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Lucas Ruffel
Cambridge, MA

Terry points out that Lucas has a twin brother, and Lucas said his brother is the +1. They love playing board games and sometimes sabotage each other but hopefully not today. "We'll see what my cut is"


Question 1 -
In explaining why its studios are called "torture chambers," the official website for Bikram Yoga answers what important question?
A. What is with all the whips? B. Why the heat?
C. How come there's so much screaming? D. Why do you only play accordion music?

Answer and value

B. Why the heat?
Value: $2000
Bank: $2000

Question 2 -
Which of these is the founder of Motown Records, and NOT a Baskin-Robbins ice cream flavor?
A. Nutty Coconut B. Rum Raisin
C. Berry Gordy D. Pistachio Almond

ATA

Lucas said he is not that familiar with Motown records nor is he big on ice cream

A. 1% B. 6%
C. 91% D. 2%

Answer and value

C. Berry Gordy
Value: $1000
Bank: $3000

Question 3 -
While important stories in a newspaper are said to be "above the fold," important stories on a news website are said to be "above the" what?
A. URL B. Scroll
C. Pop-up ad D. Comments

JTQ

Lucas ruled out A, and is leaning towards comments

Answer and value

B. Scroll
Value: $3K jumped
Bank: $3K

Second break


Question 4 -
SPOILER ALERT: Which of these sports movies is the only one in which the protagonists actually won the ultimate event they've been preparing for?
A. Cool Runnings B. Moneyball
C. The Bad News Bears D. Hoosiers

+1

Lucas says he has not seen Moneyball and is pretty sure they came up short in Cool Runnings
He calls his twin brother who said he won't sabotage Lucas but wishes Lucas had used him on a different question
The brother said with Moneyball he read the book and the A's did well but not win the World Series. Lucas said he thought the A's did. The brother said definitely not Cool Runnings.
So they are between C and D with neither of them having seen the Bad News Bears or Hoosiers. They first were leaning C then the brother said he would guess D because C was a comedy.
Lucas then said comedies have happy endings. They then went to C with Lucas making it his final answer.

Answer and value

D. Hoosiers
Value: $not revealed
Bank: Lost. Consolation $1000

Third break

QotD
Though it's now used to refer to any tall mountain, the word "alpine" originally referred to a mountain range on what continent?
A. North America B. Europe
C. Asia D. Africa

QotD

B. Europe

Audience contestant segment next

Question 1 -
In explaining why its studios are called "torture chambers," the official website for Bikram Yoga answers what important question?
A. What is with all the whips? B. Why the heat?
C. How come there's so much screaming? D. Why do you only play accordion music?

Answer and value

B. Why the heat?
Value: $2000
Bank: $2000

ATA

Question 4 -
SPOILER ALERT: Which of these sports movies is the only one in which the protagonists actually won the ultimate event they've been preparing for?
A. Cool Runnings B. Moneyball
C. The Bad News Bears D. Hoosiers

+1

Lucas says he has not seen Moneyball and is pretty sure they came up short in Cool Runnings
He calls his twin brother who said he won't sabotage Lucas but wishes Lucas had used him on a different question
The brother said with Moneyball he read the book and the A's did well but not win the World Series. Lucas said he thought the A's did. The brother said definitely not Cool Runnings.
So they are between C and D with neither of them having seen the Bad News Bears or Hoosiers. They first were leaning C then the brother said he would guess D because C was a comedy.
Lucas then said comedies have happy endings. They then went to C with Lucas making it his final answer.

Answer and value

D. Hoosiers
Value: $not revealed
Bank: Lost. Consolation $1000

AARGH!!! Once again, proof positive that yelling at your television screen does not work.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Lucas Ruffel
Cambridge, MA

Terry points out that Lucas has a twin brother, and Lucas said his brother is the +1. They love playing board games and sometimes sabotage each other but hopefully not today. "We'll see what my cut is"

Nihil obstat®. Is it my imagination or are the stacks easier lately?

Q3: I have not observed things to be "above the scroll", whatever that is supposed to mean. on all devices except my new little tablet scrolling is done via a bar on the right side of the screen (on el tableto you just run your finger down the screen itself; they've disposed of scroll bar. Now I'm trying to remember whether I-pads also work that way. Probably, but I can't remember.).

"Above the scroll" kinda-rhymes with "above the fold". The other answers make even less sense, & are more provably untrue. Go for it.


Q4: I haven't seen any of these movies, but even I knew the answer to this one. From reviews, etc.

ghostjmf wrote:Q3: I have not observed things to be "above the scroll", whatever that is supposed to mean. on all devices except my new little tablet scrolling is done via a bar on the right side of the screen (on el tableto you just run your finger down the screen itself; they've disposed of scroll bar. Now I'm trying to remember whether I-pads also work that way. Probably, but I can't remember.).

I think "above the scroll" refers to the part of the website that you can see on the screen without scrolling. Lazy readers like me will read that part, and only scroll down if the story is interesting.

jarnon, that makes perfect sense. Of course, literalists like me will take "above the scroll" to mean what I thought, literally "above the scroll bar", which runs to the top of the page. The contestant appeared to be taking things literally too, when he said re one of the other choices "you can't be above the URL; its at the top of the page".


A lot of people turn literalist under stress, which explains the contestant, but some of us are this way predominantly in real life. I have to warn my car passengers not to yell "turn left" unless they really want me to turn left Just Then, even if we're not at the cross street yet. Driving is enough stress already. Literal interpretations of incomplete directions (they should have said "turn left at the corner"!) don't help.

jarnon wrote:

ghostjmf wrote:Q3: I have not observed things to be "above the scroll", whatever that is supposed to mean. on all devices except my new little tablet scrolling is done via a bar on the right side of the screen (on el tableto you just run your finger down the screen itself; they've disposed of scroll bar. Now I'm trying to remember whether I-pads also work that way. Probably, but I can't remember.).

I think "above the scroll" refers to the part of the website that you can see on the screen without scrolling. Lazy readers like me will read that part, and only scroll down if the story is interesting.

Many sites will display the first few paragraphs of a story and then say something like "scroll to continue" or "continues after jump." This is then often followed by a few rows of links, often including images, to other articles (which may or may not have similar content). After that, the main story continues.