Here’s today’s Final Jeopardy (in the category Medicine) for Monday, May 23, 2022 (Season 38, Game 181):
Post-this disease syndrome affects many survivors, of which the U.S. is estimated to have 300,000, the vast majority over 65
(correct response beneath the contestants)
Today’s contestants:
Jodi Harris, a content strategist from Culver City, California
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Mari Chao, a writing center coordinator from Orlando, Florida
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Ryan Long, a rideshare driver from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (6-day total: $131,801)
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Andy’s Pregame Thoughts: Philly rideshare driver Ryan Long has entered superchampion territory with his sixth win in yesterday’s game. One thing that will aid him in his attempt to get win number seven: he has his glasses today; he didn’t have those for his first six games! Will the glasses be good luck for Ryan, or will Mari or Jodi become champion after today’s game?
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Correct response: What is polio?
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Post-polio syndrome is a group of potentially disabling illnesses that appear decades after contracting polio. During the 1940s and 1950s, polio was an epidemic in many Western countries; the disease was completely eradicated, though, in the United States, due to widespread vaccination efforts, including mandatory vaccinations in order to attend school.
I feel as though this sort of Final Jeopardy! is inspired by the fact that Long COVID is absolutely going to become a major news item, and the show wants to demonstrate, “Hey, this has been a thing with epidemics in the past, it’s plain to see for anyone with any knowledge of history!” Unfortunately, it’s also been my experience that people don’t want to pay attention to this.
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Game Recap:
Jeopardy! Round categories: The Rainforests; What’s in a Name?; It’s May 23rd!; Wide World of Sports Films; U.S. Buildings; Anagram Pairs
Ryan and Mari got off to a good start and the two of them were tied after Single Jeopardy!; it was Jodi, though, who played the Daily Double. Jodi did lose $1,000 to that clue.
Double Jeopardy! Round categories: Relatively Successful Composers; Possessive Phrases; How Epic!; TV; Salt & Pepper; It’s an “Ad”, “Ad”, “Ad”, “Ad” World
Double Jeopardy! belonged to Ryan; he got 13 correct. Meanwhile, both of his opponents lost money on their betting clues—Jodi $1,800 and Mari $3,500. Scores going into Final were Ryan at $18,000, with Mari at $13,300 and Jodi $2,000.
Final today was a Triple Stumper, which could have been advantage Mari with how the scores went. However, Ryan bet small and Mari went big, so Ryan ended up as champion for his 7th straight win! He’ll go for win #8 tomorrow!
Looking to find out who won Jeopardy! today? Here’s the Monday, May 23, 2022 Jeopardy! by the numbers:
Scores going into Final:
Ryan $18,000
Mari $13,300
Jodi $2,000
Tonight’s results:
Jodi $2,000 – $1,000 = $1,000 (What is stroke?)
Mari $13,300 – $12,100 = $1,200 (What is post traumatic stress disorder)
Ryan $18,000 – $4,600 = $13,400 (What is measles?) (7-day total: $145,201)
Scores after the Jeopardy! Round:
Mari $4,000
Ryan $4,000
Jodi $2,200
Opening break taken after: 15 clues
Daily Double locations:
1) U.S. BUILDINGS $400 (clue #19)
Jodi 3000 -1000 (Ryan 3200 Mari 2000)
2) IT’S AN “AD”, “AD”, “AD”, “AD” WORLD $1200 (clue #10)
Jodi 3800 -1800 (Ryan 8800 Mari 5200)
3) HOW EPIC! $800 (clue #22, $12400 left on board)
Mari 13600 -3500 (Ryan 13600 Jodi 2000)
Overall Daily Double Efficiency for this game: -106
Unplayed clues:
J! Round: None!
DJ! Round: None!
Total Left On Board: $0
Number of clues left unrevealed this season: 73 (0.40 per episode average), 0 Daily Doubles
Game Stats:
Ryan $18,000 Coryat, 23 correct, 1 incorrect, 40.35% in first on buzzer (23/57), 1/1 on rebound attempts (on 3 rebound opportunities)
Mari $16,800 Coryat, 18 correct, 3 incorrect, 33.33% in first on buzzer (19/57), 1/1 on rebound attempts (on 2 rebound opportunities)
Jodi $4,800 Coryat, 8 correct, 3 incorrect, 14.04% in first on buzzer (8/57), 1/1 on rebound attempts (on 3 rebound opportunities)
Combined Coryat Score: $39,600
Lach Trash: $9,200 (on 8 Triple Stumpers)
Coryat lost to incorrect responses (less double-correct responses): $5,200
Ryan Long, career statistics:
165 correct, 20 incorrect
7/9 on rebound attempts (on 25 rebound opportunities)
40.20% in first on buzzer (160/398)
7/9 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $21,000)
5/7 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $16,771
Mari Chao, career statistics:
18 correct, 4 incorrect
1/1 on rebound attempts (on 2 rebound opportunities)
33.33% in first on buzzer (19/57)
0/1 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: -$3,500)
0/1 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $16,800
Jodi Harris, career statistics:
8 correct, 4 incorrect
1/1 on rebound attempts (on 3 rebound opportunities)
14.04% in first on buzzer (8/57)
0/2 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: -$2,800)
0/1 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $4,800
Ryan Long, to win:
8 games: 64.302%
9: 41.347%
10: 26.587%
11: 17.096%
12: 10.993%
Avg. streak: 8.801 games.
Today’s interviews:
Jodi went on a 60-hour mystery vacation to Jamaica.
Mari was born in Guam and did quiz bowl there.
Ryan worked for a Korean piano mover.
Andy’s Thoughts:
- I hope that players waiting to play this week noticed Ryan’s not betting to cover today.
- Friendly reminder that the judges have the ability to isolate contestant audio. If they are satisfied that contestants are responding in the form of a question, then that’s good enough for me. Complaints of this nature, for this reason, are out of order.
- Link to the box score: May 23, 2022 Box Score
Final Jeopardy! betting suggestions:
(Scores: Ryan: $18,000 Mari $13,300 Jodi $2,000)
Ryan: Standard cover bet today is $8,601. If you really think that Mari will bet small, then bet no more than $799. (Actual bet: $4,600)
Mari: If Ryan covers, you need to stay above $9,400. Bet no more than $3,899. (Actual bet: $12,100)
Jodi: Not really much you can do today unless someone overbets. Bet whatever you like, though you’re more likely to finish 2nd if you have more money left. (Actual bet: $1,000)
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Polio was the first thing that came to mind, then I thought of “over 65” and thought of menopause instead…Never heard of post-menopause disease though.
Menopause isn’t a disease, anyway.
I remember learning about this many years ago when in school during health class and history class and why we now have the vaccine for this so when they said persons over 65 I first thought of polio.
Hmm… I had no clue :/ It looks pretty obscure, but some folks here know things like that 🙂
Current FJ streak: 1L
I can’t wait to see how this game goes for Ryan. And also, happy 48th birthday, Ken Jennings.
Oops. I was thinking of Shingles appearing after Chickenpox.
Yep, that’s what I thought too, but polio made sense once I saw it.
Vaccines were so successful in eradicating this disease in the U.S. that the younger generation has no memory of it. In the early ‘50s, we lined up in school to get our shots. (I am 78 now.) I think herd immunity approached 100%, even though a bad batch caused thousands of cases. This is a far cry from today with COVID vaccine deniers. Glad they weren’t around then.
I’m over 65, but measles came to mind first. Shame on me, I actually know someone who suffered from polio post disease syndrome. Glad Ryan has his glasses. Keep winning Ryan!
Final Jeopardy was actually easy for me simply because I worked with a fellow who had polio post disease syndrome. He told me that one of the problems dealing with it was that few doctors were experienced in treating it due to the fact that polio was basically eliminated because of the vaccines. Without the disease, most doctors didn’t study it.
As for Andy’s comment re: contestants responding in the form of a question, I always thought that the responses were sometimes edited for purposes of saving time. Cutting out that mostly irrelevant part of the response helps gain a few seconds that might be needed in order to get to all of the clues. Since it only matters in Double Jeopardy (and even there it could be edited out to save time), why worry about it in the first round at all. I concur with Andy that there is no need to complain about it as we don’t know what happened pre-edit.
Tough. I was way off thinking of posttraumatic stress, maybe with the age reference to Vietnam veterans.
PTSD is definitely suffered by many more than just 65+ year olds, so they wouldn’t constitute a “vast majority” of PTSD sufferers. Plus, I don’t think “traumatic stress” fits the definition of a “disease”
I’ve never heard of post-polio syndrome, and I’m seventy years old. Another gap in my knowledge that I wasn’t aware of, learning every day (I hope) about the millions of others I’m not aware of. It’s the main reason I watch Jeopardy!.
I thought that COVID would be the answer.
My sister has it.
She has some difficulty swallowing and favors one leg. She had polio as a kid. She just turned 71!
Andy, you don’t like the way Ryan’s betting so you’re rooting for him to lose? I hope I’ve misconstrued.
I don’t see how my words could be read that way at all?
Um, when you said you hoped that players waiting to play this week noticed Ryan’s not betting to cover today.
I’m glad that wasn’t what you meant.
I think it’s more along the lines of “Because Ryan has shown a propensity to not cover, you’re better off going all in to force him to do so” but I could be wrong.
Clearly you have misconstrued — it was just that the “for their sake” was implied — don’t you ever give the benefit of the doubt? However, there would have been no room for misunderstanding had Andy said “Presumably” instead of “I hope that”.