WWTBAM Bored

Elle Rose
Jersey City, NJ

19-year-old college student who is obsessed with rapper 50 Cent on Twitter.
+1: college roommate Sasha


$500 :
The U.S. government warns consumers that the "bait and switch" tactic where catfish is passed off as grouper is a common form of what?
A: Spam scam B: Seafood fraud
C: Beefsteak blackmail D: Poultry Ponzi scheme


Elle said she has an idea but wants to be safe.

ATA

A:22% B: 69%
C: 4% D:5%

Spoiler

B: Seafood fraud

$1000 :
Using shopping carts as "sleds" and often-drunk humans as "dogs," in 2014 the organizers of what annual NYC race got a cease-and-desist order from Alaska?
A: The Idiotarod B: Wimble-dumb
C: Moronathon D: The Dipstick 500

50/50 & +1

Elle first used 50/50 which left A and D. She said D was one that she was not thinking of but now is thinking of it.
Then Sacha says she knows it is A.

Spoiler

A: The Idiotarod

$2000 :
Giving away its setting, the letters in the title of Gilbert and Sullivan's "H.M.S. Pinafore" can be rearranged to spell "Name for" what?
A: Plane B: Train
C: Ship D: Rocket

Spoiler

C: Ship

First break

$3000 :
A UPenn Wharton School study found that people perceive men as 13% stronger and an inch taller when they have a what?
A: Handlebar mustache B: Lip piercing
C: Shaved head D: Ponytail

Spoiler

Elle guessed A, Handlebar mustache and lost.

C: Shaved head

Elle announced as leaving with nothing, but has $1000 per the rules.

All lifelines gone by question two. Even counting the shuffle format, that's gotta be a record?

3K: This is a "popular answer is right one" as Q is phrased, so ATA

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Elle Rose
Jersey City, NJ

19-year-old college student who is obsessed with rapper 50 Cent on Twitter.
+1: college roommate Sasha

This was excruciatingly painful to watch and I can't help but wonder how she could have passed the qualifying test.

earendel wrote:

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Elle Rose
Jersey City, NJ

19-year-old college student who is obsessed with rapper 50 Cent on Twitter.
+1: college roommate Sasha

This was excruciatingly painful to watch and I can't help but wonder how she could have passed the qualifying test.

Coming at it from the other angle, she did pass the qualifying test, so Lord knows what happened to her here. Whether it be nerves, being starstruck, or whatever it was, her mind was definitely somewhere else.

The $3000 question was much too hard for that level. Her choice, however, was ridiculous.

So far, so good.

I'm trying to remember (from having taken so many) if someone could take the test for you in their mass-auditions; I think its possible that you & a friend could both take tests & then switch them before they're graded. I know they take your info on your questionnaire, & you're assigned a # at some point, but I believe you write it yourself on your test sheet. I think. Its been a while. So some friend much more likely to pass but less likely to be picked could write your # on their sheet & you write yours on theirs.

What isn't possible is that they pick people they really like the look of out of the crowd before the test & just automatically declare them to have passed; the #-ing system makes it sufficiently random for that not to work, unless they really do give "special #s" to the people they automatically love.

It is, however, entirely possible that they pick a few spectacularly low scorers out & declare them passers, just to get them into the interview. If one of those turns out to be someone they loved from their looks, & love even more after the interview, it could work.

What bugs me is that I haven't yet seen on air this year a co-passer at my last test who did get to a video interview. She was a local-productions actress who had been on J!. She fit all their criteria for "feisty, interesting older woman". Well, they're not done with new eps for the year yet, I don't think?