Transcript 03/08/16 Jim VanNest

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Jim VanNest
Brooklyn, NY
New dad

$500 :
Having brought thousands of future parents together, what company claims its services have helped make over 1 million babies?

A: Todaystractors.com B: Wearabletowel.com
C: Myfreetaxes.com D: Match.com

Spoiler

D: Match.com

$1000 :
Under California law, what professionals are allowed to break the speed limit if they're on the way to an on-the-job emergency?

A: Plumbers B: Doctors
C: Zookeepers D: Game show hosts

Spoiler

B: Doctors

$2000 :
Charlie Chaplin, Douglas Fairbanks, D.W. Griffith and Mary Pickford came together in 1919 to form what aptly named movie studio?
A: Columbia Pictures B: MGM
C: United Artists D: Warner Brothers

Spoiler

C: United Artists

First break

$3000 :
Because they're going "against the stream," bicyclists riding the wrong way down a one-way street are often said to be doing what?
A: Codding B: Salmoning
C: Starfishing D: Hammerheading

Spoiler

B: Salmoning

$5000 :
In a 2012 interview, who confessed that, if she could, she would warn her 14-year-old self, "Don't marry that basketball player"?

A: Heidi Klum B: Britney Spears
C: Eva Longoria D: Katy Perry

ATA

Jim said he believes he saw Eva Longoria at Lakers games but this is not a strong subject so he would ATA.

A: 1% B: 12%
C: 82% D: 5%

After Jim answered, Chris Harrison corrected him that Tony Parker was playing for the San Antonio Spurs instead of the Lakers.

C: Eva Longoria

$7000 :
Which of the following accurately describes W.B. Yeats, Seamus Heaney and Samuel Beckett?

A: Irish Nobel Laureates B: English Pulitzer Prize winners
C: Scottish poets D: Welsh playwrights

Spoiler

Jim said he knows Samuel Beckett was a playwright and thinks it is D. He went for it after mulling it a bit.

A: Irish Nobel Laureates

Jim left with $5000

Second break

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Jim VanNest
Brooklyn, NY
New dad

$7000 :
Which of the following accurately describes W.B. Yeats, Seamus Heaney and Samuel Beckett?

A: Irish Nobel Laureates B: English Pulitzer Prize winners
C: Scottish poets D: Welsh playwrights

Spoiler

Jim said he knows Samuel Beckett was a playwright and thinks it is D. He went for it after mulling it a bit.

A: Irish Nobel Laureates

Jim left with $5000

Yeats is Irish, so I'd have gone with A.

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5K: Somehow, I know this. Thank you People mag. I think.

7K: I know they're all Irish.

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$5000 :
In a 2012 interview, who confessed that, if she could, she would warn her 14-year-old self, "Don't marry that basketball player"?

A: Heidi Klum B: Britney Spears
C: Eva Longoria D: Katy Perry

ATA

Jim said he believes he saw Eva Longoria at Lakers games but this is not a strong subject so he would ATA.

A: 1% B: 12%
C: 82% D: 5%

After Jim answered, Chris Harrison corrected him that Tony Parker was playing for the San Antonio Spurs instead of the Lakers.

C: Eva Longoria

ATA