WWTBAM Bored

Joannna Walker
Queen Creek AZ
50/50 and PAF remain

8K - What classic country tune features the name of a 1957 Jack Kerouac novel in its title?

A Walkin' After Midnight
B On the Road Again
C I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry
D Forever & Ever, Amen

16K - A British handyman would use the word "spanner" when referring to a what?

A hammer
B crowbar
C screwdriver
D wrench

PAF Stinger is a family friend. He is certain it is a wrench.

25K - Which of the following is equal in number to the total number of days in a fortnight?

A minutes in an NFL quarter
B lines in a sonnet
C signs of the Zodiac
D stripes on the U.S. flag

50/50 leaves A and B.

Joanna does not know how many days are in a fortnight, and walks away with 16K.











8K B On the Road Again
16K D wrench
25K B lines in a sonnet

For the first time in a while, this entire stack was nihil obstat® for me.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Joannna Walker
Queen Creek AZ
50/50 and PAF remain

We had weather-related issues with yesterday's show (a brief interruption in electric service threw off the recorder so I didn't get it).

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:25K - Which of the following is equal in number to the total number of days in a fortnight?

A minutes in an NFL quarter
B lines in a sonnet
C signs of the Zodiac
D stripes on the U.S. flag

50/50 leaves A and B.

Joanna does not know how many days are in a fortnight, and walks away with 16K.

Too bad...15 minutes in a quarter, 12 signs of the Zodiac, 13 stripes in the flag, and 14 lines in a sonnet, and 14 days in a fortnight.

16K - A British handyman would use the word "spanner" when referring to a what?

A hammer
B crowbar
C screwdriver
D wrench

I remember learning of spanners from Neutron Tide a story by Aurthur C. Clarke with a really bad pun.

Lack of basic trivia knowledge costs her another 9K and a shot at more. Any basic trivia geek who ever played the phone game would likely know how long a fortnight is and even if you don't know how many lines there are in a sonnet the rest are easy to figure out leaving only one option.

tanstaafl2 wrote:Lack of basic trivia knowledge costs her another 9K and a shot at more. Any basic trivia geek who ever played the phone game would likely know how long a fortnight is and even if you don't know how many lines there are in a sonnet the rest are easy to figure out leaving only one option.

Agreed. Furthermore, "spanner" is common enough in British parlance that I think it should be familiar to anyone who has watched at least one BBC television program (on PBS, if not on BBC) or read so much as a single British novel written more recently than, say, Pride and Prejudice.

Here's an article about Joanna's run.

http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/ ... 27-ON.html

This web site apparently allows unmoderated comments.

MarleysGh0st wrote:Here's an article about Joanna's run.

http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/ ... 27-ON.html

This web site apparently allows unmoderated comments.

She got the fast track to the HS, apparently:

[About two weeks later] I got a call from the show that said they were interested in having me come out (to New York).