Transcript 06/13/2011 Rachel Simon

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Rachel Simon
Yonkers, NY
Adjunct professor, teaches composition, gender studies, and film.
Teaches the above to college students, high schoolers, senior citizens, as well as inmates at a maximum security prison.
Mere asked which of the groups she finds the most interesting to teach to.
Rachel said the inmates don't have cell phones that go off during class, which she really appreciates. They also are really dedicated students and it is a little different
Mere said Rachel is also helping change their lives.

Topic Tree (pre-randomized):
10 Game Shows
9 Saving Lives
8 Foreign Sports
7 Crime Films
6 Retro Gifting
5 Nice View
4 Count Chocula
3 Oscar TV
2 Ripped Pages
1 Media Lingo




Topic Tree: (Randomized)
1 Media Lingo
4 Count Chocula
3 Oscar TV
7 Crime Films
10 Game Shows
2 Ripped Pages
8 Foreign Sports
6 Retro Gifting
9 Saving Lives
5 Nice View



Question 1 - Level 5 Nice View
On clear days, Seattle residents say, "The mountain is out," in reference to what natural sight?
A. Mount Whitney B. Mount McKinley
C. Mount Rainier D. Mount Hood

Spoiler

Rachel said that you think you know geography until you are up here. She has it down to two of the four and hopes the audience knows Pacific Northwest

ATA results

A-3% B-16% C-64% D-17%
Mere says that 64% of the audience thinks it is Mount Rainier
Rachel "So do I"
(Audience laughs)

Answer and value

C. Mount Rainier
Value: $3000
Bank:

Flashback - listed as $100K (actually $125K) from 2002:
$125K In 1955, Rosa Parks was arrested for not giving up her bus seat on the way home from her job as a what?
A. Housekeeper B. Cook
C. Seamstress D. Waitress

Spoiler

C. Seamstress
Cliff Kowalczyk 1/21/2002 used PAF (guessed D) and missed (D)

Question 2 - Level 9 Saving Lives
Nobel Peace Prize winner Norman Borlaug is credited with saving hundreds of millions of lives how?
A. Curing infectious disease B. Inventing a new insecticide
C. Fighting water pollution D. Breeding high-yield crops

Spoiler

Rachel does not think inventing a new insecticide would win a Nobel Peace Prize, but will JTQ

JTQ #1 (Rachel expressed hope that it is $100 as the value was about to be shown)

Answer and value

D. Breeding high-yield crops
Value: $100 jumped
Bank: $3000

Rachel will return tomorrow with $3000 banked and one JTQ remaining

[Snaxx]

Spoiler

Rachel does not think inventing a new insecticide would win a Nobel Peace Prize, but will JTQ

BB shoutout time!
Insecticides do not win a Nobel Prize but do win $1,860,000 (I think I got that figure right) on WWTBAM. Pretty sure still worth more than the Nobel prize money.


Edit, checked Wikipedia on value of the Nobel Prize, it is rather close:

In 2009, the monetary award was 10 million SEK (US$1.4 million).

[jarnon]

Question 2 - Level 9 Saving Lives
Nobel Peace Prize winner Norman Borlaug is credited with saving hundreds of millions of lives how?
A. Curing infectious disease B. Inventing a new insecticide
C. Fighting water pollution D. Breeding high-yield cops

Answer and value

D. Breeding high-yield cops
Value: $100 jumped
Bank: $3000

We could use some of those life-saving cops in Philly.

[Snaxx]

Question 2 - Level 9 Saving Lives
Nobel Peace Prize winner Norman Borlaug is credited with saving hundreds of millions of lives how?
A. Curing infectious disease B. Inventing a new insecticide
C. Fighting water pollution D. Breeding high-yield cops

Answer and value

D. Breeding high-yield cops
Value: $100 jumped
Bank: $3000

We could use some of those life-saving cops in Philly.

LOL -- I figured I would be good for at least one humorous typo last night.
I see someone edited it already, thanks.

[earendel]

Rachel Simon
Yonkers, NY
Adjunct professor, teaches composition, gender studies, and film.
Teaches the above to college students, high schoolers, senior citizens, as well as inmates at a maximum security prison.
Mere asked which of the groups she finds the most interesting to teach to.
Rachel said the inmates don't have cell phones that go off during class, which she really appreciates. They also are really dedicated students and it is a little different
Mere said Rachel is also helping change their lives.

Good for her.

OK, now it's four contestants and only one question answered without the use of a lifeline. I can see why these shows were saved for after sweeps.