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Transcript 9/28/2012 John Exumé (carryover contestant)
Posted: Sun Sep 30, 2012 2:58 pm
by BBTranscriptTeam
John Exumé
Jamaica, NY
John banked $50,000 on his "double money" question yesterday and has $52,500 in his bank and two lifelines (ATA and JTQ) remaining. John almost didn't make it to the audition because his kitten Snowball gave him "a liquid surprise" that day. He picked her up to say goodbye and she "left some liquid" on his pants leg. He didn't have time to change so he went to the audition and his friend Anjani (in the relationship seat) doused him with perfume. He framed the pants, believing them
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Game Off
Question #5 (Game Off)
Which of the following games was illegal in New York City from 1942 to 1976?
A - darts
B - ping pong
C - billiards
D - pinball
John doesn't think that
pinball
was invented then. He decides to ask the audience.
A - 41%
B - 2%
C - 45%
D - 12%
Two of the answers are so close statistically that he decides to jump the question.
Answer: D (pinball)
Value: $3,000
Bank: $52,500 (no change)
French artist Pierre-Auguste Renoir once said, "I never think I have finished a" what "until I think I could pinch it?"
A - still life
B - landscape
C - nude
D - self portrait
John says that if he
painted a picture so real that people would want to pinch it it's probably a nude
.
Answer: C (nude)
Value: $10,000
Bank: $62,500
Norm MacDonald joked that Bob Saget had a face like "a flower...a cauliflower," in a comedy tradition that shares its name with what cooking term?
A - roasting
B - caramelizing
C - grilling
D - searing
John knows that some cooks
roast cauliflower
.
Answer: A (roasting)
Value: $7,000
Bank: $69,500
In 2012, it can be said that what historic event took place "fourscore and seven years ago"?
A - stock market crash
B - Scopes monkey trial
C - repeal of Prohibition
D - end of World War I
John knows how many years "fourscore and seven" equals. He knows the stock market crash was
1929
and believes World War I ended in
1918
. He thinks Prohibition
started in 1929
. He says that Kenny Rogers is one of his favorite singers and he sang, "You've got to know when to hold, when to fold, when to walk away and when to run." So he folds. He's done.
Answer: B (Scopes monkey trial)
Value: unrevealed
Bank: $34,700 (half the bank)
Re: Transcript 9/28/2012 John Exumé (carryover contestant)
Posted: Sun Sep 30, 2012 3:19 pm
by MarleysGh0st
BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Question #5 (Game Off)
Which of the following games was illegal in New York City from 1942 to 1976?
A - darts
B - ping pong
C - billiards
D - pinball
John doesn't think that
pinball
was invented then. He decides to ask the audience.
A - 41%
B - 2%
C - 45%
D - 12%
Two of the answers are so close statistically that he decides to jump the question.
Answer: D (pinball)
Value: $3,000
Bank: $52,500 (no change)
Behold the power of leading the audience!
But why did 41% get distracted by darts?
Re: Transcript 9/28/2012 John Exumé (carryover contestant)
Posted: Sun Sep 30, 2012 5:28 pm
by jarnon
BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Question #5 (Game Off)
Which of the following games was illegal in New York City from 1942 to 1976?
A - darts
B - ping pong
C - billiards
D - pinball
John doesn't think that
pinball
was invented then.
Maybe he's thinking of modern pinball machines that are like video games. I played traditional pinball long before 1976.
Re: Transcript 9/28/2012 John Exumé (carryover contestant)
Posted: Sun Sep 30, 2012 6:19 pm
by Kazoo65
6. Ugh, I JTQ here.
7. I'm guessing it's nude.
8. Roasting, final answer.
9. JTQ. I know history, so I know when these things happened, but throw in math and I've got trouble.
Re: Transcript 9/28/2012 John Exumé (carryover contestant)
Posted: Sun Sep 30, 2012 7:33 pm
by hss501
Once he identified the year as 1925 I'm surprised he didn't try to reason it out. Not sure how solid is his knowledge of historical dates, but he should know WWI, and there's a good chance he could tease out the market crash and the end of prohibition as well, even if he doesn't know those dates cold. I thought this was a good question: required some assorted knowledge, but not likely to inspire a confident wrong answer.
Re: Transcript 9/28/2012 John Exumé (carryover contestant)
Posted: Sun Sep 30, 2012 8:04 pm
by SportsFan68
So far, so good.
Question #5 (Game Off)
Which of the following games was illegal in New York City from 1942 to 1976?
A - darts
B - ping pong
C - billiards
D - pinball
John doesn't think that
pinball
was invented then. He decides to ask the audience.
A - 41%
B - 2%
C - 45%
D - 12%
Two of the answers are so close statistically that he decides to jump the question.
Answer: D (pinball)
Value: $3,000
Bank: $52,500 (no change)
This is a New York audience. ATA.
Question #8 (Math History)
In 2012, it can be said that what historic event took place "fourscore and seven years ago"?
A - stock market crash
B - Scopes monkey trial
C - repeal of Prohibition
D - end of World War I
John knows how many years "fourscore and seven" equals. He knows the stock market crash was
1929
and believes World War I ended in
1918
. He thinks Prohibition
started in 1929
. He says that Kenny Rogers is one of his favorite singers and he sang, "You've got to know when to hold, when to fold, when to walk away and when to run." So he folds. He's done.
Answer: B (Scopes monkey trial)
Value: unrevealed
Bank: $34,700 (half the bank)
Good grief. OK, fourscore and seven = 87. 2012 - 87 = 1925. Stock market crash was 1929. End of WWI was 1918 or 1919. Repeal of Prohibtion was 1930 something. B, final answer.
Re: Transcript 9/28/2012 John Exumé (carryover contestant)
Posted: Sun Sep 30, 2012 9:57 pm
by hss501
SportsFan68 wrote:So far, so good.
Question #5 (Game Off)
Which of the following games was illegal in New York City from 1942 to 1976?
A - darts
B - ping pong
C - billiards
D - pinball
John doesn't think that
pinball
was invented then. He decides to ask the audience.
A - 41%
B - 2%
C - 45%
D - 12%
Two of the answers are so close statistically that he decides to jump the question.
Answer: D (pinball)
Value: $3,000
Bank: $52,500 (no change)
This is a New York audience. ATA.
Question #8 (Math History)
In 2012, it can be said that what historic event took place "fourscore and seven years ago"?
A - stock market crash
B - Scopes monkey trial
C - repeal of Prohibition
D - end of World War I
John knows how many years "fourscore and seven" equals. He knows the stock market crash was
1929
and believes World War I ended in
1918
. He thinks Prohibition
started in 1929
. He says that Kenny Rogers is one of his favorite singers and he sang, "You've got to know when to hold, when to fold, when to walk away and when to run." So he folds. He's done.
Answer: B (Scopes monkey trial)
Value: unrevealed
Bank: $34,700 (half the bank)
Good grief. OK, fourscore and seven = 87. 2012 - 87 = 1925. Stock market crash was 1929. End of WWI was 1918 or 1919. Repeal of Prohibtion was 1930 something. B, final answer.
Yeah, but Prohibition and the market crash are tougher to date for an immigrant.
Re: Transcript 9/28/2012 John Exumé (carryover contestant)
Posted: Sun Sep 30, 2012 10:15 pm
by SportsFan68
hss501 wrote:SportsFan68 wrote:So far, so good.
Question #5 (Game Off)
Which of the following games was illegal in New York City from 1942 to 1976?
A - darts
B - ping pong
C - billiards
D - pinball
John doesn't think that
pinball
was invented then. He decides to ask the audience.
A - 41%
B - 2%
C - 45%
D - 12%
Two of the answers are so close statistically that he decides to jump the question.
Answer: D (pinball)
Value: $3,000
Bank: $52,500 (no change)
This is a New York audience. ATA.
Question #8 (Math History)
In 2012, it can be said that what historic event took place "fourscore and seven years ago"?
A - stock market crash
B - Scopes monkey trial
C - repeal of Prohibition
D - end of World War I
John knows how many years "fourscore and seven" equals. He knows the stock market crash was
1929
and believes World War I ended in
1918
. He thinks Prohibition
started in 1929
. He says that Kenny Rogers is one of his favorite singers and he sang, "You've got to know when to hold, when to fold, when to walk away and when to run." So he folds. He's done.
Answer: B (Scopes monkey trial)
Value: unrevealed
Bank: $34,700 (half the bank)
Good grief. OK, fourscore and seven = 87. 2012 - 87 = 1925. Stock market crash was 1929. End of WWI was 1918 or 1919. Repeal of Prohibtion was 1930 something. B, final answer.
Yeah, but Prohibition and the market crash are tougher to date for an immigrant.
I wasn't goodgriefing about the contestant; sorry it sounded that way. I was goodgriefing with Kazoo about the math and the difficulty of getting to one of those dates.
Re: Transcript 9/28/2012 John Exumé (carryover contestant)
Posted: Mon Oct 01, 2012 9:34 am
by earendel
BBTranscriptTeam wrote:John Exumé
Jamaica, NY
John banked $50,000 on his "double money" question yesterday and has $52,500 in his bank and two lifelines (ATA and JTQ) remaining. John almost didn't make it to the audition because his kitten Snowball gave him "a liquid surprise" that day. He picked her up to say goodbye and she "left some liquid" on his pants leg. He didn't have time to change so he went to the audition and his friend Anjani (in the relationship seat) doused him with perfume. He framed the pants, believing them to be lucky.
BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Question #5 (Game Off)
Which of the following games was illegal in New York City from 1942 to 1976?
A - darts
B - ping pong
C - billiards
D - pinball
John doesn't think that
pinball
was invented then. He decides to ask the audience.
A - 41%
B - 2%
C - 45%
D - 12%
Two of the answers are so close statistically that he decides to jump the question.
Answer: D (pinball)
Value: $3,000
Bank: $52,500 (no change)
This was true in Oklahoma when I was growing up.
BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Question #8 (Math History)
In 2012, it can be said that what historic event took place "fourscore and seven years ago"?
A - stock market crash
B - Scopes monkey trial
C - repeal of Prohibition
D - end of World War I
John knows how many years "fourscore and seven" equals. He knows the stock market crash was
1929
and believes World War I ended in
1918
. He thinks Prohibition
started in 1929
. He says that Kenny Rogers is one of his favorite singers and he sang, "You've got to know when to hold, when to fold, when to walk away and when to run." So he folds. He's done.
Answer: B (Scopes monkey trial)
Value: unrevealed
Bank: $34,700 (half the bank)
After doing the math myself I knew the answer right away. If I hadn't, I could have deduced it from the dates of the others.
Re: Transcript 9/28/2012 John Exumé (carryover contestant)
Posted: Mon Oct 01, 2012 9:36 am
by earendel
MarleysGh0st wrote:BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Question #5 (Game Off)
Which of the following games was illegal in New York City from 1942 to 1976?
A - darts
B - ping pong
C - billiards
D - pinball
John doesn't think that
pinball
was invented then. He decides to ask the audience.
A - 41%
B - 2%
C - 45%
D - 12%
Two of the answers are so close statistically that he decides to jump the question.
Answer: D (pinball)
Value: $3,000
Bank: $52,500 (no change)
Behold the power of leading the audience!
But why did 41% get distracted by darts?
Maybe they thought about pointy objects being dangerous and thus illegal.
Re: Transcript 9/28/2012 John Exumé (carryover contestant)
Posted: Mon Oct 01, 2012 9:58 am
by Bob78164
hss501 wrote:Yeah, but Prohibition and the market crash are tougher to date for an immigrant.
Given the economy the last several years, I would think the start of the Great Depression is relatively easy. For Prohibition it helps to watch
Boardwalk Empire. --Bob
Re: Transcript 9/28/2012 John Exumé (carryover contestant)
Posted: Mon Oct 01, 2012 11:39 am
by elwoodblues
John knows that some cooks
roast cauliflower.
Somebody please, please, please tell me this was not how he actually arrived at that answer.
Re: Transcript 9/28/2012 John Exumé (carryover contestant)
Posted: Mon Oct 01, 2012 12:00 pm
by Bob78164
elwoodblues wrote:John knows that some cooks
roast cauliflower.
Somebody please, please, please tell me this was not how he actually arrived at that answer.
That's what he said (at least as it was aired). Who knows what may have been edited from his ruminations. --Bob
Re: Transcript 9/28/2012 John Exumé (carryover contestant)
Posted: Mon Oct 01, 2012 1:01 pm
by geoffil
How many MAWG's would have easily gotten this question correct?
Re: Transcript 9/28/2012 John Exumé (carryover contestant)
Posted: Mon Oct 01, 2012 4:17 pm
by MarleysGh0st
geoffil wrote:How many MAWG's would have easily gotten this question correct?
Which one?
Re: Transcript 9/28/2012 John Exumé (carryover contestant)
Posted: Mon Oct 01, 2012 5:09 pm
by geoffil
Which one?
I should have said both.
Re: Transcript 9/28/2012 John Exumé (carryover contestant)
Posted: Wed Oct 03, 2012 12:28 pm
by kmills
earendel wrote:MarleysGh0st wrote:BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Question #5 (Game Off)
Behold the power of leading the audience!
But why did 41% get distracted by darts?
Maybe they thought about pointy objects being dangerous and thus illegal.
That's why I thought it was probably darts....although now pinball will always seem a little more sinister.