Final Jeopardy: Health & Medicine 2013 (12-13-13)
The Final Jeopardy question (12/13/2013), in the category “Health & Medicine 2013” was:
There’s news of the first lab test for this 10-letter condition the NIH calls the leading cause of disability for Americans 15 to 44.
New champ Woody Bell took over the top spot yesterday, winning $8,399. In the last game of the week, he takes on these two players: Evan Struble, from Columbus, OH; and Tiffany Gholar, from Chicago, IL.
Tiffany found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “60 Years of the TV Station” under the $1,000 clue. She was in the lead with $4,800, $3,400 ahead of Evan in second place. She bet $2,400, and thought it was California. That was WRONG.
In 1953 KLAS became the first TV station in this Western state. show
Woody finished in the lead with $3,200. Tiffany was second with $2,800 and Evan was last with $2,000.
Evan found the first Daily Double in “Writer’s Block” under the $2,000 clue. He was in second place with $7,200, $800 behind Tiffany’s lead. He bet $2,800 but was just stumped, so he was WRONG.
A big-time block (& maybe a lot of partying) delayed “Answered Prayers” by this “non-fiction novelist”. show
After Woody blew the $2,000 clue in “Behind Every Great Man,” the buzzer went off, leaving the second Daily Double on the board under either the $1200 or the $1600 clue in that same category.
Tiffany finished in the lead with $11,200. Woody was next with $8,000 and Evan was in third place with $4,800.
NONE of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
On WNDU.com Health News from May 2013, an article says: “MDD Score is the first blood test to assist in the diagnosis of depression. With a routine blood draw, it measures nine biomarkers and ranks a person’s likelihood of having the condition from one to nine. The higher the score the higher the chance of depression.” MDD stands for Major Depressive Disorder and the NIH has complete statistics on it.
Evan wrote down “scoliosis.” He lost $4,799 and finished with a buck.
Woody came up with “obesity.” He lost $7,999 and also finished with a buck.
Tiffany didn’t write down anything. She only bet $4,801 so she won the match with $6,399.
This was another Final Jeopardy question we did not like at all. We ought to start a rating system for these Final Jeopardy questions. Any ideas on how to score it and what the criteria should be?
Have a good weekend, everyone.
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I always love it when I get the final answer and none of the contestants do like I did with depression! I got that Austin one recently too – it was somewhat easy with the extra clue to count the placards. I think I would have gotten it anyway seeing six of them there.
I liked the FJ. Age range of 15 to 44 is wide, but that’s a younger group than for “arthritis” or something (9 each). I thought on suicide as a death leader in younger age groups, but I didn’t come up with the ten letters for disability in 30 seconds. And that made me depressed.
What did you not like about this one?
well I make a mental bet on how many contestants will get FJ. When I bet none, it means I don’t think it’s reasonable to expect anyone to get it in 30 seconds.
Maybe somebody in the medical field would have gotten this one, but I think a lot of people still think of depression as something people can shake off.
i agree. categories for fj should cover a “broader” area. like in this case only a specialist (psychiatrist, neurologist) had a more than average chance to get it. fj SHOULD be difficult, but with a chance that the “average” smart person could know it as well.
i almost have the impression that from time to time they throw in a fj that practically NOBODY can get just for the heck of it.
I would disagree. This was challenging, but it wasn’t that hard and if anything more people need to know that depression IS a disability. To say that only a specialist such as a psychiatrist would know that, well, I would respectfully disagree. Not that I got it, either!
People have heard depression is a disability, but a lot don’t believe it. Maybe someone who saw something, like a recent commercial, would have got it too. I got a recent obscure question none of the contestants got because I was looking something up related to the clue — but just because of that I didn’t think that made it a clue more contestants should have known.
more people also need to know that addiction of any kind is a disease. yet even physicians turn their head. whether one is addicted to alcohol , other drugs (alcohol is the worst imo, it kills you slowly and ravishes your ENTIRE body,tobacco,gambling……a chemical/electrical malfunction of the brain!!!!
I would add back injuries to that. A lot of people think they are fake. Getting one will cure you of that notion very quickly.
you bet!!! unfortunately there are a lot of medical conditions where the general public AND quite a number of physicians are kind of blase about. until they suffer from it themselves…..