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Transcript 01/16/08



Sunny Escovedo
San Diego, CA
Bookkeeper

Carryover contestant
No lifelines remaining

Sunny wants to spend her money on a nursery
at her house for her first grandchild
her daughter is expecting. She wants
"parents revenge" meaning she will spoil
the child & send it home.



$16,000
Believed to have been created by a
giant meteorite 65 million years
ago, the Chicxulub crater is found where?

A: Patagonia
B: Greenland
C: Yucatan peninsula
D: Yukon Territory

Sunny has no idea and is happy to leave with $8,000 and build a nursery.














Answers:
$16,000: C. Yucatan peninsula

$16K: This was a featured article on Wikipedia just a few days ago, so I knew it immediately.

Sure enough, she was one and done®.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Transcript 01/16/08

Sunny Escovedo
San Diego, CA
Bookkeeper

Carryover contestant
No lifelines remaining

My prediction was for Sunny to be one and done. Turns out I was right.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Sunny wants to spend her money on a nursery at her house for her first grandchild her daughter is expecting. She wants "parents revenge" meaning she will spoil the child & send it home.

Regrettably $8K won't quite do the trick, but it will help.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:$16,000
Believed to have been created by a giant meteorite 65 million years
ago, the Chicxulub crater is found where?

A: Patagonia
B: Greenland
C: Yucatan peninsula
D: Yukon Territory

Believe it or not I actually read a "Bible expert" who suggested that the impact crater was where "Satan fell from heaven like lightning" after his rebellion against God.

Without having heard of this crater before, I focused on the "cx" combination in "Chicxulub". To me, that's a strong indication of a location in Mexico related to the Maya civilization which was located on the Yucatan. It could have been an incorrect inference, but I would have gone with it and held my breath.

This is the crater that was considered the strongest evidence for the meteor theory of the extinction of the dinosaurs.

http://www.livescience.com/animals/0611 ... tinct.html

mrkelley23 wrote:This is the crater that was considered the strongest evidence for the meteor theory of the extinction of the dinosaurs.

http://www.livescience.com/animals/0611 ... tinct.html

I note you say "was" - I know that Alvarez pere and Alverez fils made a lot of this, but I've seen articles suggesting that it may have been too early and that other strikes may have been responsible.