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Marnie Hazelton
Freeport, NY
Was laid off as a teacher even after winning an Educator of the Year Award.
Showed off an encouraging letter from Barack Obama.

Bank: $40,600
No lifelines remain

$100,000
Canada's Simon Fraser University made headlines in 2009 by introducing what educational innovation?
A. A major in "Everything" B. A library with no books
C. An all-female football team D. A grade worse than "F"

Spoiler

Marnie came with nothing so will guess B after thinking that would most logically be "innovative"

Answer and result

D. A grade worse than "F"

Mere said FD stood for "Failed for Academic Dishonesty"

Marnie left with $25,000

WWOQ, maybe it was discussed on the Bored and I did not remember. The question sounds like something that would have been discussed here.
I bit for the same logic as the contestant, given that books have given way to e-books and online resources.
If a book is an e-book on Nook, its it a book?

Anyway I googled the article:
http://www.sfu.ca/archive-sfunews/news/ ... 0904.shtml

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Marnie Hazelton
Freeport, NY
Was laid off as a teacher even after winning an Educator of the Year Award.
Showed off an encouraging letter from Barack Obama.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:$100,000
Canada's Simon Fraser University made headlines in 2009 by introducing what educational innovation?
A. A major in "Everything" B. A library with no books
C. An all-female football team D. A grade worse than "F"

Spoiler

Marnie came with nothing so will guess B after thinking that would most logically be "innovative"

Answer and result

D. A grade worse than "F"

Mere said FD stood for "Failed for Academic Dishonesty"

Marnie left with $25,000

I thought it was the library without books also.

earendel wrote:

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:$100,000
Canada's Simon Fraser University made headlines in 2009 by introducing what educational innovation?
A. A major in "Everything" B. A library with no books
C. An all-female football team D. A grade worse than "F"

Spoiler

Marnie came with nothing so will guess B after thinking that would most logically be "innovative"

Answer and result

D. A grade worse than "F"

Mere said FD stood for "Failed for Academic Dishonesty"

Marnie left with $25,000

I thought it was the library without books also.

Me, three.

TPTB have been quoted as saying they're not trying to trick the contestants, but what else was this question? I do believe a library without books has been in the news somewhere, as a logical result of the trend towards e-books. OTOH, where were these headlines about Simon Fraser University's "innovatation"? Aside from a few in Canada, eh?

Aside from carrying the stigma of academic cheating, is an FD grade any different in the GPA at Simon Fraser than an F? The web page Snaxx linked to isn't clear on that point.

BTW, Simon Fraser University is the only Canadian member of the NCAA.

MarleysGh0st wrote:Aside from carrying the stigma of academic cheating, is an FD grade any different in the GPA at Simon Fraser than an F? The web page Snaxx linked to isn't clear on that point.

When I was in college, there was a category called "flagrant neglect," which was worse than ordinary failure, even though both were recorded as F. In fact, many years earlier, they had a seven-level grading scheme, where "failure" and "flagrant neglect" were actually separate grades.