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Bailie Borchers
Alpharetta, GA
College senior majoring in chemical engineering

Bailie is not only the president of her sorority at Vanderbilt but she's also a "smarty pants" who spent her childhood playing with Legos and going to Space Camp. Meredith says that when people see beautiful people they think they might not be all that bright and asks if Bailie has ever had that happen to her. Being a tall blonde when she walks into class some people think she's lost.

Topic Tree: (unrandomized)
10 - Where the Living Ain't Easy
9 - All in a Name
8 - Fishy Stories
7 - Planetary Responsibilities
6 - On Exhibit
5 - In a Word
4 - Musical Monarch
3 - Close But No Cigar
2 - Stadium Scuffle
1 - Playground Humor

Topic Tree: (randomized)
8 - Fishy Stories
6 - On Exhibit
10 -Where the Living Ain't Easy
4 - Musical Monarch
5 - In a Word
1 - Playground Humor
7 - Planetary Responsibilities
9 - All in a Name
3 - Close But No Cigar
2 - Stadium Scuffle

Question #1 (Stadium Scuffle - Level 2)
Not surprisingly, a riot broke out at a 1974 Cleveland Indians game after fans overindulged in a promotion called "Ten-Cent" what?
A - Hot Dog Night
B - Cracker Jacks Night
C - Beer Night
D - Ice Cream Night

Bailie says she's been the victim of a few of these.

Spoiler

Answer: C (Beer Night)
Value: $5,000
Bank: $5,000

Bailie quips that that will buy her quite a few 10-cent beers.

Question #2 (Close But No Cigar - Level 3)
Despite a career of being associated with them, what world leader quit smoking cigars in 1985?
A - Nelson Mandela
B - Mikhail Gorbachev
C - Fidel Castro
D - Ayatollah Khomeini

Bailie is going to go with her first instinct.

Spoiler

Answer: C (Fidel Castro)
Value: $1,000
Bank: $6,000

Question #3 (All in a Name - Level 9)
An old-timey two-person bicycle that positions its riders side-by-side is known by what "friendly" name?
A - amiable
B - cozy
C - genial
D - sociable

Bailie says that

Spoiler

amiable means friendly but she's an engineer and engineers aren't too good with words

. The other ones make sense but she fixates on "friendly".

Spoiler

Answer: D (sociable)
Value: unrevealed
Bank: $1,000 (consolation prize)

Question #3 (All in a Name - Level 9)
An old-timey two-person bicycle that positions its riders side-by-side is known by what "friendly" name?
A - amiable
B - cozy
C - genial
D - sociable

Bailie says that

Spoiler

amiable means friendly but she's an engineer and engineers aren't too good with words

. The other ones make sense but she fixates on "friendly."

Spoiler

Answer: D (sociable)
Value: unrevealed
Bank: $1,000 (consolation prize)

No way do I guess this one. JTQ.

Bailie is the third person from my green room to get her show on the air, and I've been curious for two months to see how she and everyone else made out!

When I saw that she got to open the episode (and got the glimpse of an unrandomized stack), I thought she had a chance to make some real money. Since you don't see it for long, I figured the key was to try and remember the first word from the level 8, 9 and 10 questions and try to save your JTQs for those. There's no doubt that just about everyone would have breezed through her first two questions before running into the tandem bike one. I just wonder if she realized at the time that this particular question was considered the 2nd hardest in her stack. If she had, she might have chosen to use a jump, since there wasn't an obvious answer to pull from the choices.

On her stack, this is where I'd burn my first lifeline and JTQ.

Sorry, Bailie.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Question #3 (All in a Name - Level 9)
An old-timey two-person bicycle that positions its riders side-by-side is known by what "friendly" name?
A - amiable
B - cozy
C - genial
D - sociable

Bailie says that

Spoiler

amiable means friendly but she's an engineer and engineers aren't too good with words

. The other ones make sense but she fixates on "friendly".

Spoiler

Answer: D (sociable)
Value: unrevealed
Bank: $1,000 (consolation prize)

Ouch!

Ironic that Bailie began by challenging the stereotype about blondes and ends by repeating the stereotype about engineers.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Bailie Borchers
Alpharetta, GA
College senior majoring in chemical engineering

Bailie is not only the president of her sorority at Vanderbilt but she's also a "smarty pants" who spent her childhood playing with Legos and going to Space Camp. Meredith says that when people see beautiful people they think they might not be all that bright and asks if Bailie has ever had that happen to her. Being a tall blonde when she walks into class some people think she's lost.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Question #3 (All in a Name - Level 9)
An old-timey two-person bicycle that positions its riders side-by-side is known by what "friendly" name?
A - amiable
B - cozy
C - genial
D - sociable

Bailie says that

Spoiler

amiable means friendly but she's an engineer and engineers aren't too good with words

. The other ones make sense but she fixates on "friendly".

Spoiler

Answer: D (sociable)
Value: unrevealed
Bank: $1,000 (consolation prize)

So if engineers aren't too good with words, why didn't she use a lifeline? A couple in my Bible study class are avid cyclists and they have one of these. They also have a traditional tandem cycle.

earendel wrote:A couple in my Bible study class are avid cyclists and they have one of these.

Do they call it a "sociable?"

Estonut wrote:

earendel wrote:A couple in my Bible study class are avid cyclists and they have one of these.

Do they call it a "sociable?"

Yes.