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Jim Somers
Radnor, PA
2011 American Ironman Champion in his age group (69 years old)

Jim's fiance Lynn is in the audience
Jim became single after being married since college.
He tried online dating since all the women in his area knew each other.
His initial post to a dating site received no response.
His daughter suggested posting a picture from the beach showing his six-pack abs.
That picture received 1700 hits.
He said he realized there were at least 1700 women as shallow as he is.

Topic Tree: (randomized shown only)

Bad Looks
Ownership Duties
Laws of Nature
Traction Traits
($5000)
($100)
(jumped)
(jumped)
($25000)
($7000)





Question 7 - Traction Traits
Published in a journal on evolution, a new theory posits that water-soaked "pruney" fingertips assist us in gripping things because they act as what?
A. Rain treads B. Suction cups
C. Cleats D. Super glue

Spoiler

Jim debated A and B. He looked at his fingers, then decided to go with A.

Answer and value

A. Rain treads
Value: $3000
Bank: $40100

Question 8 - Laws of Nature
Crescentic, linear, star, dome, and parabolic are the five basic types of what natural formation?
A. Swamp B. Icicle
C. Dune D. Geyser

Spoiler

Jim said he was pretty sure it was dune, and then discussed the choices out loud. He went with dune

Answer and value

C. Dune
Value: $10000
Bank: $50100

Question 9- Ownership Duties
42 years before Occupy Wall Street, Native Americans occupied what U.S. landmark for 19 months with the demand that it be returned to them?
A. The Alamo B. Old Faithful
C. Alcatraz D. Hoover Dam

Spoiler

Jim ruled out Hoover Dam. Not Old Faithful, it'd get terribly wet. The Alamo? Nah.

Answer and value

C. Alcatraz
Value: $15K
Bank: $65100

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Question 10 - Bad Looks
A popular Facebook group asks people to stop posting photos of themselves sucking in their cheeks and pouting their lips, a look called what?
A. Horseface B. Duckface
C. Pigface D. Catface

ATA

Jim ruled out Pigface
Jim tried out the look and got a laugh from the audience.
ATA: A-13% B-76% C-9% D-2%

Answer and value

B. Duckface
Value: known to be $1000
Bank: $66100

Spoiler

Jim thanked the audience multiple times since he had no idea.
The audience knows a duckface when they see one, right?
Jim said they are no quacks.

Question 11 - $100K
Remembered as a fierce warrior, Geronimo was a Native American who was born with the name Goyathlay, meaning what?
A. One Who Hiccups B. One Who Sneezes
C. One Who Yawns D. One Who Burps

Spoiler

Jim: The old story goes that the child is named after the first thing the father sees when he throws the flap back on the teepee.
He is leaning towards A, thinking a baby would tend to hiccup more.
He decided he would better walk.

Answer

C. One Who Yawns
Walk: $66100

He grew up a few streets from where I lived in Margate, NJ. His ancestors helped found the town of Somers POint near Margate and Atlantic City.

Question 9- Ownership Duties
42 years before Occupy Wall Street, Native Americans occupied what U.S. landmark for 19 months with the demand that it be returned to them?
A. The Alamo B. Old Faithful
C. Alcatraz D. Hoover Dam

Spoiler

Jim ruled out Hoover Dam. Not Old Faithful, it'd get terribly wet. The Alamo? Nah.

Answer and value

C. Alcatraz
Value: $15K
Bank: $65100

This occupation features prominently in Chief Mankiller's autobiography Mankiller: A Chief and Her People. Old Faithful is the only other one that even remotely makes sense, but I doubt seriously that such an occupation would have lasted 19 days, much less 19 months.

Question 11 - $100K
Remembered as a fierce warrior, Geronimo was a Native American who was born with the name Goyathlay, meaning what?
A. One Who Hiccups B. One Who Sneezes
C. One Who Yawns D. One Who Burps

Spoiler

Jim: The old story goes that the child is named after the first thing the father sees when he throws the flap back on the teepee.
He is leaning towards A, thinking a baby would tend to hiccup more.
He decided he would better walk.

Answer

C. One Who Yawns
Walk: $66100

Never heard of it. JTQ.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Jim Somers
Radnor, PA
2011 American Ironman Champion in his age group (69 years old)

Jim's fiance Lynn is in the audience
Jim became single after being married since college.
He tried online dating since all the women in his area knew each other.
His initial post to a dating site received no response.
His daughter suggested posting a picture from the beach showing his six-pack abs.
That picture received 1700 hits.
He said he realized there were at least 1700 women as shallow as he is.

This was a cute story; it's easy to see how he got the call.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Question 11 - $100K
Remembered as a fierce warrior, Geronimo was a Native American who was born with the name Goyathlay, meaning what?
A. One Who Hiccups B. One Who Sneezes
C. One Who Yawns D. One Who Burps

Spoiler

Jim: The old story goes that the child is named after the first thing the father sees when he throws the flap back on the teepee.
He is leaning towards A, thinking a baby would tend to hiccup more.
He decided he would better walk.

Answer

C. One Who Yawns
Walk: $66100

This is a pretty typical WWOQ at the $100K level. I'd use my first JTQ on this one.