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BBTranscriptTeam
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by BBTranscriptTeam » Sun Oct 24, 2010 5:04 pm
Reed Baumann
Isante, MN
Graduate student in history
He wants to be a community college professor or the governor of Minnesota.
Topic Tree: (unrandomized)
- Natural Formations
- Historical Drama
- Gaga for Gaga
- Corporate Food
- Classic Characters
- Vintage Video Games
- Security Measures
- Hot Hosts
- Record Holders
- Do-Gooders
Topic Tree: (randomized)
- Classic Characters
- Corporate Food
- Natural Formations
- Security Measures
- Hot Hosts
- Do-Gooders
- Vintage Video Games
- Gaga for Gaga
- Record Holders
- Historical Drama
Question #1 (Historical Drama)
The cable drama "Rubicon" takes its title from a river once famously crossed by what military leader?
A - Alexander the Great
B - Napoleon Bonaparte
C - Charlemagne
D - Julius Caesar
Meredith says that this is a history question for a history major. He says he feels pretty good about
Alexander the Great
and makes that his final answer.
Answer: D (Julius Caesar)
Value: not revealed
Bank: none
Reed leaves with the $1,000 "consolation prize".
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MarleysGh0st
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by MarleysGh0st » Mon Oct 25, 2010 6:23 am
I wonder if Alexander had any llamas on that river crossing?
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by Bob Juch » Mon Oct 25, 2010 6:44 am
Sounds like a great candidate for governor!
I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.
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Si fractum non sit, noli id reficere.
Teach a child to be polite and courteous in the home and, when he grows up, he'll never be able to drive in New Jersey.
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by earendel » Mon Oct 25, 2010 7:06 am
BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Reed Baumann
Isante, MN
Graduate student in history
He wants to be a community college professor or the governor of Minnesota.
BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Question #1 (Historical Drama)
The cable drama "Rubicon" takes its title from a river once famously crossed by what military leader?
A - Alexander the Great
B - Napoleon Bonaparte
C - Charlemagne
D - Julius Caesar
Meredith says that this is a history question for a history major. He says he feels pretty good about
Alexander the Great
and makes that his final answer.
Answer: D (Julius Caesar)
Value: not revealed
Bank: none
Reed leaves with the $1,000 "consolation prize".
Simply unbelievable. A graduate student in history and he doesn't make the automatic association of "Rubicon" with "Julius Caesar? <*Sheesh*>!
And does he count as a llama since he gets the $1K "booby prize"?
"Elen sila lumenn omentielvo...A star shines on the hour of our meeting."
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by MarleysGh0st » Mon Oct 25, 2010 7:18 am
earendel wrote:And does he count as a llama since he gets the $1K "booby prize"?
We've had discussions about the term, but we don't have a policy for making official definitions around here. My opinion was to reluctantly agree to retire the llama. Aside from the fact that nobody is a $0 winner any more, and that everyone who misses any of the first ten questions leaves with the same $1,000 consolation prize, the randomization of question difficulties means that missing the first question is not necessarily the easiest question. (In this case, it was question #9, unrandomized.)
Being a history major, Reed will be haunted enough by this question.
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by ulysses5019 » Mon Oct 25, 2010 7:24 am
Reed Baumann
Isante, MN
Graduate student in history
He wants to be a community college professor or the governor of Minnesota.
I feel sorry for his future students. And don't you have to be a former rassler or in a movie with Arnold to be governor of Minnesota?
I believe in the usefulness of useless information.
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by Bob Juch » Mon Oct 25, 2010 8:59 am
MarleysGh0st wrote:earendel wrote:And does he count as a llama since he gets the $1K "booby prize"?
We've had discussions about the term, but we don't have a policy for making official definitions around here. My opinion was to reluctantly agree to retire the llama. Aside from the fact that nobody is a $0 winner any more, and that everyone who misses any of the first ten questions leaves with the same $1,000 consolation prize, the randomization of question difficulties means that missing the first question is not necessarily the easiest question. (In this case, it was question #9, unrandomized.)
Being a history major, Reed will be haunted enough by this question.
We should start using the term "Rubicon" instead.
I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.
- Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001)
Si fractum non sit, noli id reficere.
Teach a child to be polite and courteous in the home and, when he grows up, he'll never be able to drive in New Jersey.
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by themanintheseersuckersuit » Mon Oct 25, 2010 9:07 am
In the immortal words of Editor Perry White, "Great Caesar's Ghost!"
Suitguy is not bitter.
feels he represents the many educated and rational onlookers who believe that the hysterical denouncement of lay scepticism is both unwarranted and counter-productive
The problem, then, is that such calls do not address an opposition audience so much as they signal virtue. They talk past those who need convincing. They ignore actual facts and counterargument. And they are irreparably smug.
