Transcript 09/28/09 Alex Zephyr

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Alex Zephyr
Jamaica NY

Topic Tree:

World Records
Cover Stories
Telephone History
Classical Music
What Is It?
Geography
The Law
Scandals
In the Kitchen
Soup
Money
Threads
Words & Phrases
Palindromes
Memoirs

$500 Buzz Aldrin’s 2009 memoir “Magnificent Desolation” is subtitled “The Long Journey Home from” where?
A. The North Pole
B. The Moon
C. Antarctica
D. A Mets Game

Spoiler

B. The Moon (10)

$1K Which of these women’s names is a palindrome, meaning that it’s spelled thet same way backward and forward?
A. Helene
B. Hannah
C. Halley
D. Heidi

Spoiler

B. Hannah (11)

$2K An action that makes a bad situation worse is metaphorically described as “rubbing” what “into a wound”?
A. Oil
B. Flour
C. Milk
D. Salt

Spoiler

D. Salt (12)

$3K What type of neckline gets its name because it is traditionally seen on sweaters worn by rowers?
A. Turtleneck
B. V neck
C. Crew neck
D. Scoop neck

Spoiler

C. Crew neck (11)

$5K A portrait of author Dante Alighieri by the artist Raphael appears on two-euro coins minted in what country?
A. Italy
B. France
C. Spain
D. Germany

Spoiler

A. Italy (11)

commercial break

$7.5K Tortilla soup is traditionally made with what vegetable base?
A. Pumpkin
B. Tomato
C. Cucumber
D. Carrot

Spoiler

B. Tomato (26)

$10K A logo of the KitchenAid company features an image of what appliance, which was the company’s first product in 1919?
A. Stand mixer
B. Waffle iron
C. Coffee maker
D. Toaster oven

ATA (22)

76% A. Stand mixer
10% B. Waffle iron
8% C. Coffee maker
6% D. Toaster oven

Spoiler

A. Stand mixer (13)

$12.5K In a 2009 scandal, what European leader’s wife filed for divorce after he was publicly linked to a woman who was only eighteen?
A. Nicolas Sarkozy
B. José Luis Rodriguez Zapatero
C. Silvio Berlusconi
D. Gordon Brown

Spoiler

C. Solvio Berlusconi (15)

$15K Though it is still referred to by its three-initial name, since 2003 the ATF’s full title is the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and what?
A. Drugs
B. Pornography
C. Smuggling
D. Explosives

ATE ( 18 )

Mo: I’m going to have to go with explosives. They just go together. Like one big unhappy family.

Can I say one thing? If it’s wrong, you’ll go out with a bang.

Spoiler

D. Explosives (13)

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Alex will return for tomorrow’s show.

Answers:
$500 B. The Moon
$1K B. Hannah
$2K D. Salt
$3K C. Crew neck
$5K A. Italy
$7.5K B. Tomato
$10K A. Stand mixer
$12.5K C. Silvio Berlusconi
$15K D. Explosives

[NellyLunatic1980]

Alex Zephyr
Jamaica NY

WE®

$7.5K Tortilla soup is traditionally made with what vegetable base?
A. Pumpkin
B. Tomato
C. Cucumber
D. Carrot

<sigh>®... repeat after me: Tomato is not a vegetable!

$10K: No clue. ATA.

$15K: I can narrow it down to drugs and explosives. Ask Mo.

[Jeemie]

Nice stack for me.

(Whoops! Wrong Alex! Still- no problems with any of these!)

[tanstaafl2]

Alex Zephyr
Jamaica NY

WE®

$7.5K Tortilla soup is traditionally made with what vegetable base?
A. Pumpkin
B. Tomato
C. Cucumber
D. Carrot

<sigh>®... repeat after me: Tomato is not a vegetable!

For that matter neither are pumpkin or cucumber. Except when they are. But there is usually no convincing the more dogmatic types...

It is all contextual. Botanically speaking all three are fruits. Only carrots are not a fruit. They are a root. But it is rather like rectangles and squares. Because vegetable is not a scientific/botanical term most anything can be a vegetable but not all vegetables are a fruit.

And many things are a fruit in the true scientific/botanical sense that we might not think of as fruits such as grains (think corn which most people might think of as a vegetable) or nuts.

And then of course there is one of my favorite hard to classify foods, the pineapple. Kind of the marsupial of the fruit world I suppose.

But my favorite comment on the subject from one site was this:

Who cares if they are fruits or vegetables! Put them all into your mouth and eat them. Case closed. Whether they are fruits or vegetables, when they come out your rear-end, they are called 'Stools'. Now, are stools fruits or vegetables?

And here I thought stools were furniture. And I don't care what anyone says I am not interested in having one come out my rear end...

Where is kitty sandwich when you need it???

[earendel]

Alex Zephyr
Jamaica NY

Another WE®

$10K A logo of the KitchenAid company features an image of what appliance, which was the company’s first product in 1919?
A. Stand mixer
B. Waffle iron
C. Coffee maker
D. Toaster oven

ATA (22)

76% A. Stand mixer
10% B. Waffle iron
8% C. Coffee maker
6% D. Toaster oven

Spoiler

A. Stand mixer (13)

I would have had no idea, nor would I trust the audience to know it, either, so I'd be PAFing.

$15K Though it is still referred to by its three-initial name, since 2003 the ATF’s full title is the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and what?
A. Drugs
B. Pornography
C. Smuggling
D. Explosives

ATE ( 18 )

Mo: I’m going to have to go with explosives. They just go together. Like one big unhappy family.

Can I say one thing? If it’s wrong, you’ll go out with a bang.

Spoiler

D. Explosives (13)

Mo is certainly quick-witted, evidenced by quips like this one (and the one yesterday about Boeing "not taking off"). Good thing he's right so often.