Transcript 11/23/15 Holly Gray

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Holly Gray
Louisville, KY

$500 Blame it on your smartphone: according to the Huffington Post, all but which of the following are “things you can’t remember anymore thanks to technology?
A. How to give directions
B. How to tie your shoes
C. How to write a check
D. Phone numbers

Spoiler

B. How to tie your shoes

$1K Increased aerodynamic efficiency is commonly cited as a reason why many professional male cyclists do what?
A. Wear bras
B. Use blush
C. Shave their legs
D. Get hair extensions

Spoiler

C. Shave their legs

$2K “The Second Time Around,” “Is 35 the Magic Number?” and “Hot Tubs and Saunas” are all found in what health–related book’s table of contents?
A. Gray’s Anatomy
B. The Oxford Dictionary of Psychology
C. What to Expect When You’re Expecting
D. Acne for Dummies

Spoiler

C. What to Expect When You’re Expecting

commercial break

QOTD

Before indoor plumbing and widespread literacy, outhouse doors typically had cutouts of what shapes to distinguish the men’s from the women’s?
A. Suit & dress
B. Sun & moon
C. Sword & chalice
D. Stag & cow

Spoiler

B. Sun & moon

$3K Although it’s been in use since at least the 1970s, in 2006 Walmart tried unsuccessfully to claim it owned the rights to which of the following?
A. The letter “W”
B. The “&” symbol
C. The smiley face symbol
D. The phrase “Clean-up in aisle 7”

Spoiler

C. The smiley face symbol

$5K Sharing his name with Steve Carell’s character on “The Office,” who became Apple’s first CEO when Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak founded the company?
A. Jim Halpert
B. Dwight Schrute
C. Toby Flenderson
D. Michael Scott

Spoiler

D. Michael Scott

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Holly will return for tomorrow’s show.

[TheConfessor]

$500 Blame it on your smartphone: according to the Huffington Post, all but which of the following are “things you can’t remember anymore thanks to technology?
A. How to give directions
B. How to tie your shoes
C. How to write a check
D. Phone numbers

Spoiler

B. How to tie your shoes

I assume the correct answer is D, not B

Before indoor plumbing and widespread literacy, outhouse doors typically had cutouts of what shapes to distinguish the men’s from the women’s?
A. Suit & dress
B. Sun & moon
C. Sword & chalice
D. Stag & cow

Spoiler

B. Sun & moon

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I know B is what they want, but the sun and moon are both shaped like spheres, so they should have phrased this better.

[Beebs52]

But outhouses had crescent moons so I don't understand your comment.

[SportsFan68]

$5K Sharing his name with Steve Carell’s character on “The Office,” who became Apple’s first CEO when Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak founded the company?
A. Jim Halpert
B. Dwight Schrute
C. Toby Flenderson
D. Michael Scott

Spoiler

D. Michael Scott

ATA. I'm doomed if by some miracle I ever get on the show and I get more than one television question.

[pcmaxey]

$500 Blame it on your smartphone: according to the Huffington Post, all but which of the following are “things you can’t remember anymore thanks to technology?
A. How to give directions
B. How to tie your shoes
C. How to write a check
D. Phone numbers

Spoiler

B. How to tie your shoes

I assume the correct answer is D, not B

The correct answer is B. The question was "all but which of the following."

[Estonut]

$1K Increased aerodynamic efficiency is commonly cited as a reason why many professional male cyclists do what?
A. Wear bras
B. Use blush
C. Shave their legs
D. Get hair extensions

Spoiler

C. Shave their legs

Spoiler

Cited by who? Certainly not the cyclists themselves. They typically do it for one of 3 reasons:
• Easier to deal with road rash, both for cleaning the wounds and to allow bandaids or adhesive tape to adhere.
• No tugging of hairs during massage.
• Simply because it is a 100-year-old tradition.

[SportsFan68]

$1K Increased aerodynamic efficiency is commonly cited as a reason why many professional male cyclists do what?
A. Wear bras
B. Use blush
C. Shave their legs
D. Get hair extensions

Spoiler

C. Shave their legs

Spoiler

Cited by who? Certainly not the cyclists themselves. They typically do it for one of 3 reasons:
• Easier to deal with road rash, both for cleaning the wounds and to allow bandaids or adhesive tape to adhere.
• No tugging of hairs during massage.
• Simply because it is a 100-year-old tradition.

Yes, by the cyclists. I live in what tried to be the "Mountain Bike Capital of the World" until Moab beat us out of it with their kajillion miles of slickrock (which is very slick to horse hooves but very nonslick to bicycle and other tires) trails and more months of cycling weather. Anyway, the question was carefully phrased. Certainly that's not the only reason they do it, but it is indeed commonly cited.

[TheConfessor]

$500 Blame it on your smartphone: according to the Huffington Post, all but which of the following are “things you can’t remember anymore thanks to technology?
A. How to give directions
B. How to tie your shoes
C. How to write a check
D. Phone numbers

Spoiler

B. How to tie your shoes

I assume the correct answer is D, not B

The correct answer is B. The question was "all but which of the following."

Thanks, my bad. Sorrry for my reading comprehension lapse. I haven't forgotten how to give directions or write a check, but I know very few phone numbers off the top of my head, so I just assumed that's what it was asking for.

[MarleysGh0st]

$500 Blame it on your smartphone: according to the Huffington Post, all but which of the following are “things you can’t remember anymore thanks to technology?
A. How to give directions
B. How to tie your shoes
C. How to write a check
D. Phone numbers

Spoiler

B. How to tie your shoes

Hmmm, I wonder if "Blame it on your smartphone" was intended to be an essential part of of the question or just fluff? I could see B being one of those things you can't remember, at least for that portion of the population who wear sneakers with the technology of velcro.

Not that I'd actually change my answer based on that, but it'd be one of those things I'd like to comment on, in the entirely hypothetical situation where I was cast as a contestant.

[earendel]

Holly Gray
Louisville, KY

$500 Blame it on your smartphone: according to the Huffington Post, all but which of the following are “things you can’t remember anymore thanks to technology?
A. How to give directions
B. How to tie your shoes
C. How to write a check
D. Phone numbers

Spoiler

B. How to tie your shoes

If we ever get the automated shoes depicted in Back to the Future II, we won't need to remember how to tie our shoes either.

$5K Sharing his name with Steve Carell’s character on “The Office,” who became Apple’s first CEO when Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak founded the company?
A. Jim Halpert
B. Dwight Schrute
C. Toby Flenderson
D. Michael Scott

Spoiler

D. Michael Scott

Never watched "The Office". I'll have to ATA.