WWTBAM Bored

Robert Oswald
New York, NY


Question 1 -
The Huffington Post article "7 Phobias of the Modern Age" lists the fear of radiation, the fear of zombies, and nomophobia, which is the fear of what?
A. Being without your mobile phone B. Accidentally eating gluten
C. Being far from a Starbucks D. Running low on sunscreen

JTQ

Robert said nomo sounded like nom,nom, but he is drawing a blank here. Terry reminded him of his lifelines, and Robert decided to JTQ.
Terry asked for Robert's guess and Robert said his gut was B.

Answer and value

A. Being without your mobile phone (Terry: No-Mo(bile phone) phobia.
Value: $25K jumped
Bank: 0

Question 2 -
NASA's 1960 "Brookings Report" discussed the potentially catastrophic effects on society that could result from the discovery of what?
A. Amelia Earhart B. Extraterrestrial life
C. ESP D. The Holy Grail

ATA

A-4% B-82%
C-5% D-9%

Answer and value

B. Extraterrestrial life
Value: $7000
Bank: $7000

Question 3 -
Possibly to prevent their droppings from rolling off the rocks and logs they've marked as their territory, wombats are known to poop in what shape?
A. Corkscrew B. Heart
C. Cube D. Sphere

Spoiler

Robert went through all four, deciding that a corkscrew and a sphere would roll.
He brought his fiance, Sean, who would guess cube after expressing his belief that a corkscrew and a sphere would roll and a heart did not make sense.
Terry said Robert could walk away with $3500. They settle on Cube.

Answer and value

C. Cube
Value: $15K
Bank: $22K

Second break

Question 4 -
According to the American Journal of Emergency Medicine, which of these is a real palpitation-inducing condition caused by eating way too much of a common spice?
A. Coriander Overdose Disorder B. Psychotropic Cinnamon Poisoning
C. Acute Nutmeg Intoxication D. Toxic Paprika Syndrome

Walk

Robert sad he would have guessed D.

Answer and value

C. Acute Nutmeg Intoxication
Value: $not revealed
Bank: Walk: $11000

Third break

QotD. Which of these phrases was famously uttered by the Wicked Witch of the West in "The Wizard of Oz"?
A. I'm Melting B. I'm Falling
C. I'm Shrinking D. I'm Drowning

QotD

A. I'm Melting

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Question 3 -
Possibly to prevent their droppings from rolling off the rocks and logs they've marked as their territory, wombats are known to poop in what shape?
A. Corkscrew B. Heart
C. Cube D. Sphere

Spoiler

Robert went through all four, deciding that a corkscrew and a sphere would roll.
He brought his fiance, Sean, who would guess cube after expressing his belief that a corkscrew and a sphere would roll and a heart did not make sense.
Terry said Robert could walk away with $3500. They settle on Cube.

Answer and value

C. Cube
Value: $15K
Bank: $22K

No Shit

I'm not sure what's harder to believe: The shape of these turds or that someone still has punchcards lying around.

Question 3 -
Possibly to prevent their droppings from rolling off the rocks and logs they've marked as their territory, wombats are known to poop in what shape?
A. Corkscrew B. Heart
C. Cube D. Sphere

Spoiler

Robert went through all four, deciding that a corkscrew and a sphere would roll.
He brought his fiance, Sean, who would guess cube after expressing his belief that a corkscrew and a sphere would roll and a heart did not make sense.
Terry said Robert could walk away with $3500. They settle on Cube.

Answer and value

C. Cube
Value: $15K
Bank: $22K

JTQ. None of these made any sense to me, so I google-imaged it. Sure enough, cubes.

Question 4 -
According to the American Journal of Emergency Medicine, which of these is a real palpitation-inducing condition caused by eating way too much of a common spice?
A. Coriander Overdose Disorder B. Psychotropic Cinnamon Poisoning
C. Acute Nutmeg Intoxication D. Toxic Paprika Syndrome

Walk

Robert sad he would have guessed D.

Answer and value

C. Acute Nutmeg Intoxication
Value: $not revealed
Bank: Walk: $11000

Plus One

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Robert Oswald
New York, NY

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Question 1 -
The Huffington Post article "7 Phobias of the Modern Age" lists the fear of radiation, the fear of zombies, and nomophobia, which is the fear of what?
A. Being without your mobile phone B. Accidentally eating gluten
C. Being far from a Starbucks D. Running low on sunscreen

JTQ

Robert said nomo sounded like nom,nom, but he is drawing a blank here. Terry reminded him of his lifelines, and Robert decided to JTQ. Terry asked for Robert's guess and Robert said his gut was B.

Answer and value

A. Being without your mobile phone (Terry: No-Mo(bile phone) phobia.
Value: $25K jumped
Bank: 0

Given the state of society today it almost has to be "A".

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Question 4 -
According to the American Journal of Emergency Medicine, which of these is a real palpitation-inducing condition caused by eating way too much of a common spice?
A. Coriander Overdose Disorder B. Psychotropic Cinnamon Poisoning
C. Acute Nutmeg Intoxication D. Toxic Paprika Syndrome

Walk

Robert sad he would have guessed D.

Answer and value

C. Acute Nutmeg Intoxication
Value: not revealed
Bank: Walk: $11000

I'll JTQ.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Question 2 -
NASA's 1960 "Brookings Report" discussed the potentially catastrophic effects on society that could result from the discovery of what?
A. Amelia Earhart B. Extraterrestrial life
C. ESP D. The Holy Grail

ATA

A-4% B-82%
C-5% D-9%

Answer and value

B. Extraterrestrial life
Value: $7000
Bank: $7000

Robert sensibly rules out ESP and the Holy Grail, which have nothing to do with NASA. If he had thought about it more, he may have figured out that finding Amelia Earhart 23 years after he plane went down could be sad for her family, but not catastrophic. But plenty of 1950s sci-fi movies dramatized the dangers of extraterrestrial life.

Q1: Latin doesn't help here. It being a modern-age real phobia does help my right guess.


Q2: NASA wouldn't be interested in A, C or D.


Q3: Cubes don't roll so easily, but this is way weird.


Q4: Am old enough to have lived through "you can get high on nutmeg" fad of 60s. Learned then that it would take a way-lot amount (I wasn't interested anyway).


Note: Yes, I know palpitations aren't being high, but back then almost any body-changing reaction was considered a form of high by some.