Transcript 4/17/2015 - Carl Perez

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Carl Perez
Bethesda, MD

Terry comments that Carl must have discovered the Fountain of Youth because although he's pushing 40 (Carl says he's 37) he doesn't look a day over 15. Terry asks him for some ID. Carl's +1 is is his wife Jeanette, who also looks young.

Question #1: Sounding like a word you might use to describe its taste, what is the term for edible animal guts?
A - horrable
B - nasdy
C - offal
D - fowle

Carl says all of them sound like a perfect word to describe edible animal guts. He mumbles each of the answers then decides to ask the audience.

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Ask the Audience results:
A - 8%
B - 11%
C - 43%
D - 38%

Those were the 2 that Carl was up in the air about. He hates to do it but he jumps the question.

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Answer: C (offal)
Value: $500
Bank: $0 (unchanged)

Question #2: Which of these is a nickname given to the growing trend of iPad and iPhone theft?
A - banana peeling
B - apple picking
C - corn shucking
D - dairy farming

Carl says that since both of the items are

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Apple products

there's only one answer that makes sense.

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Answer: B (apple picking)
Value: $5,000
Bank: $5,000

Question #3: Who said, "I'm going to step off the LEM now," just before uttering one of the most famous quotes in history?
A - John F. Kennedy
B - Mahatma Gandhi
C - Nathan Hale
D - Neil Armstrong

Carl says that

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Neil Armstrong

is jumping out at him.

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Answer: D (Neil Armstrong)
Value: $2,000
Bank: $7,000

Question #4: The Rolls-Royce Phantom's $400,000 price tag includes what handy item that emerges from the door at the press of a button?
A - cane
B - shoeshine kit
C - umbrella
D - briefcase

Carl doesn't own one of these. Since it comes out of the door it seems that it would be something you would use when exiting the car. On the other hand, "handy" implies something you carry. He makes

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briefcase

his final answer.

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Answer: C (umbrella)
Value: unrevealed
Bank: $1,000 (consolation prize)

commercial break

[ghostjmf]

Q4: brolly would be most useful to me, but I've never been in a RR much less pressed its buttons. Guess aud hasn't either. JTQ

[SportsFan68]

So far, so good.

[Estonut]

Q4: brolly would be most useful to me, but I've never been in a RR much less pressed its buttons. Guess aud hasn't either. JTQ

aud wasn't asked.

[ghostjmf]

Estonut:

To clarify: Since this is an "if I was the contestant" exercise, I am saying I will guess/assume the audience wouldn't know. Or my +1 for that matter, though to save time time while typing on tab w/1 finger I didn't include +1 above.

[earendel]

Carl Perez
Bethesda, MD

Terry comments that Carl must have discovered the Fountain of Youth because although he's pushing 40 (Carl says he's 37) he doesn't look a day over 15. Terry asks him for some ID. Carl's +1 is is his wife Jeanette, who also looks young.

He really did look young.

Question #4: The Rolls-Royce Phantom's $400,000 price tag includes what handy item that emerges from the door at the press of a button?
A - cane
B - shoeshine kit
C - umbrella
D - briefcase

Carl doesn't own one of these. Since it comes out of the door it seems that it would be something you would use when exiting the car. On the other hand, "handy" implies something you carry. He makes

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briefcase

his final answer.

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Answer: C (umbrella)
Value: unrevealed
Bank: $1,000 (consolation prize)

I thought he was going to come up with this one and was surprised when he went with "briefcase".