Transcript 02/11/10 - Ayodele Rashid (carryover)

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Ayodele Rashid
Brooklyn, NY

Ayodele prepared for the show by covering every inch of her apartment with post-it notes of trivia facts. So far, nothing she's learned from those has come in handy.

Question Topics:
* World Records
* Raccoons
* Government
* Natural Formations
* The Good King
* All in the Family
* Shakespeare
* 2009 Movies
* Weights & Measures
* Celebrity Memoirs
* (Federal Funds)
* (Scrabble)
* (Signs & Symbols)
* (Quite Inventive)
* (En Enspañol)

$7,500 * Celebrity Memoirs
The 2009 tell-all memoir "High on Arrival" was written by Mackenzie Phillips, whose father was in what popular music group?

A: The Mamas & The Papas B: The Fifth Dimension
C: Peter, Paul & Mary D: The Beach Boys

Answer

A: The Mamas & The Papas ( 22 )

$10,000 * Weights & Measures
Kept in a vault in France, a metal alloy cylinder about the size of a salt shaker is the official standard for measuring what unit?

A: One liter B: One kilometer
C: One kilogram D: One degree Celsius

While Ayodele is thinking, Meredith repeats: About the size of a salt shaker.

Ayodele:

Spoiler

A, final answer.

Answer

C: One kilogram ( 10 )

Ayodele drops to $5,000.

[Jeemie]

One liter = the size of a salt shaker

Still think these are pretty good contestants, Chad?

[chad1m]

Still think these are pretty good contestants, Chad?

Still think they aren't doing things with the questions to deliberately derail contestants, Chad?

Erm... Go through my posts. I've never said, not to mention thought, either one of those things. The contestants this week have been pretty lame.

[NellyLunatic1980]

Nihil obstat®

[earendel]

Ayodele Rashid
Brooklyn, NY

$10,000 * Weights & Measures
Kept in a vault in France, a metal alloy cylinder about the size of a salt shaker is the official standard for measuring what unit?

A: One liter B: One kilometer
C: One kilogram D: One degree Celsius

While Ayodele is thinking, Meredith repeats: About the size of a salt shaker.

Ayodele:

Spoiler

A, final answer.

Answer

C: One kilogram ( 10 )

I'm not sure that Meredith's "helpful hint" was very helpful. I suppose Ayodele was thinking that the cylinder was hollow.