Transcript 10/15/09 - Kate Crowther

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Kate Crowther
Florence, MA
College student

Question Topics:
* Genetics
* Famous Paintings
* Crime Fighters
* Olympic Athletes
* Unusual Words
* NASA
* Big Media
* Musical Instruments
* The Supreme Court
* Sports Teams
* Italian
* Lawsuits
* Real Estate
* Children's TV
* Advertising

$500 * Advertising
In its ad, what household brand claims to be "#1 recommended by most dentists & hygienists"?

A: Clorox B: Colgate
C: Kleenex D: McLardly's Choco-Bombs

Answer

B: Colgate ( 6 )

$1,000 * Children's TV
Which of the following is the title of a popular children's show and not the name of a high-tech gadget?

A: iPhone B: iPod
C: iCarly D: iMac

Answer

C: iCarly ( 8 )

$2,000 * Real Estate
In real estate listings, a house that is described as having a "WIC" has a "walk-in" what?

A: Closet B: Courtyard
C: Cellar D: Chimney

Answer

A: Closet ( 11 )

$3,000 * Lawsuits
In 2009, Oscar Mayer and Hebrew National were sued in an attempt to get health warnings put on what?

A: Potato chips B: Low-fat ice cream
C: Frozen pizzas D: Hot dogs

Answer

D: Hot dogs ( 8 )

$5,000 * Italian
Which of these one-named performers has a name that means "my lady" in Italian?

A: Shakira B: Madonna
C: Beyoncé D: Ashanti

With 7 seconds left, Kate decides to Ask The Audience.

ATA: A: 5% B: 82% C: 5% D: 8%

Answer

B: Madonna ( 6 )

-- Commercial Break --

Kate has three little boys, Noah, Elliot and Oliver, who are 7, 4 and 2 years old. Kate is a full-time student and her husband is a carpenter. All Kate wants right now is a washer and a dryer.

Noah is a little nervous about his mom winning the $1 million, because all the rich kids on TV shows are "kinda snooty".

Kate has now earned her Ask The Expert lifeline, with today's expert, Mo Rocca. When Mo is introduced, he's wearing yellow ducky pajamas.

$7,500 * Sports Teams
Though roughly 98% of grizzly bears in the U.S. are said to live in Alaska, what state has an NBA team called the Grizzlies?

A: Tennessee B: Texas
C: Georgia D: Florida

With 13 seconds left, Kate decides to Double Dip.

Kate's first answer is

Spoiler

A: Tennessee

.

Answer

A: Tennessee ( 13 )

$10,000 * The Supreme Court
Two current U.S. Supreme Court justices share which of these first names?

A: Clarence B: Stephen
C: John D: Samuel

With 23 seconds left, Kate decides to Ask The Expert, or as she says, "Check this with Mo."

Mo: Hmmm. Okay, well, we know that the is only one Clarence. We know Clarence Thomas. We know that the is only one Samuel, Samuel Alito. We love Stephen Breyer, because we love ice cream. I'm thinking, okay--ohh, it's John! Yeah, every Supreme Court has at least two Johns. That's where they get the life experience to make good judgments!

Answer

C: John ( 21 )

$12,500 * Musical Instruments
By definition, which of these musical instruments can be played "pizzicato"?

A: Cymbals B: Violin
C: Trombone D: Clarinet

With 16 seconds left, Kate decides to Phone A Friend, choosing to call Garth before her PAF team is introduced.

On Kate's PAF team are Jillian, Hatfield, MA; and Garth, Greenfield, MA.

Garth: Cymbals, trombone--

Kate: Violin or clarinet. Thirteen seconds.

Garth: Cymbals, violin, clarinet--

Kate: Six seconds!

Garth: I believe it's clarinet, because I think pizzicato is a very--

[Time runs out.]

Kate: I'll trust him and say clarinet, final answer.

Kate drops to $5,000.

Answer

B: Violin ( 13 )

-- Commercial Break --

[NellyLunatic1980]

Yay! Mo Rocca is back!

$12.5K: Never heard of pizzicato. I'll try Mo Rocca first. PAF if he doesn't know.

[Brit Canuck]

Just what the Save-Phone-A-Friend Campaign needs - a PAF who doesn't Google.

Naturally, the penalty is paid.

[jarnon]

Pizzicato is when you pluck the strings with your fingers instead of using the bow.

[silverscreenselect]

$7,500 * Sports Teams
Though roughly 98% of grizzly bears in the U.S. are said to live in Alaska, what state has an NBA team called the Grizzlies?

A: Tennessee B: Texas
C: Georgia D: Florida

With 13 seconds left, Kate decides to Double Dip.

Kate's first answer is

Spoiler

A: Tennessee

.

Answer

A: Tennessee ( 13 )

Of course, the Grizzlies were originally the Vancouver Grizzlies and moved to Memphis, so the name was more appropos of their original city, much the same as the Los Angeles (Minneapolis) Lakers and the Utah (New Orleans) Jazz.

[TheConfessor]

Yay! Mo Rocca is back!

And he's back to his old shtick -- making jokes to cover up the fact that he's just guessing. If he knew the answer for sure, he should have named the two Johns instead of trying to be funny. His first responsibility is to help the contestant, which includes explaining his reasoning and degree of certainty.

[MarleysGh0st]

Yay! Mo Rocca is back!

And he's back to his old shtick -- making jokes to cover up the fact that he's just guessing. If he knew the answer for sure, he should have named the two Johns instead of trying to be funny. His first responsibility is to help the contestant, which includes explaining his reasoning and degree of certainty.

I wonder how many experts think that? After all, they've never seen these contestants before and they'll never see them again.

[NellyLunatic1980]

Yay! Mo Rocca is back!

And he's back to his old shtick -- making jokes to cover up the fact that he's just guessing. If he knew the answer for sure, he should have named the two Johns instead of trying to be funny. His first responsibility is to help the contestant, which includes explaining his reasoning and degree of certainty.

I wonder how many experts think that? After all, they've never seen these contestant before and they'll never see them again.

Unless they're What Elses®.

[summus123]

Yay! Mo Rocca is back!

And he's back to his old shtick -- making jokes to cover up the fact that he's just guessing. If he knew the answer for sure, he should have named the two Johns instead of trying to be funny. His first responsibility is to help the contestant, which includes explaining his reasoning and degree of certainty.

I thought he was convinced (and not just guessing) there were 2 Johns on the Supreme Court, he just couldn't name them in the time allowed. Samuel and Clarence were obviously wrong answers. He named Stephen Breyer (like the ice cream). Granted, it would have been better if he named John Roberts and John Paul Stevens, but I think Mo did OK.

[MarleysGh0st]

Yay! Mo Rocca is back!

And he's back to his old shtick -- making jokes to cover up the fact that he's just guessing. If he knew the answer for sure, he should have named the two Johns instead of trying to be funny. His first responsibility is to help the contestant, which includes explaining his reasoning and degree of certainty.

I thought he was convinced (and not just guessing) there were 2 Johns on the Supreme Court, he just couldn't name them in the time allowed. Samuel and Clarence were obviously wrong answers. He named Stephen Breyer (like the ice cream). Granted, it would have been better if he named John Roberts and John Paul Stevens, but I think Mo did OK.

The problem is that Kate couldn't know if he knew that for a fact or not. He started well by naming the justices and he could have continued with "John Roberts and that other John whose last name I can't remember." Instead, he turned it into a joke. How could Kate be sure that he'd never, never take that approach if he was doubtful of his answer?

A direct, shtick-free approach is always safer, even if it scores fewer points for Mo's celebrity persona.

[earendel]

Kate Crowther
Florence, MA
College student

Either an older student or else she started having children very young.

$1,000 * Children's TV
Which of the following is the title of a popular children's show and not the name of a high-tech gadget?

A: iPhone B: iPod
C: iCarly D: iMac

Answer

C: iCarly ( 8 )

My grandson Caden likes to watch this show. He's only 2 so I doubt he "gets" it, but it's visually attractive enough to keep his attention.

Kate has now earned her Ask The Expert lifeline, with today's expert, Mo Rocca. When Mo is introduced, he's wearing yellow ducky pajamas.

Hmmm...what happened to Cokie Roberts? I must confess she did a passable job during her stint.

$10,000 * The Supreme Court
Two current U.S. Supreme Court justices share which of these first names?

A: Clarence B: Stephen
C: John D: Samuel

With 23 seconds left, Kate decides to Ask The Expert, or as she says, "Check this with Mo."

Mo: Hmmm. Okay, well, we know that the is only one Clarence. We know Clarence Thomas. We know that the is only one Samuel, Samuel Alito. We love Stephen Breyer, because we love ice cream. I'm thinking, okay--ohh, it's John! Yeah, every Supreme Court has at least two Johns. That's where they get the life experience to make good judgments!

Answer

C: John ( 21 )

That was an odd way to answer the question. FTR it's John Stevens and John Roberts.

$12,500 * Musical Instruments
By definition, which of these musical instruments can be played "pizzicato"?

A: Cymbals B: Violin
C: Trombone D: Clarinet

With 16 seconds left, Kate decides to Phone A Friend, choosing to call Garth before her PAF team is introduced.

On Kate's PAF team are Jillian, Hatfield, MA; and Garth, Greenfield, MA.

Garth: Cymbals, trombone--

Kate: Violin or clarinet. Thirteen seconds.

Garth: Cymbals, violin, clarinet--

Kate: Six seconds!

Garth: I believe it's clarinet, because I think pizzicato is a very--

[Time runs out.]

Kate: I'll trust him and say clarinet, final answer.

Kate drops to $5,000.

Answer

B: Violin ( 13 )

Was he confusing pizzcato with piccolo?

Nihil obstat®.

[frogman042]

And he's back to his old shtick -- making jokes to cover up the fact that he's just guessing. If he knew the answer for sure, he should have named the two Johns instead of trying to be funny. His first responsibility is to help the contestant, which includes explaining his reasoning and degree of certainty.

I thought he was convinced (and not just guessing) there were 2 Johns on the Supreme Court, he just couldn't name them in the time allowed. Samuel and Clarence were obviously wrong answers. He named Stephen Breyer (like the ice cream). Granted, it would have been better if he named John Roberts and John Paul Stevens, but I think Mo did OK.

The problem is that Kate couldn't know if he knew that for a fact or not. He started well by naming the justices and he could have continued with "John Roberts and that other John whose last name I can't remember." Instead, he turned it into a joke. How could Kate be sure that he'd never, never take that approach if he was doubtful of his answer?

A direct, shtick-free approach is always safer, even if it scores fewer points for Mo's celebrity persona.

First it was an interesting question because there are two phonetic ste(v|ph)ens on the court, a first name and a last name. I think Mo new it and sold it as he was sure - and I'm sure he could have named them both, maybe he didn't think he had to and I think Kate new that he was sure. I don't think it was a guess on his part.

Also, how many experts have donned PJ's and an Ascot (on different appearences)? Mo is up there as one of my favorite experts.

[wintergreen48]

Kind of interesting (to those of us who are interested in such things) that she had two Italian language questions in which she had to use lifelines, once successfully (albeit, I think, wastefully) and once not.

For the 'my lady' question, the only Italian word in the choices was 'Madonna,' which should have made it kind of easy (and the 'ma' prefix should have suggested 'my' anyway), so that was a waste.

The pizzicato question is a little trickier: it would have helped her to know Italian ('pizzicato' comes from a word that means, literally, 'to pluck' or 'to pick,' and a stringed instrument is the only one that makes sense), but knowledge of real music (where real musicians actually play real instruments, not the cacaphony of noise that passes for music these days) would also give you the answer. Back in the good old days, when people actually learned things in school, we learned all of those musical terms, even for the instruments we did not play-- you needed them in order to read music, or to know what the composer intended.

Too bad, so sad.

[MarleysGh0st]

Kate has now earned her Ask The Expert lifeline, with today's expert, Mo Rocca. When Mo is introduced, he's wearing yellow ducky pajamas.

Her schedule probably didn't give her the leisure to sit at home all afternoon, waiting for Skype calls at unpredictable times.*

It's not like these celebrity experts are actually friends of the contestants.



*And I wonder if the experts worry that "If I go the bathroom at the wrong moment in the next several hours, the contestant may miss out on my help!"

[NellyLunatic1980]

Kate has now earned her Ask The Expert lifeline, with today's expert, Mo Rocca. When Mo is introduced, he's wearing yellow ducky pajamas.

Her schedule probably didn't give her the leisure to sit at home all afternoon, waiting for Skype calls at unpredictable times.*

It's not like these celebrity experts are actually friends of the contestants.



*And I wonder if the experts worry that "If I go the bathroom at the wrong moment in the next several hours, the contestant may miss out on my help!"

It's not a problem if the expert has a bucket under his desk.

[mom2five]

Kind of interesting (to those of us who are interested in such things) that she had two Italian language questions in which she had to use lifelines, once successfully (albeit, I think, wastefully) and once not.

For the 'my lady' question, the only Italian word in the choices was 'Madonna,' which should have made it kind of easy (and the 'ma' prefix should have suggested 'my' anyway), so that was a waste.

The pizzicato question is a little trickier: it would have helped her to know Italian ('pizzicato' comes from a word that means, literally, 'to pluck' or 'to pick,' and a stringed instrument is the only one that makes sense), but knowledge of real music (where real musicians actually play real instruments, not the cacaphony of noise that passes for music these days) would also give you the answer. Back in the good old days, when people actually learned things in school, we learned all of those musical terms, even for the instruments we did not play-- you needed them in order to read music, or to know what the composer intended.

Too bad, so sad.

The "Madonna question seemed easy, but "pizzicato" had me stumped and I did go to school "back in the good old days" (but I never had much music instruction.) OTOH, my 12 year old son has a great band teacher right now and knew that "pizzicato" meant to pluck!

[MarleysGh0st]

Kate's appearance is mentioned it this column, where her name is listed as Kate Crowley. Did I get it wrong in the transcript last week?

http://blog.masslive.com/criesandwhispe ... short.html

Kate's $5,000 win got first billing over news of Senator Kerry's impending hip replacement surgery and news about the Craz-E Burger (a cheeseburger served on a donut bun)!

[frogman042]

Kate's appearance is mentioned it this column, where her name is listed as Kate Crowley. Did I get it wrong in the transcript last week?

http://blog.masslive.com/criesandwhispe ... short.html

Kate's $5,000 win got first billing over news of Senator Kerry's impending hip replacement surgery and news about the Craz-E Burger (a cheeseburger served on a donut bun)!

Does it say if she is related to Aleister?