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Kathleen Miney
Whippany, NJ
stay-at-home mom

"Randomize the questions, and the money."

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Behind Bars
Beverages are Served
Squeaky Clean
Classic TV
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Good Luck Charms
Double Time
Early Engine
BROADWAY
Roman Numerals

Question 1 - Roman Numerals

Which of these ages would a teenager in ancient Rome have to be for his age to be expressed using four Roman numerals?

A: 15 B: 16
C: 17 D: 18

Answer and value

C: 17 (XVII)
Value: $7,000
Bank: $7,000

Question 2 - BROADWAY

In 2011, George Lee Andrews ended a record-breaking un of 9,382 performances, most as Monsieur Andre, in what Broadway musical?

A: Godspell B: Cats
C: Phantom of the Opera D: Fiddler on the Roof

Spoiler

She rules out Fiddler for sure.

She's not familiar enough with these shows. She opts to jump the question.

Answer and value

C: Phantom of the Opera
Value: $500 (She has also jumped over winning the tickets.)
Bank: $7,000

Question 3 - Early Engine

Which of these was one of the first locomotives ever built, and not the name of a popular children's book character?

A: Horrid Henry B: Raggedy Andy
C: Fancy Nancy D: Puffing Billy

She's really not sure, so this is one to jump.

Answer and value

D: Puffing Billy
Value: $1,000
Bank: $7,000

Question 4 - Double Time

Time Life includes the song "(I've Had) The Time of My Life" in a CD box set called what?

A: Golden Age of Country B: Easy '80s
C: Romancing the '70s D: The Best of Soul Train

Answer and value

B: Easy '80s
Value: $10,000
Bank: $17,000

Commercial break.

Question 5 - Good Luck Charms

According to an old superstitious rhyme, if you see what and "pick it up, all day long you'll have good luck"?

A: Buton B: Penny
C: Pencil D: Marble

Answer and value

B: Penny
Value: $3,000
Bank: $20,000

Question 6 - Birthday Suits

Depicting about a dozen women in the buff, lounging on a riverbank, "The Large Bathers" is a famous painting by which of these artists?

A: Paul Cezanne B: Claude Monet
C: Georges Seurat D: Gustav Klimt

She has no idea, she'll ask the audience.

Spoiler

A: 44%
B: 31%
C: 20%
D: 5%

She wishes she could have jumped this, since it seems like the kind of question most people wouldn't know.

She leaves with $10,000.

Answer and value

A: Paul Cezanne
Value: $ not revealed
Bank: (half of) $20,000

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Question 1 - Roman Numerals

Which of these ages would a teenager in ancient Rome have to be for his age to be expressed using four Roman numerals?

A: 15 B: 16
C: 17 D: 18

Answer and value

C: 17 (XVII)
Value: $7,000
Bank: $7,000

The phrasing of this question threw me. A teenager would only "have to be" 13 to express his age using four Roman numerals. As, indeed, he would already have done when he was 8.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Question 2 - BROADWAY

In 2011, George Lee Andrews ended a record-breaking un of 9,382 performances, most as Monsieur Andre, in what Broadway musical?

A: Godspell B: Cats
C: Phantom of the Opera D: Fiddler on the Roof

Spoiler

She rules out Fiddler for sure.

She's not familiar enough with these shows. She opts to jump the question.

Answer and value

C: Phantom of the Opera
Value: $500 (She has also jumped over winning the tickets.)
Bank: $7,000

The audience groaned when she decided to jump. So it's a question about Broadway with a New York audience and it's a question where they've got something riding on the answer. Why wouldn't she ATA, here? (Then, when she does ATA, she walks away from the plurality result because she doesn't think it's something the audience would know.)

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Kathleen Miney
Whippany, NJ
stay-at-home mom

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Question 3 - Early Engine

Which of these was one of the first locomotives ever built, and not the name of a popular children's book character?

A: Horrid Henry B: Raggedy Andy
C: Fancy Nancy D: Puffing Billy

She's really not sure, so this is one to jump.

Answer and value

D: Puffing Billy
Value: $1,000
Bank: $7,000

At the game convention I attend each year there's a "Puffing Billy" tournament - entrants play different train-based board games such as Empire Builder.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Question 5 - Good Luck Charms

According to an old superstitious rhyme, if you see what and "pick it up, all day long you'll have good luck"?

A: Buton B: Penny
C: Pencil D: Marble

Answer and value

B: Penny
Value: $3,000
Bank: $20,000

I've also heard it as "See a pin and pick it up."

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Question 6 - Birthday Suits

Depicting about a dozen women in the buff, lounging on a riverbank, "The Large Bathers" is a famous painting by which of these artists?

A: Paul Cezanne B: Claude Monet
C: Georges Seurat D: Gustav Klimt

She has no idea, she'll ask the audience.

Spoiler

A: 44%
B: 31%
C: 20%
D: 5%

She wishes she could have jumped this, since it seems like the kind of question most people wouldn't know.

She leaves with $10,000.

Answer and value

A: Paul Cezanne
Value: $ not revealed
Bank: (half of) $20,000

Tough distribution of audience answers - 44/31 puts one in the "strong second answer" dilemma. I'd have had to JTQ on this one even though it's something I should know.

Question 1 - Roman Numerals

Which of these ages would a teenager in ancient Rome have to be for his age to be expressed using four Roman numerals?

A: 15 B: 16
C: 17 D: 18

Answer and value

C: 17 (XVII)
Value: $7,000
Bank: $7,000

OK, we're working . . . 15 X - V: (counting on fingers) 1, 2. Nope. 16 X - V - I: 1, 2, 3. Nope. 17 X - V - I - I: 1, 2, 3, 4. Yep. Double checking 18 X - V - I - I - I: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. 17, final answer.

Question 2 - BROADWAY

In 2011, George Lee Andrews ended a record-breaking un of 9,382 performances, most as Monsieur Andre, in what Broadway musical?

A: Godspell B: Cats
C: Phantom of the Opera D: Fiddler on the Roof

Spoiler

She rules out Fiddler for sure.

She's not familiar enough with these shows. She opts to jump the question.

Answer and value

C: Phantom of the Opera
Value: $500 (She has also jumped over winning the tickets.)
Bank: $7,000

Process of elimination of this one because I've never seen Phantom. Godspell certainly doesn't have a M. Andre, Fiddler on the Roof just ran on the afternoon show last week and again, no. M. Andre, and finally, the only character coming close in Cats is Mr. Mistoffelees -- not really close at all. Phantom, final answer.

Question 3 - Early Engine

Which of these was one of the first locomotives ever built, and not the name of a popular children's book character?

A: Horrid Henry B: Raggedy Andy
C: Fancy Nancy D: Puffing Billy

She's really not sure, so this is one to jump.

Answer and value

D: Puffing Billy
Value: $1,000
Bank: $7,000

The only one of these I've ever even heard of is Raggedy Andy, so I don't trust the audience and JTQ.

Question 4 - Double Time

Time Life includes the song "(I've Had) The Time of My Life" in a CD box set called what?

A: Golden Age of Country B: Easy '80s
C: Romancing the '70s D: The Best of Soul Train

Answer and value

B: Easy '80s
Value: $10,000
Bank: $17,000

Nobody puts Baby in a corner!

Question 6 - Birthday Suits

Depicting about a dozen women in the buff, lounging on a riverbank, "The Large Bathers" is a famous painting by which of these artists?

A: Paul Cezanne B: Claude Monet
C: Georges Seurat D: Gustav Klimt

She has no idea, she'll ask the audience.

Spoiler

A: 44%
B: 31%
C: 20%
D: 5%

Thanks to Rafferbee, I could eliminate Klimt, but that's all. Second JTQ.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote: Question 1 - Roman Numerals

Which of these ages would a teenager in ancient Rome have to be for his age to be expressed using four Roman numerals?

A: 15 B: 16
C: 17 D: 18

Answer and value

C: 17 (XVII)

Any of these ages can be expressed with only one Roman numeral, not four Roman numerals. For example, 17 can be expressed by the Roman numeral XVII, which happens to have four digits. Similarly, in modern times the number one million is expressed by using 1,000,000, a single number with seven digits (not seven numbers).

TheConfessor wrote:

BBTranscriptTeam wrote: Question 1 - Roman Numerals

Which of these ages would a teenager in ancient Rome have to be for his age to be expressed using four Roman numerals?

A: 15 B: 16
C: 17 D: 18

Answer and value

C: 17 (XVII)

Any of these ages can be expressed with only one Roman numeral, not four Roman numerals. For example, 17 can be expressed by the Roman numeral XVII, which happens to have four digits. Similarly, in modern times the number one million is expressed by using 1,000,000, a single number with seven digits (not seven numbers).

I have always heard the term symbol for individual components of a Roman numeral rather than digits. Digits tends to be more for Arabic numbers. But perhaps just a matter of preference and digit and symbol are interchangeable. But numerals does seem wrong and a bit lazy on the part of the question writer.