WWTBAM Bored

Dr. Oz

Dr. Oz: [Looking at the audience} They can give me answers, right? I'm looking for answers, right here! I want some answers.

Dr. Oz will be playing for healthcorps, which puts young volunteers in high schools around the country as mentors about health. Dr. Oz is guaranteed at least $10,000 for this charity.

Topic Tree (Unrandomized)
10: Bourbon Roots
9: Seize the Days
8: Turkish Delight
7: Medical Marvel
6: Household Hints
5: Tourist Attraction
4: First Drafts
3: Just for Men
2: Looking for Leftovers
1: Breastaurant Makeover

Topic Tree (Randomized)
7: Medical Marvel
9: Seize the Days
5: Tourist Attraction
4: First Drafts
8: Turkish Delight
1: Breastaurant Makeover
10: Bourbon Roots
6: Household Hints
2: Looking for Leftovers
3: Just for Men


Question #1 - Level 3: Just for Men
While they don't teach a "downward facing dude" position, what fitness company claims to "help men live in their most organic selves"?

A: Broga B: Guylates
C: Zoomboy D: Curves for Men

Dr. Oz begins asking the audience to show a thumbs up if they know the answer, but Cedric tells him that's not one of his lifelines. Dr. Oz then decides that

Spoiler

"downward facing dude" is hinting at yoga.

Answer/Value/Bank

A: Broga
Question Value: $3,000
Bank: $3,000

Question #2 - Level 2: Looking for Leftovers
Scavenging investors looking to cheaply purchase companies in financial trouble are often referred to as what?

A: Hyena accountants B: Maggot merchants
C: Vulture capitalists D: Raccoon tycoons

Answer/Value/Bank

C: Vulture capitalists
Question Value: $15,000
Bank: $18,000

Question #3 - Level 6: Household Hints
Because it reduces puffiness and draws water from the skin, hemorrhoid cream can do all but which of the following, according to LiveStrong.com?

A: Improve muscle appearance B: Reduce wrinkles
C: Prevent sunburn D: Lessen blemish swelling

Dr. Oz: Finally, a medical question!

Answer/Value/Bank

C: Prevent sunburn
Question Value: $100
Bank: $18,100

-- Commercial Break --


Question #4 - Level 10: Bourbon Roots
Long before it was called Jim Beam, the whiskey sold by the Beam family was called what?

A: Tired Barrel B: Fat Bucket
C: Slow Tank D: Old Tub

Dr. Oz wasn't taught about this in medical school. He doesn't think the audience would know this, either. He jumps the question.

Answer/Value/Bank

D: Old Tub
Question Value: $1,000
Bank: $18,100

Question #5 - Level 1: Breastaurant Makeover
By adding more salad choices to the menu in 2012, what "breastaurant" is hoping to become a female-friendly place to eat?

A: Applebee's B: Ruby Tuesday
C: The Cheesecake Factory D: Hooters

Answer/Value/Bank

D: Hooters
Question Value: $500
Bank: $18,600

Question #6 - Level 8: Turkish Delight
Though he's popular around the world, in Turkish Dr. Oz actually means which of the following?

A: Dr. Pure B: Dr. Love
C: Dr. Fun D: Dr. Lucky

Dr. Oz says he could go to the audience, but he speaks Turkish fluently.

Answer/Value/Bank

A: Dr. Pure
Question Value: $7,000
Bank: $25,600

Question #7 - Level 4: First Drafts
Puffy, Baldy, Lazy, Tubby, and Burpy were among some of the names considered for characters that would star alongside what Disney icon?

A: Peter Pan B: Belle
C: Ariel D: Snow White

Answer/Value/Bank

D: Snow White
Question Value: $25,000
Bank: $50,600

-- Commercial Break --


Question #8 - Level 5: Tourist Attraction
A passion for Druids could come in handy for those responding to a 2013 ad seeking a manager for what famous historical site?

A: Ayers Rock B: Stonehenge
C: The Alamo D: Gettysburg

Spoiler

Although Dr. Oz doesn't know where Ayers Rock is, he has to go with Stonehenge.

Answer/Value/Bank

B: Stonehenge
Question Value: $2,000
Bank: $52,600

Question #9 - Level 9: Seize the Days
If you think you have it bad, consider the fact that which of these animals mate for only a few precious days each year?

Before the answers are revealed, Dr. Oz shouts out, "Humans! I know it's humans!"

A: Red kangaroo B: African lion
C: Pacific octopus D: Giant panda

After first saying that he didn't even know that

Spoiler

the Pacific octopus was an animal

and after making funny comments about the other choices, Dr. Oz jumps the question. He would have gone with

Spoiler

Pacific octopus.

Answer/Value/Bank

D: Giant panda
Question Value: $5,000
Bank: $52,600

-- Commercial Break --


Question #10 - Level 7: Medical Marvel
An extremely rare condition where one's fibrous tissue slowly ossifies is descriptively explained with what alternative name?

A: See-Through Skin B: Volcano Gut
C: Jellyfish Disorder D: Stone Man Syndrome

Answer/Value/Bank

D: Stone Man Syndrome
Question Value: $10,000
Bank: $62,600

-- The End of Game "Noise" --


Dr. Oz will return on tomorrow's show.

Question #5 - Level 1: Breastaurant Makeover
By adding more salad choices to the menu in 2012, what "breataurant" is hoping to become a female-friendly place to eat?

A: Applebee's B: Ruby Tuesday
C: The Cheesecake Factory D: Hooters

Answer/Value/Bank

D: Hooters
Question Value: $500
Bank: $18,600

I've never been to one of these, but if my understanding about how the place looks and operates is correct, changing the menu is not going to make it more women-friendly.

Question #6 - Level 8: Turkish Delight
Though he's popular around the world, in Turkish Dr. Oz actually means which of the following?

A: Dr. Pure B: Dr. Love
C: Dr. Fun D: Dr. Lucky

Dr. Oz says he could go to the audience, but he speaks Turkish fluently.

Answer/Value/Bank

A: Dr. Pure
Question Value: $7,000
Bank: $25,600

JTQ 1

Another J! and BAM coincidence: J! asked the reverse of this question yesterday.

Question #4 - Level 10: Bourbon Roots
Long before it was called Jim Beam, the whiskey sold by the Beam family was called what?

A: Tired Barrel B: Fat Bucket
C: Slow Tank D: Old Tub

SportsFan68 wrote:

Question #5 - Level 1: Breastaurant Makeover
By adding more salad choices to the menu in 2012, what "breastaurant" is hoping to become a female-friendly place to eat?

A: Applebee's B: Ruby Tuesday
C: The Cheesecake Factory D: Hooters

Answer/Value/Bank

D: Hooters
Question Value: $500
Bank: $18,600

I've never been to one of these, but if my understanding about how the place looks and operates is correct, changing the menu is not going to make it more women-friendly.

I know several women who like to go there; so do their wives.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Dr. Oz: [Looking at the audience} They can give me answers, right? I'm looking for answers, right here! I want some answers.

I dislike celebrity editions in general, but Dr. Oz lost any chance of my rooting for him right here, with this expectation that he'd get extra help.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Dr. Oz begins asking the audience to show a thumbs up if they know the answer, but Cedric tells him that's not one of his lifelines.

It's ATA, not ATAAATA*, Doc.

*Ask The Audience About Asking The Audience

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Dr. Oz: Finally, a medical question!

Yeah, all the way to the third question before we discover that they've specially tailored at least some of this stack for you!

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Question #6 - Level 8: Turkish Delight
Though he's popular around the world, in Turkish Dr. Oz actually means which of the following?

A: Dr. Pure B: Dr. Love
C: Dr. Fun D: Dr. Lucky

Dr. Oz says he could go to the audience, but he speaks Turkish fluently.

Answer/Value/Bank

A: Dr. Pure
Question Value: $7,000
Bank: $25,600

Oh, gosh, how much research must the question writers have done to discover that Dr. Mehmet Cengiz Öz might know enough of his parents native tongue to know what his surname means? A WWOQ for anyone else, a gift for our special guest...

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Question #8 - Level 5: Tourist Attraction
A passion for Druids could come in handy for those responding to a 2013 ad seeking a manager for what famous historical site?

A: Ayers Rock B: Stonehenge
C: The Alamo D: Gettysburg

Spoiler

Although Dr. Oz doesn't know where Ayers Rock is, he has to go with Stonehenge.

Answer/Value/Bank

B: Stonehenge
Question Value: $2,000
Bank: $52,600

He said he's been to Gettysburg and the Alamo, but I guess Dr. Oz has never been to..."Oz".

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Question #9 - Level 9: Seize the Days
If you think you have it bad, consider the fact that which of these animals mate for only a few precious days each year?

Before the answers are revealed, Dr. Oz shouts out, "Humans! I know it's humans!"

A: Red kangaroo B: African lion
C: Pacific octopus D: Giant panda

After first saying that he didn't even know that

Spoiler

the Pacific octopus was an animal

and after making funny comments about the other choices, Dr. Oz jumps the question. He would have gone with

Spoiler

Pacific octopus.

Answer/Value/Bank

D: Giant panda
Question Value: $5,000
Bank: $52,600

He didn't know an octopus was an animal? Seriously???

Snark aside, it seems like this is a pretty fuzzy question. Don't many animals have relatively short seasons when they're in heat? Just what does "only a few days" mean?

Complaints about the question aside, my hunch was right, because of past stories about how difficult it's been at the National Zoo to get the pandas interested in breeding.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Question #10 - Level 7: Medical Marvel
An extremely rare condition where one's fibrous tissue slowly ossifies is descriptively explained with what alternative name?

A: See-Through Skin B: Volcano Gut
C: Jellyfish Disorder D: Stone Man Syndrome

Answer/Value/Bank

D: Stone Man Syndrome
Question Value: $10,000
Bank: $62,600

Another softball for an M.D.

MarleysGh0st wrote:

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Question #8 - Level 5: Tourist Attraction
A passion for Druids could come in handy for those responding to a 2013 ad seeking a manager for what famous historical site?

A: Ayers Rock B: Stonehenge
C: The Alamo D: Gettysburg

Spoiler

Although Dr. Oz doesn't know where Ayers Rock is, he has to go with Stonehenge.

Answer/Value/Bank

B: Stonehenge
Question Value: $2,000
Bank: $52,600

He said he's been to Gettysburg and the Alamo, but I guess Dr. Oz has never been to..."Oz".

But every Aussie knows where Gallipoli is.

So, they're making it easier to give money to charity and to keep a celebrity on the show, so what? The only reason it might be unfair -- and admittedly it's a big one if it's true -- is if they intentionally made the questions harder for the contestants who followed because they gave so much money away to charity.

I thought the questions for the contestant that followed Dr. Oz were unbelievably hard relative to how they've been all season.

Q 1: seemed obvious to me, but Dr. Oz almost blew it. Maybe because we're more familiar with the game play where "because they don't" phrasing is still going to give an important clue, as in "with that name, you'd except them to".

Q 2: EZ.


Q 3: I liked that Dr. Oz questioned the validity of one of their choices, even though eventually went with the even less valid right answer.


Q 4: No idea. Despite some of the answers being really silly names, well, so was the eventual right answer. I was leaning toward it as "least silly choice", but I'd have jumped here too.

Q 5: Obvious.

Q 6: No blinking idea. I'd have jumped.

Q 7: Obvious.

Q 8: Obvious.

Q 9: No idea. Pretty sure it's not lions, or it would have come up in numerous nature specials, which in recent eras seem to show lions mating, in fact. I would ATA here, but probably go home. Should have ATAed on Oz-name Q. Oh well.

Q 10: This has shown up on ER or similar show, rare though it is in real life. What bothered me was that Dr. Oz "reasoned it through" rather than just saying ""ossified" means "stone"". Doesn't he know that?

BassPlayingSugarplum wrote:So, they're making it easier to give money to charity and to keep a celebrity on the show, so what?

So what?

First of all, I don't like celebrity contestants on the show at all, when there are plenty of regular folks still trying hard to get their chance. The official line is that "overexposure" killed Primetime Millionaire, but I think it was because they lost the dream that anyone could make it on the show, both by abandoning the Phone Game for auditions and by giving so many episodes to celebrity contestants.

Now, I have no objection to corporations deciding to be generous to charity. They can donate as much money to charity as they like! But don't corrupt "our" game by pretending that celebrity contestants have "won" that money, by giving them all sorts of advantages the regular contestants don't get. If celebrities bombs out, they bomb out. If they refuse to play under those conditions, fine! There are plenty of folks begging for the chance.

JTQ questions 4 and 6, ATA question 9.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Dr. Oz

Dr. Oz: [Looking at the audience} They can give me answers, right? I'm looking for answers, right here! I want some answers.

Dr. Oz will be playing for healthcorps, which puts young volunteers in high schools around the country as mentors about health. Dr. Oz is guaranteed at least $10,000 for this charity.

So why is Dr. Oz on in a non-sweeps period?

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Question #4 - Level 10: Bourbon Roots
Long before it was called Jim Beam, the whiskey sold by the Beam family was called what?

A: Tired Barrel B: Fat Bucket
C: Slow Tank D: Old Tub

Dr. Oz wasn't taught about this in medical school. He doesn't think the audience would know this, either. He jumps the question.

Answer/Value/Bank

D: Old Tub
Question Value: $1,000
Bank: $18,100

Coincidentally there was a related question on today's J! episode:

The Kentucky bourbon Old Tub was renamed this, for the man who rebuilt the family business after prohibition

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Question #5 - Level 1: Breastaurant Makeover
By adding more salad choices to the menu in 2012, what "breastaurant" is hoping to become a female-friendly place to eat?

A: Applebee's B: Ruby Tuesday
C: The Cheesecake Factory D: Hooters

Answer/Value/Bank

D: Hooters
Question Value: $500
Bank: $18,600

I didn't realize there was a whole category of restaurants of this sort, but after watching "Undercover Boss" I now know about Tilted Kilt and Twin Peaks, two others.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Question #6 - Level 8: Turkish Delight
Though he's popular around the world, in Turkish Dr. Oz actually means which of the following?

A: Dr. Pure B: Dr. Love
C: Dr. Fun D: Dr. Lucky

Dr. Oz says he could go to the audience, but he speaks Turkish fluently.

Answer/Value/Bank

A: Dr. Pure
Question Value: $7,000
Bank: $25,600

Since I don't speak Turkish, I'll jump the question.