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Kelly Pillar
Lancaster, CA
Journalism student

Topic Tree:

10 Sports Figures
9 Summer Jobs
8 Animal Talk
7 Line of Labor
6 Sign of Freedom
5 In the Papers
4 Eastern Eats
3 Reality Bites
2 Prestigious Prizes
1 French Family Vacations


Topic Tree: (randomized)

6 Sign of Freedom
9 Summer Jobs
3 Reality Bites
7 Line of Labor
5 In the Papers
4 Eastern Eats
10 Sports Figures
8 Animal Talk
1 French Family Vacations
2 Prestigious Prizes

Question 1 – 2 Prestigious Prizes
The Kennedy Center prize for American humor is named in honor of what author?
A. Edgar Allan Poe
B. Ernest Hemingway
C. Mark Twain
D. Herman Melville

JTQ 1

Spoiler

C. Mark Twain
$500
Bank - $0

Question 2 - 1 French Family Vacations
When said aloud, which of these relatives sounds like a famous resort city in the south of France?
A. Nephew
B. Niece
C. Aunt
D. Uncle

Spoiler

B. Niece
$15K
Bank - $15K

commercial break

Question 3 – 8 Animal Talk
A jackass is a male donkey but a female donkey is called a what?
A. Judy ass
B. Julie ass
C. Jenny ass
D. Jane ass

Kelly thought it would be Jill.

JTQ 2

Spoiler

C. Jenny ass
$3K
Bank - $15K

Question 4 – 10 Sports Figures
After retiring from basketball, Michael Jordan played minor league baseball and hit how many home runs in his 436 at-bats?
A. 0
B. 1
C. 2
D. 3

ATA

ATA results

66% A. 0
16% B. 1
12% C. 2
6% D. 3

Spoiler

Kelly makes 0 her final answer.

Spoiler

D. 3
Kelly leaves with $1K

commercial break

A question on Play the Percentages asked the players to name the female species of the jackass. This show was a Barry-Enright show from 1980 hosted by Geoff Edwards which originally had married couples predicting how people answered general knowledge question, then later changed its format to having two solo contestants answering questions whose difficulty level was based on what percentage of the people asked the question got it wrong. In post production in a far more innocent time on TV, Dan Enright and his staff placed a graphic while the ladies were locking in their predictions reading: Jenny vs. Jenny Ass

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Question 1 – 2 Prestigious Prizes
The Kennedy Center prize for American humor is named in honor of what author?
A. Edgar Allan Poe
B. Ernest Hemingway
C. Mark Twain
D. Herman Melville

JTQ 1

Spoiler

C. Mark Twain
$500
Bank - $0

Kelly was torn between Twain and Hemingway? She thought Hemingway was writer of humor???

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Question 4 – 10 Sports Figures
After retiring from basketball, Michael Jordan played minor league baseball and hit how many home runs in his 436 at-bats?
A. 0
B. 1
C. 2
D. 3

ATA

ATA results

66% A. 0
16% B. 1
12% C. 2
6% D. 3

Spoiler

Kelly makes 0 her final answer.

Spoiler

D. 3
Kelly leaves with $1K

A WWOQ about sports and she asks the audience? Ouch!

And the correct answer ended up in fourth place with a whopping 6% of the vote. That may be a dursting record!

MarleysGh0st wrote:

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Question 4 – 10 Sports Figures
After retiring from basketball, Michael Jordan played minor league baseball and hit how many home runs in his 436 at-bats?
A. 0
B. 1
C. 2
D. 3

ATA

ATA results

66% A. 0
16% B. 1
12% C. 2
6% D. 3

Spoiler

Kelly makes 0 her final answer.

Spoiler

D. 3
Kelly leaves with $1K

A WWOQ about sports and she asks the audience? Ouch!

And the correct answer ended up in fourth place with a whopping 6% of the vote. That may be a dursting record!

I would have found 0 to be the logical trivia response, and some rationalization for 1, but 3 is truly WGAS material unless there is some anecdote in film or pop culture I'm missing. I think the dursting record is still the Titanic/Royal Mail Ship question.

I would be surprised if Michael Jordan remembers how many home runs he hit in the minors. That one was really out of left field, no pun intended.

But there is no excuse for not knowing which of those authors to associate with humor.

Snaxx wrote:I think the dursting record is still the Titanic/Royal Mail Ship question.

Oh, yeah!

http://wwtbambored.com/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=32016

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Question #4 * Historic Vessels
What does the "M" stand for in "RMS Titanic," the full name of the historic ship that sank in 1912?

A: Military B: Monarch
C: Mail D: Medical

David asks the audience.

ATA

A: 5% B: 91% C: 2% D: 2%

David: That is the kind of percentage I like! Anything over 80 is--anything over 80 is--a passing grade. Yes, I believe it's a passing grade. I will go with

Spoiler

B: Monarch,

final answer.

Meredith: Oh my gosh! It is not

Spoiler

Monarch,

it is

Spoiler

Mail,

as in

Spoiler

Royal Mail Ship

. I know the audience is in total shock, David. I'm sure they feel terrible.

David: No, it could have been worse. It could have been worse.

David falls to $1,000.

Answer

C: Mail

That's a record that's nearly impossible to beat!

MarleysGh0st wrote:

Snaxx wrote:I think the dursting record is still the Titanic/Royal Mail Ship question.

Oh, yeah!

http://wwtbambored.com/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=32016

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Question #4 * Historic Vessels
What does the "M" stand for in "RMS Titanic," the full name of the historic ship that sank in 1912?

A: Military B: Monarch
C: Mail D: Medical

David asks the audience.

ATA

A: 5% B: 91% C: 2% D: 2%

David: That is the kind of percentage I like! Anything over 80 is--anything over 80 is--a passing grade. Yes, I believe it's a passing grade. I will go with

Spoiler

B: Monarch,

final answer.

Meredith: Oh my gosh! It is not

Spoiler

Monarch,

it is

Spoiler

Mail,

as in

Spoiler

Royal Mail Ship

. I know the audience is in total shock, David. I'm sure they feel terrible.

David: No, it could have been worse. It could have been worse.

David falls to $1,000.

Answer

C: Mail

That's a record that's nearly impossible to beat!

Which record? Highest percentage for a wrong answer, or lowest percentage for the correct one?

Estonut wrote:

MarleysGh0st wrote:

Snaxx wrote:I think the dursting record is still the Titanic/Royal Mail Ship question.

Oh, yeah!

http://wwtbambored.com/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=32016

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Question #4 * Historic Vessels
What does the "M" stand for in "RMS Titanic," the full name of the historic ship that sank in 1912?

A: Military B: Monarch
C: Mail D: Medical

David asks the audience.

ATA

A: 5% B: 91% C: 2% D: 2%

David: That is the kind of percentage I like! Anything over 80 is--anything over 80 is--a passing grade. Yes, I believe it's a passing grade. I will go with

Spoiler

B: Monarch,

final answer.

Meredith: Oh my gosh! It is not

Spoiler

Monarch,

it is

Spoiler

Mail,

as in

Spoiler

Royal Mail Ship

. I know the audience is in total shock, David. I'm sure they feel terrible.

David: No, it could have been worse. It could have been worse.

David falls to $1,000.

Answer

C: Mail

That's a record that's nearly impossible to beat!

Which record? Highest percentage for a wrong answer, or lowest percentage for the correct one?

You gotta love nit pickers.

Estonut wrote:Which record? Highest percentage for a wrong answer, or lowest percentage for the correct one?

Well, if you look up a little further in the thread (I know, without infinite pyramid building, that's so much effort) you'll see that I was speculating about the 6% vote for the Michael Jordan question a record for the lowest percentage for the correct answer. But it appears that it's only in the running for second place.

MarleysGh0st wrote:

Estonut wrote:Which record? Highest percentage for a wrong answer, or lowest percentage for the correct one?

Well, if you look up a little further in the thread (I know, without infinite pyramid building, that's so much effort) you'll see that I was speculating about the 6% vote for the Michael Jordan question a record for the lowest percentage for the correct answer. But it appears that it's only in the running for second place.

You gotta love two nit pickers picking nits.

peacock2121 wrote:You gotta love two nit pickers picking nits.

I'm not picking nits. I was just answering Esto's question.

MarleysGh0st wrote:

peacock2121 wrote:You gotta love two nit pickers picking nits.

I'm not picking nits. I was just answering Esto's question.

LOL - no you didn't just answer his question. You did far more than that.

Just answering his question would have looked something like:

I was referring to the lowest percentage for the correct answer.

You poked him for not reading up the thread and you poked him for not using effort to do so. Then you answered the question and slid in the fact that your statement was wrong.

You never like the way I answer questions, do you?

MarleysGh0st wrote:You never like the way I answer questions, do you?

That's not the case.

You didn't just answer the question as you stated you did. That was my point.

I kinda enjoyed the way you answered his question.

I love nit pickers.

I'd have sworn up and down MJ hit two homers in the minors.

That was the strike year though, and I'm sure he had 2 by the time it rolled around in August. Maybe he hit another one when baseball was essentially dead to me....

lb13

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Kelly Pillar
Lancaster, CA
Journalism student

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Question 1 – 2 Prestigious Prizes
The Kennedy Center prize for American humor is named in honor of what author?
A. Edgar Allan Poe
B. Ernest Hemingway
C. Mark Twain
D. Herman Melville

JTQ 1

Spoiler

C. Mark Twain
$500
Bank - $0

That "Moby Dick" - what a riot!

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Question 3 – 8 Animal Talk
A jackass is a male donkey but a female donkey is called a what?
A. Judy ass
B. Julie ass
C. Jenny ass
D. Jane ass

Kelly thought it would be Jill.

JTQ 2

Spoiler

C. Jenny ass
$3K
Bank - $15K

I've never heard "ass" added to "jenny".

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Question 4 – 10 Sports Figures
After retiring from basketball, Michael Jordan played minor league baseball and hit how many home runs in his 436 at-bats?
A. 0
B. 1
C. 2
D. 3

ATA

ATA results

66% A. 0
16% B. 1
12% C. 2
6% D. 3

Spoiler

Kelly makes 0 her final answer.

Spoiler

D. 3
Kelly leaves with $1K

Ouch! And a shame because she traveled clear across the country for her shot and goes home with $1K while the guy from nearby gets a pretty nice payoff.

MarleysGh0st wrote:

Estonut wrote:Which record? Highest percentage for a wrong answer, or lowest percentage for the correct one?

Well, if you look up a little further in the thread (I know, without infinite pyramid building, that's so much effort) you'll see that I was speculating about the 6% vote for the Michael Jordan question a record for the lowest percentage for the correct answer. But it appears that it's only in the running for second place.

I did read all of the previous posts in the thread and thought you were referring to the lowest percentage for the correct answer. Will Durst gave Dr. Evil "100% confidence" that his PAF answer was correct, but it wasn't. Durst said nothing to rule out the correct answer. Any "Dursting record" should, then, be the highest percentage given to a wrong answer...

earendel wrote:

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Question 3 – 8 Animal Talk
A jackass is a male donkey but a female donkey is called a what?
A. Judy ass
B. Julie ass
C. Jenny ass
D. Jane ass

Kelly thought it would be Jill.

JTQ 2

Spoiler

C. Jenny ass
$3K
Bank - $15K

I've never heard "ass" added to "jenny".

It is an odd quirk of language (one of many!). In reality the animal, male or female, is an "Ass". The male is a "Jack" and the female is a "Jenny". But you frequently see the term "jackass" and when it is not being applied to people it is often applied to all asses (or "donkeys", a whole nuther kettle of equine name for the same species, the origin of which is murky at best) in general.

But you would never refer to male horses as "stallionhorses". Or horses in general for that matter. They are just horses.