Transcript 11/27/09 Marisa Casey (marisacatalina)

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Marisa Casey (Bored Buddy: marisacatalina)
Brooklyn, NY
Director of a nonprofit arts education organization

"Get inspired, get creative, and get to work" is the motto of Marisa's group, her students are rooting for her...

Question Topics:
World Records
Periodicals
Famous Lines
Popular Science
Heads of State
Pucker Up!
College Sports
Headlines
TV Networks
Children's Songs
First Ladies
On the Air
In the News
Business Chains
Words & Phrases
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$500 - Words & Phrases
A common way to accuse a person of poor eyesight is to say he is "as blind as a" what?
A: Beaver B: Bat
C: Butterfly D: Hedge fund manager

Spoiler

B: Bat (10)

$1000 - Business Chains
Boasting over 2,100 locations, Supercuts is a well-known international chain of what?
A: Hair Salons B: Butcher shops
C: Tailor Shops D: Landscaping crews

Spoiler

A: Hair salons (10)

$2000 - In the News
In 2009, what rapper apologized for grabbing the microphone from Taylor Swift during her acceptance speech at the MTV VMAs?
A: Kanye West B: Jay-Z
C: Eminem D: 50 Cent

Spoiler

A: Kanye West (10)

$3000 - On the Air
What federal agency calculates our nation's AQI, or "Air Quality Index"?
A: SEC B: CIA
C: DEA D: EPA

Spoiler

D: EPA (10)

$5,000 - First Ladies
Born in Lexington, Kentucky,, Mary todd grew up to marry what U.S. president?
A: George Washington B: James Madison
C: Abraham Lincoln D: Franklin Roosevelt

Spoiler

C: Abraham Lincoln (8)

Marisa has earned the Ask The Expert lifeline. Today's expert is Paula Poundstone.

$7,500 - Children's Songs
"Solid Liquid Gas" and "Meet The Elements" are songs on a 2009 children's album by They Might Be Giants titled what?
A: Here Comes Geography B: Here Comes Math
C: Here Comes History D: Here Comes Science

Spoiler

D: Here Comes Science (24)

$10,000 - TV Networks
What TV network is headquartered in a New York City building known as "Black Rock," which was designed by architect Eero Saarinen?
A: CBS B: ABC
C: NBC D: FOX

With 21 seconds left, Marisa decides to Ask the Audience.

ATA results

ATA: A: 22% B: 9% C: 51% D: 18%

Marisa decides to answer

Spoiler

NBC

Marisa leaves with $5,000.

Spoiler

A: CBS ()

[doitneatly]

$10,000 - TV Networks
What TV network is headquartered in a New York City building known as "Black Rock," which was designed by architect Eero Saarinen?
A: CBS B: ABC
C: NBC D: FOX

With 21 seconds left, Marisa decides to Ask the Audience.

ATA results

ATA: A: 22% B: 9% C: 51% D: 18%

Marisa decides to answer

Spoiler

NBC

Marisa leaves with $5,000.

Spoiler

A: CBS ()

A first-class Dursting! (51% may not indicate tremendous confidence, but this was a question about New York after all...)

It was too bad, she was showing lots of promise to go far.

[earendel]

Marisa Casey
Brooklyn, NY
Director of a nonprofit arts education organization

A WE® but also a teacher (of sorts).

$7,500 - Children's Songs
"Solid Liquid Gas" and "Meet The Elements" are songs on a 2009 children's album by They Might Be Giants titled what?
A: Here Comes Geography B: Here Comes Math
C: Here Comes History D: Here Comes Science

Spoiler

D: Here Comes Science (24)

They played a song from this on NPR a couple weeks ago and interviewed the band members. They discussed "Meet the Elements" and the NPR host asked if they were familiar with "The Element Song" by Tom Lehrer. They weren't.

$10,000 - TV Networks
What TV network is headquartered in a New York City building known as "Black Rock," which was designed by architect Eero Saarinen?
A: CBS B: ABC
C: NBC D: FOX

With 21 seconds left, Marisa decides to Ask the Audience.

ATA results

ATA: A: 22% B: 9% C: 51% D: 18%

Marisa decides to answer

Spoiler

NBC

Dursted by the audience - what a shame. I think they may have been misled by the use of "30 Rock" to refer to NBC.

[MarleysGh0st]

$10,000 - TV Networks
What TV network is headquartered in a New York City building known as "Black Rock," which was designed by architect Eero Saarinen?
A: CBS B: ABC
C: NBC D: FOX

With 21 seconds left, Marisa decides to Ask the Audience.

ATA results

ATA: A: 22% B: 9% C: 51% D: 18%

Marisa decides to answer

Spoiler

NBC

Dursted by the audience - what a shame. I think they may have been misled by the use of "30 Rock" to refer to NBC.

Ouch! That's a sensible explanation for why this was such an effective distractor.

Did Meredith have any comments about the "brilliant New York audience" after this one?

[MarleysGh0st]

Here's a picture of the Black Rock.

Spoiler

So, okay, it's black, but otherwise it looks like a pretty typical modern skyscraper and not much like a rock.

[kayrharris]

I never heard of the Black Rock and probably would have done the same thing she did.


kay

[ghostjmf]

25K: I did not know. Fox wasn't around when Saarinen was alive, but could have bought the building. PAF. Since it still exists!

[MarleysGh0st]

Here's a picture of the Black Rock.

Spoiler

So, okay, it's black, but otherwise it looks like a pretty typical modern skyscraper and not much like a rock.

It's not obvious from the photo, but Wikipedia explains it.

The building is known as Black Rock for the dark granite cladding. Unlike some major skyscrapers built in that section of midtown Manhattan during the 1950s and 60s, the pillars are more dominant than the glass windows between them.

[Phil Ken Sebbin]

Here's a picture of the Black Rock.

Spoiler

So, okay, it's black, but otherwise it looks like a pretty typical modern skyscraper and not much like a rock.

Here's a picture of the other Black Rock.

Spoiler

OK it's the ship from Lost on ABC. Still the wrong answer.

I think I am toast on this answer, too, cuz I probably trust the audience although it's not as clear cut as I would like.

[Snaxx]

I did not know of Black Rock, and there was not enough of a spike on CBS to help (it got barely more than ABC). If this is not well-known enough to be a 10K level question, these kind of tricky questions appear to be another step, along with the loss of PAF, unskilled celebrity ATEs, and no "trivia talk" or seeing previous contestant games from the green room, to make WWTBAM more of a game of chance than anything else. Add to that casting of people who need the money and are unwilling to risk going from 10K back to 5K and you get a very boring show. Then again maybe I as a native New Yorker 'should' know all about Black Rock and just did not know it.

[MarleysGh0st]

Then again maybe I as a native New Yorker 'should' know all about Black Rock and just did not know it.

Well, if New Yorkers don't know about the building (as the ATA results demonstrate), it's unlikely that anyone else would be familiar with it.

[Snaxx]

Then again maybe I as a native New Yorker 'should' know all about Black Rock and just did not know it.

Well, if New Yorkers don't know about the building (as the ATA results demonstrate), it's unlikely that anyone else would be familiar with it.

I haven't been to the audience in five years except for the 10th Anniversary shows with all the past contestants. I wonder if they get mostly locals or tourists nowadays. Or do they supplement their crowd with a paid audience, which I figure would be WE/WE.

[MarleysGh0st]

I haven't been to the audience in five years except for the 10th Anniversary shows with all the past contestants. I wonder if they get mostly locals or tourists nowadays. Or do they supplement their crowd with a paid audience, which I figure would be WE/WE.

That's one of the audience interactions I fantasize about, every time I hear Meredith refer to her brilliant New York audiences.

"By applause, how many of you live in New York City? And how many live outside the city?"

[NellyLunatic1980]

Marisa Casey
Brooklyn, NY
Director of a nonprofit arts education organization

Is this drive-by BB marisacatalina?

$10,000 - TV Networks
What TV network is headquartered in a New York City building known as "Black Rock," which was designed by architect Eero Saarinen?
A: CBS B: ABC
C: NBC D: FOX

With 21 seconds left, Marisa decides to Ask the Audience.

ATA results

ATA: A: 22% B: 9% C: 51% D: 18%

Marisa decides to answer

Spoiler

NBC

Marisa leaves with $5,000.

Spoiler

A: CBS ()

I can see why they all screwed this one up. They equated the nickname with Rockefeller Center. I've seen pictures of Rockefeller Center and I know that none of its buildings are black. So that rules out NBC... and it also rules out FOX because the building in which News Corp is based is technically a part of Rockefeller Center. I would've asked the NYC audience, too, but then I would've chided them for picking NBC and FOX. So the next best answer is CBS, and I would've picked that one.

[jarnon]

$10,000 - TV Networks
What TV network is headquartered in a New York City building known as "Black Rock," which was designed by architect Eero Saarinen?
A: CBS B: ABC
C: NBC D: FOX

With 21 seconds left, Marisa decides to Ask the Audience.

ATA results

ATA: A: 22% B: 9% C: 51% D: 18%

Marisa decides to answer

Spoiler

NBC

Marisa leaves with $5,000.

Spoiler

A: CBS ()

I could see an out-of-towner who watches 30 Rock get this wrong. (The show is named for 30 Rockefeller Center, the NBC Building.) But most New Yorkers should have heard of Black Rock. And it was mentined in the national news when Cronkite died.

[Bob Juch]

The trades periodically use "Bad Day at Black Rock" for bad news about CBS.

[MarleysGh0st]

The trades periodically use "Bad Day at Black Rock" for bad news about CBS.

Then I guess if the audience had been full of television insiders, they'd have gotten this question right.

[Bob Juch]

The trades periodically use "Bad Day at Black Rock" for bad news about CBS.

Then I guess if the audience had been full of television insiders, they'd have gotten this question right.

I would hope so!

[Bob78164]

Marisa Casey
Brooklyn, NY
Director of a nonprofit arts education organization

Is this drive-by BB marisacatalina?

Yes. Can we confirm that this show was actually taped on September 25? (I'm trying to clean up the Audition List.) --Bob