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Reed Baumann
Isante, MN
Graduate student in history

He wants to be a community college professor or the governor of Minnesota.

Topic Tree: (unrandomized)
- Natural Formations
- Historical Drama
- Gaga for Gaga
- Corporate Food
- Classic Characters
- Vintage Video Games
- Security Measures
- Hot Hosts
- Record Holders
- Do-Gooders

Topic Tree: (randomized)
- Classic Characters
- Corporate Food
- Natural Formations
- Security Measures
- Hot Hosts
- Do-Gooders
- Vintage Video Games
- Gaga for Gaga
- Record Holders
- Historical Drama

Question #1 (Historical Drama)
The cable drama "Rubicon" takes its title from a river once famously crossed by what military leader?
A - Alexander the Great
B - Napoleon Bonaparte
C - Charlemagne
D - Julius Caesar
Meredith says that this is a history question for a history major. He says he feels pretty good about

Spoiler

Alexander the Great

and makes that his final answer.

Spoiler

Answer: D (Julius Caesar)
Value: not revealed
Bank: none

Reed leaves with the $1,000 "consolation prize".

I wonder if Alexander had any llamas on that river crossing?

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Reed Baumann
Isante, MN
Graduate student in history

He wants to be a community college professor or the governor of Minnesota.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Question #1 (Historical Drama)
The cable drama "Rubicon" takes its title from a river once famously crossed by what military leader?
A - Alexander the Great
B - Napoleon Bonaparte
C - Charlemagne
D - Julius Caesar
Meredith says that this is a history question for a history major. He says he feels pretty good about

Spoiler

Alexander the Great

and makes that his final answer.

Spoiler

Answer: D (Julius Caesar)
Value: not revealed
Bank: none

Reed leaves with the $1,000 "consolation prize".

Simply unbelievable. A graduate student in history and he doesn't make the automatic association of "Rubicon" with "Julius Caesar? <*Sheesh*>!

And does he count as a llama since he gets the $1K "booby prize"?

earendel wrote:And does he count as a llama since he gets the $1K "booby prize"?

We've had discussions about the term, but we don't have a policy for making official definitions around here. My opinion was to reluctantly agree to retire the llama. Aside from the fact that nobody is a $0 winner any more, and that everyone who misses any of the first ten questions leaves with the same $1,000 consolation prize, the randomization of question difficulties means that missing the first question is not necessarily the easiest question. (In this case, it was question #9, unrandomized.)

Being a history major, Reed will be haunted enough by this question.

Reed Baumann
Isante, MN
Graduate student in history

He wants to be a community college professor or the governor of Minnesota.

I feel sorry for his future students. And don't you have to be a former rassler or in a movie with Arnold to be governor of Minnesota?

MarleysGh0st wrote:

earendel wrote:And does he count as a llama since he gets the $1K "booby prize"?

We've had discussions about the term, but we don't have a policy for making official definitions around here. My opinion was to reluctantly agree to retire the llama. Aside from the fact that nobody is a $0 winner any more, and that everyone who misses any of the first ten questions leaves with the same $1,000 consolation prize, the randomization of question difficulties means that missing the first question is not necessarily the easiest question. (In this case, it was question #9, unrandomized.)

Being a history major, Reed will be haunted enough by this question.

We should start using the term "Rubicon" instead.

In the immortal words of Editor Perry White, "Great Caesar's Ghost!"