Final Jeopardy: Health & Medicine (12-5-14)

The Final Jeopardy question (12/5/2014), in the category “Health & Medicine” was:

In 1985 the Surgeon General called this “the best rescue technique in any choking situation”.

Today, we are finishing up Kids Week with these three players: Tyler Van Patten from Burlington, WI; Neha Rao, from Johns Creek, GA; and Emma Miller, from San Mateo, CA.

Round 1: Tyler found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Hi, Tech” under the $600 clue. After unsuccessfully wrangling with the “Non-Common Core Math” category, he was in the hole for $200. Emma was in the lead with $200 and Neha still had not buzzed in. Tyler bet the $1,000 allowance and he was RIGHT.

No. 6 of Forbes’ Top 7 Tech Tends that will dominate 2014: this type of printing will begin to revolutionize production” show

WHAT IS 3D PRINTING?

Tyler finished in the lead with $5,200. Emma was second with $2,000 and Neha was last with $1,800.

Round 2: Tyler found the first Daily Double in “States’ Longest Borders” under the $2,000 clue. He was cleaning up in the category and was now in the lead with $14,000, $5,200 more than Emma in second place. He bet $2,000 and he was RIGHT.

Of Florida’s 2 state borders, its longer one is with this state. show

WHAT IS GEORGIA?

Tyler found the last Daily Double in “The 18th Century” under the $1,600 clue with one $2K clue remaining after this. In the lead with $19,000, he now had $9,800 more than Emma in second place. He bet $1,500 and thought it was James Madison. That was WRONG.

In 1790, he became our first Secretary of State; he got a big promotion a little over a decade later. show

WHO IS THOMAS JEFFERSON?

Tyler finished in the lead with $17,500. Emma was next with $11,200 and Neha was in third place with $7,400.

ALL of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.

WHAT IS THE HEIMLICH MANEUVER?

Dr. Henry Heimlich “spent the late 1970s and early 1980s disparaging the effectiveness of back thumps… in an uphill campaign to promote his technique, which uses the power of air forced from the lungs to propel obstructions outward. Success came in 1985 when U.S. Surgeon General C. Everett Koop endorsed the Heimlich maneuver and urged the Red Cross and American Heart Association to abandon the teaching of ‘hazardous, even lethal’ back blows as a first-aid technique. A year later, both organizations formally adopted the Heimlich maneuver as the best response to choking.” (from The Statesman, a 2011 report on a bill, later passed, no longer requiring Texas restaurants to display Heimlich Maneuver posters).

In 2006, the Red Cross revised its first aid protocol, upgrading back thumps over “abdominal thrusts”. Henry Heimlich’s own son, Peter, became his father’s most ardent critic. He says Koop made the recommendation as a “buddy favor”.

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Neha had “the Heimlich Manuever.” Her $4,000 bet brought her score up to $11,400.

Emma had “the Heimlich Manuveur.” She added $6,400 to finish with $17,600.

Tyler wrote down “the Hiemlick Manuever.” His $6,301 bet brought him up to the winning total of $23,801.

“And remember, folks,” Alex said blithely, “We don’t penalize for incorrect spellings.” He didn’t go into the whys and wherefores and neither will we. We’ll just add it to the list of Spelling Decisions. Here is Tyler’s Winner Circle video:

 
2 years ago:: NONE of the players got this FJ in “20th Century Plays”

This 1962 play takes place beginning at 2 A.M. in the living room of a house on a New England college campus. show

WHAT IS “WHO’S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF?”?

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