Transcript 04/12/16 Casey Callaghan (carryover)

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Casey Callaghan
Parkville, MD
Barista and trivia writer/host
Here with his mother Janet and his girlfriend Katie, whom he wants to buy an engagement ring.

ATA previously used.

$10K :
Which Shakespeare character was famously told by another to beware of jealousy, the "green-eyed monster"?
A: Hamlet B: Romeo
C: King Lear D: Othello

+1

Janet is leaning Othello and Casey decided he needed to save the last lifeline and go with her advice.

Spoiler

D: Othello

$20K :
While Spanish is spoken in most of South America's countries, the official language of its smallest nation, Suriname, is what?
A: Dutch B: German
C: Italian D: Portuguese

50/50

Casey said he was leaning Portuguese because it is spoken in Brazil.
50/50 left A and B and Casey said his gut is now Dutch.

Spoiler

A: Dutch

First break

$30K :
According to legend, Teddy Roosevelt's unruly daughter Alice buried a voodoo doll of what incoming First Lady when moving out of The White House?
A: Ida McKinley B: Nellie Taft
C: Florence Harding D: Grace Coolidge

Spoiler

B: Nellie Taft

$50K :
In Buffalo, New York, a Pussywillow Pass gets you access to Dyngus Day festivities, where which of these things is a tradition?
A: Eating haggis B: Dancing the polka
C: Drinking tequila D: Stomping grapes

Spoiler

Casey decided to walk, final decision
Chris then gave him a hint that it is Polish and Casey said that means it its...
B: Dancing the polka

Second break

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20K: About the only thing I retain from spending a whole year long ago studying almanacs preparing to be on BAM (hah!) is that England, after taking Manhattan by threatening the Dutch with their superior Navy (as a sarcastic person I know pointed out, "its an island") "made it legal" by giving the Dutch part of their South American colony Guiana. So for a while there was British Guina & Dutch Guina. Dutch Guiana became Suriname.

50K:

Not Scottish. Otherwise don't know. +1, 50/50

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Casey Callaghan
Parkville, MD
Barista and trivia writer/host
Here with his mother Janet and his girlfriend Katie, whom he wants to buy an engagement ring.

ATA previously used.

$50K :
In Buffalo, New York, a Pussywillow Pass gets you access to Dyngus Day festivities, where which of these things is a tradition?
A: Eating haggis B: Dancing the polka
C: Drinking tequila D: Stomping grapes

Spoiler

Casey decided to walk, final decision
Chris then gave him a hint that it is Polish and Casey said that means it its...
B: Dancing the polka

I still have my lifelines and I start using them here. Given that it's upstate NY, I'll try ATA first.

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$20K :
While Spanish is spoken in most of South America's countries, the official language of its smallest nation, Suriname, is what?
A: Dutch B: German
C: Italian D: Portuguese

50/50

Casey said he was leaning Portuguese because it is spoken in Brazil.
50/50 left A and B and Casey said his gut is now Dutch.

Spoiler

A: Dutch

50/50