Transcript 04/21/11 - Tricia Barreiro (carryover)

[BBTranscriptTeam]

Guest Host: Tim Gunn

Tricia Barreiro
Playa del Rey, CA

Tricia is returning to the show today, to try for $250,000. Tim asks how she's feeling and Tricia says she's terrified.

All of Tricia's lifelines are gone.


$250,000
Walking is the official state exercise of which of these U.S. states?

A: Maryland B: Arizona
C: Wisconsin D: Florida

Tricia feels that it might be Arizona, but who wants to walk in a desert?

Tricia decides it's too big of a risk, so she walks away with $100,000.

Answer

A: Maryland

[TheConfessor]

$250,000
Walking is the official state exercise of which of these U.S. states?

A: Maryland B: Arizona
C: Wisconsin D: Florida

It should have been

Spoiler

Wisconsin. Their governor is a Walker.

With questions like this, they obviously don't want any big winners.

[MarleysGh0st]

$250,000
Walking is the official state exercise of which of these U.S. states?

A: Maryland B: Arizona
C: Wisconsin D: Florida

It should have been

Spoiler

Wisconsin. Their governor is a Walker.

With questions like this, they obviously don't want any big winners.

According to Wikipedia:

In 2008, intending to promote physical fitness for all ages, Maryland declared walking the official state exercise and became the first state with an official state exercise.

The article doesn't say if any other states have decided to follow their example. I wonder how many Marylanders would even know they had an official exercise?

[TheConfessor]

The Missouri legislature is debating a proposal to make "jumping jacks" their official state exercise.
http://www.house.mo.gov/billtracking/bi ... B0842I.PDF

[SportsFan68]

I don't recall hearing a word about this.

I bet there'd be a huge debate in the Colorado legislature trying to name a state exercise.

Skiing
Mountain climbing
Biking
Mountain biking
Running
Jogging
Walking
Hiking
Snowboarding
Skateboarding

That's all I can think of right now.

[ulysses5019]

I don't recall hearing a word about this.

I bet there'd be a huge debate in the Colorado legislature trying to name a state exercise.

Skiing
Mountain climbing
Biking
Mountain biking
Running
Jogging
Walking
Hiking
Snowboarding
Skateboarding

That's all I can think of right now.

I guess it would be tough to ski or snowboard in Maryland or not...how tall is Backbone Mountain?

[CarShark]

$250,000
Walking is the official state exercise of which of these U.S. states?

A: Maryland B: Arizona
C: Wisconsin D: Florida

It should have been

Spoiler

Wisconsin. Their governor is a Walker.

With questions like this, they obviously don't want any big winners.

A random news blurb from 2 years ago isn't worth $250,000. It's just a waste of a golden opportunity to make the questions so much harder when guests are hosting.

[earendel]

Tricia Barreiro
Playa del Rey, CA

$250,000
Walking is the official state exercise of which of these U.S. states?

A: Maryland B: Arizona
C: Wisconsin D: Florida

Tricia feels that it might be Arizona, but who wants to walk in a desert?

Tricia decides it's too big of a risk, so she walks away with $100,000.

Answer

A: Maryland

I've still got ATA, and even though I don't think it will help, I use it here. If the numbers don't suit me, I walk away.

[wintergreen48]

Maryland's state sport is even cooler-- jousting.

Maryland is in really great shape, apparently, so the legislature spends its time coming up with things like this. There is a state insect (Baltimore Checkerspot Butterfly ), state bird (Baltimore Oriole), state boat (skipjack), state cat (calico), state crustacean (the tasty delicious Maryland Blue Crab), state cake (Smith Island Cake-- basically a multi-layered yeller cake with chawklit icing), state dinosaur (Astrodon johnstoni), state dog (Chesapeake Bay Retriever), state drink (milk-- one legislator from Baltimore was pushing for 'peppermint lemonade,' but that's more likely to become the state mouthwash), state fish (the tasty delicious rockfish, aka striped bass), state flower (Black-Eyed Susan), state folk dance (square dance), state fossil shell (Ecphora gardnerae gardnerae Wilson-- some extinct snail or something, apparently the French ate them all), state gem stone (Patuxent River Stone), state horse (Thoroughbred), state reptile (Diamondback Terrapin), state song (Maryland my Maryland-- more below), state theater (Center Stage, in Baltimore), state summer theater (Olney Theatre, in, um, Olney), and a state tree (the white oak). Probably more of these things, that I've overlooked.


Maryland My Maryland is sung to the tune of 'O Tannenbaum,' except that they never sing it, it is always just a musical thingie, because the words are a little embarrassing: it was originally written as a poem by a Confederate sympathizer at the beginning of the Civil War, responding to the Union Army moving into the state (among other things, they locked up the legislature, preventing them from voting for secession, which saved Maryland from Reconstruction afterward). The first verse goes:

The despot's heel is on thy shore, Maryland!
His torch is at thy temple door, Maryland!
Avenge the patriotic gore That flecked the streets of Baltimore,
And be the battle queen of yore,
Maryland! My Maryland!

Lincoln is the 'despot' he's whining about. They don't like to talk much about the last verse:

I hear the distant thunder-hum, Maryland!
The Old Line's bugle, fife, and drum, Maryland!
She is not dead, nor deaf, nor dumb- Huzza! she spurns the Northern scum!
She breathes! she burns! she'll come! she'll come!
Maryland! My Maryland!

The next-to-last line was probably recycled from a porn novel...

[jarnon]

OMG! I've only heard the cleaned-up words they sing at the Preakness Stakes:

Thou wilt not cower in the dust, Maryland, my Maryland!
Thy beaming sword shall never rust, Maryland, my Maryland!
Remember Carroll's sacred trust,
Remember Howard's warlike thrust,
And all thy slumberers with the just, Maryland, my Maryland!

[earendel]

OMG! I've only heard the cleaned-up words they sing at the Preakness Stakes:

Thou wilt not cower in the dust, Maryland, my Maryland!
Thy beaming sword shall never rust, Maryland, my Maryland!
Remember Carroll's sacred trust,
Remember Howard's warlike thrust,
And all thy slumberers with the just, Maryland, my Maryland!

The version of "My Old Kentucky Home" that's sung at Derby time is a cleaned up version as well, though not to the extent that Maryland's state song is. When Stephen Foster wrote the song, he used the line "the darkies are gay" in the first verse. Needless to say that doesn't get much mention these days.

[Bob Juch]

OMG! I've only heard the cleaned-up words they sing at the Preakness Stakes:

Thou wilt not cower in the dust, Maryland, my Maryland!
Thy beaming sword shall never rust, Maryland, my Maryland!
Remember Carroll's sacred trust,
Remember Howard's warlike thrust,
And all thy slumberers with the just, Maryland, my Maryland!

The version of "My Old Kentucky Home" that's sung at Derby time is a cleaned up version as well, though not to the extent that Maryland's state song is. When Stephen Foster wrote the song, he used the line "the darkies are gay" in the first verse. Needless to say that doesn't get much mention these days.

Having "My Old Kentucky Home" as the state song is dumb anyway; it is about never returning to Kentucky.

[MarleysGh0st]

Maryland is in really great shape, apparently, so the legislature spends its time coming up with things like this. There is a...state fossil shell (Ecphora gardnerae gardnerae Wilson

That should be listed as Ecphora gardnerae gardnerae (Wilson), where Ecphora is the genus (always capitalized) and gardnerae gardnerae is the species and subspecies, with the Latin name always italicized. Wilson is the authority, i.e., the scientist who first described the species (in 1987, according to Wikipedia).

It is a rather pretty snail.

[elwoodblues]

Remember Howard's warlike thrust,

She breathes! she burns! she'll come! she'll come!

These two lines should go together.