WWTBAM Bored

Matt Dolan
North Kingstown, RI
Watched the show as a 10-year-old boy, 14 years ago.

Matt mentions Regis, Meredith feigns indignance.

Mom Elizabeth is with him in the audience.

Topic Tree (pre-randomized):
10. Voting Rights
9. Founding Fodder
8. Deity Discards
7. Save the Future
6. Boning Up
5. Beverage Consolation
4. Northern Cities
3. G Whiz
2. Factory Fun
1. Fun With Fashion

Topic Tree: (Randomized)
10. Voting Rights
4. Northern Cities
9. Founding Fodder
6. Boning Up
3. G Whiz
8. Deity Discards
2. Factory Fun
7. Save the Future
5. Beverage Consolation
1. Fun With Fashion


Question 1 - Level 1. Fun With Fashion

A person wearing a piece and carrying a piece has a what and a what?

A: Mustache & nunchucks
B: Hair plugs & grenade
C: Toupee & gun
D: Goatee & sword

Answer and value

C: Toupee & gun
Value: $3,000
Bank: $3,000

Question 2 - Level 5. Beverage Consolation

To help comfort those grieving a loss, baristas are now serving Starbucks Coffee off the lobby of what establishment in South Carolina?

A: Bingo hall
B: Sports stadium
C: Funeral home
D: Polling place

Answer and value

C: Funeral home
Value: $2,000
Bank: $5,000

Question 3 - Level 7. Save the Future

Its name inspired by the children's book "The Little Prince," the B612 Foundation is a nonprofit dedicated to protecting the Earth from what?

A: Deforestation
B: Asteroid impacts
C: Global warming
D: Flu epidemics

He thinks B612 sounds like

Spoiler

what they name asteroids, letters and numbers

.

He then decides to ATA.

Spoiler

A: 19%
B: 33%
C: 29%
D: 19%

He JTQ.

Answer and value

B: Asteroid impacts (In the book the prince came from an asteroid.)
Value: $100
Bank: $5,000

Question 4 - Level 2. Factory Fun

What company's Memphis factory tour shows the processes of "binding, neck-fitting, painting, buffing, and tuning" its product?

A: Gibson
B: Jeep
C: Louisville Slugger
D: Steinway

Spoiler

He's leaning toward Gibson or Louisville Slugger. Then he realizes that Louisville Slugger is in Louisville, Kentucky. Memphis would also be associated with guitars.

Answer and value

A: Gibson
Value: $10,000
Bank: $15,000

Commercial break.

Question 5 - Level 8. Deity Discards

The Aztecs gave which of these precious objects the name "teocuitlatl" or "excrement of the gods"?

A: Jade
B: Diamonds
C: Gold
D: Pearls

JTQ.

Answer and value

C: Gold
Value: $15,000!
Bank: $15,000

Question 6 - Level 3. G Whiz

The term "G-spot" is named after Ernst Gräfenberg, a 20th-century German what?

A: Orthodontist
B: Chiropractor
C: Gynecologist
D: Veterinarian

The audience gets a real kick out of the question.

Answer and value

C: Gynecologist
Value: $7,000
Bank: $22,000

Question 7 - Level 6. Boning Up

In the human body, which of these bones is part of the thoracic cage?

A: Femur
B: Ulna
C: Sternum
D: Tibia

Answer and value

C: Sternum
Value: $5,000
Bank: $27,000

Question 8 - Level 9. Founding Fodder

Opened in 1965 because the owner was "looking to meet girls," what restaurant chain's founder claims it began as NYC's "first singles bar"?

A: Chili's
B: Olive Garden
C: Red Lobster
D: T.G.I. Friday's

Spoiler

He thinks that since people go out on Fridays, T.G.I. Friday's might have a social connection.

Answer and value

D: T.G.I. Friday's
Value: $500
Bank: $27,500

Question 9 - Level 4. Northern Cities

Thanks to its many buildings with Doric, Ionic and Corinthian pillars, Edinburgh is nicknamed the what "of the North"?

A: Istanbul
B: Lisbon
C: Brussels
D: Athens

Answer and value

D: Athens
Value: $1,000
Bank: $28,500

We know this next question is worth $25,000.

Question 10 - Level 10. Voting Rights

Which of the following suffragettes was the only one alive when the 19th Amendment granted women the right to vote in 1920?

A: Harriet Tubman
B: Elizabeth Cady Stanton
C: Susan B. Anthony
D: Jane Addams

He can walk with $14,250 if he wants, but he chooses to guess

Spoiler

C

.

Answer and value

D: Jane Addams
Value: $25,000

Matt leaves with $1,000.

Commercial break.

Question 10 - Level 10. Voting Rights

Which of the following suffragettes was the only one alive when the 19th Amendment granted women the right to vote in 1920?

A: Harriet Tubman
B: Elizabeth Cady Stanton
C: Susan B. Anthony
D: Jane Addams

He can walk with $14,250 if he wants, but he chooses to guess

Spoiler

C

.

Answer and value

D: Jane Addams
Value: $25,000

JTQ - I thought Tubman was the only one who had died by then.

Ouch! I looked them up. Anthony was born the same year as Tubman. Stanton was born five years before that. Adams was born in 1860.


Matt leaves with $1,000.

Commercial break.[/quote]

For the second time this week, my station let its noon news broadcast run overtime, after the president's statement. We rejoined SyndieBAM already in progress, completely missing Matt's run.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Question 2 - Level 5. Beverage Consolation

To help comfort those grieving a loss, baristas are now serving Starbucks Coffee off the lobby of what establishment in South Carolina?

A: Bingo hall
B: Sports stadium
C: Funeral home
D: Polling place

Answer and value

C: Funeral home
Value: $2,000
Bank: $5,000

Seriously? With all that a funeral costs already, they can't give a cup of coffee to those who need it without turning this into a profit center?

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Question 5 - Level 8. Deity Discards

The Aztecs gave which of these precious objects the name "teocuitlatl" or "excrement of the gods"?

A: Jade
B: Diamonds
C: Gold
D: Pearls

JTQ.

Answer and value

C: Gold
Value: $15,000!
Bank: $15,000

OMG! I remember asking this trivia question several years ago on the Bored, after seeing a special exhibit about gold at the AMNH. If you're copying material from here, question writers, you're late!

Food and Funerals go together in this part of the world

themanintheseersuckersuit wrote:Food and Funerals go together in this part of the world

http://edition.cnn.com/2012/07/11/busin ... index.html

themanintheseersuckersuit wrote:Food and Funerals go together in this part of the world

Has anyone figured out the cause and effect? Correlation is not causation, but in this case, it could go both ways.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote: Matt Dolan
North Kingstown, RI
Watched the show as a 10-year-old boy, 14 years ago.

Matt mentions Regis, Meredith feigns indignance.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Question 8 - Level 9. Founding Fodder

Opened in 1965 because the owner was "looking to meet girls," what restaurant chain's founder claims it began as NYC's "first singles bar"?

A: Chili's
B: Olive Garden
C: Red Lobster
D: T.G.I. Friday's

Spoiler

He thinks that since people go out on Fridays, T.G.I. Friday's might have a social connection.

Answer and value

D: T.G.I. Friday's
Value: $500
Bank: $27,500

My thought was the same. I don't know if I'd have been willing to gamble on it, though.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Question 10 - Level 10. Voting Rights

Which of the following suffragettes was the only one alive when the 19th Amendment granted women the right to vote in 1920?

A: Harriet Tubman
B: Elizabeth Cady Stanton
C: Susan B. Anthony
D: Jane Addams

He can walk with $14,250 if he wants, but he chooses to guess

Spoiler

C

.

Answer and value

D: Jane Addams
Value: $25,000

JTQ, please.