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Cullen Wheatley
New Orleans, LA

Terry said they would start play right away


Question 1 -
In the 1960s, psychologist Arthur Staats developed what parenting technique after trying it out on his two-year-old daughter?
A. Grounding B. Time-out
C. Tiger parenting D. Swaddling

Answer and value

B. Time-out
Value: $25K!
Bank: $25K

Question 2 -
While it might seem like a biopic of a late night host, which of these is actually a new action movie in the works, according to Arnold Schwarzenegger?
A. The Epic of Letterman B. The Legend of Conan
C. The Saga of Fallon D. The Rise and Fall of Leno

Answer and value

B. The Legend of Conan
Value: $1000
Bank: $26K

Question 3 -
Only allowing users 140 characters per post, Weibo is basically a Chinese version of what?
A. Foursquare B. Facebook
C. Twitter D. Wikipedia

Answer and value

C. Twitter
Value: $500
Bank: $26500

Question 4 -
In 1963, to celebrate a post office innovation, a Miami branch held a beauty contest that awarded what title?
A. ZIP Girl B. Miss Stamp
C. Lady P.O. Box D. The Barcode Beauty

Spoiler

Cullen said he believes ZIP codes has been around quite a while, stamps have been around for a while, and PO Boxes have been around for a while
Terry reminded Cullen he has all three lifelines
Cullen answered D final answer.

Answer and value

A. ZIP Girl
Value: $not revealed
Bank: Lost. Consolation $1000

Second commercial time out

1. never heard of this guy, JTQ.

2. easy. Arnold was in "Conan the Barbarian".

3. easy.

4. easy. I've read that ZIP codes came out in the early sixties. He had all of his lifelines-he could have used one of them.

Kazoo65 wrote:1. never heard of this guy, JTQ.

2. easy. Arnold was in "Conan the Barbarian".

3. easy.

4. easy. I've read that ZIP codes came out in the early sixties. He had all of his lifelines-he could have used one of them.

He thought there was a barcode reader in 1963?!

Question 4 -
In 1963, to celebrate a post office innovation, a Miami branch held a beauty contest that awarded what title?
A. ZIP Girl B. Miss Stamp
C. Lady P.O. Box D. The Barcode Beauty

Spoiler

Cullen said he believes ZIP codes has been around quite a while, stamps have been around for a while, and PO Boxes have been around for a while
Terry reminded Cullen he has all three lifelines
Cullen answered D final answer.

Answer and value

A. ZIP Girl
Value: $not revealed
Bank: Lost. Consolation $1000

Yeah, zip codes have been around since before he was born. I was saying "Ask the audience! Ask the audience!" But he didn't. Nice try, Terry -- you tried to save him.

Q1: Age of child dictates choice.


Q4: I'm old enough to remember when zip codes were instituted.

Sigh, 1963 was quite a while ago.

My second job was putting prices on groceries, a job later made obsolete by bar codes.

We know what Wrigley's gum has to do with barcodes

I saw one of these last week



No I did not get sent to time out

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Cullen Wheatley
New Orleans, LA

Terry said they would start play right away

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Question 4 -
In 1963, to celebrate a post office innovation, a Miami branch held a beauty contest that awarded what title?
A. ZIP Girl B. Miss Stamp
C. Lady P.O. Box D. The Barcode Beauty

Spoiler

Cullen said he believes ZIP codes has been around quite a while, stamps have been around for a while, and PO Boxes have been around for a while
Terry reminded Cullen he has all three lifelines
Cullen answered D final answer.

Answer and value

A. ZIP Girl
Value: not revealed
Bank: Lost. Consolation $1000

ZIP codes have been around a while - that's why the 1963 date was important. I guess he missed that.