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Matt Guerrasio
Wildwood, NJ
Music teacher

Current Topic Tree

7 Cover Girl
8 Time to Pray
3 "Che"cking Account
$25,000
jumped ($1,000)
$10,000
$3,000
$500
$5,000
Jumped ($2,000)

Bank: $43,500

Question 8 - Level 3 - "Che"cking Account

Which of these Latin American countries has a banknote that depicts Che Guevara walking through stalks of sugar cane?

A: Puerto Rico B. Mexico
C: Cuba D. Costa Rica

Spoiler

"Like everybody, I've seen the poster of him. Every jerky college kid has that picture in his dorm room. I'm so bad a Latin America. I feel like I can eliminate Cuba, because Castro's been there for so long. Purto Rico is a US territory, so it would use American money."

Matt walks away with $21,750.

Answer and value

C. Cuba
Value: not revealed

I don't understand Matt's reasoning. Castro was in power for so long that Cuba wouldn't feature anyone else on their currency? Doesn't he remember why Che turns up on all those posters and tee shirts?

But I'm glad that he pointed out what a ridiculous distractor Puerto Rico was!

This "promo" is dated Thursday, 15 September 2011 00:00, which seems a bit late to catch the Tuesday and Wednesday episodes.

http://www.shorenewstoday.com/snt/news/ ... naire.html

WILDWOOD CREST — Matthew Guerrasio, a music teacher at Crest Memorial Elementary School, got his chance to be a millionaire Sept. 13 and 14. Guerrasio was set to appear on “Who Wants to be a Millionaire?” hosted by Meredith Viera for two days. To find out how he did, episodes air locally on ABC at 12:30 p.m. and 2 a.m. and online.

Online? Where online? We've got a few people here without local affiliates who have been looking for an online source!

Which of these Latin American countries has a banknote that depicts Che Guevara walking through stalks of sugar cane?

A: Puerto Rico B. Mexico
C: Cuba D. Costa Rica

Guess I better study up on currency. I was lucky on this one -- colones in Costa Rica, pesos in Mexico, and, as Matt points out, dollars in Puerto Rico. But they had one a while back about Thailand or someplace I'd never heard of.

MarleysGh0st wrote:I don't understand Matt's reasoning. Castro was in power for so long that Cuba wouldn't feature anyone else on their currency? Doesn't he remember why Che turns up on all those posters and tee shirts?

But I'm glad that he pointed out what a ridiculous distractor Puerto Rico was!

You do realize this is BAM and that actual trivia knowledge by cast members is discouraged right?

As we have learned here over the years if you have an actual interest in trivia it is best to hide that fact and focus your efforts on developing a goofy hook and being bubbly in the interview so that you will appear that you can be cast member who will make "good TV"!

tanstaafl2 wrote:

MarleysGh0st wrote:I don't understand Matt's reasoning. Castro was in power for so long that Cuba wouldn't feature anyone else on their currency? Doesn't he remember why Che turns up on all those posters and tee shirts?

But I'm glad that he pointed out what a ridiculous distractor Puerto Rico was!

You do realize this is BAM and that actual trivia knowledge by cast members is discouraged right?

As we have learned here over the years if you have an actual interest in trivia it is best to hide that fact and focus your efforts on developing a goofy hook and being bubbly in the interview so that you will appear that you can be cast member who will make "good TV"!

I'm curious on how we learned this? Nearly everyone I met in the green room seemed very interested in trivia for quite some time.

frogman042 wrote:

tanstaafl2 wrote:

MarleysGh0st wrote:I don't understand Matt's reasoning. Castro was in power for so long that Cuba wouldn't feature anyone else on their currency? Doesn't he remember why Che turns up on all those posters and tee shirts?

But I'm glad that he pointed out what a ridiculous distractor Puerto Rico was!

You do realize this is BAM and that actual trivia knowledge by cast members is discouraged right?

As we have learned here over the years if you have an actual interest in trivia it is best to hide that fact and focus your efforts on developing a goofy hook and being bubbly in the interview so that you will appear that you can be cast member who will make "good TV"!

I'm curious on how we learned this? Nearly everyone I met in the green room seemed very interested in trivia for quite some time.

I think you have to check Snopes...

tanstaafl2 wrote:As we have learned here over the years if you have an actual interest in trivia it is best to hide that fact and focus your efforts on developing a goofy hook and being bubbly in the interview so that you will appear that you can be cast member who will make "good TV"!

I informed them that I was a quiz bowl coach and I loved knowledge, using that as a base for my audition. They had also seen my previous experience with trivia-related television. If they didn't pick me based on that, there wasn't much more else they could pick me on. Considering there was another coach in the green room on my tape date, I'm gonna go ahead and guess that helped him too. I'm annoyed with people who take umbrage to contestants being "bubbly" and "goofy." It's television. Interesting personalities have been a staple in television for as long as television has been around. I take offense to people who think I and others have made it onto a program like this on personality alone, especially as someone who has failed the test once and worked to pass the knowledge hurdle for the second test. I'm sorry if you haven't made it onto something you've wanted to do, but quit trying to lessen what others have done.

chad1m wrote:

tanstaafl2 wrote:As we have learned here over the years if you have an actual interest in trivia it is best to hide that fact and focus your efforts on developing a goofy hook and being bubbly in the interview so that you will appear that you can be cast member who will make "good TV"!

I informed them that I was a quiz bowl coach and I loved knowledge, using that as a base for my audition. They had also seen my previous experience with trivia-related television. If they didn't pick me based on that, there wasn't much more else they could pick me on. Considering there was another coach in the green room on my tape date, I'm gonna go ahead and guess that helped him too. I'm annoyed with people who take umbrage to contestants being "bubbly" and "goofy." It's television. Interesting personalities have been a staple in television for as long as television has been around. I take offense to people who think I and others have made it onto a program like this on personality alone, especially as someone who has failed the test once and worked to pass the knowledge hurdle for the second test. I'm sorry if you haven't made it onto something you've wanted to do, but quit trying to lessen what others have done.

Well said Chad.

ulysses5019 wrote:

chad1m wrote:

tanstaafl2 wrote:As we have learned here over the years if you have an actual interest in trivia it is best to hide that fact and focus your efforts on developing a goofy hook and being bubbly in the interview so that you will appear that you can be cast member who will make "good TV"!

I informed them that I was a quiz bowl coach and I loved knowledge, using that as a base for my audition. They had also seen my previous experience with trivia-related television. If they didn't pick me based on that, there wasn't much more else they could pick me on. Considering there was another coach in the green room on my tape date, I'm gonna go ahead and guess that helped him too. I'm annoyed with people who take umbrage to contestants being "bubbly" and "goofy." It's television. Interesting personalities have been a staple in television for as long as television has been around. I take offense to people who think I and others have made it onto a program like this on personality alone, especially as someone who has failed the test once and worked to pass the knowledge hurdle for the second test. I'm sorry if you haven't made it onto something you've wanted to do, but quit trying to lessen what others have done.

Well said Chad.

Yeah! They need to take a good look in the mirror.....

lb13

I seem to remember contestants in the recent past mentioning their trivia past, if for no other reason than because of earendel noting that they don't do particularly well. My frustration is probably more with how the questions are worded to maximize the doubt the contestants feel. I just wish that a contestant would just see past it and go with their gut more, rather than burn their lifelines. People are barely getting halfway through Round One.

I only got the question because of the mentioning of sugar cane, as I associate Guevara more with South America.

Looks like vettech posted another invisible post, here.

chad1m wrote:

tanstaafl2 wrote:As we have learned here over the years if you have an actual interest in trivia it is best to hide that fact and focus your efforts on developing a goofy hook and being bubbly in the interview so that you will appear that you can be cast member who will make "good TV"!

I informed them that I was a quiz bowl coach and I loved knowledge, using that as a base for my audition. They had also seen my previous experience with trivia-related television. If they didn't pick me based on that, there wasn't much more else they could pick me on. Considering there was another coach in the green room on my tape date, I'm gonna go ahead and guess that helped him too. I'm annoyed with people who take umbrage to contestants being "bubbly" and "goofy." It's television. Interesting personalities have been a staple in television for as long as television has been around. I take offense to people who think I and others have made it onto a program like this on personality alone, especially as someone who has failed the test once and worked to pass the knowledge hurdle for the second test. I'm sorry if you haven't made it onto something you've wanted to do, but quit trying to lessen what others have done.

I guess Sarcafont would be useful for some people after all...

MarleysGh0st wrote:Looks like vettech posted another invisible post, here.

There is no deleted post from vettech showing up in the moderator log, however the message (399493) certainly does not exist. The log shows no deleted posts today at all, and tmitsss had a similar "phantom post" hanging on a thread this morning as well.... so I am wondering if the log does not update automatically, or something odd is going on again....

I'd like to hear from vettech on whether she did delete a post from this thread.....

lb13

littlebeast13 wrote:

MarleysGh0st wrote:Looks like vettech posted another invisible post, here.

There is no deleted post from vettech showing up in the moderator log, however the message (399493) certainly does not exist. The log shows no deleted posts today at all, and tmitsss had a similar "phantom post" hanging on a thread this morning as well.... so I am wondering if the log does not update automatically, or something odd is going on again....

I'd like to hear from vettech on whether she did delete a post from this thread.....

lb13

I certainly didn't delete anything, and I note that searching in vettech's posts does not show a post in this thread. That's different from the behavior observed earlier, when vanished posts could still be accessed by searching the poster's posts. --Bob

littlebeast13 wrote:

MarleysGh0st wrote:Looks like vettech posted another invisible post, here.

There is no deleted post from vettech showing up in the moderator log, however the message (399493) certainly does not exist. The log shows no deleted posts today at all, and tmitsss had a similar "phantom post" hanging on a thread this morning as well.... so I am wondering if the log does not update automatically, or something odd is going on again....

I'd like to hear from vettech on whether she did delete a post from this thread.....

lb13

I don't think so - I've been having access problems all day and had problems making posts, so maybe it's a post I attempted that never took..

vettech wrote:

littlebeast13 wrote:

MarleysGh0st wrote:Looks like vettech posted another invisible post, here.

There is no deleted post from vettech showing up in the moderator log, however the message (399493) certainly does not exist. The log shows no deleted posts today at all, and tmitsss had a similar "phantom post" hanging on a thread this morning as well.... so I am wondering if the log does not update automatically, or something odd is going on again....

I'd like to hear from vettech on whether she did delete a post from this thread.....

lb13

I don't think so - I've been having access problems all day and had problems making posts, so maybe it's a post I attempted that never took..

This is insane! Now posts are only kinda showing up on the Bored....

lb13

littlebeast13 wrote:

vettech wrote:

littlebeast13 wrote:There is no deleted post from vettech showing up in the moderator log, however the message (399493) certainly does not exist. The log shows no deleted posts today at all, and tmitsss had a similar "phantom post" hanging on a thread this morning as well.... so I am wondering if the log does not update automatically, or something odd is going on again....

I'd like to hear from vettech on whether she did delete a post from this thread.....

I don't think so - I've been having access problems all day and had problems making posts, so maybe it's a post I attempted that never took..

This is insane! Now posts are only kinda showing up on the Bored....

This is insane! lb13 is posting in a transcript thread...

MarleysGh0st wrote:Looks like vettech posted another invisible post, here.

I noticed that as well.

I thought she deleted it, after consideration.

tanstaafl2 wrote:

chad1m wrote:

tanstaafl2 wrote:As we have learned here over the years if you have an actual interest in trivia it is best to hide that fact and focus your efforts on developing a goofy hook and being bubbly in the interview so that you will appear that you can be cast member who will make "good TV"!

I informed them that I was a quiz bowl coach and I loved knowledge, using that as a base for my audition. They had also seen my previous experience with trivia-related television. If they didn't pick me based on that, there wasn't much more else they could pick me on. Considering there was another coach in the green room on my tape date, I'm gonna go ahead and guess that helped him too. I'm annoyed with people who take umbrage to contestants being "bubbly" and "goofy." It's television. Interesting personalities have been a staple in television for as long as television has been around. I take offense to people who think I and others have made it onto a program like this on personality alone, especially as someone who has failed the test once and worked to pass the knowledge hurdle for the second test. I'm sorry if you haven't made it onto something you've wanted to do, but quit trying to lessen what others have done.

I guess Sarcafont would be useful for some people after all...

Ya think?

At least we don't have BobJuch to blame anymore.

peacock2121 wrote:At least we don't have BobJuch to blame anymore.

I thought we had to blame rex?

Estonut wrote:

littlebeast13 wrote:

vettech wrote:I don't think so - I've been having access problems all day and had problems making posts, so maybe it's a post I attempted that never took..

This is insane! Now posts are only kinda showing up on the Bored....

This is insane! lb13 is posting in a transcript thread...

I've been bored lately, but I still ain't reading the transcripts themselves, I swear!!!!1

lb13

tanstaafl2 wrote:I guess Sarcafont would be useful for some people after all...

After seeing your previous posts dissing contestants and referring to them as "cast members," I was pretty sure you weren't being "sarcastic."

chad1m wrote:

tanstaafl2 wrote:I guess Sarcafont would be useful for some people after all...

After seeing your previous posts dissing contestants and referring to them as "cast members," I was pretty sure you weren't being "sarcastic."

I concur.