Final Jeopardy: Famous Doctors (1-11-19)
Today’s Final Jeopardy question (1/11/2019) in the category “Famous Doctors” was:
Not an artist himself, he inspired the surrealists but thought them “absolute cranks” until he met Dali in London in 1938
New champ Anneke Garcia, an instructional design consultant from Salt Lake City, UT, won $25,601 yesterday. In Game 2, she goes up against these two ladies: Sarah Ann, a library research professional from San Diego, CA; and Jocelyn Martich, a retired operations manager from Greensboro, NC.
Round 1 Categories: Shark Tank 10th Anniversary – 2 Words to Complete the Proverb – Essential Earls – A Simple Flick of the Wrist – The State of Nature – Going “Dutch”
Sarah got the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Going ‘Dutch”” under the $1,000 on the very last pick of the round. (Whew! It truly looked like we weren’t going to get to it). She was in third place with $3,800, $800 less than Anneke’s lead. She bet $3,000 and she was RIGHT.
Founded in part to help the Dutch gain independence from Spain, this trading company’s nearly 200-year run ended in 1799. show
Sarah finished in the lead with $6,800. Anneke was second with $4,600 and Jocelyn was last with $4,400.
Round 2 Categories: 5 “B”S of Classical Music – Adjectives – Fictional Amusement Parks – U.N. Nameable – 30 Something – Writers Who Went to Jail
Jocelyn found the first Daily Double in “U.N. Nameable” under the $1,200 clue, with 9 clues still to go. She was in second place with $7,200 at this point, $11,000 behind Anneke’s lead. She bet $3,000 and she was RIGHT.
This U.S. Secretary of State later called his Feb. 2003 speech to the Security Council a painful blot on his records. show
Jocelyn found the last Daily Double in “Writers Who Went to Jail” under the $2000 clue. Only the Amusement Park category was left after it. In second place with $13,400, she had $4,800 less than Anneke’s lead. She bet $5,000 and she was RIGHT.
He conceived his greatest novel while in prison for debt in Seville. show
Anneke finished in the lead with $21,400. Jocelyn was next with $18,400 and Sarah was in third place with $6,000.
NONE of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
Dali and Freud, an article on Dali Universe, talks about the London get-together of the two men in 1938, recounting Dali’s prior attempts to meet the famed doctor in Vienna. It also has the passage from Freud’s letter to Austrian novelist Stefan Zweig, confessing that he had been wrong to think the surrealists were “absolute cranks.”
This happened in 1907 in Vienna: JUNG ($400) Carl Jung said that when he first met this man, “we talked for 13 hours without interruption”
Sarah drew an image of a kitten and said it was “sad kitty.” She lost $5,000, for a $1,000 finish.
Jocelyn didn’t have a response. She lost $10,000, so she had $8,400 left.
Anneke wrote down “Dr. Dali.” She lost $9,300, finishing with $12,100. That was enough to win today. Anneke’s 2-day total is $37,701.
A triple stumper from each round:
GOING “DUTCH” ($600) In 1935 this man thought hey, let’s kill Thomas Dewey; fearing backlash, crime bosses added bullets to his restaurant order
30 SOMETHING ($2000) In 1975 35 nations signed these accords designed to reduce tensions between the USSR & the West
2 years ago: NONE of the players got this FJ in “European Countries”
Once the center of an empire, it didn’t exist as an independent nation from 1938 to 1955. show
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Strange wagers–especially Jocelyn who should have bet $3001.
To go a little further, here’s a mathematical justification that could explain today’s result. Let’s say you come up with 4 doctors, but can’t connect any of them specifically to the clue. If you just decide to write one of these 4 down, your chances are at most 25% of getting it correct. Probably much lower, because the hints in the clue are usually obvious in hindsight, so if you can’t tie any of the 4 doctors to information in the clue, the chances of any of them being correct is significantly less, perhaps under 10%.
On the other hand, you could choose to parse the clue to extract the essential hint. In today’s case, I see that as (surrealism => dreams, dreams + doctor = Freud). Let’s say the chances of you decoding the hint with enough time to write your answer is 50%, and your chance of getting the correct answer when you’ve decoded the hint is 90%. This gives the contestant a 0.5 * 0.9 = 45% of getting the correct answer.
You can obviously quibble with the numbers, but the point is that it can easily be argued that in many cases you’d be better off spending time analyzing the clue and risk coming up with nothing, than give up and just write something down.
I really thought that this was gonna be a runaway for Anneke but WOW!!!! What a great catch-up from Jocelyn with her Daily Double bets! Great game, ladies, despite tough FJ
LINK: 11 more clues from the match
If a contestant does not know the answer right away, they could easily spend their time focusing on key words on the question, hoping the correct answer comes to them, and they can get the answer down in time. This increases the chance they write nothing down of course.
This seems like a better idea than choosing a doctor from the time period at random, who is likely the wrong answer, in order to avoid making viewers at home thinking they are ignorant.
It is a complete non sequitur to go from “They failed to write down Freud or some other doctor” to “None of the contestants knew who Freud was or anything about him, and were ignorant of any other doctors in the time period or what they did”. It is just logically fallacious.
@JP
If you take even a wild guess you still have a fighting chance, And they could not have looked more ignorant with a wrong answer than no answer at all. There are enough physicians in that time frame who fit the bill. So getting the wrong one is not THAT bad. Just my opinion. I would take a chance if I knew 4,5 or 6 possible answers. Stranger things have happened. I am sure you remember when sometimes a player was utterly surprised that her/his guess was not only right but also won the game for the player.
Well, water under the bridge. So let’s look forward to next week.
Have a nice and relaxing weekend!
Well, at least we’ve moved from “they must be ignorant” to “their response makes them look ignorant when viewed uncharitably”. Perhaps as big of an improvement towards reality as can be expected in one day
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So we finished the week with two triple stumper and one early elimination. But come on now. How did these ladies not know Freud? Have they even heard of the phrase collective unconscious, the term coined by Freud? VJ you must have known about the Freudian slip and his theory right? But still annecke won which I congratulate her. Hopefully next week the final jeopardy will be a lot easier. By the way, did Dali ever have a collective unconscious himself after he met with Freud?
@Lou
It was not that difficult. If you read my earlier comments, I can come up with at least half a dozen world famous physicians in the first part of the 20th century. Plain ignorance, and I say what I mean and mean what I say. I don’t use a euphemism when none is required (foul language) or none is deserved, like today.
Have a nice weekend too, my friend! Next week will be better I hope!
Pay attention to the clue, Lou. The players did not know that Freud and Dali met in London in 1938. That does not mean that they do not know who Freud is.
I did not get this right either. I picked Albert Schweitzer.
@VJ
But at least you picked a PHYSICIAN !!! Between the 3 players the only answer was DR.SALI!? I only picked ONE anyway since Freud is much more connected with Vienna than London where he lived only for about a year. But no guess at all?
Enough already, John!!!!!!
I’ve always associated ‘psychologist’ and ‘psychoanalyst’ with Freud, not ‘doctor’, so I’m not surprised with the result. I also did not know he lived that late into the 1900s. Learn something new everyday!
@JP
Well, a psychiatrist is a medical doctor. Freud died 1939. He suffered first from tongue and then jaw cancer, died by assisted suicide from an overdose of morphine, (age 83)administered by a colleague of his, a friend of his daughter Anna, Dr. Josephine Stross.
But what about Fleming, Schweitzer, Salk (polio vaccine, he would have been 24 in 1938 etc???) This was a complete bust. I figured it would be a low solution rate, but zero? Well, we ALL crashed with our predictions. Starting and ending the week with a TS is just the pits🙄
Just if you want to look up the entire category: the $400 JUNG clue was in the May 4, 2016 game, 6th DJ category.
Oh boy, what a week we had here. We started with a TS and ended it with a TS. But congratulations to Anneke for win #2. Strange bets by both leading players, but it won Anneke the game, and a win is a win is a win. Nobody will ask in 2 or 3 weeks how she won that game. “Sad kitty”…cute. No answer: OK. But DR> SALI??? So Sali met his brother who was a famous doctor???? That none of the players – and you can criticize me all you want – could not come up with even ONE world famous doctor in the first part of the 20th century was a disgrace. Just take a guess for crying out loud, or did they not know of ANY famous doctors? How about Freud, Jung (Swiss counterpart), Fleming (Scottish but worked in London,penicillin), Barnard ( S. Africa, 1st heart transplant), Schweitzer, just to name a few offhand And it was not a generation thing. I don’t believe many people do NOT know of or about at least Albert Schweitzer or Sigmund Freud , Fleming and Jung… not so sure. And Barnard? How soon we forget! Interesting that I found no hint in the CotD talk about Freud.
Anyway, let’s forget this FJ and hope next week will be better.
HAVE A GREAT WEEKEND EVERYBODY!
Overall, this was just a really hard week for the Tournament Of Champions field, the leader board, the standings, and the Final Jeopardy! clues. We all thought that Jonathan Dinerstein would win his 5th game, and automatically make it to the Tournament Of Champions, but instead, a tough clue got in the way, and we thought that we would get a longer run from Jessica Holloway, and we do get an easy clue, but Jessica didn’t have the lead going into Final Jeopardy!. CURSES! WHAT ARE WE GONNA DO?! Let’s just that we have a better week next week, or else, whoever put the No More 5 Or More Time Champions curse is going to pay for the ultimate price.
Speaking of this week being a really hard week for the the Tournament Of Champions field, leader board, and standings, it does remind me of a week, almost 2 years ago, where Johnny Gilbert was really excited during the intro, and reading the contestants’ names, what they do, where they were from, and Neil Uspal’s 2-day total of $25,400, and Alex has had enough of weeks being uneven with ups and downs, in terms of paydays. So, he was hoping that every day in that week, we would get a big payday, and what should have been a good week, a real feel good week, even though we did get big paydays at the end of the week, gets ruined by the 2 Triple Stumpers on Monday & Tuesday, and marded further by 1 player getting dismissed before Final Jeopardy!. Sorry, Hugh Dinteman, us only having 4 out of 15 correct responses, and Wheel Of Fortune also having a bad week, starting off with a $100,000 loss, and it was another 0/5 week for Season 34 of Wheel Of Fortune. So, I had to keep my fingers crossed, hoping for a better week for JEOPARDY! & Wheel Of Fortune, and I don’t know if Wheel Of Fortune had a better week next week. Probably not, but thankfully, Lisa Schlitt made next week a better week for JEOPARDY! by winning all 5 games in a single day, making her a 6-day champion, and won $139,100, before she was unlucky in her 7th game. JEOPARDY! & Wheel Of Fortune, please make next week a better week, or else, I’m done.
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Richard, I’m just kidding with JEOPARDY!. Of course, I will never be done watching JEOPARDY!. I will always watch that show, even if it has really hard weeks once in a while, but I am serious about Wheel Of Fortune.