Jeopardy First Edition -- Game #8

Hi friends!

Let's take a look at Jeopardy! First Edition Game #8. As before, my goal is to share what I've learned about the clues in this game.

Notes are in the order they appear in the original video, which you can find here.

Wikipedia is my primary source for much of this material (so take that with a grain of salt).

Jeopardy! Round

Categories: Psychiatry, Science Fiction, Thick & Thin, Asia, Walt Disney, "Jack"s of All Trades

• Psychiatry ($100): So...one thing I learned after the episode is that a lot of the psychiatry clues from 1987 are kind of controversial today. And lobotomies are no exception. Portuguese neurologist António Egas Moniz won the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1949 for his work on lobotomies, but even in the 1950s, they were considered cruel. The Soviet Union banned them in the 1950s. Among the more famous people to have received a lobotomy were John F. Kennedy's sister, Rosemary, Tennessee Williams's sister, Rose, and allegedly, Eva Peron. There have been allegations about using lobotomies to control minorities, which modern psychiatry would condemn today (and rightfully so).
• Psychiatry ($300): Here's another psychiatry clue that is a bit out of date in modern psychiatry. Henry H. Goddard is the one who came up with a classification scheme for folks with low IQs, so-called feeble-minded people. Goddard was a psychiatrist during the initial popularity of IQ tests like the Binet Intelligence tests. He is alleged to have encouraged U.S. laws to include public education for deaf, blind, and intellectually disabled students. However, he also believed that intellectually disabled students should be segregated from society through institutionalization. Ugh. For the record, he defined idiot as someone with an IQ between 0 and 25, imbecile as someone with an IQ between 26 and 50, and moron as someone with an IQ between 51 and 70. Average IQ is usually scaled at 100, with a standard deviation of 15 (or 16 on some scales), so that about 2.5% of the population scoring under 70 (assuming a normal distribution).
• Asia ($300): Wikipedia states that the Port of Haifa "is the largest of Israel's three major international seaports, the others being the Port of Ashdod, and the Port of Eilat". Tel Aviv is on the Mediterranean Sea, but I guess it's not a port? Was Ashdod the largest port when this game was released in 1987? According to Google, it's pronounced "Hi - Fa".
• "Jack"s of All Trades ($500): G. Gordon Liddy was one of the White House "fixers" who was allegedly ordered by a Nixon White House aide to either poison or assassinate Jack Anderson. Apparently, Nixon was not a fan of Anderson, dating back to Nixon's first campaign for President in 1960.
•  "Jack"s of All Trades ($200): Yep, they still make Cracker Jack (but the prizes are awful).
• Asia ($200): Turns out that Burma/Myanmar doesn't border Vietnam, but does border Laos and Thailand. For the record, it would have been called Burma at the time of this game's original release.
• Asia ($400): Mongolia was a Communist country, from about 1931 to about 1991, when the Soviet Union collapsed. A new constitution in 1992 effectively made Mongolia a multi-party, market economy. (Of course, this game was originally released in 1987, when Mongolia was still Communist.)
• Walt Disney ($100):Correct me in the comments if I'm wrong, but I believe Mickey's Oscar was a Special Award in 1932. On a related note, Mickey was the second fictional character to be the Grand Marshal of the Tournament of Roses Parade--Kermit the Frog was the first.
• Walt Disney ($300): Walt Disney World opened in 1971. Epcot Center opened in 1982.
• Walt Disney ($400): The Living Desert was a 1953 nature documentary filmed in the American Southwest. It won the 1953 Academy Award for Best Documentary, and in 2000, it was selected for preservation by the National Film Registry. It's the first feature-length film in the True-Life Adventures series, which also included The Vanishing Prairie, The African Lion, Secrets of Life, Perri, White Wilderness, and Jungle Cat. The series ended in 1960. Apparantly, you can watch the film on Disney+.
• Walt Disney ($500): Universal had the rights to Oswald the Lucky Rabbit. In the 2000s, the Disney company exchanged the rights to sports broadcaster Al Michaels (who worked for Disney's ABC Sports and ESPN) to Universal for the rights to Oswald. Universal wanted Al Michaels to work for Universal's NBC Sports, specifically the new Sunday Night Football.

Double Jeopardy! Round

Categories: American History, Love Triangle, Chemical, Classic T.V., Starts with "H", Same Name (Name's the Same)

• Love Triangles ($400): There were seven "Road" pictures: Road to Singapore, Road to Zanzibar, Road to Morocco, Road to Utopia, Road to Rio, Road to Bali, and The Road to Hong Kong. The series started in 1940 and ran through 1962.
• Classic T.V. ($600): On The Jack Benny Program, Dennis Day was a voice artist and singer. Eddie Anderson played Rochester, who was Jack's chauffeur.
• Classic T.V. ($800): Mr. Cerf was Bennett Cerf, the co-founder of Random House. Miss Kilgallen was Dorothy Kilgallen, a syndicated newspaper columnist. Mr. Allen could have been Steve Allen, the first host of The Tonight Show, or Fred Allen, a humorist and radio comedian. Miss Francis was Arlene Francis, an actress. The reason for the Mr. and Miss formalities: That's what appeared on their name tags when they sat on the panel. What's My Line? was on CBS from 1950-1967 and in syndication from 1968-1975.

What other facts and trivia did I miss? Let me know in the comments, and stay tuned for the next game!