ASUKA:“This may be the quickest way,
but we look really lame.”
SHINJI:“Say, what do you suppose the Angels are?”
UrsusArctos: If Jeopardy existed in the NGE universe, I wonder what answer the late Alex Trebek would've put up to get "What are the Angels?" as a question? Anyway, Shinji's question is answered obliquely just two episodes later, and explicitly in Episode 25'.