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Carl Bartucca
Mahopac, NY
Firefighter

Carl still has his ATE.

Today’s ATE is co-anchor of CNN’s “American Morning,” Kiran Chetry.

Topic Tree:

The Sixteenth Century
The Nobel Prize
Younger Years
Toys & Games
South America
The Internet
Library Firsts
U.S. Presidents
(Same Name)
(Birthdays)
(Word Origins)
(Foreign Phrases)
(Incense)
(Brand Names)
(At the Movies)

$12.5K In a reference to his Missouri hometown, what President was known as “the man from Independence”?
A. Herbert Hoover
B. Harry Truman
C. Dwight Eisenhower
D. Richard Nixon

Spoiler

B. Harry Truman (21)

$15K What author is often credited with being the first person to submit a book manuscript written on a typewriter?
A. Herman Melville
B. Washington Irving
C. Nathaniel Hawthorne
D. Mark Twain

ATE (12)

Carl: I have one in mind.

Kiran: All right. What about ones we can eliminate? Washington Irving. I say we can eliminate him.

Carl: That’s what I’m thinking. I don’t know Herman Melville.

Kiran: Herman Melville. I believe he wrote “Moby Dick.”

Carl: I’m thinking Mark Twain.

Kiran: That was my first guess as well.

Carl: I see him at the typewriter. And I’m thinking, you know, when he was in the business, I’m thinking that time frame.

Kiran: I don’t disagree with you. I’m thinking our best bet is “D,” but I’m not positive.

Spoiler

D. Mark Twain (5)

$25K Dating back to ARPANET, the first computer network developed by the Department of Defense, how old did the Internet turn in 2009?
A. 20 years
B. 30 years
C. 40 years
D. 50 years

Carl decides to leave with $15K.

Spoiler

C. 40 years (4)

commercial break

Answers:
$12.5K B. Harry Truman
$15K D. Mark Twain
$25K C. 40 years

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:$25K Dating back to ARPANET, the first computer network developed by the Department of Defense, how old did the Internet turn in 2009?
A. 20 years
B. 30 years
C. 40 years
D. 50 years

Wow, I didn't know that Al Gore worked at the DoD in 1969!

Nihil obstat®

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Carl Bartucca
Mahopac, NY
Firefighter

Carl still has his ATE.

Today’s ATE is co-anchor of CNN’s “American Morning,” Kiran Chetry.

Who?

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:$25K Dating back to ARPANET, the first computer network developed by the Department of Defense, how old did the Internet turn in 2009?
A. 20 years
B. 30 years
C. 40 years
D. 50 years

Carl decides to leave with $15K.

Spoiler

C. 40 years (4)

Well, Carl probably didn't have any Google PAFs anyway - there was a lot of press about the Internet turning 40.

earendel wrote:

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Carl Bartucca
Mahopac, NY
Firefighter

Carl still has his ATE.

Today’s ATE is co-anchor of CNN’s “American Morning,” Kiran Chetry.

Who?

Haven't they gone through the entire list of cable newscasters, yet?

NellyLunatic1980 wrote:

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:$25K Dating back to ARPANET, the first computer network developed by the Department of Defense, how old did the Internet turn in 2009?
A. 20 years
B. 30 years
C. 40 years
D. 50 years

Wow, I didn't know that Al Gore worked at the DoD in 1969!

Nihil obstat®

My friend Charley Kline at UCLA was the first person to use ARPANET. I had been using the SDS Sigma 7 that became the first node to compile and execute programs written in the SNOBOL language. The idea was that the ARPANET would interconnect the existing networks of the various organizations (thus "Internet") but it took quite some time before there was more than just one computer connected at each site. The ARPANET was developed for, not by the DoD for use by those who had ARPA research grants.

Bob Juch wrote:My friend Charley Kline at UCLA was the first person to use ARPANET.

But more importantly...was he also related to you?



PS ARPA (or DARPA, I guess) was an agency of DoD, IIRC.

And wasn't it they who developed ARPANet?

PPS After further research, I will say this.

You're nitpicking.

ARPA (more specifically) IPTO provided the funds.

So it is perfectly acceptable to say they also developed it- without their money, it wouldn't have happened.

Jeemie wrote:

Bob Juch wrote:My friend Charley Kline at UCLA was the first person to use ARPANET.

But more importantly...was he also related to you?

I think he's going to de-kline to answer.

Jeemie wrote:

Bob Juch wrote:My friend Charley Kline at UCLA was the first person to use ARPANET.

But more importantly...was he also related to you?



PS ARPA (or DARPA, I guess) was an agency of DoD, IIRC.

And wasn't it they who developed ARPANet?

PPS After further research, I will say this.

You're nitpicking.

ARPA (more specifically) IPTO provided the funds.

So it is perfectly acceptable to say they also developed it- without their money, it wouldn't have happened.

Charley is very distantly related through Noah.



ARPA was renamed DARPA in 1972 in reaction to Sen. Mansfield's criticisms of tax money being wasted on research projects.

I just noticed when watching this episode tonight (we're not a two-a-day market and I'm just catching up with my TiVo) that they had removed the PAF icon when they showed Carl's game play status at the start of the show. He had used his PAF on Friday's show. --Bob

Bob78164 wrote:... we're not a two-a-day market ...

Unless you're watching somewhere besides KTLA, we are a two-a-day market now. Original at noon and 1-year-old repeat at 12:30.

Estonut wrote:

Bob78164 wrote:... we're not a two-a-day market ...

Unless you're watching somewhere besides KTLA, we are a two-a-day market now. Original at noon and 1-year-old repeat at 12:30.

I typoed. I meant "we're now a two-a-day market." --Bob