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Sunny Snyder
Henderson, NV

Topic tree (unrandomized)
* Name Origin
* Foreign Cuisine
* General Disarray
* Weather or Not
* Where is Everybody?
* Fictional Universes
* No More Games
* Family Television
* Bird Is the Word
* Questioning Science

Topic tree (randomized)
* Family Television
* Foreign Cuisine
* Bird Is the Word
* Questioning Science
* No More Games
* Where Is Everybody?
* General Disarray
* Name Origin
* Fictional Universes
* Weather or Not

Question 1 (Weather or Not)
Which of these is a seasonal weather phenomenon in southern Asia marked by wind and heavy rains?
a. Monsoon
b. Tsunami
c. Chinook
d. Mistral

value/answer/bank

a. Monsoon
value: $2,000
bank: $2,000

Question 2 (Fictional Universes)
Including books such as "Executive Orders" and "Patriot Games," the "Ryanverse" is a series of novels written by whom?
a. Clive Cussler
b. Tom Clancy
c. John Grisham
d. Dale Brown

value/answer/bank

b. Tom Clancy
value: $15,000
bank: $17,000

Question 3 (Name Origin)
Oprah Winfrey's unique first name resulted from an accidental misspelling of what Biblical name on her birth certificate?
a. Oparh
b. Ohpra
c. Orpha
d. Orpah

Ask the audience used

ATA results

a:22% b:9% c:33% d:36%

Jump the question 1 used

value/answer/bank

d. Orpah
value: ($7,000)
bank: $17,000

Question 4 (General Disarray)
In 2010, Gen. Stanley McChrystal resigned his post in the war in Afghanistan after giving ill-received quotes to what magazine?
a. Newsweek
b. The New Yorker
c. Rolling Stone
d. Time

value/answer/bank

c. Rolling Stone
value: $10,000
bank: $27,000

Question 5 (Where Is Everybody?)
With just over one person per square mile, what US state is the least densely populated?
a. North Dakota
b. Montana
c. West Virginia
d. Alaska

Jump the question 2 used

value/answer/bank

d. Alaska
value: ($1,000)
bank: $27,000

Question 6 (No More Games)
Presumably because it encouraged capitalism, Fidel Castro reportedly banned what board game after he took power in Cuba?
a. Scrabble
b. Chutes and Ladders
c. Yahtzee
d. Monopoly

value/answer/bank

d. Monopoly
value: ($500)
bank: $27,500

Question 7 (Questioning Science)
The expression "I'll be a monkey’s uncle" was popularized by skeptics of what scientist's theories?
a. Isaac Newton
b. Charles Darwin
c. Copernicus
d. Albert Einstein

value/answer/bank

b. Charles Darwin
value: $3,000
bank: $30,500

Question 8 (Bird Is the Word)
What bird name is often used as an adjective to describe lustrous black hair?
a. Raven
b. Owl
c. Eagle
d. Swan

value/answer/bank

a. Raven
value: $25,000
bank: $55,500

Question 9 (Foreign Cuisine)
Eaten by lovers of spicy foods, chicken jalfrezi is a dish commonly served at what type of restaurant?
a. Mexican
b. Chinese
c. Indian
d. Italian

value/answer/bank

c. Indian
value: $5,000
bank: $60,500

Question 10 (Family Television)
Which of these popular "family" sitcoms debuted on TV the earliest?
a. Family Ties
b. Modern Family
c. All in the Family
d. Family Guy

value/answer/bank

c. All in the Family
value: $100
bank: $60,600

Sunny completes round 1 and has her full bank available.

Question 11 ($100,000)
Which of these mundane items is not one of the 44 inductees in the National Toy Hall of Fame in Rochester, NY
a. Cardboard box
b. Stick
c. Bucket
d. Ball

answer and result

c. Bucket

Sunny decides not to answer and walks away with $60,600.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Question 11 ($100,000)
Which of these mundane items is not one of the 44 inductees in the National Toy Hall of Fame in Rochester, NY
a. Cardboard box
b. Stick
c. Bucket
d. Ball

answer and result

c. Bucket

Sunny decides not to answer and walks away with $60,600.

Gosh! I should visit Rochester some time so that I can see their museum display of the cardboard box.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Sunny Snyder
Henderson, NV

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Question 3 (Name Origin)
Oprah Winfrey's unique first name resulted from an accidental misspelling of what Biblical name on her birth certificate?
a. Oparh
b. Ohpra
c. Orpha
d. Orpah

Ask the audience used

ATA results

a:22% b:9% c:33% d:36%

Jump the question 1 used

value/answer/bank

d. Orpah
value: ($7,000)
bank: $17,000

Once again Biblical illiteracy rears its head. No, that's being a bit harsh.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Question 9 (Foreign Cuisine)
Eaten by lovers of spicy foods, chicken jalfrezi is a dish commonly served at what type of restaurant?
a. Mexican
b. Chinese
c. Indian
d. Italian

value/answer/bank

c. Indian
value: $5,000
bank: $60,500

It sounds like an Indian dish but I'd be using ATA since I'm not sure.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Question 11 ($100,000)
Which of these mundane items is not one of the 44 inductees in the National Toy Hall of Fame in Rochester, NY
a. Cardboard box
b. Stick
c. Bucket
d. Ball

answer and result

c. Bucket

Sunny decides not to answer and walks away with $60,600.

Probably a good thing, too. This would be a very difficult question under the old system (at least I think so) but easily answerable by a Google PAF. I'd JTQ also.

earendel wrote:

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Question 3 (Name Origin)
Oprah Winfrey's unique first name resulted from an accidental misspelling of what Biblical name on her birth certificate?
a. Oparh
b. Ohpra
c. Orpha
d. Orpah

Ask the audience used

ATA results

a:22% b:9% c:33% d:36%

Jump the question 1 used

value/answer/bank

d. Orpah
value: ($7,000)
bank: $17,000

Once again Biblical illiteracy rears its head. No, that's being a bit harsh.

A bit? So who was Orpah?

MarleysGh0st wrote:

earendel wrote:

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Question 3 (Name Origin)
Oprah Winfrey's unique first name resulted from an accidental misspelling of what Biblical name on her birth certificate?
a. Oparh
b. Ohpra
c. Orpha
d. Orpah

Ask the audience used

ATA results

a:22% b:9% c:33% d:36%

Jump the question 1 used

value/answer/bank

d. Orpah
value: ($7,000)
bank: $17,000

Once again Biblical illiteracy rears its head. No, that's being a bit harsh.

A bit? So who was Orpah?

Ruth's sister.

Now, let's see if I'm right.
...
Sister-in-Law. I was close.

-M

themanwho wrote:

MarleysGh0st wrote:

earendel wrote: Once again Biblical illiteracy rears its head. No, that's being a bit harsh.

A bit? So who was Orpah?

Ruth's sister.

Now, let's see if I'm right.
...
Sister-in-Law. I was close.

-M

My hunch on this question was that Orpha sounded more familiar. Curiously, Google gives me 568,000 hits for Orpha but only 178,000 hits for Orpah, so my hunch was right about that (although it doesn't match Oprah's anecdote).

themanwho wrote:

MarleysGh0st wrote:

earendel wrote: Once again Biblical illiteracy rears its head. No, that's being a bit harsh.

A bit? So who was Orpah?

Ruth's sister.

Now, let's see if I'm right.
...
Sister-in-Law. I was close.

-M

What about Naomi, the mom-in-law? After the big battle in Moab, and she decided to return to Bethlehem, she tried to send both Ruth and Orpah home. Orpah hit the road back to Moab, but Ruth wouldn't go. This is from memory, so if I get it wrong, don't have a cow. She said, "Entreat me not to leave thee, nor to go away from me. Whither thou goest, I will go, and whither thou lodgest, there will I lodge, and whither thou diest, there will I be buried."

themanwho wrote:

MarleysGh0st wrote:

earendel wrote: Once again Biblical illiteracy rears its head. No, that's being a bit harsh.

A bit? So who was Orpah?

Ruth's sister.

Now, let's see if I'm right.
...
Sister-in-Law. I was close.

-M

Both.

SportsFan68 wrote:

themanwho wrote:

MarleysGh0st wrote:
A bit? So who was Orpah?

Ruth's sister.

Now, let's see if I'm right.
...
Sister-in-Law. I was close.

-M

What about Naomi, the mom-in-law? After the big battle in Moab, and she decided to return to Bethlehem, she tried to send both Ruth and Orpah home. Orpah hit the road back to Moab, but Ruth wouldn't go. This is from memory, so if I get it wrong, don't have a cow. She said, "Entreat me not to leave thee, nor to go away from me. Whither thou goest, I will go, and whither thou lodgest, there will I lodge, and whither thou diest, there will I be buried."

Wasn't that in "Love of Chair"?

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Question 3 (Name Origin)
Oprah Winfrey's unique first name resulted from an accidental misspelling of what Biblical name on her birth certificate?
a. Oparh
b. Ohpra
c. Orpha
d. Orpah

Ask the audience used

ATA results

a:22% b:9% c:33% d:36%

Jump the question 1 used

value/answer/bank

d. Orpah
value: ($7,000)
bank: $17,000

Kudos to a plurality of the audience. Too bad Sunny didn't trust them; she could have used the jump later.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Question 4 (General Disarray)
In 2010, Gen. Stanley McChrystal resigned his post in the war in Afghanistan after giving ill-received quotes to what magazine?
a. Newsweek
b. The New Yorker
c. Rolling Stone
d. Time

value/answer/bank

c. Rolling Stone
value: $10,000
bank: $27,000

Love the topic name!

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Question 5 (Where Is Everybody?)
With just over one person per square mile, what US state is the least densely populated?
a. North Dakota
b. Montana
c. West Virginia
d. Alaska

Jump the question 2 used

value/answer/bank

d. Alaska
value: ($1,000)
bank: $27,000

I knew this, but N.D. and Mont. are good distractors. W.Va. can't be right. (I looked it up. The area of W.Va. is 24,231 square miles. The population wouldn't fill a ballpark.)

jarnon wrote:

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Question 3 (Name Origin)
Oprah Winfrey's unique first name resulted from an accidental misspelling of what Biblical name on her birth certificate?
a. Oparh
b. Ohpra
c. Orpha
d. Orpah

Ask the audience used

ATA results

a:22% b:9% c:33% d:36%

Jump the question 1 used

value/answer/bank

d. Orpah
value: ($7,000)
bank: $17,000

Kudos to a plurality of the audience. Too bad Sunny didn't trust them; she could have used the jump later.

Really? You'd have trusted a 3% plurality in such a closely divided vote?