Transcript 01/11/10 Dottie Belanger

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Dottie Belanger
Bethlehem, PA
Retired mental health professional

Topic Tree:

Deep Thinkers
Famous Paintings
Background Check
Desk Jobs
U.S. Presidents
Cycling
Short Stories
Recent TV
Gray’s Anatomy
Mountains
Proverbs
Musical Genres
Authors
Insects
Talk Show Hosts

$500 Which of these TV shows is hosted by a person who once modeled a swimsuit on the cover of Sports Illustrated?
A. The Martha Stewart Show
B. The Tyra Banks Show
C. The Oprah Winfrey Show
D. Larry King Live & Lubed

Spoiler

B. The Tyra Banks Show (6)

$1K Which of these insects is named for its habit of constructing nests within wood?
A. Carpenter ant
B. Lightning bug
C. Fruit fly
D. Deer tick

Spoiler

A. Carpenter ant (9)

$2K Two of his lesse-known works, “Tom Sawyer Abroad” and “Tom Sawyer, Detective” are both novels by what author?
A. Herman Melville
B. Charles Dickens
C. Mark Twain
D. Ernest Hemingway

Spoiler

C. Mark Twain (9)

$3K A hint to his genre of music, “Twang” is the title of a 2009 album by what artist?
A. Eminem
B. Prince
C. R. Kelly
D. George Strait

Spoiler

D. George Strait (9)

$5K “No call alligator long mouth till you pass him” is a proverb from which of these countries?
A. Ireland
B. New Zealand
C. Jamaica
D. Canada

ATA (5)

1% A. Ireland
29% B. New Zealand
67% C. Jamaica
3% D. Canada

Spoiler

C. Jamaica (4)

$7.5K Which of these U.S. mountains was made a National Volcanic Monument in 1982, two years after it famously erupted?
A. Mount Whitney
B. Mount St. Helens
C. Mount McKinley
D. Mount Hood

Spoiler

B. Mount St. Helens (24)

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Dottie will return for tomorrow’s show.

Answers:
$500 B. The Tyra Banks Show
$1K A. Carpenter ant
$2K C. Mark Twain
$3K D. George Strait
$5K C. Jamaica
$7.5K B. Mount St. Helens

[Kazoo65]

$5K-never heard of proverb, but easy to figure out.

Are the rest of the questions going to be this easy?

[NellyLunatic1980]

$500 Which of these TV shows is hosted by a person who once modeled a swimsuit on the cover of Sports Illustrated?
A. The Martha Stewart Show
B. The Tyra Banks Show
C. The Oprah Winfrey Show
D. Larry King Live & Lubed

Larry King Live & Lubed... FOR THE HOUR!

$5K “No call alligator long mouth till you pass him” is a proverb from which of these countries?
A. Ireland
B. New Zealand
C. Jamaica
D. Canada

I wanted to jump the gun on Jamaica, but New Zealand is a nasty distractor. I would've been forced to burn ATA here.

$7.5K Which of these U.S. mountains was made a National Volcanic Monument in 1982, two years after it famously erupted?
A. Mount Whitney
B. Mount St. Helens
C. Mount McKinley
D. Mount Hood

Interesting fact: Mt. St. Helens erupted exactly three days after I was born.

Nihil obstat® so far.

[frogman042]

$7.5K Which of these U.S. mountains was made a National Volcanic Monument in 1982, two years after it famously erupted?
A. Mount Whitney
B. Mount St. Helens
C. Mount McKinley
D. Mount Hood

Interesting fact: Mt. St. Helens erupted exactly three days after I was born.

Nihil obstat® so far.

Warning - Potentially Sacreligious:

The real question is who was born exactly 270 days after someone erupted after having Mt. St. Helens.

[ulysses5019]

$7.5K Which of these U.S. mountains was made a National Volcanic Monument in 1982, two years after it famously erupted?
A. Mount Whitney
B. Mount St. Helens
C. Mount McKinley
D. Mount Hood

Interesting fact: Mt. St. Helens erupted exactly three days after I was born.

Nihil obstat® so far.

Warning - Potentially Sacreligious:

The real question is who was born exactly 270 days after someone erupted after having Mt. St. Helens.

Spoiler

[andrewjackson]

$5K “No call alligator long mouth till you pass him” is a proverb from which of these countries?
A. Ireland
B. New Zealand
C. Jamaica
D. Canada

There are no alligators in any of those places. However, one of them has crocodiles.

[earendel]

Dottie Belanger
Bethlehem, PA
Retired mental health professional

Nihil obstat® so far.

[MarleysGh0st]

Are the rest of the questions going to be this easy?

The rest of the questions will be higher valued, so they're not supposed to be as easy.

But we'll see.