WWTBAM Bored

Kamari Aykes
Bloomfield, NJ
Has $23K and one lifeline, the Plus One, remaining


--Opening pre-empted here by weather--


Question 5 -
What singer once said he had to go to therapy due to the number of times people asked him to play "Summer of '69"?
A. Todd Stewart B. Ryan Adams
C. Rick Ghastley D. Peter Hampton

+1

WWTBAM joined here in progress while Kamari was deciding what to do.
+1 friend Pat says Summer of '69 was Bryan Adams, but it could be the writer. The choices seem a play on words with Rick Astley Rod Stewart Peter Frampton
Who is Ryan Adams? A more recent singer. Pat is 95% sure it is B.

Answer and value

B. Ryan Adams
Value: $10K
Bank: $33K

Question 6 -
When rolling two dice, seven is the most likely total to show up. What's the most likely total when rolling six dice?
A. 14 B. 17
C. 21 D. 24

Spoiler

Kamari first said that her boyfriend is a math teacher would be sad if she gets it wrong.
She then figured that with three times the dice the likely result is three times seven.

Answer and value

C. 21
Value: $25K!
Bank: $58K

Question 7 -
All but which of these items were featured in a PC Magazine article entitled "Killed by the Cell Phone"?
A. Rolodex B. Refrigerator
C. Alarm clock D. Sony Walkman

Answer and value

B. Refrigerator
Value: $100
Bank: $58100

First break

Question 8 -
Credited with introducing "dining as theater, and chefs as culinary acrobats," Rocky Aoki founded what restaurant chain in 1964?
A. Outback Steakhouse B. Hard Rock Cafe
C. Benihana D. Olive Garden

Answer and value

C. Benihana
Value: $5000
Bank: $63100

Question 9-
After playing an African king and queen in "Coming to America," James Earl Jones and Madge Sinclair took on similar roles in what Disney film?
A. The Little Mermaid B. Beauty and the Beast
C. Aladdin D. The Lion King

Answer and value

D. The Lion King
Value: $3000
Bank: $66100

Question 10 -
Someone who can't stop looking at your wenge would most likely be admiring your what?
A. Furniture B. Hat
C. Car D. Teeth

walk

When asked, Kamari said she would have guessed B.

Answer and value

A. Furniture
Value: known to be $2000
Bank: Walk: $33050

Second break

Kamari was naturally entertaining. Here's some more of her banter.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Question 7 -
All but which of these items were featured in a PC Magazine article entitled "Killed by the Cell Phone"?
A. Rolodex B. Refrigerator
C. Alarm clock D. Sony Walkman

Answer and value

B. Refrigerator
Value: $100
Bank: $58100

“If there was a way for me to have a pocket refrigerator in my purse, so I could take my snacks to go, that would be amazing. But people don’t carry watches [Kamari’s not old enough to remember the Rolodex], people don’t buy alarm clocks anymore, and the music is on their phones.”

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Question 8 -
Credited with introducing "dining as theater, and chefs as culinary acrobats," Rocky Aoki founded what restaurant chain in 1964?
A. Outback Steakhouse B. Hard Rock Cafe
C. Benihana D. Olive Garden

Answer and value

C. Benihana
Value: $5000
Bank: $63100

“I had my 22nd birthday at a restaurant where they did the whole slice and dice, and tossed the onions in the air, and that was a hibachi, and Benihana is a type of hibachi, cause it’s entertaining.”

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Question 9-
After playing an African king and queen in "Coming to America," James Earl Jones and Madge Sinclair took on similar roles in what Disney film?
A. The Little Mermaid B. Beauty and the Beast
C. Aladdin D. The Lion King

Answer and value

D. The Lion King
Value: $3000
Bank: $66100

“I don’t have to think about this one. The Lion King, cause it was like, ‘I am your father,’ no wait, that was Star Wars, but it was all the same voice, because it was like, ‘Mufasa.’”

I love this contestant!

Question 10 -
Someone who can't stop looking at your wenge would most likely be admiring your what?
A. Furniture B. Hat
C. Car D. Teeth

walk

When asked, Kamari said she would have guessed B.

Answer and value

A. Furniture
Value: known to be $2000
Bank: Walk: $33050

I dunno how many lifelines I have left. I'll ATA.

Q5: Don't know song, except for Adams don't even know singers, if I really am alive & still have ATA, use it. OK, wait, I know Nick Lowe in "All Men Are Liars" has a line "let me tell you 'bout Rick Astley, he wrote a song that is just ghastly". So the choice's name on C really is misspelled by the show. I just looked it up to be sure. Is this meant to be a joke by the writers?

Q9: Took me a while to realize they didn't mean human king & queen. Haven't seen LionKing but have seen passages withJones' voice played.

Q10: Don't know it. Rule out car or teeth on basis "should have heard if its either", though it could be some new term for tooth stuff that I'm clueless about. Anyway, I cluelessly leave here.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Kamari Aykes
Bloomfield, NJ
Has $23K and one lifeline, the Plus One, remaining
--Opening pre-empted here by weather--

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Question 5 -
What singer once said he had to go to therapy due to the number of times people asked him to play "Summer of '69"?
A. Todd Stewart B. Ryan Adams
C. Rick Ghastley D. Peter Hampton

+1

WWTBAM joined here in progress while Kamari was deciding what to do.
+1 friend Pat says Summer of '69 was Bryan Adams, but it could be the writer. The choices seem a play on words with Rick Astley Rod Stewart Peter Frampton
Who is Ryan Adams? A more recent singer. Pat is 95% sure it is B.

Answer and value

B. Ryan Adams
Value: $10K
Bank: $33K

I don't think they understood the question, although they did end up with the right answer.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Question 10 -
Someone who can't stop looking at your wenge would most likely be admiring your what?
A. Furniture B. Hat
C. Car D. Teeth

walk

When asked, Kamari said she would have guessed B.

Answer and value

A. Furniture
Value: known to be $2000
Bank: Walk: $33050

I still have lifelines and I'll use one, starting with ATA.

Since all the singers names are puns on real singers (which except for Astley I totally missed), either there's no real answer to this Q or there's a singer out there calling himself Ryan Adams being asked to perform Brian Adams songs? *I* don't understand the question.

ghostjmf wrote:Since all the singers names are puns on real singers (which except for Astley I totally missed), either there's no real answer to this Q or there's a singer out there calling himself Ryan Adams being asked to perform Brian Adams songs? *I* don't understand the question.

Yes, there is a popular singer named Ryan Adams who belongs to a later generation than Bryan Adams. I haven't heard this mentioned before, but he must be talking about clueless barely-fans who have confused Ryan with Bryan and request the latter's most popular song of the former. Such people aren't real fans of either.

Thanks. I haven't yet but should Google whether the other names are all fictional. Seems to me no one would call themself Ghastley except as a joke. So if I'd had the sense, if really under stage lights accompanied by throbbing music, to try to figure if the song in Q was by Rod Stewart or Peter Frampton, I'd have narrowed it down to "I know most vintage Stewart & this is not in there" & "prolly not Frampton either".

They may have edited it out, but the contestant & +1 weren't discussing the jokiness of the names either; after +1 said "that's a Bryan Adams song" contestant balked for a bit & asked "but did he write it",or at least that's what I remember hearing. Not "3 of these names are not for real".

By the way, I keep turning off autocorrect on this tablet & it keeps turning itself back on. Can't hardly write anything without some robot's idea of "what you meant" interfering. I hate hate hate that.

WiFi keeps turning itself on, even when there are reasons I don't want it on (the WiFi available is proprietary service trying to make me subscribe, or its legit but I don't have the password) too.

OK, I can read in the transcript that the +1 *did* reflect on the punniness of it all. But I didn't register it while watching the show. And I try to make my responses here reflect what I would do in the moment if really on the show. At the time, all I could think is "they didn't really mean "Ghastley", did they".

Estonut wrote:

ghostjmf wrote:Since all the singers names are puns on real singers (which except for Astley I totally missed), either there's no real answer to this Q or there's a singer out there calling himself Ryan Adams being asked to perform Brian Adams songs? *I* don't understand the question.

Yes, there is a popular singer named Ryan Adams who belongs to a later generation than Bryan Adams. I haven't heard this mentioned before, but he must be talking about clueless barely-fans who have confused Ryan with Bryan and request the latter's most popular song of the former. Such people aren't real fans of either.

This was an instaget for me. I was really surprised at the number of people on Facebook who thought the show got the question wrong. Maybe I shouldn't be...

Kamari was in my taping group, so I'm glad to see she did so well.