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Lee Graham
P.R. expert
was a roller dance expert while in junior high school, at least until he broke his arm in recess.


Topic Tree (pre-randomized):
Natural Formations
Phone Etiquette
Pet Names
Corporate Food
Gaga for Gaga
Vintage Video Games
Security Measures
Hot Hosts
Record Holders
Do-Gooders


Topic Tree: (Randomized)
Hot Hosts
Security Measures
Pet Names
Vintage Video Games
Corporate Food
Gaga for Gaga
Natural Formations
Phone Etiquette
Record Holders
Do-Gooders



Question 1 - Do-Gooders
What national organization once unsuccessfully tried to change the name of Fishkill, a town in upstate New York?
A. AARP B. AAA
C. NAACP D. PETA

Answer and value

D. PETA
Value: $7K
Bank: $7K

Question 2 - Record Holders
Who served as President of the United States for over twelve years, more than any other president?
A. Andrew Jackson D. Dwight Eisenhower
C. Franklin D. Roosevelt D. Thomas Jefferson

Answer and value

C. Franklin D. Roosevelt
Value: 10K
Bank: 17K

Question 3 - Phone Etiquette
Instead of "hello," telephone inventor Alexander Graham Bell is said to have advocated using what exclamation as a phone greeting?
A. Bless you! B. Contact!
C. Salutations! D. Ahoy!

Answer and value

D. Ahoy!
Value: 500 skipped
Bank: $17K

Question 4 - Natural Formations
"Charles's Wain" is another name for what natural formation?
A. Mediterranean Sea B. Big Dipper
C. Adam's apple D. Mount Everest

ATA

A-9% B-24% C-31% D-36%

contestant answer

Lee went with audience plurality and answered D.

Answer and value

B. Big Dipper
Value: not shown
Bank: Lee left with $1000

Lee left with $1000


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BBTranscriptTeam wrote: Question 1 - Do-Gooders
What national organization once unsuccessfully tried to change the name of Fishkill, a town in upstate New York?
A. AARP B. AAA
C. NAACP D. PETA

Quibble time: Fishkill is not in "upstate" NY; it is downstate (close to Newburgh) and within "WE" territory. To some people just about anything north of NYC is upstate.

Spoiler

Another contestant goes down on a question involving the Big Dipper.

-M

themanwho wrote:

Spoiler

Another contestant goes down on a question involving the Big Dipper.

-M

Supposedly, 20,000 people went down on the

Spoiler

Big Dipper.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilt_Chamberlain

Snaxx wrote:

BBTranscriptTeam wrote: Question 1 - Do-Gooders
What national organization once unsuccessfully tried to change the name of Fishkill, a town in upstate New York?
A. AARP B. AAA
C. NAACP D. PETA

Quibble time: Fishkill is not in "upstate" NY; it is downstate (close to Newburgh) and within "WE" territory. To some people just about anything north of NYC is upstate.

It's been observed that the farther north you live in NY, the farther north you draw the line between upstate and downstate. The question writers were going with the NYC perspective, where everything north of the Bronx is "upstate".

The essence of the question required them to make a big concession in admitting that towns in upstate actually have their own names; i.e., that it's not all still an uncharted wilderness!

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Lee Graham
P.R. expert
was a roller dance expert while in junior high school, at least until he broke his arm in recess.

Roller dance?

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Question 3 - Phone Etiquette
Instead of "hello," telephone inventor Alexander Graham Bell is said to have advocated using what exclamation as a phone greeting?
A. Bless you! B. Contact!
C. Salutations! D. Ahoy!

Answer and value

D. Ahoy!
Value: 500 skipped
Bank: $17K

Montgomery Burns still answers the phone that way.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Question 4 - Natural Formations
"Charles's Wain" is another name for what natural formation?
A. Mediterranean Sea B. Big Dipper
C. Adam's apple D. Mount Everest

ATA

A-9% B-24% C-31% D-36%

contestant answer

Lee went with audience plurality and answered D.

Answer and value

B. Big Dipper
Value: not shown
Bank: Lee left with $1000

An audience dursting. What were they thinking? "Wain" is another word for "wagon" and the dipper with its handle could be seen as a wagon or cart. In LOTR it's referred to as "the Wain". A quick check of the Internet shows that the term "Charles's Wain" is used in Scandanavia.