Final Jeopardy: Medical Etymology (3-25-14)
The Final Jeopardy question (3/25/2014), in the category “Medical Etymology” was:
Because of where in the body it is produced, this hormone’s name comes from the Latin for “Island.”
New champ, Nancy Akerman won $2,799 in yesterday’s game, being the only one with any money after an FJ triple stumper. Today she takes on these two players: Nathan Chadwick, from Germantown, MD; and Matt Prasse, from Needham, MA.
Round 1: Nathan found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Poultry in Motion” under the $800 clue. He was in the lead with $4,400, $600 more than Matt in second place. He bet $1,000 and thought it was a rat. That was WRONG.
When Babe the Pig can’t find Farmer Hogget’s “mechanical rooster”, one of these, Ferdinand the Duck helps. show
Matt finished in the lead with $3,800. Nathan was second with $3,400 and Nancy was last with $2,400.
Round 2: Nathan found the first Daily Double in “Movie Source Material” under the $800 clue. He was in third place with $2,200, half of Nancy’s lead. He made it a true Daily Double and he was RIGHT.
Nicholas Pileggi’s “Wiseguy: Life in a Mafia Family” got this title on the big screen in 1990. show
Nancy found the last Daily Double in “‘Snow’ Job” under the $800 clue. She was in second place with $4,000, $1,200 less than Nathan’s lead when she found it. A score adjustment* gave Nathan $600 more, so his lead rose to $1,800. She bet $2,000 but didn’t quite get the long title right, so she was WRONG.
This Robert Frost poem says, “The woods are lovely, dark and deep, but I have promises to keep.” show
*in the same category, they wanted the second line of “Mary Had a Little Lamb.” Matt said whose fleece was white as snow, when they wanted its. Whose was deemed an acceptable alternate and Nathan’s incorrect rebound “never happened.”
The round ended with 4 clues uncovered in “11-Letter Words” and one in “Con Men.”
Nancy finished in the lead with $7,600. Nathan was next with $5,600 and Matt was in third place with $1,400.
Only ONE of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
“Insulin is produced in the islets of Langerhans in the pancreas. The name insulin comes from the Latin ‘insula’ for ‘island’ from the cells that produce the hormone in the pancreas.” (News Medical: What is Insulin?)
A Daily Double from 1997: 1997 ANNIVERSARIES ($700): 1997 marks the 75th anniversary of Sir Frederick Banting & Charles Best’s discovery of this pancreatic hormone
Matt thought it was adrenaline. He bet and lost it all.
Nathan had the same response as Matt. He lost $1,999 and finished with $3,601.
Nancy got it right. She bet $3,601 so she won the match with $11,201, becoming our first 2-day champ since the March 12th game, when Arthur Chu was defeated. Nancy’s 2-day total is $14,000. Congrats, Nancy. Nice going!
2 years ago:: NONE of the player got this FJ in “Islands”.
At 22 square miles, it’s the world’s smallest island with a population exceeding 1 million, a figure it reached by 1880. show
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I have an idea……why don’t you make a whole catagory related to T1 diabetes. It’s an epidemic and your show could spread awareness to all the people who confuse T1 and T2 diabetes. You had hypoglycemia as one of your ?’s once, so now you have insulin, keep building on it. You could have acronyms like DKA, DAD, SWAG, ICR and ISF. I wonder if the writers even know them?
Dear Jeopardy cluewriters: Wouldn’t it make more sense if you had written the Snow clues like this:
Mary had a little lamb, its fleece was this.
In Stopping by Woods on this, Robert Frost says, “The woods are lovely, dark and deep…”
this whole episode was a mess from A-Z.
petty and inconsistent rulings, clues left over in j and dj, wrong bet by nathan, misquote of frost, a ton of wrong answers. only ray of sunshine: nancy’s fj.
well, on Mary’s little lamb, the clue could also have said: Mary had a little lamb, whose fleece was this.
I’ve seen a lot of 19th century children’s books that use whose instead of its. If the cluewriters would look this stuff up, they’d save the judges from having to make a decision.
As for the Frost poem, I personally don’t think that it’s fair to ask someone to give the full title of a poem if it’s long like the Snowy Evening poem — 7 words in that title makes it too easy to screw up in a game of general knowledge, imo.
Would you consider it a fair clue to ask this on the same poem? In Robert Frost’s poem Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening, this 7-word phrase is repeated two times.
btw, the only way nathan’s bet WOULD make sense is if he were convinced he would get it while nancy would miss. given the category and his obvious lack of ANY idea in that area i have to stand by my first assessment
correction, those guys are driving me crazy: NANCY wagered correctly.
nathan had 5.600, if nancy had been wrong it would have been:
7.600 for nancy, minus 3.601 = 3.999
therefore nathan’s bet should not have exceeded 1.600. 5.600 minus 1.600 and he would still have had 4.000. but he wagered the amount NANCY had to wager, instead of the amount HE should have wagered. that threw me off, so if both had been wrong, then nancy would have finished with 3.999, nathan with 3.601 (nancy’s necessary wager and she DID bet that amount).
had nathan been right: 5.600+1.999=7.599
he was wrong: so 5.600 – 1.999 =3.601. he bet what nancy had to bet instead of 1.600. then he would have had 4.000, even when wrong, and nancy-had she been wrong- would have ended up with 3.999.
he simply wagered what nancy had to bet, instead of just 1.999. triple stupid and i fell for it. since nathan was #2 he could never catch nancy if she was right (and she was). his only chance was to hope that she would be wrong, but then his max. bet should not been more than 1.600. talk about a screwed up bet….
btw, insulin is named after the location where it is produced ( the langerhans islets in the pancreas).
except for nancy being right in final j this was anti-propaganda for j. a ton of wrong answers, a ruling on finland/finnish as wrong (petty) while “whose” was accepted when “its” was the right question. so inconsistency and – as mentioned before, clues were left in j AND dj….
i seldom resort to strong terms, but nathan’s bet of 1.999 was simply stupid. as far as the clue goes- another argument for knowing more than one language, ASIDE from knowing your body. given the way how much above average diabetes occurs in the u.s. one should think that people would be much more educated about their bodies and especially about this very often fatal and – in the best case- debilitating disease …”insulin” should be a word being taught in first grade, when bad eating habits and overweight