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