Transcript 02/04/10 - Candace Wojas (carryover)

[BBTranscriptTeam]

Candace Wojas
Chicago, IL
First grade teacher

Candace is getting married "next month". Her fiance, Bobby, is in the audience and they need money for their wedding.

Question Topics:
* Genetics
* Shakespeare
* Diplomatic Relations
* Foreign Greetings
* Out in Space
* Measure for Measure
* Congress
* (James Bond)
* (Sporting Events)
* (Infomercials)
* (Words & Phrases)
* (Movie Stars)
* (Medical Tests)
* (Businessmen)
* (Gadgets)

$15,000 * Congress
Because of its population, which of these states elects two Senators but only one Representative to Congress?

A: Idaho B: Vermont
C: Hawaii D: West Virginia

Candace would want to use her Double Dip, but she doesn't think she can. She walks with $12,500.

Answer

B: Vermont ( 4 )

[NellyLunatic1980]

$15,000 * Congress
Because of its population, which of these states elects two Senators but only one Representative to Congress?

A: Idaho B: Vermont
C: Hawaii D: West Virginia

Candace would want to use her Double Dip, but she doesn't think she can. She walks with $12,500.

So would this qualify as geonitwitticism? All this question asked was, "Which of these states is the least populated?"

[earendel]

Candace Wojas
Chicago, IL
First grade teacher

Candace is getting married "next month". Her fiance, Bobby, is in the audience and they need money for their wedding.

$15,000 * Congress
Because of its population, which of these states elects two Senators but only one Representative to Congress?

A: Idaho B: Vermont
C: Hawaii D: West Virginia

Candace would want to use her Double Dip, but she doesn't think she can. She walks with $12,500.

Answer

B: Vermont ( 4 )

And after taxes maybe they'll have enough to pay the bills from their wedding. <*Sigh*> Yet another contestant who walks away "delighted" to win a middling amount of money.

[rgcviper]

$15,000 * Congress
Because of its population, which of these states elects two Senators but only one Representative to Congress?

A: Idaho B: Vermont
C: Hawaii D: West Virginia

Candace would want to use her Double Dip, but she doesn't think she can. She walks with $12,500.

Answer

B: Vermont ( 4 )

And after taxes maybe they'll have enough to pay the bills from their wedding. <*Sigh*> Yet another contestant who walks away "delighted" to win a middling amount of money.

OK. Three items here:
1. Before reading this transcript, I said to myself, "I'll bet she's one and done." Sure enough ...
2. I guessed the right answer from the start, since I figured C was too obvious and the correct answer had to be the next less populated. Not sure that I'd have gone for it in the hot seat, but I'm just sayin'.
3. $12,500 is "middling", earendel, compared to what contestants could hypothetically win on the show [sigh ...], but if I weren't sure of an answer, I wouldn't want to risk $7,500 on a guess. Again, I'm just sayin'.

[silvercamaro]

$15,000 * Congress
Because of its population, which of these states elects two Senators but only one Representative to Congress?

A: Idaho B: Vermont
C: Hawaii D: West Virginia

2. I guessed the right answer from the start, since I figured C was too obvious and the correct answer had to be the next less populated. Not sure that I'd have gone for it in the hot seat, but I'm just sayin'.

Why was Hawaii "too obvious"? It has at least one large city, Honolulu. I doubt that Vermont has a single municipality with a population of over 50,000.

[earendel]

$15,000 * Congress
Because of its population, which of these states elects two Senators but only one Representative to Congress?

A: Idaho B: Vermont
C: Hawaii D: West Virginia

Candace would want to use her Double Dip, but she doesn't think she can. She walks with $12,500.

Answer

B: Vermont ( 4 )

And after taxes maybe they'll have enough to pay the bills from their wedding. <*Sigh*> Yet another contestant who walks away "delighted" to win a middling amount of money.

OK. Three items here:
1. Before reading this transcript, I said to myself, "I'll bet she's one and done." Sure enough ...
2. I guessed the right answer from the start, since I figured C was too obvious and the correct answer had to be the next less populated. Not sure that I'd have gone for it in the hot seat, but I'm just sayin'.
3. $12,500 is "middling", earendel, compared to what contestants could hypothetically win on the show [sigh ...], but if I weren't sure of an answer, I wouldn't want to risk $7,500 on a guess. Again, I'm just sayin'.

I can understand someone not wanting to take a risk. And I can see how someone might be happy to win $12,500. But it's still a "middling amount" because, despite what it may look like these days, the name of the show is "Who Wants to be a Millionaire.

[andrewjackson]

Populations in 2000 which is what the Reps are based on right now:

Spoiler

A: Idaho 1,293,955
B: Vermont 608,826
C: Hawaii 1,211,538
D: West Virginia 1,808,345

Vermont has half or fewer the population of the other choices. As a matter of fact, the only state with fewer people than Vermont in 2000 was Wyoming.

[Odyssey]

Populations in 2000 which is what the Reps are based on right now:

Spoiler

A: Idaho 1,293,955
B: Vermont 608,826
C: Hawaii 1,211,538
D: West Virginia 1,808,345

Vermont has half or fewer the population of the other choices. As a matter of fact, the only state with fewer people than Vermont in 2000 was Wyoming.

Spoiler

I'm surprised to see the population of WV is quite that high.