Sure. But maybe you have to be a certain age.
I knew a few people with post-polio syndrome, but they were at least two or three decades older than me (I’m 66), and are dead now. I’d guess there are very few people alive today with PPS, so younger folks are unlikely to have met any.
I got it instantly and was a bit surprised no one else guessed it. I’ve never heard of “post-polio syndrome,” but the way the clue was worded made me think they were referring to a disease which was eradicated some time ago, so that the only people still affected would be over 65, so polio came to me immediately. I questioned for a second if maybe they could mean smallpox but figured polio affected more Americans so it was probably that.
I was wondering why such an obviously bright and educated guy was making ends meet by driving for Uber (or whatever).
Instantly. The age 65 hint gave it away.
he was a paratransit driver before he contracted covid. with long covid he was unable to deal with the physical demands of the job.
I guessed polio as well – partially because I know Arthur C Clarke had it.
Brian
There are two people in my circle with post polio syndrome. One is 70, the other a few years older. The real mass vaccination program didn’t begin until about 1963, so if your circle includes a lot of people over age 60, odds are someone you know has, or has a family member, who had polio as a child.
I watch every night, but this didn’t sound familiar. So I checked the Jeopardy Archive, and remembered… my local broadcast was interrupted that day by a special weather alert from about the halfway point on. And YouTube TV doesn’t help with this.
Does this ever happen to anyone else? It’s not the first time it’s happened to me. I want to watch Jeopardy, darn it. In this day and age, with a dedicated weather channel, countless weather websites and apps, and smart phones that give us emergency weather alerts, there should be no reason for these stupid special weather broadcasts.
I wish it was only weather warnings that interrupted the local Jeopardy! episodes. Not Breaking News of another school shooting. Sigh.
Today’s FJ: not knowing FDR’s most famous speech shows again that physicians often make terrible contestants.
Two contestants didn’t know that trivia tidbit that Spain’s national anthem hasn’t had any lyrics for a long time now.
Everybody scat sings, like Ella Fitzgerald.
We had a tornado touch down less than two miles away from me right in the middle of that night’s show. That was a hell of a lot more interesting, not to mention important, to me.
It always alerts with loud obnoxious noises, and for some reason unknown to man, when it’s all over, it has to do the same noises before it can return you to your regularly scheduled programming.
Consider yourself lucky. In Boston during football season, Jeopardy! is preempted every Friday for a show about the Patriots.
Does it look to anyone else like Ryan’s glasses have been fogging up? I don’t understand how that could happen since it’s not like he’s wearing a mask, but the right lens looked like it had this big grey semi-opaque (i.e., not shiny like glare) region covering much of it.
You don’t have a Crew of Dachshunds
Yes but I’m not convinced.On the one hand it looks like a reflection of a monitor or light, but on the other he moves hs head a lot like he’s trying to see clearly.
Did you all notice he played for the tie Tuesday?
Geez, how the hell do you not know “A date which will live in infamy?” That was embarrassing.
I have to say that “Brontë Thesaurus” was not only a brilliant pun, but a cool category for word nerds. Pity they left 2 on the board. P
In the 2020 Olympics (which actually took place in 2021), Jeopardy was pre-empted every night in my location, so NBC could show the Olympics. Apparently, Jeopardy was rescheduled and shown earlier in the day, but I was working when it was on.