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Mike Obstgarten
Standardized-test coach
Henderson, NV

Mike has made a perfect score on the SAT several times and on the ACT once.

Mike’s Plus One is his friend Jeff.

$500 Which of the following is thought to be contagious, but generally not dangerous?
A. Pneumonia
B. Malaria
C. Black plague
D. Yawning

Spoiler

D. Yawning

$1K To keep them from accidentally shooting each other, most states either require or strongly encourage hunters to wear what kind of clothing?
A. Trendy
B. Secondhand
C. Orange
D. Skimpy

Spoiler

C. Orange

$2K Often used as a cleaning agent or a salad dressing ingredient, our word for which of the following comes from the French meaning “sour wine”?
A. Vinegar
B. Ammonia
C. Bleach
D. Windex

Spoiler

A. Vinegar

$3K Which Simpsons character shares his last name with a geographic region found in Belgium?
A. Chief Wiggum
B. Ned Flanders
C. Apu Nahasapeemapetilon
D. Mr. Burns

Spoiler

B. Ned Flanders

$5K Having endorsed Barack Obama twice, what ex-Bush administration official recently said that he will “continue to be a Republican because it annoys them”?
A. Colin Powell
B. Donald Rumsfeld
C. Dick Cheney
D. John Ashcroft

Spoiler

A. Colin Powell

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$7K The setting of the bestselling novel “Grey,” what city did Amazon.com name as America’s most well-read, based on 2015 and 2016 book sales?
A. New York
B. San Francisco
C. Philadelphia
D. Seattle

ATA

ATA results

27% A. New York
10% B. San Francisco
13% C. Philadelphia
50% D. Seattle

Spoiler

D. Seattle

$10K What unit of area was once defined as the amount of land that “could be plowed in one day with a yoke of oxen pulling a wooden plow”?
A. Mile
B. Plot
C. Acre
D. Furlong

Spoiler

C. Acre

$20K While its name is more often associated with luxury cars, what British company is one of the world’s largest makers of aircraft engines?
A. Rolls-Royce
B. Bentley
C. Jaguar
D. Aston Martin

+1

Jeff said before the answers came up, he was thinking

Spoiler

Bentley,

but after seeing

Spoiler

Rolls-Royce,

he is having doubts. He is stuck between the two.

50/50

50/50 leaves

A. Rolls-Royce
B. Bentley

Spoiler

A. Rolls-Royce

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Mike said he decided to go with

Spoiler

A. Rolls-Royce

because he thought he had more

Spoiler

“B” answers than “A”s

to the other questions. Usually on this type of test these things have a tendency to balance out.

$30K Made to enhance Jane Russell’s bust in his film “The Outlaw,” what director is often credited with inventing the underwire push-up bra?
A. Orson Welles
B. Howard Hughes
C. George Cukor
D. Alfred Hitchcock

Mike decides to walk.

Spoiler

B. Howard Hughes

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QOTD

The global event known as “Earth Hour” asks people around the planet to do what for sixty minutes?
A. Pray for world peace
B. Stop eating
C. Turn off their lights
D. Walk outside

Spoiler

C. Turn off their lights

7K: This is a flippin' Amazon survey. If it weren't a BAM Q, who would care. MIs this "Grey" as in "50 Shades"? Prolly. 50/50, & if Seattle still there, go for it.

I think you forgot to mention one important detail about the +1.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Mike Obstgarten
Standardized-test coach
Henderson, NV

Mike has made a perfect score on the SAT several times and on the ACT once.

Mike’s Plus One is his friend Jeff.

Nihil obstat®.

500: easy

1,000: easy

2,000: easy

3,000: easy

5,000: I know Powell's pretty liberal for a Republican, so i go with A.

7,000: The title makes me think of Grey's Anatomy, which takes place in Seattle, so I go with D.

10,000: I've heard acres used a lot in regards to farmland, so I go with C.

20,000: I have no idea on this, so 50/50 wouldn't help. A Vegas audience wouldn't know much about this. I use +1 and hope the person has some knowledge about British automakers. Assuming I get it right, I move on.

30,000: I know Hitchcock terrorized and objectified women on set, so I go out on a limb and say D. I end up going back to 5K.

Mike has made a perfect score on the SAT several times and on the ACT once.

Uh oh. He's doomed.

$1K To keep them from accidentally shooting each other, most states either require or strongly encourage hunters to wear what kind of clothing?
A. Trendy
B. Secondhand
C. Orange
D. Skimpy

Spoiler

C. Orange

BLAZE orange. It's not my color, but I wear it anyway.

$7K The setting of the bestselling novel “Grey,” what city did Amazon.com name as America’s most well-read, based on 2015 and 2016 book sales?
A. New York
B. San Francisco
C. Philadelphia
D. Seattle

ATA

ATA results

27% A. New York
10% B. San Francisco
13% C. Philadelphia
50% D. Seattle

Spoiler

D. Seattle

ATA