WWTBAM Bored

Neal Racioppo
Washington, DC
marketing director

Topic tree (randomized)
Numbers indicate prerandomized level
2 - New York Attractions
10 - National Service
9 - Band Names
1 - Breakfast Foods
8 - Classic Look
(4 - Heading West - $10,000)
(3 - Painted Lady - $2,000)
(7 - Political Pundit - $3,000)
(5 - Goofy Geography - $100)
(6 - Beasts of Burden - ($25,000) - jtq1)

Neal has the jump the question 2 and ask the audience lifelines available.

Question 6 (8 - Classic Look)
Which of these details about Michelangelo's David is described by the art term "contrapposto"?
a. He's leaning on one leg
b. He's naked
c. He's muscular
d. He has curly hair

value/answer/bank

a. He's leaning on one leg
value: $1,000
bank: $16,100

Question 7 (1 - Breakfast Foods)
What breakfast dish is known in the United Kingdom as "eggy bread"?
a. French toast
b. Hash browns
c. Pancakes
d. Waffles

value/answer/bank

a. French toast
value: $15,000
bank: $31,100

Question 8 (9 - Band Names)
Which of these bands named themselves after a real product they saw advertised in True Detective magazine?
a. Counting Crows
b. Smashing Pumpkins
c. Foo Fighters
d. Goo Goo Dolls

value/answer/bank

d. Goo Goo Dolls
value: $500
bank: $31,600

Question 9 (10 - National Service)
An intern in the Kennedy White House, who has written she was the only young woman there "the president did not make a pass at"?
a. Judy Blume
b. Doris Kearns Goodwin
c. Nora Ephron
d. Joan Didion

Jump the question 2 used

value/answer/bank

c. Nora Ephron
value: ($5,000)
bank: $31,600

Question 10 (2 - New York Attractions)
Which of these New York City attractions bills itself as an "odditorium"?
a. Saint Patrick's Cathedral
b. Apollo Theater
c. Ripley's Believe It or Not!
d. Carnegie Hall

spoiler=value/answer/bank

c. Ripley's Believe It or Not!
value: $7,000
bank: $38,600

Question 11 ($100,000)
Which British monarch is credited with popularizing the trend of always leaving the bottom button of vests and suitcoats undone?
a. George VI
b. William IV
c. James II
d. Edward VII

Ask the audience used

ATA results

a:25% b:12% c:7% d:56%

answer and result

d. Edward VII

Neal answers correctly.
bank: $100,000

Question 12 ($250,000)
Dubbed "the man who won the war for us" after WWII, Andrew Higgins designed the LCVP, a type of what?
a. Helmet
b. Boat
c. Airplane
d. Tank

answer and result

b. Boat

Neal decides to walk away and leaves with $100,000.

Bump!

SportsFan68 wrote:

Spoiler

Question 12 ($250,000)
Dubbed "the man who won the war for us" after WWII, Andrew Higgins designed the LCVP, a type of what?
a. Helmet
b. Boat
c. Airplane
d. Tank

Spoiler

[Obscure] Spoiler: answer and result
b. Boat

I will ponder this one and see if I can figure out how those initials fit the answer.

I Googled it already.

Spoiler

Landing Craft Vehicle -- Personnel

SportsFan68 wrote:

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Question 12 ($250,000)
Dubbed "the man who won the war for us" after WWII, Andrew Higgins designed the LCVP, a type of what?
a. Helmet
b. Boat
c. Airplane
d. Tank

Spoiler

[Obscure] Spoiler: answer and result
b. Boat

I will ponder this one and see if I can figure out how those initials fit the answer.

Spoiler

I can come up with Landing Craft Vehicle...P??? Used on the beaches of Normandy.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Neal Racioppo
Washington, DC
marketing director

BBTranscriptTeam wrote: Question 8 (9 - Band Names)
Which of these bands named themselves after a real product they saw advertised in True Detective magazine?
a. Counting Crows
b. Smashing Pumpkins
c. Foo Fighters
d. Goo Goo Dolls

value/answer/bank

d. Goo Goo Dolls
value: $500
bank: $31,600

No idea, so I'll use a lifeline. JTQ because I'm not sure the audience would give a strong single answer.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Question 9 (10 - National Service)
An intern in the Kennedy White House, who has written she was the only young woman there "the president did not make a pass at"?
a. Judy Blume
b. Doris Kearns Goodwin
c. Nora Ephron
d. Joan Didion

Jump the question 2 used

value/answer/bank

c. Nora Ephron
value: ($5,000)
bank: $31,600

I'll JTQ again.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Question 12 ($250,000)
Dubbed "the man who won the war for us" after WWII, Andrew Higgins designed the LCVP, a type of what?
a. Helmet
b. Boat
c. Airplane
d. Tank

answer and result

b. Boat

Neal decides to walk away and leaves with $100,000.

I knew this because they're also known as "Higgins boats". They were built of plywood. And it was Eisenhower who said that Higgins was "the man who won the war for us."

ulysses5019 wrote:

SportsFan68 wrote:

Spoiler

Question 12 ($250,000)
Dubbed "the man who won the war for us" after WWII, Andrew Higgins designed the LCVP, a type of what?
a. Helmet
b. Boat
c. Airplane
d. Tank

Spoiler

[Obscure] Spoiler: answer and result
b. Boat

I will ponder this one and see if I can figure out how those initials fit the answer.

Spoiler

I can come up with Landing Craft Vehicle...P??? Used on the beaches of Normandy.

Ok, enough pondering. I knew the P was personnel, but that was it. I finally cheated and googled it, and then of course remembered where I'd actually seen one -- at the beaches of Normandy when I visited there.