Final Jeopardy: Health Matters (1-26-12)
The Final Jeopardy question (1/26/2012) in the category “Health Matters” was:
This term for sudden severe head pain that typically lasts only a few minutes was trademarked by 7-Eleven in 1994.
New champ Taylor Cope won $28,000 yesterday and returned today to take on these two new players: Brendan Graham,, a soldier and physician currently stationed in San Antonio, TX, and Rhonda Hammons from Winnsboro, LA.
Rhonda got the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in the category “Famous Firsts” right off the bat. It was the second clue selected and she had gotten the first one right, even though Taylor picked it, so she was the only one with any money ($200). She chose to bet the $1,000 allowance, took a shot at the answer and she was RIGHT.
In March of 1841, the U.S. Senate experienced its first continuous one of these: it lasted 6 days. show
Rhonda finished in the lead with $6,200. Taylor was right on her heels with $5,600 and Brendan had $3,800.
In Double Jeopardy, Brendan found the first Daily Double in “Bavaria.” He just got into the lead in a very tight game with $7,400. Rhonda and Taylor had $6,200 and $6,000, respectively. Brendan bet $2,600. After a tense second, he got it RIGHT.
Every 10 years the villagers of Oberammergau stage about 100 performance of this type of Easter drama. show
Brendan also got the last Daily Double in “A Real Rhodes Scholar,” by picking the $2,000 clue with only 3 clues left on the board. He still had the lead with $12,400 and bet $2,400. He was RIGHT about the answer but he was wrong that he bet the same amount earlier.
This Arkansas senator for whom an international scholarship is named was a Rhodes scholar. show
Rhonda was in last place with $5,800 going into Final Jeopardy. After getting penalized $800 for an incorrect response in “Sounds Like a Language,” Taylor finished second with $11,600 and Brendan was on top with $14,800.
All 3 contestants wrote down an answer quickly. It was the same answer since all 3 got it RIGHT.
WHAT IS BRAIN FREEZE?
We would have gotten this in a New York minute too. Here’s a picture of the McDonald’s sundae (what is caramel?) that gave VJ brain freeze earlier today.
Brain freeze is also known as an ice-cream headache or a cold-stimulus headache or, much less frequently, by its given scientific name sphenopalatine ganglioneuralgia (meaning “nerve pain of the sphenopalatine ganglion”), (wikipedia)
Rhonda bet $2,800 and ended up with $8,600.
Taylor bet $8,400 and wound up with $20,001.
Congrats to Brendan, who bet $11,601. He won the game with $26,401.
