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Brandon Clayton
Stanardsville, VA
18 years old

Brandon has all of his lifelines.

Meredith introduces today's ATE, the anchor of "Open Court" on TruTV, Ashleigh Banfield.

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Time
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Sudoku
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Leadership
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$5K Fans of what pro baseball team commonly root on their squad with a cheer cadded the "tomahawk chop"?
A. Atlanta Braves
B. Pittsburgh Pirates
C. Seattle Mariners
D. San Diego Padres

Spoiler

A. Atlanta Braves (5)

$7.5K Which of the following names is given to a popular type of cake and a popular type of ham?
A. Red Sea
B. White Desert
C. Black Forest
D. Blue Ocean

Spoiler

C. Black Forest (12)

$10K In his novel "The Da Vinci Code, "Dan Brown suggests that it's actually Mary Magdalene sitting next to Jesus in what famous painting?
A. Annunciation
B. The Last Supper
C. Virgin of the Rocks
D. The Adoration of the Magi

Spoiler

B. The Last Supper (20)

$12.5K In 1958, sociologist Michael Young coined what word to describe a society whose leaders were selected based on their intelligence?
A. Bureaucracy
B. Meritocracy
C. Theocracy
D. Plutocracy

ATA (11)

9% A. Bureaucracy
58% B. Meritocracy
18% C. Theocracy
15% D. Plutocracy

Spoiler

B. Meritocracy (7)

$15K Which location of Bravo's popular "Real Housewives" TV series stars Danielle, Teresa, Dina, Caroline, and Jacqueline?
A. New Jersey
B. Orange County
C. Atlanta
D. New York

ATE (22)
Ashleigh says her husband watches this show, but she doesn't.
But because he talks so much about it, Ashleigh thinks it's New Jersey, because of Danielle being so controversial and Danielle's from New Jersey.

Ashleigh then tells Brandon that if she were in his place, she would pretty sure about it, although she's not 100% sure.

Spoiler

A. New Jersey (19)

commercial break

$25K In the standard version of the number game Sudoku, how many individual digits are there once the entire grid has been completed?
A. 36
B. 49
C. 64
D. 81

Spoiler

D. 81 ( 8 )

$50K What was the title of the poem read by Elizabeth Alexander at President Obama's 2009 inauguration?
A. Walking A True Line
B. Praise Song for the Day
C. On the Pulse of Morning
D. The Way The World Sleeps

PAF (29)

Brandon's PAF team:

Ken from Swarthmere, PA
Karen from Stanardsville, VA
Ginny from Stanardsville, VA

PAF - Karen

Karen has no idea.

DD (22)

Brandon's first choice, C. On the Pulse of Morning, is incorrect.
Brandon's second choice, A. Walking A True Line, is also incorrect.

Brandon leaves with $25K.

Spoiler

B. Praise Song for the Day (5)

Brandon moves into fifth place on the Tournament of Ten Leader Board

1. Jeff Birt $100K - 1:53
2. Fred Roberts $50K - 2:27
3. Alan Carver $25K - 0:30
4. Stephanie Millien $25K - 1:40
5. Brandon Clayton $25K - 2:08
6. Will Capp $25K - 2:39
7. Karen Geddeis $15K - 1:23
8. Melissa Brown $15K - 1:34
9. Kristin Leum $15K - 2:07
10. London Pfahler $12.5K - 1:14

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Answers:
$5K A. Atlanta Braves
$7.5K C. Black Forest
$10K B. The Last Supper
$12.5K B. Meritocracy
$15K A. New Jersey
$25K D. 81
$50K B. Praise Song for the Day

BBTranscriptTeam wrote: Brandon Clayton
Stanardsville, VA
18 years old

Brandon has all of his lifelines.

Meredith introduces today's ATE, the anchor of "Open Court" on TruTV, Ashleigh Banfield.

She's been on before, and IIRC she's not bad as an expert.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:$12.5K In 1958, sociologist Michael Young coined what word to describe a society whose leaders were selected based on their intelligence?
A. Bureaucracy
B. Meritocracy
C. Theocracy
D. Plutocracy

ATA (11)

9% A. Bureaucracy
58% B. Meritocracy
18% C. Theocracy
15% D. Plutocracy

Spoiler

B. Meritocracy (7)

I've heard this term but figured it was based on other criteria than just intelligence - merit being a loosely defined term. But since I know it's not any of the others (especially "bureaucracy" - I know 'cause I are one! ) it has to be "B".

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:$15K Which location of Bravo's popular "Real Housewives" TV series stars Danielle, Teresa, Dina, Caroline, and Jacqueline?
A. New Jersey
B. Orange County
C. Atlanta
D. New York

ATE (22)
Ashleigh says her husband watches this show, but she doesn't.
But because he talks so much about it, Ashleigh thinks it's New Jersey, because of Danielle being so controversial and Danielle's from New Jersey.

Ashleigh then tells Brandon that if she were in his place, she would pretty sure about it, although she's not 100% sure.

Spoiler

A. New Jersey (19)

Hoo, boy, I have absolutely no idea. I don't know how I'd have fared on the first few questions but assuming I have ATA on the table it's time to use it.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:$50K What was the title of the poem read by Elizabeth Alexander at President Obama's 2009 inauguration?
A. Walking A True Line
B. Praise Song for the Day
C. On the Pulse of Morning
D. The Way The World Sleeps

PAF (29)

Brandon's PAF team:

Ken from Swarthmere, PA
Karen from Stanardsville, VA
Ginny from Stanardsville, VA

PAF - Karen

Karen has no idea.

DD (22)

Brandon's first choice, C. On the Pulse of Morning, is incorrect.
Brandon's second choice, A. Walking A True Line, is also incorrect.

Brandon leaves with $25K.

Spoiler

B. Praise Song for the Day (5)

I could narrow it down to either B or C, knowing that it had something to do with "day" or "morning", so time to Double Dip. I'm not sure I trust the expert and I want to hang onto PAF as long as possible.

So, tractor boy, huh?

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Kidding aside, he did well, and I like when younger contestants do well and show others that we're not just all about the facebook and the internets and our rock and roll 8-track tapes.

hanzz wrote:Kidding aside, he did well, and I like when younger contestants do well and show others that we're not just all about the facebook and the internets and our rock and roll 8-track tapes.

Did you inherit those from your grandfather?

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Meredith introduces today's ATE, the anchor of "Open Court" on TruTV, Ashleigh Banfield.

Well, she's better than Schmoopie.

$12.5K: I'm between B and D. I would also ATA.

$15K: No freakin' clue. Don't think I would trust Ashleigh enough to ask her, so I would PAF.

Here's a brief article about Brandon's appearance.

http://www.dailypress.com/news/newport- ... 9801.story

Here's another article about Brandon's appearance.

http://www2.greene-news.com/gcn/lifesty ... ire/46609/

Nothing new in this story, considering that they took two weeks since his appearance to publish it!

MarleysGh0st wrote:Here's another article about Brandon's appearance.

http://www2.greene-news.com/gcn/lifesty ... ire/46609/

Nothing new in this story, considering that they took two weeks since his appearance to publish it!

Marley, if you watched his video, he DID pretty much say he lived in the sticks.

Maybe they delivered this story by pony express!