Another victory for Alison! This one secures her into a ToC spot- glad to see that she’ll be on the tracker. Now, for a 10 day streak.

Congrats to Alison on her 5th win! 👏

do you like the march of dimes

I'm on a roll. Three in a row. Must be the fruit and vegetable supplements I've been taking. I thought formed during the Great Depression. Picturing Eleanor Roosevelt keeping the flame of hope alive. Ran through some organizations in my head. Hmmm... March of Dimes... wait dimes are silver...right...hmmm... OK ... March of Dimes it is.

This one's pretty easy if you associate the organization with polio (and recognize that FDR was in the WH.) I play bar trivia regularly, it's come up in questions there.

@freezer8530

14 күн бұрын

And also that FDR is on the dime.

@IdRatherBeDiving-vr5gk

13 күн бұрын

@@freezer8530 Hmmm... I wonder if that's coincidence, i.e. the "March of Dimes" --> childhood polio --> FDR --> he's on the dime loop. It probably is coincidence... that the name of the organization probably wasn't chosen because the dime connection to FDR (and his connection to polio). But I could be wrong. Must investigate now.

@freezer8530

13 күн бұрын

@@IdRatherBeDiving-vr5gk Actually, Roosevelt's likeness wasn't put on the dime until shortly after his death, and I'm sure that his founding of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis (which became known as the March of Dimes) played a role into that.

@IdRatherBeDiving-vr5gk

13 күн бұрын

@@freezer8530 Interesting... so it probably wasn't coincidence. Thanks for the info.

@kali3665

13 күн бұрын

@@freezer8530 They couldn't put his likeness on the dime until after his death - it's actually illegal in the United States to put a living person's image on active currency.

Remember when 5-time champions used to win a car (for a while it was a choice of Chevrolets). What would Allison pick? A nice pair of Chevy Cameros like Brad Rutter? A Corvette? A Blazer EV? Maybe a Silverado… Ah, the old days.

I got this Final Jeopardy! clue right.

Congratulations alison just keeping winning on jeopardy

Nice to see an official TOC qualifier (even though she already did that with her 4th win) after many months of tournaments

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I got this immediately!

@gnirolnamlerf593

15 күн бұрын

If you grew up as a kid in the 1950's, like me, you had to get this clue. When you saw someone in a wheelchair in the 1950's and 1960's, it was usually due to polio. Once the first vaccine was created in 1953, the whole country raced to have their children vaccinated and boosted every time their pediatrician told them to do so, lest they end up unable to walk (like FDR and so many others) or partially disabled (like Bill Cullen and Mitch McConnell and so many others) or unable to breathe without an "iron lung," which meant children were dying from the disease if their breathing was not assisted in time. (Seventy years later, there were still two Americans living in iron lungs. One died earlier this year, leaving just one.) You were bombarded with PSA's on radio and TV asking you to collect and send in your dimes, and then, of course, larger contributions. (That was when a dime could buy you a candy bar or a comic book.) As the clue mentioned, this organization was founded in 1938 (by FDR), the campaign started by the comedian Eddie Cantor to rally the nation to be aware of the disease and fight together to prevent the spread of the virus and discover a vaccine. The polio virus has been around for thousands of years. It is one of the "miracles" of modern medicine that such a contagious virus has been eradicated in the USA, though it still appears in other countries passed from unvaccinated person to unvaccinated person or through unclean water supplies. Over the course of a century, there used to be well over a million cases in the USA. Congratulations to Alison for reaching the five-win level.

@judith_thordarson

15 күн бұрын

Samesies

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I was on the right track but picked the wrong charity!

Went the wrong direction with this. I thought the word silver referred to hair color. I was trying to think of something that had to do with senior citizens. 🤑

This one was easy if one remembers that dime actually were made of silver back then.

I guessed March of Dimes. I think I read something about this in The Emperor of All Maladies by Siddhartha Mukharjee.

@gregXxo

15 күн бұрын

Thank you for giving a reason why you knew it.. it annoys me when someone just comments that they "got it right" or saying it was "easy"

@joeldick6871

15 күн бұрын

@@gregXxo That's what Jeopardy! is all about. My wife often asks me, "How the hell do you know that?" But that's exactly it; if you're a lifelong reader and curious, you pick up these little tidbits from here and there. That's exactly what Jeopardy! is about.

Which is what gave the organization its name.

I wonder what the wrongest response for this would be?

I just took a wild guess and got it right!😂😂😂

I got it right at the end, when I remembered who was President in 1938

🛡️SPOILER SHIELD🛡️

@chrisandersen5635

15 күн бұрын

Too late. I saw a post on here that she is a five time winner before I got watch. Even Jeopardy is spoiling itself now.

@shorty7363

15 күн бұрын

It doesn't work because the comments rotate, but it was a nice thought. Thank you anyway.❤

@JES96

15 күн бұрын

@@chrisandersen5635 blame KZread.

The Final Jeopardy question always gives you the answer, is what I remember Alex Trebek saying once in an interview! As soon as I heard silver I knew that was the clue.

@emeraldaly7646

15 күн бұрын

For me, the year wound up being a huge clue too. FDR's paralytic illness wasn't common knowledge while he was President, but history certainly notes it as particularly fitting that his administration launched the March of Dimes

Does anyone know where I can watch full episodes now that YT/Sony has pulled the plug here?

While the name did end up being quite literal, the reason they chose dimes, instead of say, nickels, was to capitalize upon a popular newsreel program that played before movies of that era called the March of Times. The administration was brainstorming ways to raise funds for infantile paralysis, and none other than Eddie Cantor, the famous singer and entertainer who was aware of these efforts, being personally invested to some extent, was watching the March of Times and thought of March of dimes and imagined a flood of dimes descending upon the White House and thought maybe asking every American to mail a single dime to the White House would end up raising at least enough money to get things rolling. It ended up being one of the most successful fundraising campaigns in history, probably much more so than the March of Nickels or Pennies would have been 😂

Remember that FJ clues this easy are necessary to keep players betting aggressively. Also remember that the pressure on stage is not something one can experience at home, so even an easy question can feel hard.

Oh so "silver tide" is not a euphemism.

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Stay. Out. The. Middle! Well…first entry in the next ToC didn’t take long to find!

Why did KZread stop running that day's Jeopardy! programs? Some of us can only stream on our TVs, because local stations aren't available. KZread was my Jeopardy! lifeline. I don't mind commercials during a show, as long as I get to watch it. Please make current episodes available, somehow...

march of dimes

Spoiler push

The date was the giveaway here…FDR was president in 1938 and he had polio

Does anyone know if the MoD still funds horrific animal experiments? I know there was a "March of Crimes" campaign against their wastful and cruel spending on animal testing a while back. I hope they have changed their ways.

Congrats to Alison for getting her 5th win! It’s such a breath of fresh air to see her be our first streaker of season 40 after a series of tournaments and the unfortunate situation of the long hiatus breaking Lucas Partridge’s 3-day run last week. With her 5th win, Alison is confirmed to be in the 2025 Tournament of Champions.

Nice job, she’s going in the 2024 T.O.C.

@theweysermanisback5205

16 күн бұрын

The 2024 TOC just happened. She’ll be in the 2025 TOC.

@JES96

15 күн бұрын

2025

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I’ll wait until it happens

March of dimes that correct, Ailson is a 5 day of $121,500. Congratulations 🎉