Transcript 03/14/16 Dave Bykowski (Carryover contestant)

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Dave Bykowski
Edgewater, MD

$30K Along with acknowledging his writing and singing, the liner notes for the album “Bad” credit Michael Jackson with “Finger Snaps” on what 1987 hit?
A. Dirty Diana
B. The Way You Make Me Feel
C. Man in the Mirror
D. Smooth Criminal

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Dave and Steve talk things over.
Dave decides to use his 50/50.

50/50

50/50 leaves

B. The Way You Make Me Feel
D. Smooth Criminal

Spoiler

B. The Way You Make Me Feel

$50K According to the most recent census data, three of the ten most populous U.S. cities are named after what?
A. Generals
B. Presidents
C. Saints
D. European cities

Spoiler

C. Saints

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$100K Which famous American’s obituary appeared in the first issue of the New York Times in 1851?
A. Walt Whitman
B. P.T. Barnum
C. Carrie Nation
D. James Fenimore Cooper

Dave makes

Spoiler

Walt Whitman

his final answer.

Spoiler

D. James Fenimore Cooper
Dave leaves with $50K

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[earendel]

Dave Bykowski
Edgewater, MD

I don't know how I would have done up to this point, but these three questions would not have been difficult.

[SportsFan68]

$50K According to the most recent census data, three of the ten most populous U.S. cities are named after what?
A. Generals
B. Presidents
C. Saints -- San Francisco, San Antonio
D. European cities -- New York

Spoiler

C. Saints

OK, lessee ... Los Angeles, Chicago, Philadelphia, Houston, Dallas, Phoenix, none of the above. Ugh, I'm up to nine. OK, saints it is -- I got two of those

Now to go look it up . .. Ugh. I lucked out. Shoulda been San Jose versus San Francisco, and add San Diego.

$100K Which famous American’s obituary appeared in the first issue of the New York Times in 1851?
A. Walt Whitman
B. P.T. Barnum
C. Carrie Nation
D. James Fenimore Cooper

Dave makes

Spoiler

Walt Whitman

his final answer.

Spoiler

D. James Fenimore Cooper
Dave leaves with $50K

Free guess -- I'll guess Walt Whitman.

And Sayonara.

[ghostjmf]

30K: I only know Man in Mirror. Don't even know other songs. I'd throw whatever lifelines I have left at it, & probably go out here.

50K: If still alive there's chance I could have got this.

100K: Whitman wrote famous poem about Lincoln (When Lilacs...) after Lincoln's death. That's after 1851.

Carrie Nation's movement was in early 1900s, culminating in prohibition.

Think Barnum later too.

Might have got this.

[MarleysGh0st]

$50K According to the most recent census data, three of the ten most populous U.S. cities are named after what?
A. Generals
B. Presidents
C. Saints
D. European cities

Spoiler

C. Saints

Curious that they didn't include Los Angeles in the count, given its historical name, as I'm quoting from Wikipedia.

In 1771, Franciscan friar Junípero Serra directed the building of the Mission San Gabriel Arcángel, the first mission in the area. On September 4, 1781, a group of forty-four settlers known as "Los Pobladores" founded the pueblo called "El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora la Reina de los Ángeles del Río de Porciúncula"; in English it is "The Town of Our Lady the Queen of the Angels of the Porciúncula River". The Queen of the Angels is an honorific of the Virgin Mary.

And she's a saint.