WWTBAM Bored

Karolina Koszut-Ledogar
Clearwater, FL
Dance instructor

Karolina's husband, Richard, is in the audience. Richard also was a dance instructor, which is how they met.

Karolina's bank is up to $21,100. She has one Jump The Question remaining.

Question Topics (Randomized):
* Cultural Ambassadors
* Websites
* TV Roots
* $3,000
* $1,000
* Jumped
* $2,000
* $10,000
* $100
* $5,000

Question #8 * TV Roots
Coincidentally, Adam Sandler was a regular on what MTV show years before starring in the 2006 movie "Click"?

A: Loveline B: Singled Out
C: Remote Control D: Lip Service

Answer/Value/Bank

C: Remote Control
Question Value: $25,000
Bank: $46,100

Question #9 * Websites
Picasa, Shutterfly and Snapfish are all websites dedicated to helping users do what?

A: Train and care for pets B: Download music
C: Network with business contacts D: Organize and share photos

Answer/Value/Bank

D: Organize and share photos
Question Value: $500
Bank: $46,600

Question #10 * Cultural Ambassadors
What pop star was named an Ambassador for Youth and Culture for her native country of Barbados?

A: Rihanna B: Fergie
C: Ciara D: Ke$ha

Karolina has to go with her gut on this one and say

Spoiler

A: Rihanna,

final answer.

Answer/Value/Bank

A: Rihanna
Question Value: $7,000
Bank: $53,600

Karolina is now in Round Two. It is time to play Classic Millionaire!


$100,000
Which of these celebrated U.S. composers was the winner of an Oscar, a Tony, a Grammy an Emmy and a Pulitzer Prize?

A: Irving Berlin B: George Gershwin
C: Richard Rodgers D: Leonard Bernstein

"Who won the Pulitzer Prize?" is the part of the question that stumps Karolina. She decides to Jump The Question.

Answer

C: Richard Rodgers

-- Commercial Break --


$250,000
Which of these famous Native Americans has a name which, loosely translated, means "the playful one"?

A: Pocahontas B: Geronimo
C: Sacagawea D: Squanto

Karolina doesn't think it's Sacagawea or Geronimo. Something is pulling her towards Pocahontas, but she decides to walk away with her bank of $53,600.

Answer

A: Pocahontas

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:$250,000
Which of these famous Native Americans has a name which, loosely translated, means "the playful one"?

A: Pocahontas B: Geronimo
C: Sacagawea D: Squanto

Karolina doesn't think it's Sacagawea or Geronimo. Something is pulling her towards Pocahontas, but she decides to walk away with her bank of $53,600.

Answer

A: Pocahontas

Even assuming that her hunch was worthless, taking a one in four guess here would have given Karolina an expected value of $81,250, instead of the $53,600 she walked away with. (Plus a one in four chance of looking at the $500K question, of course.)

yes, Marley, but chances are that was 28,600 dollars she really did not want to lose. In this kind of economy, I think people are more reluctant to gamble, and I think, at least in part, for that reason TPTB at WWTBAM changed the rules to make it more enticing to gamble.

The expected value calculations IMHO are only practical when you have repeated attempts at the question, not just one. I do think though this season so far we have seen more contestants gamble than in previous seasons. Last season it seemed like contestant after contestant walked with 15K.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote: Karolina Koszut-Ledogar
Clearwater, FL
Dance instructor

Karolina's husband, Richard, is in the audience. Richard also was a dance instructor, which is how they met.

Karolina's bank is up to $21,100. She has one Jump The Question remaining.

Any idea what happened to the previous day's transcripts?

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Question #8 * TV Roots
Coincidentally, Adam Sandler was a regular on what MTV show years before starring in the 2006 movie "Click"?

A: Loveline B: Singled Out
C: Remote Control D: Lip Service

Answer/Value/Bank

C: Remote Control
Question Value: $25,000
Bank: $46,100

I wouldn't have known this without the (to use a J! term) TOM of "Click".

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Question #10 * Cultural Ambassadors
What pop star was named an Ambassador for Youth and Culture for her native country of Barbados?

A: Rihanna B: Fergie
C: Ciara D: Ke$ha

Karolina has to go with her gut on this one and say

Spoiler

A: Rihanna,

final answer.

Answer/Value/Bank

A: Rihanna
Question Value: $7,000
Bank: $53,600

No idea. I'd be using ATA.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:$100,000
Which of these celebrated U.S. composers was the winner of an Oscar, a Tony, a Grammy an Emmy and a Pulitzer Prize?

A: Irving Berlin B: George Gershwin
C: Richard Rodgers D: Leonard Bernstein

"Who won the Pulitzer Prize?" is the part of the question that stumps Karolina. She decides to Jump The Question.

Answer

C: Richard Rodgers

I'd JTQ also.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:$250,000
Which of these famous Native Americans has a name which, loosely translated, means "the playful one"?

A: Pocahontas B: Geronimo
C: Sacagawea D: Squanto

Karolina doesn't think it's Sacagawea or Geronimo. Something is pulling her towards Pocahontas, but she decides to walk away with her bank of $53,600.

Answer

A: Pocahontas

It'd be pretty funny if it were "Geronimo".

earendel wrote:Any idea what happened to the previous day's transcripts?

I think Drew's college schedule has delayed them.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:$250,000
Which of these famous Native Americans has a name which, loosely translated, means "the playful one"?

A: Pocahontas B: Geronimo
C: Sacagawea D: Squanto

Karolina doesn't think it's Sacagawea or Geronimo. Something is pulling her towards Pocahontas, but she decides to walk away with her bank of $53,600.

Answer

A: Pocahontas

I knew this thanks to my genealogy research. Many of her descendants are my cousins.

http://www.juch.org/gedpages/fam/fam04877.htm