WWTBAM Bored

Connie Chen
New York, NY

Topic Tree: (randomized)

6 TV Roles
4 Bodies of Water
7 Cover Girl
8 Toxic Toes
9 Inspirational Posters
3 Tailoring Terms
1 Sports Bodies
2 Fangs
10 The Finger
5 Getting Places

Question 1 – 5 Getting Places
What D.C. landmark claims that “despite 17.5 of corridors it takes only seven minutes to walk between any two points in the building”?
A. The White House
B. U.S. Capitol
C. The Pentagon
D. U.S. Supreme Court

JTQ 1

Spoiler

C. The Pentagon
$5K
Bank - $0

Question 2 – 10 The Finger
Rediscovered in 2009 after being lost for over a century, what thinker’s middle finger is now on display in Florence, Italy?
A. Galileo Galilei
B. Isaac Newton
C. Socrates
D. Charles Darwin

Spoiler

A. Galileo Galilei
$10K
Bank - $10K

Question 3 – 2 Fangs
“Twilight” fans were abuzz on news that Robert Pattinson is believed to be related to what real-life inspiration for Dracula?
A. Attila the Hun
B. Ivan the Terrible
C. Vlad the Impaler
D. Genghis Khan

ATA

ATA results

4% A. Attila the Hun
6% B. Ivan the Terrible
84% C. Vlad the Impaler
6% D. Genghis Khan

Spoiler

C. Vlad the Impaler
$100
Bank - $10,100

commercial break

Question 4 – 1 Sports Bodies
With regional chapters all over the world, the International Sumo Federation is headquartered in what country?
A. Russia
B. Japan
C. India
D. Egypt

Spoiler

B. Japan
$2K
Bank - $12,100

Question 5 – 3 Tailoring Terms
When used as a verb, which of these fashion terms means “to corner and force someone into conversation?
A. Shirt sleeve
B. Belt loop
C. Hip pocket
D. Buttonhole

Spoiler

D. Buttonhole
$15K
Bank - $27,100

commercial break

Question 6 – 9 Inspirational Posters
The famous WWII poster of Rosie the Riveter saying “We Can Do It!” was originally commissioned to inspire workers for what company?
A. Eastman Kodak
B. Westinghouse Electric
C. Chrysler
D. Procter & Gamble

Connie makes

Spoiler

Chrysler

her final answer.
Connie leaves with $1K.

Spoiler

B. Westinghouse Electric

Question 6 – 9 Inspirational Posters
The famous WWII poster of Rosie the Riveter saying “We Can Do It!” was originally commissioned to inspire workers for what company?
A. Eastman Kodak
B. Westinghouse Electric
C. Chrysler
D. Procter & Gamble

Connie makes Chrysler her final answer.
Connie leaves with $1K.

[Obscure] Spoiler:
B. Westinghouse Electric

Tough one! I JTQ.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Question 6 – 9 Inspirational Posters
The famous WWII poster of Rosie the Riveter saying “We Can Do It!” was originally commissioned to inspire workers for what company?
A. Eastman Kodak
B. Westinghouse Electric
C. Chrysler
D. Procter & Gamble

Connie makes

Spoiler

Chrysler

her final answer.
Connie leaves with $1K.

Spoiler

B. Westinghouse Electric

Another WWOQ that the question writers now consider a "level 9" question. These details may be readily available on a Wikipedia page, but who in the world would be aware of this detail without such a reference?

Westinghouse poster

In 1942, Pittsburgh artist J. Howard Miller was hired by the Westinghouse Company’s War Production Coordinating Committee to create a series of posters for the war effort. One of these posters became the famous “We Can Do It!” image—an image that in later years would also become “Rosie the Riveter”, though this was not intended at its creation. Miller based his “We Can Do It!” poster on a United Press photograph taken of Lansing, Michigan, factory worker Geraldine Doyle. Its intent was to help recruit women to join the work force. At the time of the poster’s release the name “Rosie” was not associated with the image. The poster—one of many in Miller’s Westinghouse series—was not initially seen much beyond one Midwest Westinghouse factory where it was displayed for two weeks in February 1942. It was only later, in the early 1980s, that the Miller poster was rediscovered and became famous as "Rosie The Riveter".[22] Doyle died on December 26, 2010 at the age of 86.[23] She was remembered on NPR: "We bid farewell to an unwitting feminist hero thought to be the model for an iconic poster from World War Two."[24]

Certainly not the celebrity contestant (Heidi Klum?) who got another question about "We Can Do It!" on the primetime show.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Connie Chen
New York, NY

She's a WE®. Later her occupation was given as an online retail marketer.

Connie said that in her office she was known as "Google Connie" because people asked her questions and she always knew the answers. Cue the ominous organ music...

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Question 2 – 10 The Finger
Rediscovered in 2009 after being lost for over a century, what thinker’s middle finger is now on display in Florence, Italy?
A. Galileo Galilei
B. Isaac Newton
C. Socrates
D. Charles Darwin

Spoiler

A. Galileo Galilei
$10K
Bank - $10K

Am I missing something here? How could this be the most difficult question in the unrandomized stack?

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Question 3 – 2 Fangs
“Twilight” fans were abuzz on news that Robert Pattinson is believed to be related to what real-life inspiration for Dracula?
A. Attila the Hun
B. Ivan the Terrible
C. Vlad the Impaler
D. Genghis Khan

ATA

ATA results

4% A. Attila the Hun
6% B. Ivan the Terrible
84% C. Vlad the Impaler
6% D. Genghis Khan

Spoiler

C. Vlad the Impaler
$100
Bank - $10,100

Looks like a "404" error came up when she tried to search the "vat of useless knowledge" she has in her brain.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Question 6 – 9 Inspirational Posters
The famous WWII poster of Rosie the Riveter saying “We Can Do It!” was originally commissioned to inspire workers for what company?
A. Eastman Kodak
B. Westinghouse Electric
C. Chrysler
D. Procter & Gamble

Connie makes

Spoiler

Chrysler

her final answer.
Connie leaves with $1K.

Spoiler

B. Westinghouse Electric

I would have been torn between Westinghouse and Chrysler (as Connie was). But since I still have lifelines, I JTQ here.

earendel wrote:

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Question 2 – 10 The Finger
Rediscovered in 2009 after being lost for over a century, what thinker’s middle finger is now on display in Florence, Italy?
A. Galileo Galilei
B. Isaac Newton
C. Socrates
D. Charles Darwin

Spoiler

A. Galileo Galilei
$10K
Bank - $10K

Am I missing something here? How could this be the most difficult question in the unrandomized stack?

Good question. Without having heard of the obscure news article, there's a pretty clear low difficultyish association of only one of these choices with Italy.

I was wondering about something else. If they found his finger, where's the rest of him? This article from November 29, 2009 gives an explanation. And it wasn't just one finger that was missing!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/8371521.stm

Two fingers and a tooth belonging to famed astronomer Galileo Galilei have been found more than 100 years after going missing, a museum in Italy says.

...

Scientists cut the parts - plus another finger and a vertebrae - from Galileo's body in 1737, almost 100 years after he died.

...

The body parts were removed from him 95 years after his death, when Church authorities decreed he could be reburied in consecrated ground.

One finger and the vertebrae have been conserved in museums since then, but the other parts were passed between collectors until they went missing in 1905.

So when the Church reburied him (still more than two centuries before actually getting around to apologizing to him) someone couldn't resist the opportunity to collect a few relics.

Of course, no article on this topic would be complete without a photo, so here it is.

Galileo giving the Church the finger? :twisted:

MarleysGh0st wrote:

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Question 6 – 9 Inspirational Posters
The famous WWII poster of Rosie the Riveter saying “We Can Do It!” was originally commissioned to inspire workers for what company?
A. Eastman Kodak
B. Westinghouse Electric
C. Chrysler
D. Procter & Gamble

Connie makes

Spoiler

Chrysler

her final answer.
Connie leaves with $1K.

Spoiler

B. Westinghouse Electric

Another WWOQ that the question writers now consider a "level 9" question. These details may be readily available on a Wikipedia page, but who in the world would be aware of this detail without such a reference?

Westinghouse poster

In 1942, Pittsburgh artist J. Howard Miller was hired by the Westinghouse Company’s War Production Coordinating Committee to create a series of posters for the war effort. One of these posters became the famous “We Can Do It!” image—an image that in later years would also become “Rosie the Riveter”, though this was not intended at its creation. Miller based his “We Can Do It!” poster on a United Press photograph taken of Lansing, Michigan, factory worker Geraldine Doyle. Its intent was to help recruit women to join the work force. At the time of the poster’s release the name “Rosie” was not associated with the image. The poster—one of many in Miller’s Westinghouse series—was not initially seen much beyond one Midwest Westinghouse factory where it was displayed for two weeks in February 1942. It was only later, in the early 1980s, that the Miller poster was rediscovered and became famous as "Rosie The Riveter".[22] Doyle died on December 26, 2010 at the age of 86.[23] She was remembered on NPR: "We bid farewell to an unwitting feminist hero thought to be the model for an iconic poster from World War Two."[24]

Certainly not the celebrity contestant (Heidi Klum?) who got another question about "We Can Do It!" on the primetime show.

http://wwtbambored.com/viewtopic.php?f= ... ilit=rosie

themanintheseersuckersuit wrote:http://wwtbambored.com/viewtopic.php?f= ... ilit=rosie

Okay, but Westinghouse wasn't mentioned in your thread, so you can't get Bored credit for this detail.

True, if you open the link to the Washington Post article, they mention Westinghouse down around the seventh paragraph. To paraphrase what I asked before, who in the world would remember this detail from such a passing reference?

The question was all the more wicked because Geraldine was not named Rosie, she was not a riveter and that poster was not identified as "Rosie the Riveter" at the time (that name came from the Norman Rockwell painting). And, while I don't know what war materiel Westinghouse Electric was manufacturing at the time, anyone trying to reason out an answer would assume that Chrysler would be more likely to need riveters.