And also that FDR is on the dime.

@@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.

@@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.

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

@@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.

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.

Samesies

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"

@@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.

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.

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

@@chrisandersen5635 blame KZfaq.

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

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

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