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Cyndi Rix
Warwick, RI
High School teacher

Cyndi is a bit of an adventurer who likes a fast pace.

Question Topics (Unrandomized):
* Super Secret
* International Air
* Funny Fears
* On the Road
* Powerful Women
* Winging It
* Prime Time TV
* Team Mascots
* Hairy Names
* Heads Up

Question Topics (Randomized):
* Super Secret
* Hairy Names
* International Air
* Winging It
* Prime Time TV
* Heads Up
* On the Road
* Funny Fears
* Powerful Women
* Team Mascots


Question #1 * Team Mascots
Doppler is the team mascot of what WNBA franchise?

A: Indiana Fever B: Minnesota Lynx
C: Atlanta Dream D: Seattle Storm

Answer/Value/Bank

D: Seattle Storm
Question Value: $100
Bank: $100

Question #2 * Powerful Women
At the 2010 International Women of Courage Awards, what actress joked of her "powerful" role as Elle Woods?

A: Renée Zellweger B: Cameron Diaz
C: Reese Witherspoon D: Sandra Bullock

Answer/Value/Bank

C: Reese Witherspoon
Question Value: $500
Bank: $600

Question #3 * Funny Fears
A person suffering from "leporiphobia" fears which of these Looney Tunes characters?

A: Bugs Bunny B: Foghorn Leghorn
C: Sylvester the Cat D: Porky Pig

Cyndi: Does the audience know? I think maybe I should ask the audience. Do you know? Please tell me you know!

There's no reaction from the audience, but Cyndi does use her Ask The Audience.

ATA

A: 25% B: 13% C: 49% D: 13%

Cyndi trusts the audience and goes with what they said. She leaves with $1,000.

Answer/Value

A: Bugs Bunny
Question Value: unrevealed

-- Commercial Break --

BBTranscriptTeam wrote: Question #3 * Funny Fears
A person suffering from "leporiphobia" fears which of these Looney Tunes characters?

A: Bugs Bunny B: Foghorn Leghorn
C: Sylvester the Cat D: Porky Pig

Cyndi: Does the audience know? I think maybe I should ask the audience. Do you know? Please tell me you know!

There's no reaction from the audience, but Cyndi does use her Ask The Audience.

ATA

A: 25% B: 13% C: 49% D: 13%

Cyndi trusts the audience and goes with what they said. She leaves with $1,000.

Answer/Value

A: Bugs Bunny
Question Value: unrevealed

Well, at least there was a second-place spike for the right answer, but why did 49% of the audience go for Sylvester? Did they ignore the Latin root completely and decide that a fear of black cats was the most common/recognizable choice?

I found it interesting (particularly considering how it turned out) that Cyndi appeared to be prompting for some feedback from the audience (i.e., clap if you know the answer) and she didn't get any, as far I could hear on the broadcast. That should have been a warning signal.

lepori looks like leopard, at least to me. I would have been out here too...

I would have gotten it only because of a horrible old horror movie called Night of the Lepus in which mutant rabbits terrorize Arizona.

SportsFan68 wrote:I would have gotten it only because of a horrible old horror movie called Night of the Lepus in which mutant rabbits terrorize Arizona.

Just be glad they weren't mutant squirrels headed for Colorado.

ulysses5019 wrote:

SportsFan68 wrote:I would have gotten it only because of a horrible old horror movie called Night of the Lepus in which mutant rabbits terrorize Arizona.

Just be glad they weren't mutant squirrels headed for Colorado.

That I am, Uly. That I am.

Whew!

BBTranscriptTeam wrote: Cyndi Rix
Warwick, RI
High School teacher

Cyndi is a bit of an adventurer who likes a fast pace.

Because of a power outage in the neighborhood my DVR only caught the last 10 minutes of the show so I didn't see Cyndi's performance.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Question #3 * Funny Fears
A person suffering from "leporiphobia" fears which of these Looney Tunes characters?

A: Bugs Bunny B: Foghorn Leghorn
C: Sylvester the Cat D: Porky Pig

Cyndi: Does the audience know? I think maybe I should ask the audience. Do you know? Please tell me you know!

There's no reaction from the audience, but Cyndi does use her Ask The Audience.

ATA

A: 25% B: 13% C: 49% D: 13%

Cyndi trusts the audience and goes with what they said. She leaves with $1,000.

Answer/Value

A: Bugs Bunny
Question Value: unrevealed

It would have been nice to see the dollar amount.

Interesting bit of trivia - in The Matrix when Neo goes to see the Oracle, a scene from "Night of the Lepus" is seen on a TV screen in the "waiting room".

MarleysGh0st wrote:

BBTranscriptTeam wrote: Question #3 * Funny Fears
A person suffering from "leporiphobia" fears which of these Looney Tunes characters?

A: Bugs Bunny B: Foghorn Leghorn
C: Sylvester the Cat D: Porky Pig

Cyndi: Does the audience know? I think maybe I should ask the audience. Do you know? Please tell me you know!

There's no reaction from the audience, but Cyndi does use her Ask The Audience.

ATA

A: 25% B: 13% C: 49% D: 13%

Cyndi trusts the audience and goes with what they said. She leaves with $1,000.

Answer/Value

A: Bugs Bunny
Question Value: unrevealed

Well, at least there was a second-place spike for the right answer, but why did 49% of the audience go for Sylvester? Did they ignore the Latin root completely and decide that a fear of black cats was the most common/recognizable choice?

I found it interesting (particularly considering how it turned out) that Cyndi appeared to be prompting for some feedback from the audience (i.e., clap if you know the answer) and she didn't get any, as far I could hear on the broadcast. That should have been a warning signal.

I don't think there's a name for fear of black cats, but fear of cats is felinophobia, ailurophobia, galeophobia, or gatophobia. Phobias come up so often in trivia contest questions that any frequent player memorizes the list.

Bob Juch wrote:

MarleysGh0st wrote:

BBTranscriptTeam wrote: Question #3 * Funny Fears
A person suffering from "leporiphobia" fears which of these Looney Tunes characters?

A: Bugs Bunny B: Foghorn Leghorn
C: Sylvester the Cat D: Porky Pig

Cyndi: Does the audience know? I think maybe I should ask the audience. Do you know? Please tell me you know!

There's no reaction from the audience, but Cyndi does use her Ask The Audience.

ATA

A: 25% B: 13% C: 49% D: 13%

Cyndi trusts the audience and goes with what they said. She leaves with $1,000.

Answer/Value

A: Bugs Bunny
Question Value: unrevealed

Well, at least there was a second-place spike for the right answer, but why did 49% of the audience go for Sylvester? Did they ignore the Latin root completely and decide that a fear of black cats was the most common/recognizable choice?

I found it interesting (particularly considering how it turned out) that Cyndi appeared to be prompting for some feedback from the audience (i.e., clap if you know the answer) and she didn't get any, as far I could hear on the broadcast. That should have been a warning signal.

I don't think there's a name for fear of black cats, but fear of cats is felinophobia, ailurophobia, galeophobia, or gatophobia. Phobias come up so often in trivia contest questions that any frequent player memorizes the list.

In "A Charlie Brown Christmas" Lucy, trying to diagnose Charlie Brown's problem, asks "How about cats? If you're afraid of cats, you have ailurophasia." Which isn't the same thing, of course, but it's how I remember what the fear of cats is.

Bob Juch wrote:I don't think there's a name for fear of black cats, but fear of cats is felinophobia, ailurophobia, galeophobia, or gatophobia. Phobias come up so often in trivia contest questions that any frequent player memorizes the list.

What? All those centuries of myths about black cats being the familiars of witches and there's not a special "phobia" term for that? Better get working on one!

I know these questions come up frequently in trivia, but it's a category that I dislike. They only ask these questions because these long lists exist and it seems to me like people invent words to add to these lists just to prove how clever they are. Are there really significant numbers of people who've been diagnosed with each of these weird phobias? And why were you able to list four different words for the fear of cats? Shouldn't the appropriate psychological associations have standardized on a single term by now, if this phobia was legitimate?

SportsFan68 wrote:I would have gotten it only because of a horrible old horror movie called Night of the Lepus in which mutant rabbits terrorize Arizona.

Same here!!!!!!!!!!! I was watching that when Stephen was little and he was fascinated. He was saying; "Uh oh, raddits, oh no!" and I thought it was the funniest thing, so now we call it the Uh Oh Raddits movie. It's so bad it's good.

Tell me she's not a science teacher, please....

minimetoo26 wrote:Tell me she's not a science teacher, please....

Nope. English teacher.

http://www.projo.com/tv/content/Go_MIX_ ... 937f3.html

SportsFan68 wrote:

ulysses5019 wrote:

SportsFan68 wrote:I would have gotten it only because of a horrible old horror movie called Night of the Lepus in which mutant rabbits terrorize Arizona.

Just be glad they weren't mutant squirrels headed for Colorado.

That I am, Uly. That I am.

Whew!

ES has never terrorized anyone. There are just people who have a perverse phobia of squirrels.....

lb13

littlebeast13 wrote:ES has never terrorized anyone. There are just people who have a perverse phobia of squirrels.....

Hey! There's a shirt for that!

Spoiler

MarleysGh0st wrote:

littlebeast13 wrote:ES has never terrorized anyone. There are just people who have a perverse phobia of squirrels.....

Hey! There's a shirt for that!

Spoiler

He needs a dog. With THIS shirt:

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minimetoo26 wrote:He needs a dog. With THIS shirt:

Spoiler

That's a pretty lame shirt for a supposedly badass dog......

lb13

littlebeast13 wrote:

minimetoo26 wrote:He needs a dog. With THIS shirt:

Spoiler

That's a pretty lame shirt for a supposedly badass dog......

lb13

I can find bigger dogs, you know...

HOW have we managed to overlook the entire Scaredy Squirrel book series all these years??????

minimetoo26 wrote:

littlebeast13 wrote:

minimetoo26 wrote:He needs a dog. With THIS shirt:

Spoiler

That's a pretty lame shirt for a supposedly badass dog......

lb13

I can find bigger dogs, you know...

Sorry, but any dog dressed up in a shirt would scare me about as much as the rattlesnake with the baby rattle scares the rabbits in that one commercial....

You don't see squirrels going around dressed up in some ridiculous getup..... outside of uly's avatars that is.....

lb13

MarleysGh0st wrote:

minimetoo26 wrote:Tell me she's not a science teacher, please....

Nope. English teacher.

http://www.projo.com/tv/content/Go_MIX_ ... 937f3.html

I don't think it's unreasonable to expect an English teacher to have a good vocabulary and some familiarity with Greek and Latin roots.

littlebeast13 wrote:

minimetoo26 wrote:

littlebeast13 wrote:

That's a pretty lame shirt for a supposedly badass dog......

lb13

I can find bigger dogs, you know...

Sorry, but any dog dressed up in a shirt would scare me about as much as the rattlesnake with the baby rattle scares the rabbits in that one commercial....

You don't see squirrels going around dressed up in some ridiculous getup..... outside of uly's avatars that is.....

lb13

Okay. Fine:

Spoiler

minimetoo26 wrote:Okay. Fine:

Spoiler

Oh, I like that one!

Personally, I think some much-needed scritches are suspiciously absent from this thread.

However, that could just be me ...

minimetoo26 wrote:

littlebeast13 wrote:

minimetoo26 wrote:

I can find bigger dogs, you know...

Sorry, but any dog dressed up in a shirt would scare me about as much as the rattlesnake with the baby rattle scares the rabbits in that one commercial....

You don't see squirrels going around dressed up in some ridiculous getup..... outside of uly's avatars that is.....

lb13

Okay. Fine:

Spoiler

Dogfather? That looks like the most interesting squirrel in the world to me. Pass the Dos Equis.