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Evan Black
Dallas, TX
accountant

Evan is used to dealing with other people's money but Cedric says that today he's going to be trying to bank some of his own. Evan tells a story about searching Craigslist and finding a local guy who was selling a lion's head - probably an old school mascot. Evan said he just had to have it and haggled the price from $35.00 to $25.00. Now anyone who comes to his apartment has to put on the lion head and Evan takes a picture to hang on his wall. He has about 50 photos. Cedric says Evan can win enough money to win the rest of the suit.

Topic Tree (unrandomized):
10 - Pen Pals
9 - Living Dangerously
8 - Not Kosher
7 - Out of Luck
6 - The End
5 - Sound it Out
4 - Lapse of Judgment
3 - Funny Guy, Huh?
2 - Hospital Catwalk
1 - Ring Us Up

Topic Tree (randomized):
9 - Living Dangerously
5 - Sound it Out
7 - Out of Luck
8 - Not Kosher
2 - Hospital Catwalk
6 - The End
3 - Funny Guy, Huh?
10 - Pen Pals
1 - Ring Us Up
4 - Lapse of Judgment

Question #1 (Lapse of Judgment - Level 4):
In 2013, the Ig Nobel prize, a parody of the actual Nobel Prize, was awarded to scientists that proved that people really do feel what when drunk?
A - sexier
B - dumber
C - angrier
D - shyer

Evan has no idea what the Ig Nobel prize is. Cedric wondered if Evan wore the lion head when he was drunk and asked how he would feel. He doesn't want to go out on the first question so he decides to jump it.

Spoiler

Answer: A (sexier)
Value: $7,000
Bank: $0

Question #2 (Ring Us Up - Level 1):
The slogan "When Diamonds Aren't Forever" is used to advertise what nationwide legal network?
A - 1-800-DIVORCE
B - 1-800-ESTATES
C - 1-800-BAILOUT
D - 1-800-ACCUSED

Evan says there's only one that makes sense.

Spoiler

Answer: A (1-800-DIVORCE)
Value: $2,000
Bank: $2,000

Question #3 (Pen Pals - Level 10):
In an "Access Hollywood" interview, Tony Danza revealed that he was once a prison pen pal to which incarcerated celebrity?
A - Tim Allen
B - Robert Downey, Jr.
C - O.J. Simpson
D - Tupak Shakur

Evan doesn't remember

Spoiler

Tim Allen

being in prison, but the others he thinks all were. Evan says that

Spoiler

O.J. Simpson would be "a pretty big one"

and makes that his final answer.

Spoiler

Answer: D (Tupak Shakur)
Value: unrevealed
Bank: $1,000 (consolation prize)

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BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Question #3 (Pen Pals - Level 10):
In an "Access Hollywood" interview, Tony Danza revealed that he was once a prison pen pal to which incarcerated celebrity?
A - Tim Allen
B - Robert Downey, Jr.
C - O.J. Simpson
D - Tupak Shakur

Evan doesn't remember

Spoiler

Tim Allen

being in prison, but the others he thinks all were. Evan says that

Spoiler

O.J. Simpson would be "a pretty big one"

and makes that his final answer.

Spoiler

Answer: D (Tupak Shakur)
Value: unrevealed
Bank: $1,000 (consolation prize)

I don't know and (except for this WWOQ requiring me to burn a jump, if this had been my stack) I don't care. A celebrity was a pen pal with another celebrity! While that other celebrity was in prison!!!

I don't understand why Evan made a guess here, unless he was feeling regret for burning a lifeline on the IgNobel Prize question.

Question #3 (Pen Pals - Level 10):
In an "Access Hollywood" interview, Tony Danza revealed that he was once a prison pen pal to which incarcerated celebrity?
A - Tim Allen
B - Robert Downey, Jr.
C - O.J. Simpson
D - Tupak Shakur

Evan doesn't remember

Spoiler

Tim Allen

being in prison, but the others he thinks all were. Evan says that

Spoiler

O.J. Simpson would be "a pretty big one"

and makes that his final answer.

Spoiler

Answer: D (Tupak Shakur)
Value: unrevealed
Bank: $1,000 (consolation prize)

JTQ 1

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Now anyone who comes to his apartment has to put on the lion head and Evan takes a picture to hang on his wall. He has about 50 photos.

Did they show any of the pictures? Can you see the wearer's face through the lion's mouth? If not, he has about 50 nearly identical photos of people wearing a lion's head.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Evan has no idea what the Ig Nobel prize is.

Even if Evan doesn't know what "ignoble" means, "a parody of the actual Nobel Prize" is a good description.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:He doesn't want to go out on the first question so he decides to jump it.

Proterotetiphobia™ strikes again!

jarnon wrote:

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Now anyone who comes to his apartment has to put on the lion head and Evan takes a picture to hang on his wall. He has about 50 photos.

Did they show any of the pictures? Can you see the wearer's face through the lion's mouth? If not, he has about 50 nearly identical photos of people wearing a lion's head.

They showed one (full body length) picture. It might have been Evan or one of his guests. There was no visible face, so you can't tell.

I suppose, with 50 photos, you could at least use body side to eliminate the possibility that they were all pictures of Evan wearing different clothes.

jarnon wrote:

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Evan has no idea what the Ig Nobel prize is.

Even if Evan doesn't know what "ignoble" means, "a parody of the actual Nobel Prize" is a good description.

Cedric might have helped if he had pronounced it as "ignoble". Instead, he was a little too literal in reading it as "ig no-BELL". Chalk this up as a time when the comedian didn't get the joke.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Evan Black
Dallas, TX
accountant

Evan is used to dealing with other people's money but Cedric says that today he's going to be trying to bank some of his own. Evan tells a story about searching Craigslist and finding a local guy who was selling a lion's head - probably an old school mascot. Evan said he just had to have it and haggled the price from $35.00 to $25.00. Now anyone who comes to his apartment has to put on the lion head and Evan takes a picture to hang on his wall. He has about 50 photos. Cedric says Evan can win enough money to win the rest of the suit.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Question #3 (Pen Pals - Level 10):
In an "Access Hollywood" interview, Tony Danza revealed that he was once a prison pen pal to which incarcerated celebrity?
A - Tim Allen
B - Robert Downey, Jr.
C - O.J. Simpson
D - Tupak Shakur

Evan doesn't remember

Spoiler

Tim Allen

being in prison, but the others he thinks all were. Evan says that

Spoiler

O.J. Simpson would be "a pretty big one"

and makes that his final answer.

Spoiler

Answer: D (Tupak Shakur)
Value: unrevealed
Bank: $1,000 (consolation prize)

I'd jump this one.