WWTBAM Bored

Brian Schoby
Belleville, IL
High school football and track coach
Also teaches kindergarten through 3rd Phys-Ed
Does animal walks with the young kids

Topic Tree:
Brainiacs
Bartlett’s
Fear Itself
Hit the Slopes
Flaw & Order
Hot for Teacher
Ace of Bass
This Is War
Wall Street
Doctor Doctor
(Logo a Go-Go)
(Good Government)
(Are You Chicken?)
(People Magazine)
(Pope Culture)

Meredith introduces today's expert, Bill Finan, a member of the 2008 College Bowl winning team from the University of Rochester. Bill was helpful yesterday.



$2000 (Doctor Doctor):
Performed to assist breathing, a tracheotomy is a surgery on what part of the body?
A. Lungs B. Nose
C. Tongue D. Windpipe

Spoiler

D. Windpipe (:24)

$4000 (Wall Street):
In a scene from the 1987 movie "Wall Street, financier Gordon Gekko memorably declares that what vice "is good"?
A. Envy B. Lust
C. Anger D. Greed

Spoiler

D. Greed (:24)

$8000 (This Is War):
On April 6, 1917, the U.S. officially entered World War I when it declared war on what country?
A. Italy B. Russia
C. Germany D. France

ATA (:21)

ATA

A-4% B-10% C-84% D-2%

Spoiler

C. Germany [:18]

$16K (Ace of Bass):
Ashlee Simpson's husband Pete Wentz is the bassist for what chart-topping rock band?
A. Green Day B. Fall Out Boy
C. The Killers D. Panic! At the Disco

Spoiler

B. Fall Out Boy (:24)

$25K (Hot for Teacher):
Since 1984, National Teacher Appreciation Week has been celebrated annually during the first week of what month?
A. May B. September
C. November D. February

Double-Dip at :18

Spoiler

Brian says he should know it
First answer, D, was incorrect
Second was correct
A. May (:15)

Commercial Break

Brian's wife is a 5th grade teacher.

$50K (Flaw & Order):
Which of these not-so-flattering statements best describes George Washington at the time of his first presidential inauguration?
A. He was bald B. He had only one tooth
C. His head was bandaged D. He had laryngitis

Expert (:26)

ATE

Bill says G.W. had dentures so he is 90% sure it is B

Spoiler

B. He had only one tooth (:22)

$100K (Hit the Slopes):
What country is home to Telemark, a geographical region that lends its name to a maneuver used in skiing?
A. Switzerland B. Austria
C. Norway D. Canada

PAF (:32)

Choices: friend Randy, Orlando FL
friend Matt, Alexandria VA
brother Derek, Seattle WA

PAF

Matt says I don't know Brian, my guess would be(buzz buzz)

Spoiler

C. Norway (Brian walked)

Brian walks with $50K.

Commercial break

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Brian Schoby
Belleville, IL
High school football and track coach
Also teaches kindergarten through 3rd Phys-Ed
Does animal walks with the young kids
$100K (Hit the Slopes):
What country is home to Telemark, a geographical region that lends its name to a maneuver used in skiing?
A. Switzerland B. Austria
C. Norway D. Canada

PAF (:32)

Choices: friend Randy, Orlando FL
friend Matt, Alexandria VA
brother Derek, Seattle WA

PAF

Matt says I don't know Brian, my guess would be(buzz buzz)

Spoiler

C. Norway (Brian walked)

Brian walks with $50K.

Commercial break

A fairly straight forward google. I guess they will never learn.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Brian Schoby
Belleville, IL
High school football and track coach
Also teaches kindergarten through 3rd Phys-Ed
Does animal walks with the young kids

Our local station interrupted BAM with coverage of the winter storm, so Brian's appearance was cut short.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:$16K (Ace of Bass):
Ashlee Simpson's husband Pete Wentz is the bassist for what chart-topping rock band?
A. Green Day B. Fall Out Boy
C. The Killers D. Panic! At the Disco

Spoiler

B. Fall Out Boy (:24)

Time for a lifeline - I have no idea. Hope the audience does.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:$25K (Hot for Teacher):
Since 1984, National Teacher Appreciation Week has been celebrated annually during the first week of what month?
A. May B. September
C. November D. February

Double-Dip at :18

Spoiler

Brian says he should know it
First answer, D, was incorrect
Second was correct
A. May (:15)

He's a teacher so he should know this. I don't know it, so time for a second lifeline. Unfortunately I think PAF is the one to use here.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:$100K (Hit the Slopes):
What country is home to Telemark, a geographical region that lends its name to a maneuver used in skiing?
A. Switzerland B. Austria
C. Norway D. Canada

PAF (:32)

Choices: friend Randy, Orlando FL
friend Matt, Alexandria VA
brother Derek, Seattle WA

PAF

Matt says I don't know Brian, my guess would be(buzz buzz)

Spoiler

C. Norway (Brian walked)

And it's time to ask the expert, though I have little confidence. Double-dip is out of the question since it could be any one of three (omitting Canada).

Once again, it pays (potentially big money) to watch the Olympics.

(as well as have kids)

Appa23 wrote:Once again, it pays (potentially big money) to watch the Olympics.

(as well as have kids)

Or grow up in mountain country. I learned at an early age that skier Stein Erikson was credited with inventing (or introducing) the telemark turn, although I never knew what "telemark" meant until I saw this question.

Here's an article about Brian's appearance.

http://www.bnd.com/news/local/story/633027.html

Schoby used his "phone-a-friend" lifeline on the $100,000 question: "What country is home to Telemark, a geographical region that lends its name to a maneuver used in skiing? A. Switzerland, B. Austria, C. Norway or D. Canada."

He called Matt Joergensen of Alexandria, Va., a former classmate at Althoff Catholic High School in Belleville. Joergensen didn't know the answer, leading Schoby to walk away with the guaranteed $50,000 rather than take a chance by guessing.

"I called the wrong person," Schoby said Tuesday, noting he didn't blame Joergensen. "I should have called Randy Cook (a friend in Orlando, Fla.) It turns out he knew the answer to that question. He's a skier."

You need to know your PAF teams strengths and weaknesses!

And another article about Brian:

http://www.thetelegraph.com/news/schoby ... nswer.html

The headline might have been written by MBFFB:

Who wants to be a thousandaire?

Hey, at least Brian made it to $50K!

And there's this sign that WWTBAM is moving back into the public consciousness:

Schoby said it has been fun to hear from people who had seen him play.

"One friend texted me on Tuesday morning to ask if I had seen ‘Slumdog Millionaire' and jokingly asked if I was being held in a police station," he said, referring to the current hit movie about a young man in India whose success on a TV game show causes police to be suspicious. "It has been fun."

$16K: No clue on this one. Ask the audience.

$25K: I should know this one, but I don't. Phone-A-Friend. (Hot for Teacher):

$50K: George Washington was known for wearing both a wig and dentures, so both A or B looked good. Since I don't know which one of them applied to him at the time of his first inauguration, I'll Double Dip.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:$100K (Hit the Slopes):
What country is home to Telemark, a geographical region that lends its name to a maneuver used in skiing?
A. Switzerland B. Austria
C. Norway D. Canada

Didn't we talk about Telemark on the Bored several weeks ago? I seem to recall that I questioned what Telemark was and somebody said it was skiing from Norway.

NellyLunatic1980 wrote:Didn't we talk about Telemark on the Bored several weeks ago? I seem to recall that I questioned what Telemark was and somebody said it was skiing from Norway.

Yes, you did! And gsabc answered.

viewtopic.php?f=1&t=11339

This may have been the same, recycled $100K question, although they used the "Telemark Skiing" topic on the 10/29 episode and "Hit the Slopes" this time.

gsabc wrote: Telemark skiing is a special kind of binding, akin to cross-country skiing rather than the usually seen Alpine style. I'd bet the question was where the name comes from (a region in Norway).

Very good call, gsabc!

MarleysGh0st wrote:

NellyLunatic1980 wrote:Didn't we talk about Telemark on the Bored several weeks ago? I seem to recall that I questioned what Telemark was and somebody said it was skiing from Norway.

Yes, you did! And gsabc answered.

viewtopic.php?f=1&t=11339

This may have been the same, recycled $100K question, although they used the "Telemark Skiing" topic on the 10/29 episode and "Hit the Slopes" this time.

gsabc wrote: Telemark skiing is a special kind of binding, akin to cross-country skiing rather than the usually seen Alpine style. I'd bet the question was where the name comes from (a region in Norway).

Very good call, gsabc!

Speaking of changing topic categories, did anyone else notice the $1MM topics yesterday that were likely the same question? One category was "Chillin' ", the other was "Frozen Solid". Bet that the question asks what absolute zero is. FTR, it's zero Kelvin (0 K), -273.15 degrees Centigrade/Celsius (-273 C) and -459.7 degrees Fahrenheit (-460 F). Sorry, I can't get a degree symbol in there. There have also been "Sheepish" and "Hello, Dolly!" $1MM categories recently.

gsabc wrote: Speaking of changing topic categories, did anyone else notice the $1MM topics yesterday that were likely the same question? One category was "Chillin' ", the other was "Frozen Solid". Bet that the question asks what absolute zero is. FTR, it's zero Kelvin (0 K), -273.15 degrees Centigrade/Celsius (-273 C) and -459.7 degrees Fahrenheit (-460 F). Sorry, I can't get a degree symbol in there. There have also been "Sheepish" and "Hello, Dolly!" $1MM categories recently.

With the new topic trees this season, there would seem to be some benefit to having future contestants or their friends sit in the early tapings, making notes of the unused topics. Many of them are too vague for studying, but others, like this Telemark one, could be specific enough to identify questions that will return again.

gsabc wrote: Speaking of changing topic categories, did anyone else notice the $1MM topics yesterday that were likely the same question? One category was "Chillin' ", the other was "Frozen Solid". Bet that the question asks what absolute zero is. FTR, it's zero Kelvin (0 K), -273.15 degrees Centigrade/Celsius (-273 C) and -459.7 degrees Fahrenheit (-460 F). Sorry, I can't get a degree symbol in there.

An addendum: the Kelvin scale does not use the degree symbol. It's "zero Kelvin", not "zero degrees Kelvin". It's considered an absolute scale, meaning no units of measure.

You're hot, or you're not.

Thousandaire wrote:You're hot, or you're not.

Is Paris Hilton still hot?

MarleysGh0st wrote:And another article about Brian:

http://www.thetelegraph.com/news/schoby ... nswer.html

The Telegraph wrote:For the $100,000 question, Schoby decided to call his friend, Matt Joergensen, who was waiting by the telephone with two laptop computers and 10 pages bookmarked. Both friends were unsure of the answer to the question: "What country is home to Telemark, a geographical region that lends its name to a maneuver used in skiing?"

Apparently, none of those bookmarked pages were Google. Googling "telemark", the preview of the top hit mentions the style being developed by a Norwegian. Googling "telemark region", the previews of 5 of the top 10 hits mention Norway.

Sheesh!