Transcript 01/25/16 Jane Wanninger

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Jane Wanninger
Nashville, TN

$500 Before changing its name in the 1920s, Kool-Aid was originally sold as what?
A. Fruit Smack
B. Vegetable Slam
C. Wheatgrass Whack
D. Beef Blast

Spoiler

A. Fruit Smack

$1K As the Wall Street Journal complained, what objects have been around for 3,000 years, “so why is it so hard to find a decent one”?
A. Drip coffee makers
B. Hair dryers
C. Umbrellas
D. Vacuum cleaners

Spoiler

C. Umbrellas

$2K From 1966-1968, which NFL team had a mascot named Flipper who would jump in his tank on the sidelines when they scored a touchdown?
A. Miami
B. Chicago
C. Seattle
D. Philadelphia

Spoiler

A. Miami

$3K At a recent concert in NYC, Billy Joel followed up his performance of what song, written for his first wife, by turning to the audience and saying “then we got divorced”?
A. New York State of Mind
B. Just the Way You Are
C. Captain Jack
D. Only the Good Die Young

Spoiler

B. Just the Way You Are

$5K Between the two of them, corporate giants Samsung and Hyundai reportedly make up about a third of which country’s entire GDP?
A. China
B. Singapore
C. South Korea
D. Indonesia

50/50

50/50 leaves

C. South Korea
D. Indonesia

Spoiler

C. South Korea

commercial break

QOTD

Defined by Merriam-Webster as something that serves to inflame, what word is also the name of a popular “dating” app?
A. Kindling
B. Fatwood
C. Tinder
D. Butane

Spoiler

C. Tinder

$7K According to the BBC, it takes about 3 hours longer to watch what recent three-part film series than it does to read the single book it’s based on?
A. The Hunger Games
B. Twilight
C. The Hobbit
D. Harry Potter

Spoiler

C. The Hobbit

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Jane will return for tomorrow’s show.

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Jane Wanninger
Nashville, TN

$7K According to the BBC, it takes about 3 hours longer to watch what recent three-part film series than it does to read the single book it’s based on?
A. The Hunger Games
B. Twilight
C. The Hobbit
D. Harry Potter

Spoiler

C. The Hobbit

Wait until the extended editions come out.

[ghostjmf]

So far so good

[SportsFan68]

$7K According to the BBC, it takes about 3 hours longer to watch what recent three-part film series than it does to read the single book it’s based on?
A. The Hunger Games
B. Twilight
C. The Hobbit
D. Harry Potter

Spoiler

C. The Hobbit

I had the first one on whilst I was doing something else, probably answering my E-mail or something, and I could not believe how far they stretched the first part of the book. I doubt I'll ever watch the other two, even the lame way I watched the first one.