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Denice Brannigan
San Diego, CA
First and Second Grade teacher

It's the final day of Teacher Week.

Denice's kids sometimes call her "Mommy" and occasionally "Daddy". Meredith shows a video that Denice's class prepared to surprise her. Meredith also gives Denice a $1000 CVS gift certificate.

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$8K - According to legend, what game's appeareance helped chemist Dmitri Mendeleyev devise the look of the periodic table?
A - chess
B - backgammon
C - solitaire
D - dominoes

Spoiler

Denice's classes don't cover this subject. With 17 seconds remaining Denice decides to Ask the Audience.

ATA results:
A - 40%
B - 21%
C - 11%
D - 28%

This doesn't help so with 12 seconds left Denice decides to use Double Dip. Not that she doesn't trust the audience but her gut was leading her toward D, so she makes that her first final answer. That's incorrect. She says she's sorry she doubted the audience and says, "I meant to say 'A'" and makes that her second final answer. Unfortunately the audience wasn't right, either.

C - solitaire (9)

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ANSWERS:
C - solitaire[/b]

The WWOQ® strikes again. This question was severely undervalued. I thought for sure it was chess.

NellyLunatic1980 wrote:The WWOQ® strikes again. This question was severely undervalued. I thought for sure it was chess.

C'mon, you know there are more than 64 elements and the PTotE is not square. It was fairly simple if you know what the periodic table looks like. It in no way resembles the appearance of chess, backgammon nor dominoes.

Estonut wrote:

NellyLunatic1980 wrote:The WWOQ® strikes again. This question was severely undervalued. I thought for sure it was chess.

C'mon, you know there are more than 64 elements and the PTotE is not square. It was fairly simple if you know what the periodic table looks like. It in no way resembles the appearance of chess, backgammon nor dominoes.

There are a lot fewer cards in solitaire than there are squares on a chessboard.

NellyLunatic1980 wrote:There are a lot fewer cards in solitaire than there are squares on a chessboard.

There are many multi-deck solitaire games. You keep missing the phrasing of the question, ie "what game's appearance". Look at a periodic table. It resembles the staggered stacks of cards in solitaire. It in no way resembles any of the other games in appearance.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote: Denice Brannigan
San Diego, CA
First and Second Grade teacher

It's the final day of Teacher Week.

Denice's kids sometimes call her "Mommy" and occasionally "Daddy". Meredith shows a video that Denice's class prepared to surprise her. Meredith also gives Denice a $1000 CVS gift certificate.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:$8K - According to legend, what game's appeareance helped chemist Dmitri Mendeleyev devise the look of the periodic table?
A - chess
B - backgammon
C - solitaire
D - dominoes

Spoiler

Denice's classes don't cover this subject. With 17 seconds remaining Denice decides to Ask the Audience.

ATA results:
A - 40%
B - 21%
C - 11%
D - 28%

This doesn't help so with 12 seconds left Denice decides to use Double Dip. Not that she doesn't trust the audience but her gut was leading her toward D, so she makes that her first final answer. That's incorrect. She says she's sorry she doubted the audience and says, "I meant to say 'A'" and makes that her second final answer. Unfortunately the audience wasn't right, either.

C - solitaire (9)

This is a real toughie - I can elmiinate B and D. Because of the lengths of the various columns, it could be C, but because it's composed of lots of boxes it could be A. I'd take the Double Dip and make those my two final answers.

NellyLunatic1980 wrote:The WWOQ® strikes again. This question was severely undervalued. I thought for sure it was chess.

I had the right answer, but I agree that this shouldn't be an $8K question. The overwhelming dursting by the audience (only 11% for the right answer!) supports that assessment.