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BUCKET WEEK final day.

Mark Pagliarulo
Salem, MA

Mark fell in love with video games at age 7 and wants to have his own private arcade. He grew up north of Boston in a beach town with lots of arcades, mechanical games and early video games. He wants a building for his own. Mark has reached the $5,000 plateau and has his ATA and +1 lifelines remaining.

$7000: Like Nik Wallenda did on his trek across the Grand Canyon, tightrope walkers will often carry a long pole to lower their what?
A - center of gravity
B - terminal velocity
C - heart rate
D - wind resistance

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Answer: A (center of gravity)

$10,000: Granted in 1876, the UK's first registered trademark, featuring a single triangle, belongs to whom?
A - Barclay's
B - British Petroleum
C - Bass Ale
D - Bunberry

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Answer: C (Bass Ale)

$20,000: With a plot that hinges on a fight about water, what classic LA film did Marketwatch recently call "perhaps more timely than ever"?
A - Rebel Without a Cause
B - The Graduate
C - Valley of the Dolls
D - Chinatown

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Answer: D (Chinatown)

$30,000: The word "scavenger" comes from an Old English term used to refer to what occupation?
A - tax collector
B - lawyer
C - gravedigger
D - bounty hunter

Mark says he's going to put his trust in the audience.

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Ask the Audience results:
A - 26%
B - 3%
C - 46%
D - 25%

Mark thinks that's a pretty good indicator but he thinks he's seen this question before and the answer was

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bounty hunter

. He calls for his +1, his wife Eileen. She notes that

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"C is digging a grave, not robbing it"

. He's not sure so he decides to walk away.

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Answer: A (tax collector)

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BBTranscriptTeam wrote:BUCKET WEEK final day.

Mark Pagliarulo
Salem, MA

Mark fell in love with video games at age 7 and wants to have his own private arcade. He grew up north of Boston in a beach town with lots of arcades, mechanical games and early video games. He wants a building for his own. Mark has reached the $5,000 plateau and has his ATA and +1 lifelines remaining.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:$10,000: Granted in 1876, the UK's first registered trademark, featuring a single triangle, belongs to whom?
A - Barclay's
B - British Petroleum
C - Bass Ale
D - Bunberry

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Answer: C (Bass Ale)

I know it's not BP but that's all I can rule out, so I'll try my 50:50 and hope that B is one of the remaining answers.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:$30,000: The word "scavenger" comes from an Old English term used to refer to what occupation?
A - tax collector
B - lawyer
C - gravedigger
D - bounty hunter

Mark says he's going to put his trust in the audience.

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Ask the Audience results:
A - 26%
B - 3%
C - 46%
D - 25%

Mark thinks that's a pretty good indicator but he thinks he's seen this question before and the answer was

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bounty hunter

. He calls for his +1, his wife Eileen. She notes that

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C is digging a grave, not robbing it"

. He's not sure so he decides to walk away.

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Answer: A (tax collector)

I associate the word "scavenger" with someone picking through junk to find a treasure. So it's not "lawyer" and it's not "bounty hunter". I agree with Eileen that "gravedigger" is not "grave robber", so I go with A.

10K: Think I've seen triangle on Bass. 50/50 to be surer.

30K: Pick A as best of all bad choices, to me.

Let's pretend it's so far, so good.

$10,000: Granted in 1876, the UK's first registered trademark, featuring a single triangle, belongs to whom?
A - Barclay's
B - British Petroleum
C - Bass Ale
D - Bunberry

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Answer: C (Bass Ale)

Absolutely no idea. ATA and pray.

going through my head is the Robert Burns song

"the de'l's awa, the de'l's awa, the de'l's awa the excise man"

pronounced "ex-cise" in the pattern of the song.

Its in Broad Scots; in English it would be

"The devil's away with the excise man"

Even in folksong its never been "scavenger".