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Transcript 04/26/10 Marianne Hopper (carryover from 4/09/10)
Posted: Mon Apr 26, 2010 6:18 pm
by BBTranscriptTeam
Marianne Hopper
Austin, TX
College dean
Marianne is out of lifelines.
Topic Tree:
Cold Hard Cash
Facts & Figures
History of Law
What Is It?
Outer Space
(Lady Liberty)
(Government)
(Speaking in Tongues)
(Kid Lit)
(Adaptations)
(Nicknames)
(Famous Duos)
(Video Games)
(Leisure Time)
(Sea Life)
$50K The Cassini spacecraft recently revealed the likely presence of salt water on Enceladus, a moon of what planet?
A. Jupiter
B. Neptune
C. Uranus
D. Saturn
Marianne takes a guess and makes Neptune her final answer.
Marianne leaves with $25K.
D. Saturn (5)
Answers:
$50K D. Saturn
Re: Transcript 04/26/10 Marianne Hopper (carryover from 4/09/10)
Posted: Tue Apr 27, 2010 4:43 am
by NellyLunatic1980
BBTranscriptTeam wrote:$50K The Cassini spacecraft recently revealed the likely presence of salt water on Enceladus, a moon of what planet?
A. Jupiter
B. Neptune
C. Uranus
D. Saturn
From
this past Wednesday's J!: "The Cassini project is exploring Titan & Enceladus, moons of this second-largest planet"
So references to both a past WWTBAM question (Bix's $64K)
and a future WWTBAM question!
Re: Transcript 04/26/10 Marianne Hopper (carryover from 4/09/10)
Posted: Tue Apr 27, 2010 6:23 am
by MarleysGh0st
BBTranscriptTeam wrote:$50K The Cassini spacecraft recently revealed the likely presence of salt water on Enceladus, a moon of what planet?
A. Jupiter
B. Neptune
C. Uranus
D. Saturn
Marianne takes a guess and makes Neptune her final answer.
Marianne leaves with $25K.
She decided this was a trick question, and so went for the least likely answer.
<sigh>
Re: Transcript 04/26/10 Marianne Hopper (carryover from 4/09/10)
Posted: Tue Apr 27, 2010 6:41 am
by earendel
BBTranscriptTeam wrote: Marianne Hopper
Austin, TX
College dean
BBTranscriptTeam wrote:$50K The Cassini spacecraft recently revealed the likely presence of salt water on Enceladus, a moon of what planet?
A. Jupiter
B. Neptune
C. Uranus
D. Saturn
Marianne takes a guess and makes Neptune her final answer.
Marianne leaves with $25K.
D. Saturn (5)
Marianne made an educated guess - "salt water" could lead one to think of Neptune. But anyone who follows the space program closely knows that Cassini was sent to investigate the Saturn system. Had this been my stack I'd have been going for $100K with all lifelines still available.
Re: Transcript 04/26/10 Marianne Hopper (carryover from 4/09/10)
Posted: Tue Apr 27, 2010 6:46 am
by MarleysGh0st
earendel wrote:Marianne made an educated guess - "salt water" could lead one to think of Neptune.
If anyone thought the gas giant was really an ocean planet, that would sound more like an uneducated guess, to me.
Re: Transcript 04/26/10 Marianne Hopper (carryover from 4/09/10)
Posted: Tue Apr 27, 2010 6:52 am
by earendel
MarleysGh0st wrote:earendel wrote:Marianne made an educated guess - "salt water" could lead one to think of Neptune.
If anyone thought the gas giant was really an ocean planet, that would sound more like an uneducated guess, to me.
Well, I could visualize this thought process:
Sea water...ocean...Neptune is king of the seas, so Neptune, final answer.
Perhaps "educated" wasn't the right word.