WWTBAM Bored

Liz Greenberg
New York City, NY
consultant

Liz is dressed in orange and black, the colors of her alma mater, Princeton. She has an MBA from Yale also. Liz's mom Mona is in the relationship seat. Mona wishes Liz were less about Princeton and more about Prince Charming. She's been cajoling Liz for 15 years to have children. She wants grandchildren while she's young enough to enjoy them.

Topic Tree: (randomized)
Veggie Hero
Crafty Construction
Living History
Game On
Art on Display
Yoga Class
Words of Yore
Perfect Pitch
The Book of Jobs
The Old West

Question #1 (The Old West)
Concluding it was halfway between Salt Lake City and Los Angeles, what city did the Mormon Church pick in 1855 as a site to build a fort?
A - Albuquerque
B - Phoenix
C - Las Vegas
D - Denver

Liz knows that

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Denver is east of Salt Lake City

so she can eliminate that answer. She then notes that

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Phoenix and Albuquerque are pretty far south

.

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Answer: C (Las Vegas)
Value: $5,000
Bank: $5,000

Question #2 (The Book of Jobs)
Mimicking the way Apple names its gadgets, a 2005 biography of Steve Jobs has which of these titles?
A - geniUs
B - kinG
C - iCon
D - wiZard

Liz has a few Apple products and knows they are fond of using

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"i"

as part of the naming convention.

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Answer: C (iCon)
Value: $15,000
Bank: $20,000

Question #3 (Perfect Pitch)
What singer's voice was deemed one of Michigan's "greatest natural resources" because she was raised in Detroit?
A - Gladys Knight
B - Barbra Streisand
C - Aretha Franklin
D - Tina Turner

Liz is a singer herself and can appreciate all of these women's contributions to music. She knows Michigan is home to

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Motown, so she doesn't think it will be Barbra Streisand

. All of them have terrific voices but the one that stands out to her is

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Aretha Franklin

and she's going to trust her gut and make that her final answer.

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Answer: C (Aretha Franklin)
Value: $1,000
Bank: $21,000

Question #4 (Words of Yore)
Used for fastening items, which of the following is the Old English word for "narrow strip of leather"?
A - dongle
B - thwong
C - purloin
D - chuff

None of the answers particularly stand out to Liz. Since she's doing pretty well so far she's going to jump the question.

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Answer: B (thwong)
Value: $3,000
Bank: $21,000 (unchanged)

Question #5 (Yoga Class)
Just as it sounds, the corpse pose is a yoga position in which a person does what?
A - sits up straight
B - balances on their elbows
C - lies on their back
D - does a handstand

Liz thinks that this is going to be

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C

.

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Answer: C (lies on their back)
Value: $100
Bank: $21,100

commercial break

Liz has a lot of outstanding student loans and she'd like to wipe the slate clean.

Question #6 (Art on Display)
A 2011 exhibit at the Milwaukee Art Museum, "Impressionism: Masterworks on Paper" featured many works from what time and place?
A - 17th-century Italy
B - 18th-century England
C - 19th-century France
D - 20th-century United States

This past summer Liz was fortunate enough to spend part of the summer in

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France, where she visited a museum that had a fair amount of impressionism

.

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Answer: C (19th-century France)
Value: $7,000
Bank: $28,100

Question #7 (Game On)
Like the show it's based on, how many rappers commonly populate the game board of the MTV2 game show "Hip Hop Squares"?
A - 3
B - 6
C - 9
D - 12

Liz has never seen the show and knows very little about rap or hip hop so she's going to ask the audience.

ATA results

A - 1%
B - 10%
C - 80%
D - 9%

Since Liz has no idea and the audience looks smart, she's going to trust what they have to say.

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Answer: C (9)
Value: $500
Bank: $28,600

Question #8 (Living History)
Despite being born in 1790, what U.S. president fathered a child when he was 70 and has two grandsons that are still alive today?
A - James K. Polk
B - Ulysses S. Grant
C - John Tyler
D - Martin Van Buren

Liz really doesn't know the answer so rather than guess randomly she's going to jump the question.

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Answer: C (John Tyler)
Value: $25,000
Bank: $28,600 (unchanged)

Question #9 (Crafty Construction)
Longest Distance, Longest Airtime and Aerobatics are the three areas of competition at a world wide event for enthusiasts of what?
A - sandcastles
B - paper planes
C - miniature shipbuilding
D - Ping-Pong

"'Longest Distance, Longest Airtime and Aerobatics' imply things that travel," Liz says, eliminating

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sandcastles

. She eliminates

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miniature shipbuilding because of the airtime and Ping-Pong because of aerobatics

.

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Answer: B (paper planes)
Value: $2,000
Bank: $30,600

commercial break

Question #10 (Veggie Hero)
Based on his reverence for all living creatures, which of these superheroes revealed he was a vegetarian in a 2003 comic book?
A - Spider-Man
B - Green Lantern
C - Superman
D - Captain America

Liz doesn't know much about comic books or superheroes. She says Spider-Man turns into "a living creature". She doesn't know anything about who Green Lantern is or what he does. She considers Superman but then hesitates and says she doesn't feel confident guessing so she's going to walk away.

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Answer: C (Superman)
Value: $10,000
Bank: $15,300 (half the bank)

THE END OF GAME "NOISE"


Millionaire question of the day:
According to new research, emperor penguins stay warm by huddling together and replicating what common crowd activity?
A - stomping feet
B - hand clapping
C - crowd surfing
D - the wave
Answer:

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D (the wave)

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Liz Greenberg
New York City, NY

Seems like they had a lot of contestants from Where Else, last week.

Even more than usual.

Question #6 (Art on Display)
A 2011 exhibit at the Milwaukee Art Museum, "Impressionism: Masterworks on Paper" featured many works from what time and place?
A - 17th-century Italy
B - 18th-century England
C - 19th-century France
D - 20th-century United States

This past summer Liz was fortunate enough to spend part of the summer in

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France, where she visited a museum that had a fair amount of impressionism

.

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Answer: C (19th-century France)
Value: $7,000
Bank: $28,100

There goes another one of my art questions.

Question #8 (Living History)
Despite being born in 1790, what U.S. president fathered a child when he was 70 and has two grandsons that are still alive today?
A - James K. Polk
B - Ulysses S. Grant
C - John Tyler
D - Martin Van Buren

Liz really doesn't know the answer so rather than guess randomly she's going to jump the question.

Spoiler

Answer: C (John Tyler)
Value: $25,000
Bank: $28,600 (unchanged)

This came up somewhere not long ago, maybe on Qrank, which is now defunct.

Question #9 (Crafty Construction)
Longest Distance, Longest Airtime and Aerobatics are the three areas of competition at a world wide event for enthusiasts of what?
A - sandcastles
B - paper planes
C - miniature shipbuilding
D - Ping-Pong

"'Longest Distance, Longest Airtime and Aerobatics' imply things that travel," Liz says, eliminating

Spoiler

sandcastles

. She eliminates

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miniature shipbuilding because of the airtime and Ping-Pong because of aerobatics

.

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Answer: B (paper planes)
Value: $2,000
Bank: $30,600

One of my friends got a book on making paper airplanes for Christmas, and we all spent a couple hours trying to make an airplane that would fly in an S curve, but no luck.

Question #10 (Veggie Hero)
Based on his reverence for all living creatures, which of these superheroes revealed he was a vegetarian in a 2003 comic book?
A - Spider-Man
B - Green Lantern
C - Superman
D - Captain America

Liz doesn't know much about comic books or superheroes. She says Spider-Man turns into "a living creature". She doesn't know anything about who Green Lantern is or what he does. She considers Superman but then hesitates and says she doesn't feel confident guessing so she's going to walk away.

Spoiler

Answer: C (Superman)
Value: $10,000
Bank: $15,300 (half the bank)

No idea. Will the audience know this? Nevermind, I'll JTQ.

Question #8 (Living History)
Despite being born in 1790, what U.S. president fathered a child when he was 70 and has two grandsons that are still alive today?
A - James K. Polk
B - Ulysses S. Grant
C - John Tyler
D - Martin Van Buren

Liz really doesn't know the answer so rather than guess randomly she's going to jump the question.

Spoiler

Answer: C (John Tyler)
Value: $25,000
Bank: $28,600 (unchanged)

This came up somewhere not long ago, maybe on Qrank, which is now defunct.

I was wrong; it was here. Thanks, SuitDude.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Liz Greenberg
New York City, NY
consultant

Liz is dressed in orange and black, the colors of her alma mater, Princeton. She has an MBA from Yale also. Liz's mom Mona is in the relationship seat. Mona wishes Liz were less about Princeton and more about Prince Charming. She's been cajoling Liz for 15 years to have children. She wants grandchildren while she's young enough to enjoy them.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Question #4 (Words of Yore)
Used for fastening items, which of the following is the Old English word for "narrow strip of leather"?
A - dongle
B - thwong
C - purloin
D - chuff

None of the answers particularly stand out to Liz. Since she's doing pretty well so far she's going to jump the question.

Spoiler

Answer: B (thwong)
Value: $3,000
Bank: $21,000 (unchanged)

I know it's not "dongle" or "purloin". I'd have to JTQ also.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Question #7 (Game On)
Like the show it's based on, how many rappers commonly populate the game board of the MTV2 game show "Hip Hop Squares"?
A - 3
B - 6
C - 9
D - 12

Liz has never seen the show and knows very little about rap or hip hop so she's going to ask the audience.

ATA results

A - 1%
B - 10%
C - 80%
D - 9%

Since Liz has no idea and the audience looks smart, she's going to trust what they have to say.

Spoiler

Answer: C (9)
Value: $500
Bank: $28,600

You don't need to know anything about rap or hip hop, nor have seen the show to get this one.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Question #10 (Veggie Hero)
Based on his reverence for all living creatures, which of these superheroes revealed he was a vegetarian in a 2003 comic book?
A - Spider-Man
B - Green Lantern
C - Superman
D - Captain America

Liz doesn't know much about comic books or superheroes. She says Spider-Man turns into "a living creature". She doesn't know anything about who Green Lantern is or what he does. She considers Superman but then hesitates and says she doesn't feel confident guessing so she's going to walk away.

Spoiler

Answer: C (Superman)
Value: $10,000
Bank: $15,300 (half the bank)

Yeah, Supes, but aren't plants "living creatures" too?