Transcript 11/08/10 Akiva Fox (carryover)

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Akiva Fox
Washington, DC

Akiva has completed the first round with $28,600 in his bank.

He still has his ATA lifeline.

$100K In 2010, the British government released a 1952 memo in which Winston Churchill requests a report on what unusual topic?
A. Loch Ness monster
B. Lost city of Atlantis
C. Bermuda Triangle
D. Flying saucers

ATA

ATA results

20% A. Loch Ness monster
6% B. Lost city of Atlantis
27% C. Bermuda Triangle
47% D. Flying saucers

Spoiler

D. Flying saucers

$250K Which of these U.S. states has a state flag that was designed by a thirteen-year-old boy?
A. Idaho
B. Alaska
C. Utah
D. Arizona

Akiva thinks it may be Alaska since it was the last of these states to join the Union.

He takes this opportunity to wish his parents a happy thirty-fifth wedding anniversary.

Akiva decides to leave with $100K.

Spoiler

B. Alaska

commercial break

[Kazoo65]

JTQ on $100k-I would think it would be the Loch Ness Monster.

$250K-went to Alaska in 1982. I learned this fact while there.

[TheConfessor]

$250K Which of these U.S. states has a state flag that was designed by a thirteen-year-old boy?
A. Idaho
B. Alaska
C. Utah
D. Arizona

It seems as if this has come up before, more than once. It was asked on Jeopardy three years ago. See STATES OF THE UNION for $1600.
http://www.j-archive.com/showgame.php?game_id=1701

[earendel]

Akiva Fox
Washington, DC

$100K In 2010, the British government released a 1952 memo in which Winston Churchill requests a report on what unusual topic?
A. Loch Ness monster
B. Lost city of Atlantis
C. Bermuda Triangle
D. Flying saucers

ATA

ATA results

20% A. Loch Ness monster
6% B. Lost city of Atlantis
27% C. Bermuda Triangle
47% D. Flying saucers

Spoiler

D. Flying saucers

Not an overwhelming audience response but enough, I guess. As for me, the time (1952) was right for UFOs. Akiva thought that this was after Roswell, and he was right - Roswell was in 1947.

$250K Which of these U.S. states has a state flag that was designed by a thirteen-year-old boy?
A. Idaho
B. Alaska
C. Utah
D. Arizona

Akiva thinks it may be Alaska since it was the last of these states to join the Union.

He takes this opportunity to wish his parents a happy thirty-fifth wedding anniversary.

Akiva decides to leave with $100K.

Spoiler

B. Alaska

When elwing and I were in Alaska a couple years ago we went to a town called Eagle, where high school students gave guided tours. This factoid was part of the presentation. So I'd be going for the $500K with no lifelines remaining.

[secondchance]

He did a great job- a really enjoyable run to watch and sorry he didn't make it a little further.

[ghostjmf]

He jumped some I knew (I had a ticket a few years ago for a medically-mandated blepheroplasty, as my droopy eyelids are the cause of me flunking peripheral vision tests; however, I don't want to look like a squirrel & don't trust the surgeons not to do that, so I just remember to turn my head a lot while driving, so as to get the side visual field in) & knew some I didn't (I don't know any Mariah Carey songs, much less which song is on which album, & except for the necessity for trivia contests, would like to keep it that way) & did really well.

Way to go Akiva. You don't know me, but your Mom does!

I was really afraid he was jumping stuff the audience would know, & would need that jump later. Instead, having saved ATA, he used it on something on which I would not have trusted them (Winston Churchill's secret investigation), trusted them, & walked away with 100K.

Way to go, Akiva.