Transcript 02/01/2011 Jon Arnold

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Jon Arnold
Bothell, WA
Web developer and volunteer pastor
He and his wife have four girls under the age of 5
He said one of his girls, when asked her full name, responded "Renee Elizabeth ComeHereRightNow"

Topic Tree (pre-randomized):
Roman Numerals
In the Shade
Freebies
Ocean Dwellers
Music Videos
Slang Phrase
Early Careers
Punctuate Me
Canada
Top TV


Topic Tree: (Randomized)
Music Videos
Early Careers
In the Shade
Freebies
Canada
Ocean Dwellers
Slang Phrase
Top TV
Roman Numerals
Punctuate Me



Question 1 - Punctuate Me
A nod to its variety of cuisine, what type of food acts as the apostrophe in the logo for the restaurant chain Chili's?
A. Red pepper B. Croissant
C. Pretzel D. Sushi roll

Answer and value

A. Red pepper
Value: $500
Bank: $500

Question 2 - Roman Numerals
In Roman numerals, letter "D" with a horizontal line above it represents what number?
A. 5000 B. 50,000
C. 500,000 D. 5,000,000

JTQ #1

Answer and value

C. 500,000
Value: $25K jumped
Bank: $500

Question 3 - Top TV
At the 2010 Primetime Emmy Awards, ABC's "Modern Family" took home the award for "Outstanding" what?
A. Drama Series B. Miniseries
C. Reality-Competition Program D. Comedy Series

Answer and value

D. Comedy Series
Value: $100
Bank: $600

Question 4 - Slang Phrase
In Ireland, the slang phrase "witches' knickers" is used to describe what common modern phenomenon?
A. Plastic bags caught in trees B. Hair extensions
C. Long lines for a restroom D. Piles of cigarette butts


JTQ #2

Answer and value

A. Plastic bags caught in trees
Value: $15 K jumped
Bank: $600

Question 5 - Ocean Dwellers
Which of these sea dwellers are typically "filter feeders," who absorb toxins from water as it is pumped through their body?
A. Clams B. Lobsters
C. Seahorses D. Eels

Answer and value

A. Clams
Value: $10K
Bank: $10600

Commercial break

Question 6 - Canada
What Canadian city is home to the world's largest French-speaking population outside of France?
A. Montreal B. Vancouver
C. Calgary D. Toronto

Answer and value

A. Montreal
Value: $2K
Bank: $12600

Question 7 - Freebies
Upon its release in April of 2010, purchasers of Apple's iPad received a free digital copy of what children's book?
A. The Velveteen Rabbit B. Winnie-the-Pooh
C. Goodnight Moon D. Peter Pan

Jon smiled, but only because he recognized that they gave away a digital book copy and not that he remembered which one.

ATA

A-27% B-35% C-26% D-12%

Spoiler

Jon thought it was either A or C. Jon said he came for a chance to win enough to start a college fund for his girls. Jon decided to go with his first instinct A, final answer. (They showed his wife grimacing)

Answer and value

B. Winnie-the-Pooh
Value: not shown
Bank: Jon left with $1000 (had he walked it would have been with $6300)

Commercial break

[jarnon]

Jon Arnold
Bothell, WA

So close, yet so far. This would have been a great stack for me.

- Jon Arnon

[earendel]

Jon Arnold
Bothell, WA
Web developer and volunteer pastor
He and his wife have four girls under the age of 5
He said one of his girls, when asked her full name, responded "Renee Elizabeth ComeHereRightNow"

I'm surprised more children don't think of that as their last name.

Question 2 - Roman Numerals
In Roman numerals, letter "D" with a horizontal line above it represents what number?
A. 5000 B. 50,000
C. 500,000 D. 5,000,000

JTQ #1

Answer and value

C. 500,000
Value: $25K jumped
Bank: $500

The bar means to multiply the value of the numeral by 1,000. That's not something known by the average person, however. I don't blame him for jumping.

Question 4 - Slang Phrase
In Ireland, the slang phrase "witches' knickers" is used to describe what common modern phenomenon?
A. Plastic bags caught in trees B. Hair extensions
C. Long lines for a restroom D. Piles of cigarette butts

JTQ #2

Answer and value

A. Plastic bags caught in trees
Value: $15 K jumped
Bank: $600

Never heard the expression but it seems logical.

Question 7 - Freebies
Upon its release in April of 2010, purchasers of Apple's iPad received a free digital copy of what children's book?
A. The Velveteen Rabbit B. Winnie-the-Pooh
C. Goodnight Moon D. Peter Pan

Jon smiled, but only because he recognized that they gave away a digital book copy and not that he remembered which one.

ATA

A-27% B-35% C-26% D-12%

Spoiler

Jon thought it was either A or C. Jon said he came for a chance to win enough to start a college fund for his girls. Jon decided to go with his first instinct A, final answer. (They showed his wife grimacing)

Answer and value

B. Winnie-the-Pooh
Value: not shown
Bank: Jon left with $1000 (had he walked it would have been with $6300)

I don't recall this being mentioned in any of the hoopla about the introduction of the iPad and since I don't own one, I would have had no idea. JTQ for me.

[zachbaker]

Question 7 - Freebies
Upon its release in April of 2010, purchasers of Apple's iPad received a free digital copy of what children's book?
A. The Velveteen Rabbit B. Winnie-the-Pooh
C. Goodnight Moon D. Peter Pan

Jon smiled, but only because he recognized that they gave away a digital book copy and not that he remembered which one.

Commercial break

This is an unfortunate slip in the research department. They received none of these books, because iBooks (which included the relevent book) was quite notably not pre-installed on iPads:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142 ... ch_LEADTop

I located an Stephen Fry article in Time that mentioned this as a fact, which is probably the source for this question. So you can blame the fact-checkers at Time in part. Because iBooks was announced at the same time as the iPad and most power users installed it immediately, it was quickly forgotten that it was not received with the iPad itself.

You could say that purchasers "received the right to a digital copy" or many purchasers downloaded this book, but iBooks was just an app you could download to your iPad like any other. You could just as easily say they received a free digital copy of every work of Shakespeare because there's a free app for that. There were no iPads in April 2010 which were received by consumers with even a snippet of any of these books on it.

This was quite a good question other than the false premise. I had read a little bit into the free book on my iPhone and it turned out that the first sentence provides an answer for this otherwise-difficult question from a couple months before (spoiler is for the 2/1/2011 episode only):

Spoiler

Question 3 from December 7:
http://wwtbambored.com/viewtopic.php?f= ... 9&p=349565