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Andy Spatz
Raleigh, NC
high school chemistry teacher

Shriners Hospitals for Children Week
Every time this week, when a contestant reaches round two, they will donate $10K to Shriners Hospitals for Children.
Plus a celebrity contestant will play for the charity on Friday

$58600 banked and JTQ available
Andy said he and his wife would like to adopt a child from her country Nicaragua


Question 10 -
Believed by some to have been lifted from the Medici family's coat of arms, the universal symbol of a pawn shop features a curved bar holding three what?
A. Black hammers B. Golden balls
C. Blue eagles D. Red swords

JTQ

Andy said he has never been to a pawn shop and is not familiar with the Medici family coat of arms

Answer and value

B. Golden balls
Value: known to be $10K jumped
Bank: $58600 and on to round two

Question 11 - $100K
The Encyclopedia Britannica entry that comes last alphabetically is devoted to what?
A. WWII battle B. American Rock group
C. Austrian painter D. Bone in the human arm

Walk

Andy ruled out D as there are only three that he knows
He said it could be rock group ZZ Top, and his gut is that.
He decided he was not sure so he would walk away.

Answer

B. American Rock group
(It was ZZ Top)
Walk: $58600

First break

I've used my JTQ.

Question 10 -
Believed by some to have been lifted from the Medici family's coat of arms, the universal symbol of a pawn shop features a curved bar holding three what?
A. Black hammers B. Golden balls
C. Blue eagles D. Red swords

JTQ

Andy said he has never been to a pawn shop and is not familiar with the Medici family coat of arms

Answer and value

B. Golden balls
Value: known to be $10K jumped
Bank: $58600 and on to round two

Not that I'm so familiar with pawn shops, but IMHO this was one of the easiest questions in the stack. I've seen that symbol since I was a kid.

Question 11 - $100K
The Encyclopedia Britannica entry that comes last alphabetically is devoted to what?
A. WWII battle B. American Rock group
C. Austrian painter D. Bone in the human arm

Walk

Andy ruled out D as there are only three that he knows
He said it could be rock group ZZ Top, and his gut is that.
He decided he was not sure so he would walk away.

Answer

B. American Rock group
(It was ZZ Top)
Walk: $58600

What if there is no entry for ZZ Top? That worry is the only thing that would stop me from going with it.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Andy Spatz
Raleigh, NC
high school chemistry teacher

Shriners Hospitals for Children Week
Every time this week, when a contestant reaches round two, they will donate $10K to Shriners Hospitals for Children.
Plus a celebrity contestant will play for the charity on Friday

$58600 banked and JTQ available
Andy said he and his wife would like to adopt a child from her country Nicaragua

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Question 10 -
Believed by some to have been lifted from the Medici family's coat of arms, the universal symbol of a pawn shop features a curved bar holding three what?
A. Black hammers B. Golden balls
C. Blue eagles D. Red swords

JTQ

Andy said he has never been to a pawn shop and is not familiar with the Medici family coat of arms

Answer and value

B. Golden balls
Value: known to be $10K jumped
Bank: $58600 and on to round two

My father owned a pawn shop for a few years. It didn't have the universal symbol anywhere but I've heard of this before - supposedly the balls represented coins.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Question 11 - $100K
The Encyclopedia Britannica entry that comes last alphabetically is devoted to what?
A. WWII battle B. American Rock group
C. Austrian painter D. Bone in the human arm

Walk

Andy ruled out D as there are only three that he knows
He said it could be rock group ZZ Top, and his gut is that.
He decided he was not sure so he would walk away.

Answer

B. American Rock group
(It was ZZ Top)
Walk: $58600

I can't imagine that there would be anything after ZZ, so I'd go with that. I'd be looking at the $250K question with all my lifelines.

For completeness' sake, from a quick Wikipedia search, Paul Zeiller is an Austrian painter. I can't find any bones in the arm past "ulna", nor can I find any WWII battles past Xiangyang. I have no idea if Zeiller or Xiangyang would be notable enough to get an entry, but I'm pretty sure there are no bones past ulna.

I do have sympathy for him passing on this question. I immediately thought "ZZ Top" after seeing the option for a rock group. But you never know if it's a trap - I thought of Zzyzx, because I had seen that word around, but I'm pretty sure it wouldn't be in any of those three categories.

I would have thought they'd just take the last four articles in Britannica, but I guess they didn't do that.

Q11: Like everyone else, I immediately thought ZZ top. Knew it isn't bone in arm. Can't think of WWII battle or painter. But its a high-val Q, so could be trick. Jump.