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Travis Myles
Louisville, KY

Described as an emotional guy who likes to cry.
His dad is his +1


$500 :
Founded in Colorado, what candy company specifically chose its name so as "to suggest a hospitable, western company"?
A: Bazooka Bubble Gum B: Jolly Rancher
C: Tootsie Roll D: Jelly Belly

Spoiler

B: Jolly Rancher

$1000 :
Used in the song "Imagine" and later sold to George Michael for over $2 million, John Lennon's Steinway Model Z is one of the world's most famous what?
A: Drum sets B: Pianos
C: Guitars D: Didgeridoos

Spoiler

B: Pianos

$2000 :
Impressively versatile, Frank Oz has provided the voices for Grover, Miss Piggy and which of these characters (but ask him to do the impression, do NOT)?
A: Bugs Bunny B: Shrek
C: Yoda D: Bart Simpson

Spoiler

C: Yoda

$3000 :
Not to be confused with a similar-sounding racier text, what Buddhist scroll was discovered in a Chinese cave in 1907, over a millennium after it was printed?
A: The Diamond Sutra B: The Joy of Satanism
C: Fifty Shades of Greek Orthodox D: Lady Chatterley's Rastafarian Lover

Spoiler

A: The Diamond Sutra

$5000 :
Which country boasts its very own Carpet Museum with an exterior designed to look like a loom?
A: Sweden B: Brazil
C: Iran D: Uganda

Spoiler

50/50 A: Sweden
C: Iran

ATA
A: 26%
C: 74%

C: Iran

First break

$7000 :
"Feared as a highly contagious and devastating disease," the U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services says what's actually "very treatable" with antibiotics?
A: Ebola B: Leprosy
C: Rickets D: Gout

Spoiler

Travis' guess was Ebola.
B: Leprosy

Travis left with $5000

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Travis Myles
Louisville, KY

Described as an emotional guy who likes to cry.
His dad is his +1

Travis was in the audition session that elwing attended. She recognized him but said there wasn't anything particularly noteworthy about him.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:$5000 :
Which country boasts its very own Carpet Museum with an exterior designed to look like a loom?
A: Sweden B: Brazil
C: Iran D: Uganda

Spoiler

50/50 A: Sweden
C: Iran

ATA
A: 26%
C: 74%

C: Iran

I guess he didn't know Persia (as in Persian rugs) was an old name for Iran.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:$7000 :
"Feared as a highly contagious and devastating disease," the U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services says what's actually "very treatable" with antibiotics?
A: Ebola B: Leprosy
C: Rickets D: Gout

Spoiler

Travis' guess was Ebola.
B: Leprosy

Travis left with $5000

Ricketts and gout are not caused by a pathogen. Ebola is viral, so that only leaves leprosy.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote: $7000 :
"Feared as a highly contagious and devastating disease," the U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services says what's actually "very treatable" with antibiotics?
A: Ebola B: Leprosy
C: Rickets D: Gout

I'd have blown it on this one. I glanced right over the word "antibiotics", and I remembered during the whole Ebola debacle last year, the point was made that if you catch Ebola in America, your chances of survival were actually just fine. That, of course, doesn't necessarily mean it's fully treatable.

earendel wrote:

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:$5000 :
Which country boasts its very own Carpet Museum with an exterior designed to look like a loom?
A: Sweden B: Brazil
C: Iran D: Uganda

Spoiler

50/50 A: Sweden
C: Iran

ATA
A: 26%
C: 74%

C: Iran

I guess he didn't know Persia (as in Persian rugs) was an old name for Iran.

Actually, he mentioned Persian rugs and magic carpets after he used two lifelines. So why did he waste lifelines on an answer he knew? He muttered something about making sure to get to the $5K threshold, but I'm still scratching my head.

$500 :
Founded in Colorado, what candy company specifically chose its name so as "to suggest a hospitable, western company"?
A: Bazooka Bubble Gum B: Jolly Rancher
C: Tootsie Roll D: Jelly Belly

Spoiler

B: Jolly Rancher

I think they've had a Jolly Rancher question before. Man, I loved those things -- green apple, cinnamon fire -- and it took all day to eat one.

$5000 :
Which country boasts its very own Carpet Museum with an exterior designed to look like a loom?
A: Sweden B: Brazil
C: Iran D: Uganda

Spoiler

50/50 A: Sweden
C: Iran

ATA
A: 26%
C: 74%

C: Iran

50/50

7K: How could anybody not living under a rock during all the commotion last summer think that ebola, a virus, by the way, so not treatable with antibiotics at all, is easily treatable with anything?


Note to KP: Your chances when being treated in America are not "just fine". At least one of the victims here died. One of the others reportedly has eye problems, related to live ebola virus still housed in his eyes. Reportedly it doesn't get out so he's not contagious. That's what they're currently saying, anyway.


For the people treated here who did survive, we threw everything we had at them, including experimental stuff that you wouldn't give patients who weren't otherwise going to die.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:$2000 :
Impressively versatile, Frank Oz has provided the voices for Grover, Miss Piggy and which of these characters (but ask him to do the impression, do NOT)?
A: Bugs Bunny B: Shrek
C: Yoda D: Bart Simpson

Memo to the question writers:

Do the quote properly, or do not. There is no double negative.

ghostjmf wrote:Note to KP: Your chances when being treated in America are not "just fine". At least one of the victims here died. One of the others reportedly has eye problems, related to live ebola virus still housed in his eyes. Reportedly it doesn't get out so he's not contagious. That's what they're currently saying, anyway.

For the people treated here who did survive, we threw everything we had at them, including experimental stuff that you wouldn't give patients who weren't otherwise going to die.

Exactly. Perhaps it doesn't equate to "very treatable", but there are orders of magnitude of difference between the US and Africa, mainly because we had the resources.