{Jeopardy}}''.

!!GameShow Tropes in use:

** GameShowHost: Bob Goen, a good 15 years after his last hosting gig on daytime ''Wheel''.

* RougeAnglesOfSatin: Season 1 had this in nearly every round, sometimes coupled with research failures (such as calling the Pathfinder a Toyota car instead of Nissan).

The first question simply reveals one letter at a time until someone rings in, to determine who starts. From then on, Bob asks trivia questions. A randomizer hops along a blank word puzzle, which spells out a trivia question. Once the randomizer stops, the players take turns answering more trivia questions. They are given the answer, but scrambled with one letter added. Correctly unscrambling the answer drops down the extra letter into the word puzzle. If the contestant thinks they know the question, they may stop and read it for five points. Round 2 is the same, with doubled dollar values. Also, the answer to the question is no longer spotted at the top of the round.

* RougeAnglesOfSatin: Season 1 had this in nearly every round, sometimes coupled with DidNotDoTheResearch (such as calling the Pathfinder a Toyota car instead of Nissan).

* BonusRound: A one-man version of the main game, basically.