WWTBAM Bored

Jeffrey Mueller
Elkridge, MD
Ninth-Grade Teacher (American Government)

Jeffrey is part of a band, Six Ounces of Cheese, with some of the other faculty at his school.

Jeffrey presents Meredith with an autographed Six Ounces of Cheese T-shirt.

Topic Tree:

The First Dollar
Sweet Surrender
Social Security
Chieftains
Flaw & Order
Pop TV
Political Families
Foreign Tongues
Adam Sandler
Louis Louis
I Remember!
Very Graphic
Celebrity Pets
Playing Doctor
Going Ape

$100 In 2008, Entertainment Weekly jokingly declared “National Giant Horny Ape Awareness Week” to honor what film’s anniversary?
A. Casablanca
B. King Kong
C. Vertigo
D. My Fair Monkey

Spoiler

B. King Kong (5)

$200 In the board game “Operation,” an ice cream cone in the patient’s head denotes what ailment?
A. Funny bone
B. Brain freeze
C. Writer’s cramp
D. Charlie horse

Spoiler

B. Brain freeze (9)

$300 Several of Martha Stewart’s cats, including Mozart, Vivaldi and Verdi, are named after famous what?
A. Classical composers
B. Jazz musicians
C. Silent-film stars
D. Painters

Spoiler

A. Classical composers (7)

$500 Usually aimed at adults, a “graphic novel” is a slightly fancier form of what type of book?
A. Datebook
B. Cookbook
C. Checkbook
D. Comic book

Spoiler

D. Comic book (3)

$1K “You always want a second helping” is a common mnemonic for remembering that there are two “S”s in what word?
A. Passport
B. Dessert
C. Missile
D. Necessary

Spoiler

B. Dessert ( 8 )

$2K In 1849, Louis Pasteur joined the faculty at Strasbourg University to teach classes on what subject?
A. Astronomy
B. Psychology
C. Chemistry
D. Anatomy

Spoiler

C. Chemistry (12)

$4K In 2008 comedy, Adam Sandler plays an Israeli assassin-turned-hairstylist in “You Don’t Mess With the” what?
A. Yosef
B. Moshe
C. Zohan
D. Shlomi

Jeffrey: I didn’t see it, but I’m pretty sure it was A. Yosef final answer. Oh God it’s no, it’s.

Jeffrey leaves with $1K.

Spoiler

C. Zohan (20)

commercial break

Answers:
$100 B. King Kong
$200 B. Brain freeze
$300 A. Classical composers
$500 D. Comic book
$1K B. Dessert
$2K C. Chemistry
$4K C. Zohan

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:$4K In 2008 comedy, Adam Sandler plays an Israeli assassin-turned-hairstylist in “You Don’t Mess With the” what?
A. Yosef
B. Moshe
C. Zohan
D. Shlomi

Jeffrey: I didn’t see it, but I’m pretty sure it was A. Yosef final answer. Oh God it’s no, it’s.

Jeffrey leaves with $1K.

Spoiler

C. Zohan (20)

And the damned clock claims another victim. Alas for the days when you could think over the choices one more time after Meredith asked, "Final answer?"

This was awful. He was so nice and I remember thinking he seemed like one of the smartest contestants. Just one of those moments where you speak before you think.

The biggest nightmare for us all besides being a llama.

This poor guy. He left muttering, "I should have asked, I should have asked..." He actually kind of mouthed an "m" (for Moshe) after saying, "oh god, no, it's," so he obviously just didn't know the correct answer, but I think TDC(!) must really screw with some folks' heads. I know it would mine.

OK, trying hard not to be insensitive but 30 seconds is a pretty darn long time for a question like this.
If you know it you can think it over and have plenty of time to answer.
If you don't you can analyze whether you can make an educated guess or use a lifeline
Now I only read this transcript but it's very easy to blame the clock but there were 20 seconds left. No, I'd put this one down to poor decision making and a case of Hot Seat-itis...

Second Chance wrote:This poor guy. He left muttering, "I should have asked, I should have asked..." He actually kind of mouthed an "m" (for Moshe) after saying, "oh god, no, it's," so he obviously just didn't know the correct answer, but I think TDC(!) must really screw with some folks' heads. I know it would mine.

I'm not so sure TDC was to blame here; I agree with you that he somehow seemed to realize his answer was wrong yet he was still uncertain about the right answer. I'm guessing his panic struck because he heard a gasp from the audience. This was a very heavily promoted movie, after all.. I unintentionally gasped while watching at home, and I'm sure I wasn't alone.

Yes, I do agree he made a bad call. But I still think that the whole concept of TDC just really messes with the beauty of the long standing luxury of having the time to analyze and sort things out in a rational manner without feeling the stress and panic caused by this restriction, which then can lead to a chain reaction of bad decisions made in a very short time span. I've found, by just playing along this season, that I've made some really stupid mistakes that wouldn't have happened with more time to think.

Second Chance wrote:Yes, I do agree he made a bad call. But I still think that the whole concept of TDC just really messes with the beauty of the long standing luxury of having the time to analyze and sort things out in a rational manner without feeling the stress and panic caused by this restriction, which then can lead to a chain reaction of bad decisions made in a very short time span. I've found, by just playing along this season, that I've made some really stupid mistakes that wouldn't have happened with more time to think.

Right. The rule about banking leftover time for the $1 million question makes one want to answer as quickly as possible, even though the likelihood of seeing that top question is remote and using what little time there is on the question in play would be more useful. The lack of the clock was one of the last things left (after the death of the Phone Game) that made WWTBAM different.

Ironically enough, 5th Grader may now be the only show left without any (apparent) time constraint. Unfortunately, the contestants cast for that show seldom can use their time to think.

Louis Louis

They just keep taunting me.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Jeffrey Mueller
Elkridge, MD
Ninth-Grade Teacher (American Government)

We've been getting a lot of teachers outside of Teachers Week lately.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Jeffrey is part of a band, Six Ounces of Cheese, with some of the other faculty at his school.

What Else®

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:The First Dollar
Sweet Surrender
Social Security
Chieftains
Flaw & Order
Pop TV
Political Families
Foreign Tongues
Adam Sandler
Louis Louis
I Remember!
Very Graphic
Celebrity Pets
Playing Doctor
Going Ape

First ten look good. Final five are gonna be pains in the arse.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:$200 In the board game “Operation,” an ice cream cone in the patient’s head denotes what ailment?
A. Funny bone
B. Brain freeze
C. Writer’s cramp
D. Charlie horse

IIRC, this is a rewrite of a past question which asked what ailment was added to the game.

Nihil obstat®

NellyLunatic1980 wrote:We've been getting a lot of teachers outside of Teachers Week lately.

These may be the teachers who were invited for Teachers Week but didn't get their turn in those episodes.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote: Jeffrey Mueller
Elkridge, MD
Ninth-Grade Teacher (American Government)

Jeffrey is part of a band, Six Ounces of Cheese, with some of the other faculty at his school.

I thought teacher week was over. Nice band name and band name members ("Big Cheddar", "Gouda")

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:$1K “You always want a second helping” is a common mnemonic for remembering that there are two “S”s in what word?
A. Passport
B. Dessert
C. Missile
D. Necessary

Spoiler

B. Dessert ( 8 )

"Common"??? I've never heard of it.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:$2K In 1849, Louis Pasteur joined the faculty at Strasbourg University to teach classes on what subject?
A. Astronomy
B. Psychology
C. Chemistry
D. Anatomy

Spoiler

C. Chemistry (12)

OK, is it just I or does this seem like a particularly tricky question for such a low dollar value? After all, Pasteur is known for his work with rabies, which could lead one to choose "D" as the answer.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:$4K In 2008 comedy, Adam Sandler plays an Israeli assassin-turned-hairstylist in “You Don’t Mess With the” what?
A. Yosef
B. Moshe
C. Zohan
D. Shlomi

Jeffrey: I didn’t see it, but I’m pretty sure it was A. Yosef final answer. Oh God it’s no, it’s...

Jeffrey leaves with $1K.

Spoiler

C. Zohan (20)

What a shame! This may be another problem caused by the clock - in order to save time for later Jeffrey blurted out an answer without taking time to think it through.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:$200 In the board game “Operation,” an ice cream cone in the patient’s head denotes what ailment?
A. Funny bone
B. Brain freeze
C. Writer’s cramp
D. Charlie horse

IIRC, this is a rewrite of a past question which asked what ailment was added to the game.

Nihil obstat®[/quote] Yes, they seem to enjoy Operation questions, there was also a question on one of this season's tests about the game.