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Transcript 01/25/16 Neil Davis (carryover contestant)
Posted: Mon Jan 25, 2016 6:39 pm
by BBTranscriptTeam
Neil Davis
Falls Church, VA
Neil still has his ATA.
$7K In 2006, the U.S. government ended a federal tax on long-distance phone calls that had originally been imposed to help fund what war just over a century earlier?
A. World War I
B. Civil War
C. Spanish-American War
D. Mexican-American War
C. Spanish-American War
$10K Though one’s in California and one’s in Florida, both Disneyland and Disney World lie in counties with what name?
A. Riverside County
B. Lake County
C. Highlands County
D. Orange County
D. Orange County
$20K Up until their death, who signed nearly all their tweets with “LLAP”?
A. Joan Rivers
B. Maya Angelou
C. Robin Williams
D. Leonard Nimoy
D. Leonard Nimoy
$30K While in the dugout, Babe Ruth was known to keep cool by lining the inside of his hat with chilled what?
A. Bologna slices
B. Cabbage leaves
C. Lasagna sheets
D. Corn tortillas
B. Cabbage leaves
$50K Referring to a weapon that was widely used in the 16th century, the phrase “hoist by your own petard” literally means which of the following?
A. Stabbed by your own sword
B. Shot by your own gun
C. Launched by your own catapult
D. Blown up by your own bomb
Neil says this would be in the 1500s, so he believes that would rule out guns and bombs
He says that swords
He decides to take a chance and makes launched by your own catapult
D. Blown up by your own bomb
Neil leaves with $5K
Re: Transcript 01/25/16 Neil Davis (carryover contestant)
Posted: Mon Jan 25, 2016 8:22 pm
by MarleysGh0st
So much for 10 years and 25,000 practice trivia questions...
Re: Transcript 01/25/16 Neil Davis (carryover contestant)
Posted: Mon Jan 25, 2016 10:45 pm
by SportsFan68
$50K Referring to a weapon that was widely used in the 16th century, the phrase “hoist by your own petard” literally means which of the following?
A. Stabbed by your own sword
B. Shot by your own gun
C. Launched by your own catapult
D. Blown up by your own bomb
Neil says this would be in the 1500s, so he believes that would rule out guns and bombs
He says that swords
He decides to take a chance and makes launched by your own catapult
D. Blown up by your own bomb
Neil leaves with $5K
How I knew this one is boring, but I'm gonna tell anyway. A million years ago, I used to read just about anything that came along, and I read a book called Wonderful, Colorado. It was very cute and was actually about Salida, CO which is across the Great Divide. I tried to find it not long ago but there was no record of it anywhere. Anyway, one of the characters in the book commits a small blunder and says, "Hoist by my own petard!" So I can see where C. came from. I looked up petard, and it turns out, IIRC, that a petard is a small, incendiary bomb launched by pirates onto the deck of a victim ship where it would set the victim ship on fire and terrify the sailors. "Hoist the petard!" -- isn't that from some famous pirate movie? I don't know either . . .
Re: Transcript 01/25/16 Neil Davis (carryover contestant)
Posted: Tue Jan 26, 2016 1:02 am
by Estonut
SportsFan68 wrote:... which is across the Great Divide. I tried to find it not long ago but there was no record of it anywhere.
Re: Transcript 01/25/16 Neil Davis (carryover contestant)
Posted: Tue Jan 26, 2016 6:03 am
by earendel
BBTranscriptTeam wrote: Neil Davis
Falls Church, VA
Neil still has his ATA.
BBTranscriptTeam wrote:$30K While in the dugout, Babe Ruth was known to keep cool by lining the inside of his hat with chilled what?
A. Bologna slices
B. Cabbage leaves
C. Lasagna sheets
D. Corn tortillas
B. Cabbage leaves
I can eliminate C and D. If I still have it, I use my 50:50 and hope I'm not left with A and B.
Re: Transcript 01/25/16 Neil Davis (carryover contestant)
Posted: Tue Jan 26, 2016 8:59 am
by ghostjmf
So far so good
I don't claim to be scholar of the era but have read this answer various places
Re: Transcript 01/25/16 Neil Davis (carryover contestant)
Posted: Tue Jan 26, 2016 9:27 pm
by Estonut
earendel wrote:BBTranscriptTeam wrote:$30K While in the dugout, Babe Ruth was known to keep cool by lining the inside of his hat with chilled what?
A. Bologna slices
B. Cabbage leaves
C. Lasagna sheets
D. Corn tortillas
B. Cabbage leaves
I can eliminate C and D. If I still have it, I use my 50:50 and hope I'm not left with A and B.
A guy who binges on pre-game hot dogs is not going to waste bologna by lining his hat with it. Also, cabbage is a much more suitable shape and price for such use.
Re: Transcript 01/25/16 Neil Davis (carryover contestant)
Posted: Tue Jan 26, 2016 10:07 pm
by K.P.
Estonut wrote:earendel wrote:BBTranscriptTeam wrote:$30K While in the dugout, Babe Ruth was known to keep cool by lining the inside of his hat with chilled what?
A. Bologna slices
B. Cabbage leaves
C. Lasagna sheets
D. Corn tortillas
B. Cabbage leaves
I can eliminate C and D. If I still have it, I use my 50:50 and hope I'm not left with A and B.
A guy who binges on pre-game hot dogs is not going to waste bologna by lining his hat with it. Also, cabbage is a much more suitable shape and price for such use.
ISTR this question being in the Millionaire computer game. One of the distractor answers was "wet dollar bills," which I thought was a bit more clever.
Re: Transcript 01/25/16 Neil Davis (carryover contestant)
Posted: Wed Jan 27, 2016 9:44 pm
by SportsFan68
Estonut wrote:SportsFan68 wrote:... which is across the Great Divide. I tried to find it not long ago but there was no record of it anywhere.
By airplane!
