Transcript 10/07/10 - Vik Vaz (carryover)

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Vik Vaz
Houston, TX
Doctor

Yesterday, it took Vik only three questions to bank $40,100. Vik says he was pretty terrified; the two-tier audience isn't the most welcoming way to start a quiz show.

Vik still has two Jump The Questions.

Question Topics (Randomized):
* Peaceful Fields
* It Could Happen
* Record Setters
* Remembered for...
* Making Money
* Mr. President
* Medical Maladies
* $25,000
* $100
* $15,000


Question #4 * Medical Maladies
Hirsutism is a medical condition common among which of these circus performers?

A: Bearded ladies B: Contortionists
C: Sword swallowers D: Fire eaters

Answer/Value/Bank

A: Bearded ladies
Question Value: $1,000
Bank: $41,100

Question #5 * Mr. President
Besides William Jefferson Clinton, who is the only U.S. president whose middle name is also the last name of a U.S. president?

A: James Garfield B: William Taft
C: Herbert Hoover D: Ronald Reagan

Answer/Value/Bank

D: Ronald Reagan
Question Value: $10,000
Bank: $51,100

Question #6 * Making Money
The U.S. Mint issued a redesigned 2010 version of what coin, with a simple shield replacing the Lincoln Memorial on the back?

A: Quarter B: Dime
C: Nickel D: Penny

Answer/Value/Bank

D: Penny
Question Value: $5,000
Bank: $56,100

Question #7 * Remembered for...
Nicolaus Copernicus was best known for his work in what occupation?

A: Playwright B: General
C: Sculptor D: Astronomer

Answer/Value/Bank

D: Astronomer
Question Value: $2,000
Bank: $58,100

Question #8 * Record Setters
In 2010, John Isner and Nicolas Mahut participated in a record setting what?

A: Tennis match B: NASCAR race
C: Chess game D: Home run derby

Answer/Value/Bank

A: Tennis match
Question Value: $7,000
Bank: $65,100

Question #9 * It Could Happen
The "Grandfather Paradox" is a problem facing those attempting to unlock which of these scientific theories?

A: Time travel B: Human cloning
C: Perpetual motion D: Cold fusion

Vik takes some time, torn between time travel and human cloning, before deciding to Jump The Question.

Answer/Value/Bank

A: Time travel
Question Value: $500
Bank: $65,100

-- Commercial Break --


Vik would like to use the money to pay off loans, but he would also like to travel to Anarctica, to visit the only continent he hasn't been to and take some pictures with the penguins.

Meredith: Penguins? You could do that at Central Park Zoo. It's a lot cheaper, actually!


Question #10 * Peaceful Fields
The section of New York City's Central Park known as "Strawberry Fields" memorializes a member of what iconic band?

A: The Rolling Stones B: The Beatles
C: The Who D: The Clash

Answer/Value/Bank

B: The Beatles
Question Value: $3,000
Bank: $68,100

Vik is now in Round Two. It's time to play Classic Millionaire!


$100,000
Broadcast on NBC in 1941, the first-ever U.S. TV commercial featured the advertising slogan "American runs on" what?

A: Texaco B: Maxwell House
C: Bulova time D: Camel cigarettes

The only one Vik can eliminate is

Spoiler

C

. He decides to Jump The Question.

Answer

C: Bulova time

-- Commercial Break --


$250,000
In a Parade magazine interview four years before he died, what did Dr. Seuss call "the only book I ever wrote that still makes me laugh"?

A: Yertle the Turtle B: Horton Hears a Who!
C: Green Eggs and Ham D: The Cat in the Hat

Vik isn't sure, but he thinks it's worth the gamble. He goes with

Spoiler

Yertle the Turtle

, final answer.

Answer

C: Green Eggs and Ham

Vik drops to $25,000.


-- Commercial Break --

[MarleysGh0st]

Never mentioned on the show was the fact that Vik is a Jeopardy! champion who was a finalist in the 2006 Tournament of Champions. They're discussing his SyndieBAM appearance over on the J! board in this thread:

http://boards.sonypictures.com/boards/s ... hp?t=47862

[TheConfessor]

Never mentioned on the show was the fact that Vik is a Jeopardy! champion who was a finalist in the 2006 Tournament of Champions. They're discussing his SyndieBAM appearance over on the J! board in this thread:

http://boards.sonypictures.com/boards/s ... hp?t=47862

Vik used to live in Austin. He often played in the Wednesday pub quiz at B. D. Riley's. On the show, he was listed as being from Houston, but he recently told me that he's doing his residency in Florida. I think he's in Miami.

[MarleysGh0st]

Vik would like to use the money to pay off loans, but he would also like to travel to Anarctica, to visit the only continent he hasn't been to and take some pictures with the penguins.

If TPTB didn't want to discuss Vik's J! experience, I wonder what hook got him on the show? Surely not paying bills and traveling, which are two of the biggest sleep-inducing lines the APs have ever heard.

[jarnon]

Question #5 * Mr. President
Besides William Jefferson Clinton, who is the only U.S. president whose middle name is also the last name of a U.S. president?

A: James Garfield B: William Taft
C: Herbert Hoover D: Ronald Reagan

Easy if you know Reagan's middle name was Wilson.

Question #6 * Making Money
The U.S. Mint issued a redesigned 2010 version of what coin, with a simple shield replacing the Lincoln Memorial on the back?

A: Quarter B: Dime
C: Nickel D: Penny

Second penny question in as many days.

$100,000
Broadcast on NBC in 1941, the first-ever U.S. TV commercial featured the advertising slogan "American runs on" what?

A: Texaco B: Maxwell House
C: Bulova time D: Camel cigarettes

Didn't know about the first commercial, but I've heard the slogan.

$250,000
In a Parade magazine interview four years before he died, what did Dr. Seuss call "the only book I ever wrote that still makes me laugh"?

A: Yertle the Turtle B: Horton Hears a Who!
C: Green Eggs and Ham D: The Cat in the Hat

Yertle and Horton aren't very funny. Double Dip on C and D ... oh wait.

[silverscreenselect]

Never mentioned on the show was the fact that Vik is a Jeopardy! champion who was a finalist in the 2006 Tournament of Champions. They're discussing his SyndieBAM appearance over on the J! board in this thread:

http://boards.sonypictures.com/boards/s ... hp?t=47862

I'm surprised that a Jeopardy TOC finalist wouldn't know the Bulova Time question.

[tanstaafl2]

Never mentioned on the show was the fact that Vik is a Jeopardy! champion who was a finalist in the 2006 Tournament of Champions. They're discussing his SyndieBAM appearance over on the J! board in this thread:

http://boards.sonypictures.com/boards/s ... hp?t=47862

I'm surprised that a Jeopardy TOC finalist wouldn't know the Bulova Time question.

I was certainly more confident about that one than the last one (about which I was not confident at all).

So if he had walked he would have 68K? I still haven't quite caught up with the rules of this new game that vaguely resembles WWTBAM.

[Bob78164]

Never mentioned on the show was the fact that Vik is a Jeopardy! champion who was a finalist in the 2006 Tournament of Champions. They're discussing his SyndieBAM appearance over on the J! board in this thread:

http://boards.sonypictures.com/boards/s ... hp?t=47862

I'm surprised that a Jeopardy TOC finalist wouldn't know the Bulova Time question.

I was certainly more confident about that one than the last one (about which I was not confident at all).

So if he had walked he would have 68K? I still haven't quite caught up with the rules of this new game that vaguely resembles WWTBAM.

Correct. --Bob

[MarleysGh0st]

So if he had walked he would have 68K? I still haven't quite caught up with the rules of this new game that vaguely resembles WWTBAM.

Correct. --Bob

Whereas guessing incorrectly, as he did, dropped him down to $25K. There are no "free guesses" any more. Those who do better in Round One (by not jumping any questions or by getting lucky in only jumping small value questions) have more at risk in Round Two and more incentive to walk away. OTOH, if they've saved some jumps they get more chances to look at the higher value questions, in the hope that they know one of them.

Also, just as Meredith plays up the full value of the bank and downplays the fact that contestants can only walk away with half of that until they pass the tenth question, she downplayed the drop to $25K until Vik actually did so.

[Appa23]

$250,000
In a Parade magazine interview four years before he died, what did Dr. Seuss call "the only book I ever wrote that still makes me laugh"?

A: Yertle the Turtle B: Horton Hears a Who!
C: Green Eggs and Ham D: The Cat in the Hat

Yertle and Horton aren't very funny. Double Dip on C and D ... oh wait.[/quote]

On the Pritchard comedy scale, Green Eggs yeils 5x the humor area as Yertle and 7x as Horton (Yertle is helped by the fact that the name is so funny).


As a parent, Green Eggs is much more fun and humorous to read than Cat in the Hat. In fact, it is my favorite story to read aloud.

[KillerTomato]

I, for one, am happy to see that BAM has started appreciating us Season 22 J! contestants. Now they have to just figure out that us short, balding, dumpy non-doctors can be just as interesting to watch.

[MarleysGh0st]

I, for one, am happy to see that BAM has started appreciating us Season 22 J! contestants.

Appreciating you...as long as they can keep it a secret!

I know, I know...you could live with that, right?

[heelsrule1988]

They're discussing his SyndieBAM appearance over on the J! board

More like, I was discussing it... I figured there would be a load of discussion on it before I started the thread.

[MarleysGh0st]

They're discussing his SyndieBAM appearance over on the J! board

More like, I was discussing it... I figured there would be a load of discussion on it before I started the thread.

Yes, I should have given you credit for starting the thread. But you did get replies!

[earendel]

Vik Vaz
Houston, TX
Doctor

Yesterday, it took Vik only three questions to bank $40,100. Vik says he was pretty terrified; the two-tier audience isn't the most welcoming way to start a quiz show.

C'mon, Vik, you're a J! multi-day champion. I realize that the audience setup is different but still...

Question #7 * Remembered for...
Nicolaus Copernicus was best known for his work in what occupation?

A: Playwright B: General
C: Sculptor D: Astronomer

Answer/Value/Bank

D: Astronomer
Question Value: $2,000
Bank: $58,100

There was a similar question on J! as the FJ clue and question.

Question #9 * It Could Happen
The "Grandfather Paradox" is a problem facing those attempting to unlock which of these scientific theories?

A: Time travel B: Human cloning
C: Perpetual motion D: Cold fusion

Vik takes some time, torn between time travel and human cloning, before deciding to Jump The Question.

Answer/Value/Bank

A: Time travel
Question Value: $500
Bank: $65,100

My first thought was Heinlein's "By His Bootstraps".

$250,000
In a Parade magazine interview four years before he died, what did Dr. Seuss call "the only book I ever wrote that still makes me laugh"?

A: Yertle the Turtle B: Horton Hears a Who!
C: Green Eggs and Ham D: The Cat in the Hat

Vik isn't sure, but he thinks it's worth the gamble. He goes with

Spoiler

Yertle the Turtle

, final answer.

Answer

C: Green Eggs and Ham

Vik drops to $25,000.

Gutsy move that unfortunately didn't pan out. As for me, I'd still have all my lifelines at this point. My first guess was the right answer but at the "Hot Podium" I'd have used ATA and if I didn't get a strong enough indicator, I'd use JTQ.

[Weyoun]

Little surprised about the Bulova question. But I am also bitter, as Vik's Harvard team defeated my Rhodes team way back in the day for the championship of something-or-another in quiz bowl.