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Clarice Matthews
Brooklyn, NY

Clarice was sitting in the audience, just a week ago. Since she retired from the NYPD, she and her girlfriends like to go see talk shows. Five of her friends are sitting in the audience.


Topic Tree (Unrandomized)
10: They're #1
9: Branching Out
8: Crazy Talk
7: Honor to Be Nominated
6: Rose Is a Rose Is a Rose
5: Literary Hangout
4: Hollywood Diet
3: Still Grooving
2: Textcapades
1: Don't Do It

Topic Tree (Randomized)
10: They're #1
7: Honor to Be Nominated
4: Hollywood Diet
8: Crazy Talk
2: Textcapades
5: Literary Hangout - DOUBLE MONEY
6: Rose Is a Rose Is a Rose
1: Don't Do It
9: Branching Out
3: Still Grooving


Question #1 - Level 3: Still Grooving
With tracks such as "Ur Not Too Old, Dance," 57-year-old Sharon Saide embraces her age by spinning records under what name?

A: DJ HotTunes B: DJ HotJams
C: DJ HotWire D: DJ HotFlash

Answer/Value/Bank

D: DJ HotFlash
Question Value: $500
Bank: $500

Question #2 - Level 9: Branching Out
While they settled on video games, Nintendo has engaged in all but which of the following businesses?

A: Instant rice B: Hotel chain
C: Baseball gloves D: Taxi service

Clarice jumps the question.

Answer/Value/Bank

C: Baseball gloves
Question Value: $2,000
Bank: $500

Question #3 - Level 1: Don't Do It
Contrary to popular belief, the CDC says that you should not do what during an earthquake?

A: Stop, drop and roll B: Kiss the nearest person
C: Stand in a doorway D: Scream, "We're doomed!"

Answer/Value/Bank

C: Stand in a doorway
Question Value: $100
Bank: $600

Question #4 - Level 6: Rose Is a Rose Is a Rose
A name that shifts the blame, what Revolutionary War event did Loyalists and the British refer to as "the riot on King Street"?

A: The Buring of Washington B: The Boston Massacre
C: Battle of Fort Sumter D: Seizing of the Alamo

Clarice knows that

Spoiler

the Battle of Fort Sumter was in the Civil War and the Seizing of the Alamo was somewhere down in Texas and that Texas wasn't around during the Revolutionary War,

so she jumps the question, because she's not sure.

Answer/Value/Bank

B: The Boston Massacre
Question Value: $1,000
Bank: $600

-- Commercial Break --


Question #5 - Level 5: Literary Hangout - DOUBLE MONEY
Including members C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien, what elite book club often met at a pub in Oxford, England?

A: Ducklings B: Inklings
C: Dumplings D: Saplings

Clarice doesn't know this, so she's going to have to rely on the audience.

ATA

A: 13% B: 74% C: 5% D: 8%

Answer/Value/Bank

B: Inklings
Question Value: $25,000 doubled to $50,000
Bank: $50,600

Question #6 - Level 2: Textcapades
In 2013,, what aptly named New Jersey man was accused of accidentally texting a cop to see if he wanted to buy a quarter pound of marijuana?

A: Matthew Burglarz B: Nicholas Delear
C: Peter Hitmano D: Kenny De Fraud

Answer/Value/Bank

B: Nicholas Delear
Question Value: $10,000
Bank: $60,600

Question #7 - Level 8: Crazy Talk
Sounding like the plot of an animated movie, Bill Nye stated that we could stop asteroids from hitting earth by unleashing what to reroute them?

A: Firework Cockroaches B: Rocket Butterflies
C: Laser Bees D: Missile Hummingbirds

Clarice thinks she knows the answer, because her family told her to think it out, but she's going to walk away with $30,300. She was thinking the answer is

Spoiler

Missile Hummingbirds.

Answer

C: Laser Bees

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Question #4 - Level 6: Rose Is a Rose Is a Rose
A name that shifts the blame, what Revolutionary War event did Loyalists and the British refer to as "the riot on King Street"?

A: The Burning of Washington B: The Boston Massacre
C: Battle of Fort Sumter D: Seizing of the Alamo

Clarice knows that

Spoiler

the Battle of Fort Sumter was in the Civil War and the Seizing of the Alamo was somewhere down in Texas and that Texas wasn't around during the Revolutionary War,

so she jumps the question, because she's not sure.

Answer/Value/Bank

B: The Boston Massacre
Question Value: $1,000
Bank: $600

Clarice came so close to figuring this out. If she had known that the Burning of Washington was during the War of 1812, or reasoned that Washington, D.C. wasn't around during the Revolutionary War, she wouldn't have had to jump. (Maybe she thought the British burned Gen. Washington.)

Question #2 - Level 9: Branching Out
While they settled on video games, Nintendo has engaged in all but which of the following businesses?

A: Instant rice B: Hotel chain
C: Baseball gloves D: Taxi service

Clarice jumps the question.

Answer/Value/Bank

C: Baseball gloves
Question Value: $2,000
Bank: $500

JTQ

Question #7 - Level 8: Crazy Talk
Sounding like the plot of an animated movie, Bill Nye stated that we could stop asteroids from hitting earth by unleashing what to reroute them?

A: Firework Cockroaches B: Rocket Butterflies
C: Laser Bees D: Missile Hummingbirds

Clarice thinks she knows the answer, because her family told her to think it out, but she's going to walk away with $30,300. She was thinking the answer is

Spoiler

Missile Hummingbirds.

Answer

C: Laser Bees

JTQ 2

Question #2 - Level 9: Branching Out
While they settled on video games, Nintendo has engaged in all but which of the following businesses?

Where the hell did these writers go to school? Not only is a company not a "they," the two past tenses don't even match.

This is why I can't watch this &@(%@%ing show anymore.

1.easy to figure out.

2. I didn't think it was "baseball gloves" because we had a trivia question a couple weeks back asking which American League team Nintendo is a majority owner of-it's the Seattle Mariners if you don't know. I figured since they own the team, they might own a factory that supplies them with the gloves. I use JTQ here.

3. easy.

4. easy.

5. Ugh. I was surprised the audience knew this one. I would JTQ and save the ATA for later.

6. easy to figure out.

7. no idea. I use my final lifeline-ATA and hope. If they don't come up with good numbers, I walk.

1.easy to figure out.

2. I didn't think it was "baseball gloves" because we had a trivia question a couple weeks back asking which American League team Nintendo is a majority owner of-it's the Seattle Mariners if you don't know. I figured since they own the team, they might own a factory that supplies them with the gloves. I use JTQ here.

3. easy.

4. easy.

5. Ugh. I was surprised the audience knew this one. I would JTQ and save the ATA for later.

6. easy to figure out.

7. no idea. I use my final lifeline-ATA and hope. If they don't come up with good numbers, I walk.

BassPlayingSugarplum wrote:

Question #2 - Level 9: Branching Out
While they settled on video games, Nintendo has engaged in all but which of the following businesses?

Where the hell did these writers go to school? Not only is a company not a "they," the two past tenses don't even match.

This is why I can't watch this &@(%@%ing show anymore.

I usually feel your pain, but I don't follow you on the past tense complaint. How is this any different from something like:
"Although you joined the board recently, you have been aware of it for years."
Makes sense to me.

JTQ questions 2 and 5, ATA question 6.

BassPlayingSugarplum wrote:
Quote:
Question #2 - Level 9: Branching Out
While they settled on video games, Nintendo has engaged in all but which of the following businesses?


Where the hell did these writers go to school? Not only is a company not a "they," the two past tenses don't even match.

This is why I can't watch this &@(%@%ing show anymore.

I usually feel your pain, but I don't follow you on the past tense complaint. How is this any different from something like:
"Although you joined the board recently, you have been aware of it for years."
Makes sense to me.

It's the "while" that makes the present perfect in the main clause. It suggests that all the action of the subordinate clause was over in the past and, therefore, there is no connection to the present. They could have fixed it by saying "although" instead.

BassPlayingSugarplum wrote:

Question #2 - Level 9: Branching Out
While they settled on video games, Nintendo has engaged in all but which of the following businesses?

Where the hell did these writers go to school? Not only is a company not a "they," the two past tenses don't even match.

This is why I can't watch this &@(%@%ing show anymore.

The Supreme Court says a company is a "they".

Touche'. By the way, that should have said "improper" after main clause. new keyboard - quite stiff.

BassPlayingSugarplum wrote:

BassPlayingSugarplum wrote:
Quote:
Question #2 - Level 9: Branching Out
While they settled on video games, Nintendo has engaged in all but which of the following businesses?


Where the hell did these writers go to school? Not only is a company not a "they," the two past tenses don't even match.

This is why I can't watch this &@(%@%ing show anymore.

I usually feel your pain, but I don't follow you on the past tense complaint. How is this any different from something like:
"Although you joined the board recently, you have been aware of it for years."
Makes sense to me.

It's the "while" that makes the present perfect in the main clause. It suggests that all the action of the subordinate clause was over in the past and, therefore, there is no connection to the present. They could have fixed it by saying "although" instead.

I think they are using "while" as a conjunction, definition 2.
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/while

While I get your point, I didn't think the question was as bad as some others I've seen.

TheConfessor wrote:I think they are using "while" as a conjunction, definition 2.
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/while

That's the way I read it. Using "although" instead, however, would have removed any ambiguity.

Hello, Clarice.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Double Money Week

Clarice Matthews
Brooklyn, NY

Clarice was sitting in the audience, just a week ago. Since she retired from the NYPD, she and her girlfriends like to go see talk shows. Five of her friends are sitting in the audience.

Must be close to the end of the taping season.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Question #2 - Level 9: Branching Out
While they settled on video games, Nintendo has engaged in all but which of the following businesses?

A: Instant rice B: Hotel chain
C: Baseball gloves D: Taxi service

Clarice jumps the question.

Answer/Value/Bank

C: Baseball gloves
Question Value: $2,000
Bank: $500

I'll JTQ also.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Question #7 - Level 8: Crazy Talk
Sounding like the plot of an animated movie, Bill Nye stated that we could stop asteroids from hitting earth by unleashing what to reroute them?

A: Firework Cockroaches B: Rocket Butterflies
C: Laser Bees D: Missile Hummingbirds

Clarice thinks she knows the answer, because her family told her to think it out, but she's going to walk away with $30,300. She was thinking the answer is

Spoiler

Missile Hummingbirds.

Answer

C: Laser Bees

No idea, so I'll JTQ.