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David Churella
Somerville, Mass.

David has a fear of loose buttons.

$500
After hundreds of players disrupted their stores, IKEA asked people to stop using the many nooks and crannies of its showrooms to play what game?
A: Red Rover B: Hide-and-Seek
C: Dodgeball D: Seven Minutes in Heaven

Answer

B: Hide-and-Seek

$1,000
A recent study of chimps in Uganda’s Kibale National Park found that more than 90 percent put safety first by looking both ways before doing what?
A: Talking to strangers B: Crossing the road
C: Using the stove D: Answering the door

Answer

B: Crossing the road

$2,000
With tracks including “Nine Lives” and “Fat Is Where It’s At,” the 1991 R&B album “Am I Cool or What?” was based on what comic strip?
A: Hägar the Horrible B: Dilbert
C: Blondie D: Garfield

Answer

D: Garfield

$3,000
TheKitchn.com says that a certain tool can be used to get cores out of apples or pits out of plums, in a piece entitled “In Praise of the” what?
A: Melon Baller B: Garlic Press
C: Corkscrew D: Potato Masher

Answer

David says C: Corkscrew.
The correct answer is A: Melon Baller.

Commercial break

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:$3,000
TheKitchn.com says that a certain tool can be used to get cores out of apples or pits out of plums, in a piece entitled “In Praise of the” what?
A: Melon Baller B: Garlic Press
C: Corkscrew D: Potato Masher

Answer

David says C: Corkscrew.
The correct answer is A: Melon Baller.

I suppose a melon baller could remove an apple core after the apple is cut open. I'd have answered corkscrew and gone down.

3K: I agree that Q has no good answer. Melon ballers do not have sharp edges needed for cutting apart apple. However, Q doesn't say "use this to cut fruit apart", just "use it to get pit/core out", so I'd have guessed melon baller.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:David Churella
Somerville, Mass.

David has a fear of loose buttons.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:$3,000
TheKitchn.com says that a certain tool can be used to get cores out of apples or pits out of plums, in a piece entitled “In Praise of the” what?
A: Melon Baller B: Garlic Press
C: Corkscrew D: Potato Masher

Answer

David says C: Corkscrew.
The correct answer is A: Melon Baller.

Ouch!

A corkscrew might get the core out of an apple, but I can't see it getting the pit out of a plum. Definitely a tough one, especially for Question 4.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:David has a fear of loose buttons.

Because TPTB chose to present that as David's hook, I took an instant disliking to him, and so I wasn't unhappy when he because a llama. That may be unfair to David, who--for all I know--might be a serious fan of the show who wanted a serious trivia challenge.

But you live (and get cast on the show) by TPTB's whims and you die by TPTB's $3,000 WWOQ.