Transcript 03/17/11 - Andy Weiss

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Andy Weiss
New York, NY

Guest Host: Sherri Shepherd

Topic Tree (Unrandomized)
10: movietrivia.com
9: Quiet Justice
8: Same Name
7: Chart Toppers
6: Nature's Beauty
5: Home Page
4: World Leader
3: Foreign Faucets
2: World Series
1: Political Families

Topic Tree (Randomized)
5: Home Page
10: movietrivia.com
3: Foreign Faucets
6: Nature's Beauty
4: World Leader
8: Same Name
9: Quiet Justice
2: World Series
1: Political Families
7: Chart Toppers


Question #1 - Level 7: Chart Toppers
In 2009, Jay-Z set the record for most No. 1 albums on the Billboard charts by a solo artist, breaking whose record?

A: Elvis Presley B: Madonna
C: Mariah Carey D: Bruce Springsteen

Andy jumps the question.

Answer/Value/Bank

A: Elvis Presley
Question Value: $3,000
Bank: $0

Question #2 - Level 1: Political Families
Which of these offspring of prominent U.S. political figures is an only child?

A: Bristol Palin B: Malia Obama
C: Jenna Bush D: Chelsea Clinton

Answer/Value/Bank

D: Chelsea Clinton
Question Value: $25,000
Bank: $25,000

Question #3 - Level 2: World Series
Referring to the season in which it is played, Major League Baseball's World Series goes by what nickname?

A: Winter classic B: Spring classic
C: Summer classic D: Fall classic

Answer/Value/Bank

D: Fall classic
Question Value: $7,000
Bank: $32,000

Question #4 - Level 9: Quiet Justice
Famously taciturn on the job, what U.S. Supreme Court justice has said he wants to be known as the "listening justice"?

A: Antonin Scalia B: Samuel Alito
C: Clarence Thomas D: Anthony Kennedy

Andy has zero idea, so he jumps the question.

Answer/Value/Bank

C: Clarence Thomas
Question Value: $15,000
Bank: $32,000

Question #5 - Level 8: Same Name
Which of the following is a name of one of the main characters on both "The Cosby Show" and "The Bernie Mac Show"?

A: Rudy B: Denise
C: Vanessa D: Sondra

Andy says this looks like a Bernie Mac audience, so he asks them.

ATA

A: 16% B: 6% C: 71% D: 7%

Answer/Value/Bank

C: Vanessa
Question Value: $1,000
Bank: $33,000

-- Commercial Break --


Jenny, one of Andy's oldest friends from middle school and high school, is rooting for him in the audience. She's feeling nervous, right now. Andy says she tends to get crippling secondary embarrassment.


Question #6 - Level 4: World Leader
Ironically, the initials of the Miss America Organization form the name of a former leader of what Communist nation?

A: Cuba B: Soviet Union
C: China D: North Korea

Andy: Ahhhhh. [fairly long pause] Oh!

Sherri: What just came to you?

Andy: Miss America Organization. M. A. O. Mao.

Spoiler

China!

Answer/Value/Bank

C: China
Question Value: $500
Bank: $33,500

Question #7 - Level 6: Nature's Beauty
In which of these regions are you most likely to encounter a Gila woodpecker in a saguaro?

A: Arizona Desert B: Florida Everglades
C: Alaska Tundra D: California Redwood Forest

Answer/Value/Bank

A: Arizona Desert
Question Value: $5,000
Bank: $38,500

Question #8 - Level 3: Foreign Faucets
What two labels are commonly used to label "hot" and "cold" faucets in Mexico?

A: S and T B: H and B
C: V and L D: C and F

Answer/Value/Bank

D: C and F
Question Value: $2,000
Bank: $40,500

-- Commercial Break --


Question #9 - Level 10: movietrivia.com
A popular website, chatroulette.com got its name after its founder saw characters playing Russian roulette in what war movie?

A: Apocalypse Now B: Full Metal Jacket
C: The Deer Hunter D: Platoon

Andy has never seen any of these movies. He walks with $20,250.

Answer

C: The Deer Hunter

-- The End of Game "Noise" --


Edited to fix spelling mistakes and to include the answer for question #5.

[MarleysGh0st]

Question #6 - Level 4: World Leader
Ironically, the initials of the Miss America Organization form the name of a former leader of what Communist nation?

A: Cuba B: Soviet Union
C: China D: North Korea

Andy: Ahhhhh. [fairly long pause] Oh!

Sherri: What just came to you?

Andy: Miss America Organization. M. A. O. Mao.

Spoiler

China!

Answer/Value/Bank

C: China
Question Value: $500
Bank: $33,500

Memo to the question writers: "Ironically" does not mean the same thing as "coincidentally."

Maybe there'd be some humor value if they commonly went by their initials instead of by their full name.

[Bob78164]

The audience was correct on Question 5, right? --Bob

[MarleysGh0st]

The audience was correct on Question 5, right? --Bob

Right.

[earendel]

Andy Weiss
New York, NY

Question #5 - Level 8: Same Name
Which of the following is a name of one of the main characters on both "The Cosby Show" and "The Bernie Mac Show"?

A: Rudy B: Denise
C: Vanessa D: Sondra

Andy says this looks like a Bernie Mac audience, so he asks them.

ATA

A: 16% B: 6% C: 71% D: 7%

Answer/Value/Bank

C: Vanessa
Question Value: $1,000
Bank: $33,000

ATA for me as well - although I know The Cosby Show I've never seen an episode of The Bermie Mac Show.

Question #9 - Level 10: movietrivia.com
A popular website, chatroulette.com got its name after its founder saw characters playing Russian roulette in what war movie?

A: Apocalypse Now B: Full Metal Jacket
C: The Deer Hunter D: Platoon

Andy has never seen any of these movies. He walks with $20,250.

Answer

C: The Deer Hunter

I guessed this one correctly from my recliner, but at the Hot Podium I'd have used one of my JTQs.

[MarleysGh0st]

Question #9 - Level 10: movietrivia.com
A popular website, chatroulette.com got its name after its founder saw characters playing Russian roulette in what war movie?

A: Apocalypse Now B: Full Metal Jacket
C: The Deer Hunter D: Platoon

Andy has never seen any of these movies. He walks with $20,250.

Answer

C: The Deer Hunter

From chatroulette's reputation, it would have been more fitting for the founder to have been watching a different movie genre.

[jarnon]

Memo to the question writers: "Ironically" does mean the same thing as "coincidentally."

Maybe there'd be some humor value if they commonly went by their initials instead of by their full name.

I think they mean "ironically" to be the opposite of their favorite adverb, "fittingly."

[MarleysGh0st]

Memo to the question writers: "Ironically" does mean the same thing as "coincidentally."

Maybe there'd be some humor value if they commonly went by their initials instead of by their full name.

I think they mean "ironically" to be the opposite of their favorite adverb, "fittingly."

And now, after my sentence was sitting there for a whole day, I go back to add the missing word that restores the meaning of my point.

[frogman042]

Question #6 - Level 4: World Leader
Ironically, the initials of the Miss America Organization form the name of a former leader of what Communist nation?

A: Cuba B: Soviet Union
C: China D: North Korea

Andy: Ahhhhh. [fairly long pause] Oh!

Sherri: What just came to you?

Andy: Miss America Organization. M. A. O. Mao.

Spoiler

China!

Answer/Value/Bank

C: China
Question Value: $500
Bank: $33,500

Memo to the question writers: "Ironically" does not mean the same thing as "coincidentally."

Maybe there'd be some humor value if they commonly went by their initials instead of by their full name.

Were you not aware that Mao was eliminated in the preliminaries of the 1918 Miss America pageant? I think losing in a competition whose sponsoring organization initials spell out your own name would qualify as ironic.