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Elliot Yates
New York, NY

Elliot hopes to win enough money to buy a New York City apartment to host singings.

Elliot has $29,500 in his bank. All of his lifelines are gone.


Topic Tree (Randomized)
?: Unscripted Laughs
?: No He Didn't
?: Sounds Fishy
?: Savory Salutations
?: [Jumped]
?: $1,000
?: $3,000
?: [Jumped]
?: $500
?: $25,000


Question #7 - Level ?: Savory Salutations
A robust eater as well as a great musician, who often signed his letters "Red Beans and Ricely Yours" after his favorite hometown New Orleans dish?

A: Ray Charles B: Frank Sinatra
C: Louis Armstrong D: Hank Williams

Answer/Value/Bank

C: Louis Armstrong
Question Value: $15,000
Bank: $44,500

Question #8 - Level ?: Sounds Fishy
Thanks to their ferocious predatory nature and a head that looks like it came from another animal, Snakehead fish are sometimes called what?

A: Mummyfish B: Zombiefish
C: Frankenfish D: Tarzanfish

Answer/Value/Bank

C: Frankenfish
Question Value: $7,000
Bank: $51,500

Question #9 - Level ?: No He Didn't
A Tennessee woman took offense when her doctor addressed her lower spine curvature as what, rather than its medical name "lumbar lordosis"?

A: Thunder thighs B: Hammer toes
C: Cankles D: Ghetto booty

Answer/Value/Bank

D: Ghetto booty
Question Value: $5,000
Bank: $56,500

Question #10 - Level ?: Unscripted Laughs
Improvisational comedians like Tina Fey say the heart of good improv is captured in what two-word phrase?

A: Fail, laugh B: Yes, and
C: Stop, think D: Wait, what?

Answer/Value/Bank

B: Yes, and
Question Value: $2,000
Bank: $58,500

-- Commercial Break --


It's time to play Classic Millionaire!


$100,000
With oceans covering about 71% of the planet, from which capital city you drill a modest hole directly through the Earth's center and actually find land on the other side?

A: Mexico City B: Madrid
C: Tokyo D: Cape Town

Elliot begins by saying he has no idea, but he trying imagining a globe and reasoning it out.

Spoiler

He says Cape Town is really far south, so he thinks opposite would be the Arctic Ocean. He's leaning towards Tokyo, which is on an island surrounded by water, so the opposite side would be...North America?

Cedric continues the singing shtick he started following the initial banter: "Do you go for it? Do you guess? Do you pick one of these?"

Elliot: As much as I want you to keep singing--

Cedric: Okay, brother. I was hoping you'd stop me. I was committed.

Elliot walks away with $58,500.

Answer

B: Madrid

Cedric explains that

Spoiler

opposite Madrid, you would see New Zealand.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:$100,000
With oceans covering about 71% of the planet, from which capital city you drill a modest hole directly through the Earth's center and actually find land on the other side?

A: Mexico City B: Madrid
C: Tokyo D: Cape Town

Elliot begins by saying he has no idea, but he trying imagining a globe and reasoning it out.

Spoiler

He says Cape Town is really far south, so he thinks opposite would be the Arctic Ocean. He's leaning towards Tokyo, which is on an island surrounded by water, so the opposite side would be...North America?

Cedric continues the singing shtick he started following the initial banter: "Do you go for it? Do you guess? Do you pick one of these?"

Elliot: As much as I want you to keep singing--

Cedric: Okay, brother. I was hoping you'd stop me. I was committed.

Elliot walks away with $58,500.

Answer

B: Madrid

Cedric explains that

Spoiler

opposite Madrid, you would see New Zealand.

A WWOQ of a geography question. I paused the DVR recording and tried to figure it out myself, but my best guess was for Cape Town to be opposite some point in Alaska or northern Canada. I had Madrid opposite somewhere in the South Pacific, but I couldn't tell if that would exactly line up with some small island...or even a larger one, like New Zealand.

So, let's check the coordinates for each (rounding off to 1 decimal place), using Google Maps:

A: Mexico City: 19.4, -99.1. Antipode is -19.4, 80.9, which is in the middle of the Indian Ocean, about half way between South Africa and Australia. No land near this one.

B: Madrid: 40.4, -3.7. Antipode is -40.4, 176.3, which is in the Manawatu-Wanganui region of the North Island of New Zealand, and all of about 14 miles from the Pacific Coast. That's really close to water!

C: Tokyo: 35.7, 139.7. Antipode is -35.7, -40.3, which is in the South Atlantic, about 750 miles east of Uruguay.

D: Cape Town: -33.9, 18.4. Antipode is 33.9, -161.6, which is in the North Pacific, about 900 miles NNW of Hawaii.



Well, my guess was the second worst in the bunch...but the right answer was still practically impossible!

Still have the ATA and one JTQ.

$100,000
With oceans covering about 71% of the planet, from which capital city you drill a modest hole directly through the Earth's center and actually find land on the other side?

A: Mexico City B: Madrid
C: Tokyo D: Cape Town

Elliot begins by saying he has no idea, but he trying imagining a globe and reasoning it out.

Spoiler

He says Cape Town is really far south, so he thinks opposite would be the Arctic Ocean. He's leaning towards Tokyo, which is on an island surrounded by water, so the opposite side would be...North America?

Cedric continues the singing shtick he started following the initial banter: "Do you go for it? Do you guess? Do you pick one of these?"

Elliot: As much as I want you to keep singing--

Cedric: Okay, brother. I was hoping you'd stop me. I was committed.

Elliot walks away with $58,500.

Answer

B: Madrid

LB seems to know this antipode stuff automatically, but I admit I have no idea. JTQ 2.

I'd have no idea either. Looking it up, Cape Town is at the same latitude as Uruguay and (in the northern hemisphere) Atlanta and Casablanca. Hardly frigid.

jarnon wrote:I'd have no idea either. Looking it up, Cape Town is at the same latitude as Uruguay and (in the northern hemisphere) Atlanta and Casablanca. Hardly frigid.

Yeah, I knew South Africa wasn't that far south, but I still didn't make that connection when I was trying to reason this out.

It's worth noting that the question doesn't say that this is the only capital with land on its antipode, so it's not like this is some bit of trivia that "everyone" should have heard of. I tried looking for the antipode of Quito, Ecuador (following the hunch that cities near the equator would have a better chance at this) and that ended up on the island of Sumatra. Then I tried going the opposite direction, from Jakarta; that antipode is in Colombia. I doubt if these are the only other two capitals that work.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote: Elliot Yates
New York, NY

Elliot hopes to win enough money to buy a New York City apartment to host singings.

Elliot has $29,500 in his bank. All of his lifelines are gone.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Question #10 - Level ?: Unscripted Laughs
Improvisational comedians like Tina Fey say the heart of good improv is captured in what two-word phrase?

A: Fail, laugh B: Yes, and
C: Stop, think D: Wait, what?

Answer/Value/Bank

B: Yes, and
Question Value: $2,000
Bank: $58,500

No idea. I think I'll ask the audience.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:$100,000
With oceans covering about 71% of the planet, from which capital city you drill a modest hole directly through the Earth's center and actually find land on the other side?

A: Mexico City B: Madrid
C: Tokyo D: Cape Town

Elliot begins by saying he has no idea, but he trying imagining a globe and reasoning it out.

Spoiler

He says Cape Town is really far south, so he thinks opposite would be the Arctic Ocean. He's leaning towards Tokyo, which is on an island surrounded by water, so the opposite side would be...North America?

Cedric continues the singing shtick he started following the initial banter: "Do you go for it? Do you guess? Do you pick one of these?"

Elliot: As much as I want you to keep singing--

Cedric: Okay, brother. I was hoping you'd stop me. I was committed.

Elliot walks away with $58,500.

Answer

B: Madrid

Cedric explains that

Spoiler

opposite Madrid, you would see New Zealand.

One of Isaac Asimov's science explanation books that I read when I was younger talked about this - he said that Canton, OH, was named because it was believed that it was directly opposite Canton, China. He demonstrated that this wasn't true, and there was a picture of a wireframe map showing that there was no land directly opposite any point in the U.S. It went on to show how the distribution of the continents made it such that most land was opposite water.

It's surprising just how little overlap there is - mostly just a little of east Asia with some of western South America. Seems kind of unfair to pick the tiny amount of Spain that happens to overlap with New Zealand. It's interesting how Australia is perfectly centered in the North Atlantic.

That's an awesome map for illustrating the concept, smiler!

smilergrogan wrote:It's interesting how Australia is perfectly centered in the North Atlantic.

And Africa in the Pacific.

here is you map tunneling tool to show you what is on the other side of the earth
http://www.freemaptools.com/tunnel-to-o ... -earth.htm

this shows the sites there are looking for the missing plane to be almost directly opposite my hometown.