WWTBAM Bored

Chris Clem
Stow, OH
Unemployed

Question Topics (Unrandomized):
* Sugar Sugar
* Imaginary Creatures
* Self-portrait
* Famous Things
* Boom Town
* Funny Girl
* Capital Player
* Fast Food
* TV Fashion
* Event Planner

Question Topics (Randomized):
* Boom Town
* Fast Food
* Imaginary Creatures
* Self-portrait
* Capital Player
* Famous Things
* Sugar Sugar
* Event Planner
* Funny Girl
* TV Fashion


Question #1 * TV Fashion
On the TV show "Glee," villainous cheer coach Sue Sylvester is virtually always shown wearing what?

A: Turtlenecks B: Track suits
C: Fur coats D: Corduroys

Chris doesn't watch this show, but he's seen ads.

Answer/Value/Bank

B: Track suits
Question Value: $15,000
Bank: $15,000

Question #2 * Funny Girl
In 2010, what comedienne became the first woman in 16 years to host MTV's Video Music Awards?

A: Sarah Silverman B: Chelsea Handler
C: Ellen DeGeneres D: Amy Poehler

Answer/Value/Bank

B: Chelsea Handler
Question Value: $10,000
Bank: $25,000

-- Commercial Break --

Chris could use the money. He's a standup comedian, but times are hard right now and he's living with his parents. Chris told them that if he wins enough money, he's going to buy the house and they can pay him rent to live there. He just wants the master bedroom.

Question #3 * Event Planner
Based in California, Here Comes the Guide is a company that provides information primarily for people planning a what?

A: Baptism B: Retirement party
C: Wedding D: Birthday party

It seems like a really easy question, but Chris has already won a lot of money and he's not
going to be dumb. He asks the audience.

ATA

A: 3% B: 10% C: 84% D: 3%

Chris says the question was so easy, he doesn't know why he asked the audience, except that he's really nervous. He notices the connection: Here Comes the Guide and

Spoiler

Here Comes the Bride.

Answer/Value/Bank

C: Wedding
Question Value: $5,000
Bank: $30,000

Question #4 * Sugar Sugar
In the 1990s, The Willy Wonka Candy Company introduced a "cousin" candy to "Nerds" called what?

A: Geeks B: Dorks
C: Dweebs D: Freaks

Chris knows he knows it, but it could be one of those questions where he doesn't really know it.

Chris: I'm gonna jump the question, but if it's

Spoiler

C

I'm gonna cry, afterward.

Answer/Value/Bank

C: Dweebs
Question Value: $2,000
Bank: $30,000

Question #5 * Famous Things
Featured in the title of a popular comic movie series, the "Pink Panther" refers to a what?

A: Diamond B: Boat
C: Gun D: Dress

Answer/Value/Bank

A: Diamond
Question Value: $3,000
Bank: $33,000

-- Commercial Break --


Question #6 * Capital Player
A rising star on the Detroit Tigers, Austin Jackson shares his first and last names with the capitals of what two U.S. states?

A: Texas and Mississippi B: Alabama and Georgia
C: Idaho and Kansas D: Nevada and Wyoming

Answer/Value/Bank

A: Texas and Mississippi
Question Value: $500
Bank: $33,500

Question #7 * Self-portrait
Whose "Self-Portrait Dedicated to Leon Trotsky" currently hangs at the National Museum of Women in the Arts?

A: Frida Kahlo B: Georgia O'Keeffe
C: Dorothea Lange D: Mary Cassatt

Chris is jumping this question.

Answer/Value/Bank

A: Frida Kahlo
Question Value: $1,000
Bank: $33,500

-- The End of Game "Noise" --

Chris will return on tomorrow's show.

This was a tougher stack.

Question 1-either ATA or JTQ.
Question 2-whichever LL I didn't use on 1, use here.
Question 3-easy
Question 4-JTQ (I associate the term "dweebs" with the 80's)
Question 5-easy.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:He's a standup comedian

So he's a What Else®.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Chris told them that if he wins enough money, he's going to buy the house and they can pay him rent to live there. He just wants the master bedroom.

I assume this is an example of his "humor." No wonder he hasn't made it big-time.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:It seems like a really easy question, but Chris has already won a lot of money and he's not going to be dumb. He asks the audience.

Sorry, Chris, but you looked pretty dumb.

Is it just me Bulls fans or does the end of game horn sound like the horn used during a Chicago Bulls game for end of quarter/substitution notification?

BBTranscriptTeam wrote: Chris Clem
Stow, OH
Unemployed
Turns out he's a would-be stand-up comedian, so he's a WE® (what else).

BBTranscriptTeam wrote: Question #2 * Funny Girl
In 2010, what comedienne became the first woman in 16 years to host MTV's Video Music Awards?

A: Sarah Silverman B: Chelsea Handler
C: Ellen DeGeneres D: Amy Poehler

Answer/Value/Bank

B: Chelsea Handler
Question Value: $10,000
Bank: $25,000

I'd be using ATA on this one. I've never heard of Chelsea Handler.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote: Question #5 * Famous Things
Featured in the title of a popular comic movie series, the "Pink Panther" refers to a what?

A: Diamond B: Boat
C: Gun D: Dress

Answer/Value/Bank

A: Diamond
Question Value: $3,000
Bank: $33,000

Aside from the reference in the first movie, is the diamond mentioned in any of the sequels?

BBTranscriptTeam wrote: Question #7 * Self-portrait
Whose "Self-Portrait Dedicated to Leon Trotsky" currently hangs at the National Museum of Women in the Arts?

A: Frida Kahlo B: Georgia O'Keeffe
C: Dorothea Lange D: Mary Cassatt

Chris is jumping this question.

Answer/Value/Bank

A: Frida Kahlo
Question Value: $1,000
Bank: $33,500

"Kahlo" and "Trotsky" are almost a Pavlovian connection (to use a J! expression).