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Kelsey Dickerson
Mesa, AZ

Described as a "hardworking sports buff" who brought her "biggest fan," her grandmother, as the potential +1 lifeline.

Question 1 -
Artist Yuri Schwebler once used a snowplow to draw a circle around what landmark, turning it into a sundial?
A. Mt. Rushmore B. Great Sphinx of Giza
C. Washington Monument D. Golden Gate Bridge

Answer and value

C. Washington Monument
Value: $1000
Bank: $1000

Question 2 -
Quentin Tarantino reportedly racked up over 6000 euros in late fees for not returning two movies he rented while shooting what in Berlin?
A. Kill Bill: Volume 1 B. Inglorious Basterds
C. Django Unchained D. Pulp Fiction

Spoiler

Figured as the movie that was most likely filmed in Berlin while the others were not

Answer and value

B. Inglourious Basterds
Value: $100
Bank: $1100

Question 3 -
Which of the following is not an actual menu item at Guy Fieri's Vegas Kitchen and Bar?
A. Guy-talian Fondue Dippers B. Yum-o! Baby Greens
C. Brutha's Badass Caes-uh Salad D. Tatted-Up Turkey Burger

ATA

Before ATA Kelsey said she is not too up-to-date on him, but A made sense as one of his and D also made sense for him being tattooed.
A. 4% B. 57%
C. 32% D. 7%

Kelsey first said he would go with B and then she changed her mind and JTQ - final decision

Answer and value

B. Yum-o! Baby Greens
Value: $5K jumped
Bank: $1100

First break

Question 4 -
According to the OED, the name of which of these Hostess snack cakes means "a wisecrack" or "punch line"?
A. Twinkie B. Sno ball
C. Zinger D. Suzy Q

Answer and value

C. Zinger
Value: $500
Bank: $1600

Question 5 -
While every dog may have its day, it's reported that record-setting beagle Max had 10,876 of them before passing away at what age?
A. 19 B. 24
C. 29 D. 36

+1

Kelsey struggled with the math and then called up her grandmother, telling grandma she knows there are 365 days in a year
They both struggled together determining it is more than 20 but less than 30.
Ultimately she decided to guess C and hope it is right, final answer

Answer and value

C. 29
Value: $25K!
Bank: $26600

Second break

Question 6 -
To reduce the impact of altitude sickness, the Qinghai-Tibet Railway provides oxygen masks to riders traveling to which Asian city?
A. Hong Kong B. Manila
C. Lhasa D. Jakarta

Walk

Kelsey said she does not believe it is Hong Kong and it has to be a place that is like in the Himalayas.
Manila she believes is in the Philippines which would not be part of that railway
Jakarta she believes is in India which is in the range of the Himalayas
"Lhasa, I don't know is that in Laos or something like that? I have no idea where that is"
She said it would be a guess and asked to confirm that she has $26K and could walk with half of that.
She said she could do an educated guess but who knows if it is really educated?
She decided to walk.

Answer and value

C. Lhasa
Value: $not revealed
Bank: Walk: $13300

Third break

QotD
Aficionados of what alcoholic beverage often pay more for a "good year" versus a "bad year"?
A. Rum B. Wine
C. Beer D. Vodka

QotD

B. Wine

BBTranscriptTeam wrote: Question 5 -
While every dog may have its day, it's reported that record-setting beagle Max had 10,876 of them before passing away at what age?
A. 19 B. 24
C. 29 D. 36

+1

Kelsey struggled with the math and then called up her grandmother, telling grandma she knows there are 365 days in a year
They both struggled together determining it is more than 20 but less than 30.
Ultimately she decided to guess C and hope it is right, final answer

Answer and value

C. 29
Value: $25K!
Bank: $26600

<sigh> I was hoping that grandmother could demonstrate that the older generation learned math. But as soon as her calculation technique evoked a "what?" from Kelsey, she seemed to abandon it. Then, despite lots of talk, they couldn't come up with a definitive answer between them.

Question 3 -
Which of the following is not an actual menu item at Guy Fieri's Vegas Kitchen and Bar?
A. Guy-talian Fondue Dippers B. Yum-o! Baby Greens
C. Brutha's Badass Caes-uh Salad D. Tatted-Up Turkey Burger

ATA

Before ATA Kelsey said she is not too up-to-date on him, but A made sense as one of his and D also made sense for him being tattooed.
A. 4% B. 57%
C. 32% D. 7%

Kelsey first said he would go with B and then she changed her mind and JTQ - final decision

Answer and value

B. Yum-o! Baby Greens
Value: $5K jumped
Bank: $1100

JTQ

Question 6 -
To reduce the impact of altitude sickness, the Qinghai-Tibet Railway provides oxygen masks to riders traveling to which Asian city?
A. Hong Kong B. Manila
C. Lhasa D. Jakarta

Walk

Kelsey said she does not believe it is Hong Kong and it has to be a place that is like in the Himalayas.
Manila she believes is in the Philippines which would not be part of that railway
Jakarta she believes is in India which is in the range of the Himalayas
"Lhasa, I don't know is that in Laos or something like that? I have no idea where that is"
She said it would be a guess and asked to confirm that she has $26K and could walk with half of that.
She said she could do an educated guess but who knows if it is really educated?
She decided to walk.

Answer and value

C. Lhasa
Value: $not revealed
Bank: Walk: $13300

Hong Kong, Manilla, and Jakarta are all at sea level, or nearly so. Lhasa, final answer.

Q3: Yum-os are logical answer as Fieri is not big on veggies, the few times I've seen his shows, but I would have jumped this one.


Q5: A simple arithmetic problem took 2 people. The grandmother did help by trying to do it logically, rounding off the divisor. And therefore focussed her granddaughter. Who should have been able to focus herself.


Q6: A scary lack of geo knowledge. According to National Geographic, I am far from a geo-genius, & maybe my sister's much-loved pup having been a Lhasa Apso helped me here, but I think I would have known that without that. Contestant's assuming Jakarta was "in the Himalayans" made me wince.


I know you have to pass a test before they interview you. At which point they picked this contestant for being young, cute & pert. They didn't pluck anybody out of any of my auditions, other than the "walk in & win" one, for just being cute etc. But with contestants like this one, I have to keep telling myself that. I guess its "2 strikes & you're out" with me?


On the arithmetic Q, if she had just said "I can't do arithmetic" rather than burned a lifeline & then done the arithmetic, I think it would have irked me less, strangely enough.

ghostjmf wrote:Q3: Yum-os are logical answer as Fieri is not big on veggies, the few times I've seen his shows, but I would have jumped this one.


Q5: A simple arithmetic problem took 2 people. The grandmother did help by trying to do it logically, rounding off the divisor. And therefore focussed her granddaughter. Who should have been able to focus herself.


Q6: A scary lack of geo knowledge. According to National Geographic, I am far from a geo-genius, & maybe my sister's much-loved pup having been a Lhasa Apso helped me here, but I think I would have known that without that. Contestant's assuming Jakarta was "in the Himalayans" made me wince.


I know you have to pass a test before they interview you. At which point they picked this contestant for being young, cute & pert. They didn't pluck anybody out of any of my auditions, other than the "walk in & win" one, for just being cute etc. But with contestants like this one, I have to keep telling myself that. I guess its "2 strikes & you're out" with me?


On the arithmetic Q, if she had just said "I can't do arithmetic" rather than burned a lifeline & then done the arithmetic, I think it would have irked me less, strangely enough.

At least she didn't have a Patricia Heaton style freak-out.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Kelsey Dickerson
Mesa, AZ

Described as a "hardworking sports buff" who brought her "biggest fan," her grandmother, as the potential +1 lifeline.

"Biggest fan" doesn't necessarily translate to "good choice for lifeline".

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Question 3 -
Which of the following is not an actual menu item at Guy Fieri's Vegas Kitchen and Bar?
A. Guy-talian Fondue Dippers B. Yum-o! Baby Greens
C. Brutha's Badass Caes-uh Salad D. Tatted-Up Turkey Burger

ATA

Before ATA Kelsey said she is not too up-to-date on him, but A made sense as one of his and D also made sense for him being tattooed.
A. 4% B. 57%
C. 32% D. 7%

Kelsey first said he would go with B and then she changed her mind and JTQ - final decision

Answer and value

B. Yum-o! Baby Greens
Value: $5K jumped
Bank: $1100

From what I've seen of Guy's shows, he's not much for salad, so I'd have gone with the greens.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Question 5 -
While every dog may have its day, it's reported that record-setting beagle Max had 10,876 of them before passing away at what age?
A. 19 B. 24
C. 29 D. 36

+1

Kelsey struggled with the math and then called up her grandmother, telling grandma she knows there are 365 days in a year
They both struggled together determining it is more than 20 but less than 30.
Ultimately she decided to guess C and hope it is right, final answer

Answer and value

C. 29
Value: $25K!
Bank: $26600

20 years = 7300 (give or take a Leap Day), 30 years = 10,950. So it's gotta be 29.

I wonder how she even passed the test. She didn't seem too bright to me.

I was OK until the math question. What scared me was when she said "there are 365 days in a year" completely forgetting about leap years. As we saw, Grandma wasn't much help. I'm still trying to figure out how they arrived at the right answer without whipping out pencil and paper.

I knew the last one. Easy geography. I guess they don't teach that anymore.

Kazoo65 wrote:I wonder how she even passed the test. She didn't seem too bright to me.

I was OK until the math question. What scared me was when she said "there are 365 days in a year" completely forgetting about leap years. As we saw, Grandma wasn't much help. I'm still trying to figure out how they arrived at the right answer without whipping out pencil and paper.

I knew the last one. Easy geography. I guess they don't teach that anymore.

Doing the calculation without leap days would have yielded a close enough result.

11 divided by 4 gets you to the right answer since the answer would be higher

earendel wrote:

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Question 3 -
Which of the following is not an actual menu item at Guy Fieri's Vegas Kitchen and Bar?
A. Guy-talian Fondue Dippers B. Yum-o! Baby Greens
C. Brutha's Badass Caes-uh Salad D. Tatted-Up Turkey Burger

ATA

Before ATA Kelsey said she is not too up-to-date on him, but A made sense as one of his and D also made sense for him being tattooed.
A. 4% B. 57%
C. 32% D. 7%

Kelsey first said he would go with B and then she changed her mind and JTQ - final decision

Answer and value

B. Yum-o! Baby Greens
Value: $5K jumped
Bank: $1100

From what I've seen of Guy's shows, he's not much for salad, so I'd have gone with the greens.

You think that since he's not big on veggies, that his restaurant doesn't serve them? The clue that both you and ghost missed is "Yum-o!" That's one of Rachael Ray's catchphrases.

earendel wrote:

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Kelsey Dickerson
Mesa, AZ

Described as a "hardworking sports buff" who brought her "biggest fan," her grandmother, as the potential +1 lifeline.

"Biggest fan" doesn't necessarily translate to "good choice for lifeline".

TPTB are getting exactly what they wanted. Rather than asking five (later three) knowledgeable friends to commit to several hours on call by a landline phone, now contestants must ask just one to travel all the way to Connecticut for a day or two (at either the contestant's or the friend's expense). No wonder most contestants default to asking a close family member, regardless of their qualifications as a lifeline. Good television! Good, cheap television.

And TPTB can be damn sure that the lifeline isn't using any search engines that were never against the rules in the first place.

Estonut wrote:

earendel wrote:

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Question 3 -
Which of the following is not an actual menu item at Guy Fieri's Vegas Kitchen and Bar?
A. Guy-talian Fondue Dippers B. Yum-o! Baby Greens
C. Brutha's Badass Caes-uh Salad D. Tatted-Up Turkey Burger

ATA

Before ATA Kelsey said she is not too up-to-date on him, but A made sense as one of his and D also made sense for him being tattooed.
A. 4% B. 57%
C. 32% D. 7%

Kelsey first said he would go with B and then she changed her mind and JTQ - final decision

Answer and value

B. Yum-o! Baby Greens
Value: $5K jumped
Bank: $1100

From what I've seen of Guy's shows, he's not much for salad, so I'd have gone with the greens.

You think that since he's not big on veggies, that his restaurant doesn't serve them? The clue that both you and ghost missed is "Yum-o!" That's one of Rachael Ray's catchphrases.

I didn't know that. Thanks.

Estonut says:

You think that since he's not big on veggies, that his restaurant doesn't serve them? The clue that both you and ghost missed is "Yum-o!" That's one of Rachael Ray's catchphrases.

I was never under the assumption that Fieri ran veggie-free restaurants. I did figure that "yum-o" didn't sound enough like one of Fieri's tiresome cutesy names for food, so it was possibly the right answer, but I wouldn't have bet on it. I would have had to have an audience of sworn Fieri fans to ask them to pick "which is not on his menu".


I hate Rachel Ray. She's much more annoying than Fieri. When I have access to cable, which is seldom these days, I watch people look at houses, or renovate houses, not Rachel Ray cook. Watching Rachel Ray cook is a lot like watching people open a can of Chef Boy-ar-di. Exactly like it, in some cases. I'm an excellent cook, myself. Meaning there's not much info RR can offer me. Some of the other cooking instruction shows, yes. Also their food looks a lot more "yum-o". So no, I didn't know that "yum-o" is a Rachel Ray catchphrase. Would the audience have known it on my theoretical day? Its probably easier to know than the contents to Fieri's restaurants' menus. Oh well. I'm glad ATA did come through on this for the contestant. We don't know if they knew it was a Rachel Ray phrase. Maybe they did.

ghostjmf wrote:So no, I didn't know that "yum-o" is a Rachel Ray catchphrase. Would the audience have known it on my theoretical day? Its probably easier to know than the contents to Fieri's restaurants' menus.

Imagine the tiny percentage of the population who have dined at Fieri's Las Vegas restaurant and the even tinier percentage who would have memorized its menu. Then compare that to the percentages who are familiar with a TV celebrity's catchphrase. Yes, the latter is how they arrived at the right answer.