WWTBAM Bored

Shawnée Warfield
Massapequa, NY
assistant principal

bank: $7,100
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* Classic Toys
* Art Math
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* (Strike Out)

Question 4 (Art Math)
The Warhol painting "200 One Dollar Bills" sold at auction for almost $44 million, or how many times the value of the bills pictured?
a. 220 times
b. 2,200 times
c. 22,000 times
d. 220,000 times

value/answer/bank

d. 220,000 times
value: $15,000
bank: $22,100

Question 5 (Classic Toys)
The classic toy Lego got its name from the Danish phrase "leg godt," which has what fitting translation?
a. Build up
b. Play well
c. Have fun
d. Think small

answer and result

b. Play well

Shawnée answers incorrectly (a. Build up) and leaves with $1,000.

Bump. --Bob

I started to duplicate the player's reasoning on Question 5, but then I remembered that English, like Danish, is a Germanic language. From that, I was willing to gamble that "godt" was a cognate of "good." --Bob

Bob78164 wrote:I started to duplicate the player's reasoning on Question 5, but then I remembered that English, like Danish, is a Germanic language. From that, I was willing to gamble that "godt" was a cognate of "good." --Bob

That question is recycled from a harder, somewhat flawed, version used in the very first week of PTBAM.

Thanks to Google, I found out that the question belonged to Trip Payne (Crossword creator, three-time American Crossword Puzzle Championship winner, and expert Scrabble player). I remember doing a double-take when I saw him in the ROF, since I knew of him from Games Magazine and from a crossword book that had pictures of the creators. Now, I kind of know him--I sat by him at a big group dinner during last summer's National Scrabble Championship.

Here's what I found about his Millionaire appearance:

In 1999 you appeared on Who Wants to be a Millionaire. Can you tell us how you did? What was the final question?

I was on the second and third episodes of the show, and was the first person to win $32,000. My $64,000 asked which toy's name translates into English as "play well" — Atari, Lego, Hacky Sack, or yo-yo. The answer is Lego; I guessed Atari.

The question actually wasn't quite correct — "Lego" doesn't translate as anything; that's actually a morphing of a two-word Danish phrase — but I decided not to protest it, being more than happy with the money I'd won.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote: Shawnée Warfield
Massapequa, NY
assistant principal

bank: $7,100
jump the question 1 and 2 remaining

BBTranscriptTeam wrote: Question 4 (Art Math)
The Warhol painting "200 One Dollar Bills" sold at auction for almost $44 million, or how many times the value of the bills pictured?
a. 220 times
b. 2,200 times
c. 22,000 times
d. 220,000 times

value/answer/bank

d. 220,000 times
value: $15,000
bank: $22,100

Good for her being able to do the math. Of course she is an assistant principal.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote: Question 5 (Classic Toys)
The classic toy Lego got its name from the Danish phrase "leg godt," which has what fitting translation?
a. Build up
b. Play well
c. Have fun
d. Think small

answer and result

b. Play well

Shawnée answers incorrectly (a. Build up) and leaves with $1,000.

That's pretty tough - if "godt" is related to the German "gut" then B seems logical, but there's no way to be sure. I'd JTQ.

plasticene wrote:That question is recycled from a harder, somewhat flawed, version used in the very first week of PTBAM.

Thanks to Google, I found out that the question belonged to Trip Payne (Crossword creator, three-time American Crossword Puzzle Championship winner, and expert Scrabble player).

Actually, plasticene, I believe the name of the player from PTBAM was NORMAN Payne, who was the show's third contestant. As I recall, this was the $64K question, and the audience Dursted him into missing.

(Yeah--I'm WAY behind on reading the transcripts here on the Bored ...)

Also, I got my info from what I believe might be a site created by thguy:
(http://loogaroo.tripod.com/gameshow/wwtbam/wwtbam.html).
It has full transcripts of all the shows from 1999, and selected ones from 2000. An AMAZING resource that I've been meaning to post on the Bored for some time now.

rgcviper wrote:

plasticene wrote:That question is recycled from a harder, somewhat flawed, version used in the very first week of PTBAM.

Thanks to Google, I found out that the question belonged to Trip Payne (Crossword creator, three-time American Crossword Puzzle Championship winner, and expert Scrabble player).

Actually, plasticene, I believe the name of the player from PTBAM was NORMAN Payne, who was the show's third contestant. As I recall, this was the $64K question, and the audience Dursted him into missing.

(Yeah--I'm WAY behind on reading the transcripts here on the Bored ...)

Also, I got my info from what I believe might be a site created by thguy:
(http://loogaroo.tripod.com/gameshow/wwtbam/wwtbam.html).
It has full transcripts of all the shows from 1999, and selected ones from 2000. An AMAZING resource that I've been meaning to post on the Bored for some time now.

Norman is Trip's real name. Loogaroo is Tim Loogaroo from alt.tv.game-shows back in the day, thguy I think is Dr. Tim Hsieh of It's Your Chance of a Lifetime fame(won over $1 million back in June 2000)