Your Brain’s In Jeopardy, Baby (Oooh)

~ James Viscosi

I don’t watch Jeopardy! anymore, because, among other reasons, we don’t have cable anymore; but I used to watch it, and once even attended a taping (in the latter part of the Alex Trebek days) with my parents and my aunt.

“It’s only a model.”

So I didn’t see this question when it actually aired, but I found out about it when someone posted about it in a Facebook group of which I am a member. Obviously this is a question that I or members of my family would have gotten immediately, but from what I hear, the contestants had to think about it for a few seconds.

What is a very bad thing to have happen to you?

I probably would’ve described it as a “widening or ballooning of an artery due to a weakness in the wall”, but, hey, it’s still accurate, and as we’ve mentioned around here before, a good thing to be aware of, even if it’s not brain aneurysm awareness month anymore.

Interestingly enough, when I was looking this episode up on the Internet, I happened to come across some stories about the father of Jeopardy! champion Mattea Roach, who passed away from a brain aneurysm in March. The story quotes the organization Brain Injury Canada as saying, of an aneurysm, “If it bursts – or hemorrhages – blood will spill onto the tissue between the brain and the skull. This can lead to hemorrhagic stroke, brain damage or in rare cases, death.” Which, I mean, okay, but a 30-40% mortality rate isn’t exactly “rare”. Anyway, your best bet remains to avoid having one.

Oh, and also, don’t put all your money on the Daily Double unless you are ABSOLUTELY SURE you will get it right; otherwise, well …

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  2. It’s interesting to note what “Jeopardy!” contestants don’t know, like the Gettysburg Address and the Lord’s Prayer, while correctly responding to clues I don’t even understand.

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    1. I heard about the business with the Lord’s Prayer ― I would have gotten that one! Assuming I didn’t, you know, freeze up under the cameras, as previously noted …

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  3. I called the tryout line once, but to get on, you had to answer questions at a fast pace… not at all like the relatively leisurely response time of the actual game where you can push the button because you think you know the answer, then have a few seconds to actually produce said answer. Needless to say, I did not make the cut.

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  5. WOW! I would not want to be on “Jeopardy” having a question like that….lol…..
    My Nanna & I used to watch the show all the time! James the woman was a fountain of facts! I watch the show sometimes & feel dumb as a nail…… ROFL!
    Your Aneurysm was no laughing matter & we are so happy you survived & are better. You amke the world a much brighter happier place!
    {{{hugs}}} BellaSita Mum & ***nose rubss*** BellaDharma

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  6. oh my god, i read your event post – there are no words. we had a family friend who passed from one and i remember all of us were so numb-shocked from the suddenness of it, like 100 yard stare shocked.

    on the other note, i’m pleasantly surprised that jeopardy is still running along with wheel of fortune.

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    2. Yeah, these things are very much out-of-nowhere, bolt-from-the-blue type events, since aneurysms typically manifest no symptoms up until the point when boy howdy do they ever manifest symptoms. As I told my wife while I was in ICU, “That really blindsided me on an idle Tuesday”, which made her nervous because it had actually been a Thursday, but then I reminded her that it was a quote from The Sunscreen Song and she felt better. Because if I’m quoting song lyrics in conversations, I’m pretty much still being me. 😊

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