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Off to College Week

This week all of the contestants will be soon-to-be college freshmen.
For this special week, a fourth life-line has been added called “Extra Help,” which is a second Plus One.

Susie Lu
Liverpool, NY

Susie was the valedictorian of her graduating class of 500 students. She almost got a perfect score of 2400 on her SATs and got perfect scores on five advanced placement exams. She will be attending Cornell University.

Susie’s Plus One and Extra Help are Rachel and Josh.[/i]

$500 One way to tell the difference between a monkey and an ape is that a monkey typically has what?
A. A pouch
B. A tail
C. Horns
D. An agent

Spoiler

B. A tail

$1K According to Seventeen magazine, adding what powdered drink mix to Vaseline creates a lating red lip stain?
A. Evaporated milk
B. Nesquik
C. Cherry Kool-Aid
D. Lemonade

Spoiler

C. Cherry Kool-Aid

$2K “Love By the Hook” and “When Your Feet Don’t Touch the Ground” are two of the songs featured in what 2015 Broadway musical?
A. Finding Neverland
B. The Book of Mormon
C. The Lion King
D. Chicago

ATA

ATA results

79% A. Finding Neverland
7% B. The Book of Mormon
10% C. The Lion King
4% D. Chicago

Spoiler

A. Finding Neverland

$3K In 2015, President Obama announced a proposal to make the first two years of what free for “those willing to work for it”?
A. Community college
B. Gym memberships
C. Car loans
D. Netflix subscriptions

Spoiler

A. Community college

$5K Which of the following one-syllable words can you turn into a three-syllable word by adding a single vowel to the end?
A. Will
B. Am
C. Is
D. Are

Spoiler

D. Are

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$7K Centered on 3 siblings who plot for control of their father’s business, Fox’s “Empire” has been referred to as “The Godfather” meets what Shakespearean plan?
A. The Tempest
B. Richard III
C. King Lear
D. Julius Caesar

Spoiler

C. King Lear

$10K There are NOT eight of which of the following?
A. Planets in the solar system
B. Ivy League schools
C. Harry Potter films
D. Summer Olympic events that start with B

+1

Rachel eliminates

Spoiler

Harry Potter films and Ivy League schools[/spoilers]. They both say there are

Spoiler

eight planets.

Spoiler

D. Summer Olympic events that start with B

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$20K If you said, “Because the bacteria P. shermannii releases carbon dioxide after consuming lactic acid,” you’d have just correctly answered which question?
A. Why does Swiss cheese have holes?
B. Why does sulfur smell bad?
C. Why are paint fumes dangerous?
D. Why does TNT explode?

Spoiler

A. Why does Swiss cheese have holes?

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QOTD
What company’s iconic logo was designed by an Oregon college student in 1971 for just $35?
A. Starbucks
B. Nike
C. Apple computer
D. MasterCard

Spoiler

B. Nike

$30K If you were restricted to writing it out in segments of 140 characters, how many tweets would you need to fully compose the Pledge of Allegiance?
A. 1 tweet
B. 2 tweets
C. 3 tweets
D. 4 tweets

Susie doesn’t want to count it out, so she uses her 50/50

50/50

50/50 results

B. 2 tweets
C. 3 tweets

Susie still doesn’t want to count it out, so she uses her Extra Help.

EH

Susie starts to count it out. She tells Josh to keep up with the tens. She lets him know every time she counts ten characters.

Spoiler

B. 2 tweets

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Susie will return for tomorrow’s show.

I thought things were weird when we went into the third commercial so abruptly and returned with 10 minutes left in the show. Suddenly it made sense.

$7k Q: Ask the Audience

$10k: +1 to be sure

$20k: Easier than the previous two, surprisingly. Might have used 50/50 to be sure, though.

$30k: After a headache and a half I figured this out too.

I'd probably be at the $50k question with my extra help still available. Hopefully Susie Lu is able to make it to the top tier tomorrow.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote: Off to College Week

This week all of the contestants will be soon-to-be college freshmen.
For this special week, a fourth life-line has been added called “Extra Help,” which is a second Plus One.

It's nice that they want to help college students with tuition and such, but I don't like the extra lifeline. They should play the game as is.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Susie Lu
Liverpool, NY

Susie was the valedictorian of her graduating class of 500 students. She almost got a perfect score of 2400 on her SATs and got perfect scores on five advanced placement exams. She will be attending Cornell University.

Susie’s Plus One and Extra Help are Rachel and Josh.[/i]

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:$30K If you were restricted to writing it out in segments of 140 characters, how many tweets would you need to fully compose the Pledge of Allegiance?
A. 1 tweet
B. 2 tweets
C. 3 tweets
D. 4 tweets

Susie doesn’t want to count it out, so she uses her 50/50

50/50

50/50 results

B. 2 tweets
C. 3 tweets

Susie still doesn’t want to count it out, so she uses her Extra Help.

EH

Susie starts to count it out. She tells Josh to keep up with the tens. She lets him know every time she counts ten characters.

Spoiler

B. 2 tweets

If Albert Stamm can take as long as he did to answer the presidents question on Friday's show, she should have spent the time to count them out without wasting the lifeline.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Susie Lu
Liverpool, NY

Susie was the valedictorian of her graduating class of 500 students. She almost got a perfect score of 2400 on her SATs and got perfect scores on five advanced placement exams. She will be attending Cornell University.

Her hometown makes her a local contestant, as far my WSYR viewing area is concerned. And she's even more local, now that the semester has started!

Congrats on getting your shot on the show, Susie. But excuse me if I'm not entirely enthusiastic for the rest of this post.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote: $30K If you were restricted to writing it out in segments of 140 characters, how many tweets would you need to fully compose the Pledge of Allegiance?
A. 1 tweet
B. 2 tweets
C. 3 tweets
D. 4 tweets

Susie doesn’t want to count it out, so she uses her 50/50

50/50

50/50 results

B. 2 tweets
C. 3 tweets

Susie still doesn’t want to count it out, so she uses her Extra Help.

EH

Susie starts to count it out. She tells Josh to keep up with the tens. She lets him know every time she counts ten characters.

Spoiler

B. 2 tweets

end of show noise

Susie will return for tomorrow’s show.

Wow. This question would have been wicked, if they'd asked it during the era of TDC. Now, it's merely incredibly annoying, since it doesn't require any more knowledge than how to recite the pledge. The only demanding part of it was having to count the letters on-air.

But, since Susie did have all the time she needed to work this out, it's really inexcusable that she burnt two of her lifelines on this. For a long time at the beginning of the question, her "extra help" Josh wasn't even saying anything! She was just using him as an extra pair of hands while she counted on her fingers!

He did help her with a couple of the words of the pledge, but there was a generous safety margin built into the format of the question, in case she had made a few mistakes along the way.

earendel wrote:It's nice that they want to help college students with tuition and such, but I don't like the extra lifeline. They should play the game as is.

Agreed. They've already been given the gift of a special theme week.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:$5K Which of the following one-syllable words can you turn into a three-syllable word by adding a single vowel to the end?
A. Will
B. Am
C. Is
D. Are

Spoiler

D. Are

During her deliberation, Susie added an 'a' to the final choice, pronounced it like "aria", and went with that choice, saying that it sounded like it might be a word.

MarleysGh0st wrote:

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:$5K Which of the following one-syllable words can you turn into a three-syllable word by adding a single vowel to the end?
A. Will
B. Am
C. Is
D. Are

Spoiler

D. Are

During her deliberation, Susie added an 'a' to the final choice, pronounced it like "aria", and went with that choice, saying that it sounded like it might be a word.

Hey, she's going to Cornell, not Oxford!

TheConfessor wrote:

MarleysGh0st wrote:

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:$5K Which of the following one-syllable words can you turn into a three-syllable word by adding a single vowel to the end?
A. Will
B. Am
C. Is
D. Are

Spoiler

D. Are

During her deliberation, Susie added an 'a' to the final choice, pronounced it like "aria", and went with that choice, saying that it sounded like it might be a word.

Hey, she's going to Cornell, not Oxford!

I like the way she talks.

I like the way she walks.

Susie Lu

So far the students have really irked me with their knowledge gaps. The ones who didn't have big gaps, & for whom I was rooting, took fliers when they shouldn't have & crashed. OK, week isn't over yet.

Haven't seen most posted, so will start with Susie:

10K: I'm betting on D in this goofily worded Q, even though I'm not entirely sure how many HP films there were.


30K: Why did she not just grit her teeth & count?! She used up lifeline & counted anyway.

Pardon me, she used up 2 lifelines. Inexcusable.

So far, so good.