Final Jeopardy 10-19-2018

October 19, 2018

Final Jeopardy Category:

Sports

Final Jeopardy Clue:

A low center of gravity is a key to success in this sport with moves including gaburi-yori & uwate-dashinage

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Final Jeopardy Answer / Question:

Sumo

Dopesick (2018). Beth Macy

Dopesick(2018) Beth Macy

Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America

 

Wow.  I thought I knew something about the opioid crisis but it turns out I had no idea. For instance, I had no notion that a drug company (Perdue Labs) had the ability to reformulate oxycontin into a form that would be more difficult to abuse but waited to do this until their patent expired on the original.  

 

The big misconception is that you cannot get addicted if you just use narcotics for “true” pain.  That is completely wrong.  Macy makes that clear in case after case of people who are put on oxycontin after injury or surgery and cannot get off and eventually resort to heroine. Macy also spends a good deal of time dispelling the myth that abstinence is the only solution. Not a very cheerful book but if you want to learn what is happening around us this is it.

Final Jeopardy 10-2-2018

October 2, 2018

Final Jeopardy Category:

Oscar Hyphenates

Final Jeopardy Clue:

This actor has never been nominated for acting–he won, though, as a writer for 1997 & as a producer for 2012

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Final Jeopardy Answer / Question:

Ben Afflect

Final Jeopardy 10-1-2018

October 1, 2018

Final Jeopardy Category:

World Literature

Final Jeopardy Clue:

In a recent poll of 125 authors, this long 1870s novel about a woman ranked as the greatest work of fiction of all time

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Anna Karenina

Ohio State Fight Song

The Great Treehouse Moving Adventure

Book Review: Revenge of Analog (2016). David Sax

Revenge of Analog  (2016) David Sax

What do paper notebooks,  vinyl records, film, and board games have in common?  They are all examples of a persistence or reversion to old school modes as delivered by David Sax.  Is this a trend or the exception that proves the rule.  Are board games going to overtake computer games/   Will we all turn to using longhand and quills to communicate?  Of course not.  It is interesting and probably important that in the midst of technologic progress many of us choose to engage in things we can touch and enjoy without the use of computers.  I am not a Luddite but I see this as a positive thing.  Interesting book.

Book Review: Revenge of Analog (2016). David Sax

Revenge of Analog  (2016) David Sax

What do paper notebooks,  vinyl records, film, and board games have in common?  They are all examples of a persistence or reversion to old school modes as delivered by David Sax.  Is this a trend or the exception that proves the rule.  Are board games going to overtake computer games/   Will we all turn to using longhand and quills to communicate?  Of course not.  It is interesting and probably important that in the midst of technologic progress many of us choose to engage in things we can touch and enjoy without the use of computers.  I am not a Luddite but I see this as a positive thing.  Interesting book.

Final Jeopardy 7-27-2018

July 27, 2018

Final Jeopardy Category:

American History

Final Jeopardy Clue:

The last survivor of this battle that started a war died in 1854 & more men marched at his funeral than fought with him

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Final Jeopardy Answer / Question:

Battle of Lexington (and Concord)

Final Jeopardy 7-26-2018

July 26, 2018

Final Jeopardy Category:

Famous Names

Final Jeopardy Clue:

Almost 100 when he died in 2018, this North Carolina man became just the 4th private citizen to lie in honor at the U.S. Capitol

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Final Jeopardy Answer / Question:

Billy Graham

Final Jeopardy 7-20-2018

July 20, 2018

Final Jeopardy Category:

FUTURISTIC Fiction

Final Jeopardy Clue:

Fear of the social reorganization represented by an auto tycoon’s innovations inspired this 1932 novel

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Final Jeopardy Answer / Question:

Brave New World

Final Jeopardy 7-5-2018

July 5, 2018

Final Jeopardy Category:

American Authors

Final Jeopardy Clue:

Her 1896 New York Times obituary called her “the writer of probably the most widely read work of fiction ever penned”

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Final Jeopardy Answer / Question:

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Final Jeopardy 7-4-2018

July 4, 2018

Final Jeopardy Category:

Classic Rock

Final Jeopardy Clue:

25 years after these 3 men played a huge festival, they went back to play again & ended the set with a tune about the 1st show

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Final Jeopardy Answer / Question:

CSNY