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Angela Watt
Oxford, MI

Angela is an attorney and mother of twin boys, but she also has her frisky side. Ten years ago, she started a New Years Eve tradition of shedding her clothes at midnight, except her boots, and she does a lap around the outside of the house.

Question Topics:
* You'll Be Glad
* Paper Boy
* Desk-In-Chief
* History Books
* Star Wars
* The Long Walk
* Namely Speaking
* Proper Pronunciations
* (On A Roll)
* (Measure of Money)
* (Ocean Liner)
* (Working Title)
* (Creature Feature)
* (Loudmouths)
* (World Figures)

Today's expert is CNN Senior Political Correspondent, Candy Crowley.

$8,000 * Proper Pronunciations
What is the correct French pronunciation of the restaurant term that is spelled p-r-i-x f-i-x-e?

A: Pree feeks B: Pricks fixey
C: Pricks feeks D: Pree fee

Answer

A: Pree feeks ( 14 )

$16,000 * Namely Speaking
What celebrity nickname would most aptly apply to the author of the 1903 novel "The Call of the Wild"?

A: A-Rod B: K-Fed
C: J.Lo D: T-Mac

Answer

C: J.Lo ( 11 )

$25,000 * The Long Walk
If you walk due north from El Paso, Texas to Canada, which of these states would you not pass through on your journey?

A: Montana B: Idaho
C: Wyoming D: Colorado

Angela thinks she knows, but with 14 seconds left, she decides to Phone A Friend.

Angela's PAF team are Linda, Clinton Township, MI; Rick, Leawood, KS; and Roger, Fort Wayne, IN.

Angela calls Linda. Linda repeats the question and answers as Angela reads them to her.

Angela: Five seconds.

Angela: Five seconds.

Angela: (repeating what a voice in the background says) Wyoming.

Linda: For sure?

Angela: Yes.

Linda makes C: Wyoming her final answer.

Linda drops to $1,000.

Answer

B: Idaho ( 4 )

It's funny how people don't know their geography. I find it true when I play pub trivia as well. Of course I dislike the music categories.

ulysses5019 wrote:It's funny how people don't know their geography. I find it true when I play pub trivia as well. Of course I dislike the music categories.

Noone likes the music categories!

ulysses5019 wrote:It's funny how people don't know their geography. I find it true when I play pub trivia as well. Of course I dislike the music categories.

Whenever I've been on PAF duty, I've always kept a world globe within reach. It helps for checking whether the Equator goes through the Arctic Ocean. It would have made this question a piece of cake. I didn't think it was a real hard question, but it's better to have a PAF who admits she doesn't know than one who is "sure" of the wrong answer.

ulysses5019 wrote:It's funny how people don't know their geography. I find it true when I play pub trivia as well. Of course I dislike the music categories.

This question (and the state capital question that tripped up the other contestant) is an example of a question that the clock is going to hurt people with. It is tough on national television to visualize a map of the United States in 30 seconds. Given a bit more time, she might have been able to think that one through.

TheConfessor wrote:

ulysses5019 wrote:It's funny how people don't know their geography. I find it true when I play pub trivia as well. Of course I dislike the music categories.

Noone likes the music categories!

Ummm...speak for yourself

I didn't know this one, I'm am to admit.

However, I DO know who the guy in Uly's avatar is.

Dursted!

Nihil obstat®

ulysses5019 wrote:It's funny how people don't know their geography. I find it true when I play pub trivia as well. Of course I dislike the music categories.

How can you have a PAF team, and not have one with access to a map or globe?

Especially if you know you're no good at geography?

Thank goodness for this Bored! So many strategists who have thought out almost every aspect of gameplay!

Google maps brings up a US map

Jeemie wrote:

ulysses5019 wrote:It's funny how people don't know their geography. I find it true when I play pub trivia as well. Of course I dislike the music categories.

How can you have a PAF team, and not have one with access to a map or globe?

Especially if you know you're no good at geography?

Thank goodness for this Bored! So many strategists who have thought out almost every aspect of gameplay!

I think there are contestants who don't put much thought into their lifelines. It seems like second nature to us here on the bored.

On a totally unrelated (and very shallow) note, I don't know what it was, but Angela looked much more attractive to me on her carryover night than her first night.

Just sayin'

ITA, Jeemie, and that's interesting because this was the second show taped on Friday the 31st, so presumably she didn't have much time between shows to get all prettied up.

But yeah. Geography was definitely out to get her in her hot seat run.

Jeemie wrote:On a totally unrelated (and very shallow) note, I don't know what it was, but Angela looked much more attractive to me on her carryover night than her first night.

Just sayin'

I's sure that is totally unrelated to Regis' disclosure of her friskiness on NYE...

Estonut wrote:

Jeemie wrote:On a totally unrelated (and very shallow) note, I don't know what it was, but Angela looked much more attractive to me on her carryover night than her first night.

Just sayin'

I's sure that is totally unrelated to Regis' disclosure of her friskiness on NYE...

Well...it made me think of where I might want to go next Dec 31...

Estonut wrote:

Jeemie wrote:On a totally unrelated (and very shallow) note, I don't know what it was, but Angela looked much more attractive to me on her carryover night than her first night.

Just sayin'

I's sure that is totally unrelated to Regis' disclosure of her friskiness on NYE...

She might have gone to Princeton and participated in their Nude Olympics:

http://tigernet.princeton.edu/~ptoniana/nude.asp

ulysses5019 wrote:

Estonut wrote:

Jeemie wrote:On a totally unrelated (and very shallow) note, I don't know what it was, but Angela looked much more attractive to me on her carryover night than her first night.

Just sayin'

I's sure that is totally unrelated to Regis' disclosure of her friskiness on NYE...

She might have gone to Princeton and participated in their Nude Olympics:

http://tigernet.princeton.edu/~ptoniana/nude.asp

But since she lives in Michigan maybe she was a participant in the Naked Mile:

http://www.michigandaily.com/content/st ... r-expected

8K: I've always heard "pree fixay". Needless to say I can't speak French. Since I know the 1st word is "pree", pick "pree fix", since I'm sure it isn't "pree fee", & hold breath.

25K: Pretty sure it isn't Idaho. OK, very sure it isn't Idaho. All my shaky geographical knowledge tells me so. I'm surer of that than how Montana & Wyoming line up with Colorado, actually. Go for it & hold breath, again.

I faintly heard another woman in the room's voice say "Idaho," and then quickly switched to "Wyoming." How sad.

I wouldn't be surprised if there were a small crowd keeping Jeemie company at Angela's house on NYE from now on... lol

Second Chance wrote:I faintly heard another woman in the room's voice say "Idaho," and then quickly switched to "Wyoming." How sad.

I wouldn't be surprised if there were a small crowd keeping Jeemie company at Angela's house on NYE from now on... lol

Sounded like she was the relay person for a room full of people. As noted in this thread it seems crazy to us not to have a map or globe handy as a PAF but that tradition goes way back as time after time a relatively simple geography Q would be missed by a PAF for lack of a map combined with profound and rampant geo nitwitism.