WWTBAM Bored

Allison O'Neal
Gilbert, AZ

psychology and anthropology professor
a reality TV addict, she spends time watching "messed up" people, then diagnosing them and feeling better about her own life

Topic Tree (pre-randomized):
10. Home Sweet Home
9. Giving Back
8. Defense Mechanisms
7. Culinary Crossover
6. Planetary Responsibilities
5. Racing Music
4. Time and Space
3. Word Origins
2. For the Ladies
1. Internet Explorers

Topic Tree: (Randomized)
10. Home Sweet Home
7. Culinary Crossover
8. Defense Mechanisms
6. Planetary Responsibilities
2. For the Ladies
3. Word Origins
9. Giving Back
5. Racing Music
4. Time and Space
1. Internet Explorers

Question 1 - Level 1. Internet Explorers

Allowing anyone to became a "virtual Jacques Cousteau", Google Maps unveiled an expansion in 2012 that takes users where?

A: Desert
B: Rainforest
C: Underwater
D: Space

Answer and value

C: Underwater
Value: $5,000
Bank: $5,000

Question 2 - Level 4. Time and Space

What's the only U.S. state that borders the Atlantic Ocean and spans across two time zones?

A: Maine
B: New York
C: North Carolina
D: Florida

Spoiler

She knows Florida doesn't span two time zones, and she doesn't think New York does. She also eliminates NC, making Maine her suspicion (she visited as a teen). She suddenly remembers Long Island...

Allison: I'm talking to myself.
Meredith: That's the first sign.

She contemplates asking all the New Yorkers in the audience. Then she reconsiders the map, and the question. She realizes what the question is really asking is, which state extends farther to the west. D, Florida, final answer.

Answer and value

D: Florida
Value: $100
Bank: $5,100

Question 3 - Level 5. Racing Music

In the Stephen Foster song "Camptown Races," how long is the Camptown racetrack?

A: Two miles
B: Three miles
C: Four miles
D: Five miles

She sings it in the head (since her voice is bad).

Answer and value

D: Five miles
Value: $2,000
Bank: $7,100

Question 4 - Level 9. Giving Back

What artist's 1949 painting "Cartel des Don Juan Tenorio" was stolen from a Manhattan art gallery in 2012 and mailed back one week later?

A. Diego Rivera B. Salvador Dali
C. Frida Kahlo D. Pablo Picasso

ATNYA

Spoiler

A: 31%
B: 34%
C: 8%
D: 27%

Spoiler

"Don Juan" makes her think Spain, but she thinks Rivera and Kahlo were Mexican.

JTQ

Answer and value

B: Salvador Dali
Value: $10,000
Bank: $7,100

Question 5 - Level 3. Word Origins

Fittingly, what "clumsy" word derives from a Middle English term meaning "in the wrong direction"?

A: Awkward
B: Different
C: Eccentric
D: Weird

Spoiler

Awkward jumps out at her (she thinks the "ward" part refers to direction.) The others don't seem right, but...

JTQ.

Answer and value

A: Awkward
Value: $3,000
Bank: $7,100

Commerical break.

Question 6 - Level 2. For the Ladies

Made to "fit comfortably" to a woman's hand and offered in pink and purple, Bic curiously offers a "For Her" line of what seemingly gender neutral item?

A: Camera
B: Scissors
C: Pen
D: Coffee mug

Spoiler

Allison runs through the items, rating them on their "gender neutrality." Meredith rereads the question, with just a smidge more empasis on the name "Bic" than she had used before. Allison then starts to focus on C. She's hesitant to take a chance, but she does.

Answer and value

C: Pen
Value: $15,000
Bank: $22,100

Question 7 - Level 6. Planetary Responsibilities

Pushing particles inward by its gravitational pull, a moon that orbits near the edge of a planet's ring is called what?

A: Shepherd moon
B: Steward moon
C: Ploughman moon
D: Messenger moon

Spoiler

Shepard seems to be the obvious answer, with stewart also making sense. A shepard would be more likely to push something. She goes with A.

Answer and value

A: Shepherd moon
Value: $500
Bank: $22,600

Question 8 - Level 8. Defense Mechanisms

Scientists theorize what dinosaur species could create a sonic boom by whipping its tail faster than the speed of sound?

A: Velociraptor
B: Iguanodon
C: Apatosaurus
D: Triceratops

Spoiler

She eliminates triceratops. She doesn't think it's apatosaurus. She doesn't know what an iguanadon is, but she knows an iguana has a long tail. Velociraptors are fast, but are their tails fast?

Allison chooses to walk, final answer.

Answer and value

C: Apatosaurus (She was kind of thinking that at the end, but she wasn't sure.
Value: $not revealed
Bank: (half of) $22,600

Allison leaves with $11,300.

Commercial break.


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Question 4 - Level 9. Giving Back

What artist's 1949 painting "Cartel des Jon Juan Tenorio" was stolen from a Manhattan art gallery in 2012 and mailed back one week later?

A: Diego Rivera
B: Salvador Dali
C: Frida Kahlo
D: Pablo Picasso

ATNYA

Spoiler

A: 31%
B: 34%
C: 8%
D: 27%

Spoiler

"Don Juan" makes her think Spain, but she thinks Rivera and Kahlo were Mexican.

JTQ

Answer and value

B: Salvador Dali
Value: $10,000
Bank: $7,100

I remember this happening but cannot remember the artist. JTQ 1

Question 8 - Level 8. Defense Mechanisms

Scientists theorize what dinosaur species could create a sonic boom by whipping its tail faster than the speed of sound?

A: Velociraptor
B: Iguanodon
C: Apatosaurus
D: Triceratops

Spoiler

She elimnates triceratops. She doesn't think it's apatosaurus. She doesn't know what an iguanadon is, but she knows an iguana has a long tail. Velociraptors are fast, but are their tails fast?

Allison chooses to walk, final answer.

Answer and value

C: Apatosaurus (She was kind of thinking that at the end, but she wasn't sure.
Value: $not revealed
Bank: (half of) $22,600

JTQ 2