Transcript 04/26/10 Marianne Hopper (carryover from 4/09/10)

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Marianne Hopper
Austin, TX
College dean

Marianne is out of lifelines.

Topic Tree:

Cold Hard Cash
Facts & Figures
History of Law
What Is It?
Outer Space
(Lady Liberty)
(Government)
(Speaking in Tongues)
(Kid Lit)
(Adaptations)
(Nicknames)
(Famous Duos)
(Video Games)
(Leisure Time)
(Sea Life)

$50K The Cassini spacecraft recently revealed the likely presence of salt water on Enceladus, a moon of what planet?
A. Jupiter
B. Neptune
C. Uranus
D. Saturn

Marianne takes a guess and makes Neptune her final answer.
Marianne leaves with $25K.

Spoiler

D. Saturn (5)

Answers:
$50K D. Saturn

[NellyLunatic1980]

$50K The Cassini spacecraft recently revealed the likely presence of salt water on Enceladus, a moon of what planet?
A. Jupiter
B. Neptune
C. Uranus
D. Saturn

From this past Wednesday's J!: "The Cassini project is exploring Titan & Enceladus, moons of this second-largest planet"

So references to both a past WWTBAM question (Bix's $64K) and a future WWTBAM question!

[MarleysGh0st]

$50K The Cassini spacecraft recently revealed the likely presence of salt water on Enceladus, a moon of what planet?
A. Jupiter
B. Neptune
C. Uranus
D. Saturn

Marianne takes a guess and makes Neptune her final answer.
Marianne leaves with $25K.

She decided this was a trick question, and so went for the least likely answer.

<sigh>

[earendel]

Marianne Hopper
Austin, TX
College dean

$50K The Cassini spacecraft recently revealed the likely presence of salt water on Enceladus, a moon of what planet?
A. Jupiter
B. Neptune
C. Uranus
D. Saturn

Marianne takes a guess and makes Neptune her final answer.
Marianne leaves with $25K.

Spoiler

D. Saturn (5)

Marianne made an educated guess - "salt water" could lead one to think of Neptune. But anyone who follows the space program closely knows that Cassini was sent to investigate the Saturn system. Had this been my stack I'd have been going for $100K with all lifelines still available.

[MarleysGh0st]

Marianne made an educated guess - "salt water" could lead one to think of Neptune.

If anyone thought the gas giant was really an ocean planet, that would sound more like an uneducated guess, to me.

[earendel]

Marianne made an educated guess - "salt water" could lead one to think of Neptune.

If anyone thought the gas giant was really an ocean planet, that would sound more like an uneducated guess, to me.

Well, I could visualize this thought process:

Sea water...ocean...Neptune is king of the seas, so Neptune, final answer.

Perhaps "educated" wasn't the right word.