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Joe Stanton
Astoria, NY

Topic Tree:

Timely Authors
Wearing What
Bad Dates
Presidential Quips
Shoe Shopping
World Landmarks
Morning Sports
Online Obsessions
World Headlines
Ride ‘Em

Topic Tree: (randomized)

World Headlines
Wearing What
Timely Authors
World Landmarks
Bad Dates
Presidential Quips
Ride ‘Em
Shoe Shopping
Online Obsessions
Morning Sports

Question 1 – Morning Sports
Because of the time zone difference, since 1979 NBC has aired an annual live sports event called “Breakfast at” what?
A. Pebble Beach
B. Melbourne Park
C. Augusta
D. Wimbledon

Spoiler

D. Wimbledon
$1K
Bank - $1K

Question 2 – Online Obsessions
Over 60 million people a month plant and harvest virtual crops in what wildly popular online game?
A. Heartland USA
B. New MacDonald
C. Tractor Time
D. Farmville

Spoiler

D. Farmville
$3K
Bank $4K

Question 3 – Shoe Shopping
As any fashionista could tell you, what upscale designer’s shoes generally feature a signature red sole?
A. Christian Louboutin
B. Manolo Blahnik
C. Jimmy Choo
D. Stuart Weitzman

Spoiler

A. Christian Louboutin
$15K
Bank - $19K

Question 4 – Ride ‘Em
In order of increasing speed, the four natural gaits of a horse are walk, trot, canter and what?
A. Amble
B. Mosey
C. Gallop
D. Stroll

Spoiler

C. Gallop
$5K
Bank - $24K

Question 5- Presidential Quips
When told by a woman that she had bet she could make him say more than two words, what President famously responded “you lose”?
A. Theodore Roosevelt
B. William Howard Taft
C. Harry Truman
D. Calvin Coolidge

Spoiler

D. Calvin Coolidge
$25K
Bank - $49K

commercial break

Question 6 – Bad Dates
The Yale Book of Quotations credits what surly comedian with originating the phrase “… from hell,” as in “the date from hell”?
A. Bernie Mac
B. Richard Lewis
C. Dennis Miller
D. Jerry Seinfeld

ATA

ATA results

10 % A. Bernie Mac
47% B. Richard Lewis
16% C. Dennis Miller
27% D. Jerry Seinfeld

Spoiler

B. Richard Lewis
$100
Bank - $49,100

Question 7 – World Landmarks
Which of these famous “squares” lies closest to the Artic Circle?
A. Red Square
B. St. Peter’s Square
C. Trafalgar Square
D. Tiananmen Square

Spoiler

A. Red Square
$10K
Bank - $59,100

Question 8 – Timely Authors
In 2010, Jonathan Franzen became the first living novelist to grace the cover of Time magazine since what writer a decade ago?
A. J.K. Rowling
B. Tom Clancy
C. Stephen King
D. John Grisham

Joe doesn’t think that

Spoiler

Stephen King

or

Spoiler

Tom Clancy

would be a good fit for “Time” back in 2000.
Joe makes

Spoiler

J.K. Rowling

his final answer.

Joe leaves with $1K.

Spoiler

C. Stephen King

commercial break

I felt bad for him. 2000 was definitely in the height of the Potter boom so I don't fault him for his choice, especially since I was in agreement. Shame, he was really on a roll.

Q 1-easy.
Q 2-never heard of this. I doubt a NYC audience would play games based on farming-JTQ.
Q 3-ATA or JTQ
Q 4-easy
Q 5-easy
Q 6-if I didn't ATA on 3, use it here.
Q 7-easy
Q 8-I also thought it was J.K. Rowling. If I have a LL left, use it. Otherwise, I walk.

Kazoo65 wrote:Q 2-never heard of this. I doubt a NYC audience would play games based on farming-JTQ.

I doubt that you're right about this...

Estonut wrote:

Kazoo65 wrote:Q 2-never heard of this. I doubt a NYC audience would play games based on farming-JTQ.

I doubt that you're right about this...

This reminds me to go to Facebook and ignore the 246 requests in my inbox from that application.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote: Joe Stanton
Astoria, NY

Joe was introduced as someone who liked "Dungeons and Dragons" and "Star Trek". I'd have thought those would automatically disqualify him. But he also had a girlfriend in the audience, so maybe he's not as much of a geek as he sounds.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Question 3 – Shoe Shopping
As any fashionista could tell you, what upscale designer’s shoes generally feature a signature red sole?
A. Christian Louboutin
B. Manolo Blahnik
C. Jimmy Choo
D. Stuart Weitzman

Spoiler

A. Christian Louboutin
$15K
Bank - $19K

Time for me to ATA.

At one point Meredith asked Joe's girlfriend how she was doing and she mentioned that she had "peed in her pants a little." Call me old-fashioned ("You're old-fashioned!") but that hardly seems like a topic of conversation for a TV show.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Question 6 – Bad Dates
The Yale Book of Quotations credits what surly comedian with originating the phrase “… from hell,” as in “the date from hell”?
A. Bernie Mac
B. Richard Lewis
C. Dennis Miller
D. Jerry Seinfeld

ATA

ATA results

10 % A. Bernie Mac
47% B. Richard Lewis
16% C. Dennis Miller
27% D. Jerry Seinfeld

Spoiler

B. Richard Lewis
$100
Bank - $49,100

"Surly" is the key word here, and, like Joe, I don't see Seinfeld or Bernie Mac as "surly." My first thought was Richard Lewis.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Question 8 – Timely Authors
In 2010, Jonathan Franzen became the first living novelist to grace the cover of Time magazine since what writer a decade ago?
A. J.K. Rowling
B. Tom Clancy
C. Stephen King
D. John Grisham

Joe doesn’t think that

Spoiler

Stephen King

or

Spoiler

Tom Clancy

would be a good fit for “Time” back in 2000.
Joe makes

Spoiler

J.K. Rowling

his final answer.

Joe leaves with $1K.

Spoiler

C. Stephen King

I probably would have done the same thing. So what did King write in 2000 that put him on the cover of TIME?

earendel wrote:I probably would have done the same thing. So what did King write in 2000 that put him on the cover of TIME?

It was the online debut of the story "Riding the Bullet."

Read the full article at

http://www.time.com/time/printout/0,8816,996443,00.html

-M

themanwho wrote:

earendel wrote:I probably would have done the same thing. So what did King write in 2000 that put him on the cover of TIME?

It was the online debut of the story "Riding the Bullet."

Read the full article at

http://www.time.com/time/printout/0,8816,996443,00.html

-M

This actually made the news:
http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/ ... -magazine/

Bob Juch wrote:

themanwho wrote:

earendel wrote:I probably would have done the same thing. So what did King write in 2000 that put him on the cover of TIME?

It was the online debut of the story "Riding the Bullet."

Read the full article at

http://www.time.com/time/printout/0,8816,996443,00.html

-M

This actually made the news:
http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/ ... -magazine/

You mean it was mentioned in a blog sponsored by the New York Times. And even if that blog entry was also published as an Arts item in the print edition, that's still an awfully obscure reason for knowing this detail, when there's no logical reason for selecting King over the other authors. This was question #10 (unrandomized) but I think it was a WWOQ.