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Blake Baird
Olympia, WA


$500 :
Accounting for roughly 7 million copies sold, a Bill O'Reilly book series about assassination plots includes all but which of these titles?
A: Killing Lincoln B: Killing Reagan
C: Killing Kennedy D: Killing Bieber

Spoiler

D: Killing Bieber

$1000 :
Recalling a time before cutting and pasting were keyboard functions, Smithsonian.com has compared what 19th century activity to the website Pinterest?
A: Antiquing B: Quilting
C: Scrapbooking D: Butter churning

Spoiler

C: Scrapbooking

$2000 :
The titles of both Kaiser and Tsar derived from the name of what man, once synonymous with absolute power?
A: Genghis Khan B: Julius Caesar
C: Jesus Christ D: Napoleon

Spoiler

B: Julius Caesar

$3000 :
One of the more unusual workplace hazards, Scientific American says that bricklayers can temporarily lose which of the following?
A: Their eyelashes B: Their fingerprints
C: Their appendixes D: Their sense of smell

Spoiler

B: Their fingerprints

$5000 :
What instrument played by Julie Andrews in "The Sound of Music" was recently put up for auction, selling for a whopping $168,000?
A: Violin B: Drum
C: Guitar D: Piano

+1

+1 Yasuhiro Muraki said he knows it, guitar

Blake said he is glad he did not go with his gut.

Spoiler

C: Guitar

Last break

QotD:
What punnily-named restaurant serves Vietnamese-style noodle soup in Renton, WA?
A: Pita Pan B: The Codfather
C: Pho Sizzle D: Bread Zeppelin

Spoiler

C: Pho Sizzle

$7000 :
Gare du Nord is not only Paris'- but also Europe's- busiest what?
A: Airport B: Shopping mall
C: Railway station D: Freeway

50/50

50/50: C & D

Blake said he first thought of Nordstrom shopping mall but that is not based in Paris.

Spoiler

C: Railway station

Blake will return tomorrow

1K: Despite my fondness for butter churning...

5K: weirdly enough, I just watched a little of SOM on TV. Which had that scene where, finding out the hard way that the kids had put a frog in her pocket, Maria drops her guitar down the stairs.

7K: if airport I'd have heard of it. Guess shopping center. Hope use 50/50 & get same results as contestant.

$3000 :
One of the more unusual workplace hazards, Scientific American says that bricklayers can temporarily lose which of the following?
A: Their eyelashes B: Their fingerprints
C: Their appendixes D: Their sense of smell

Spoiler

B: Their fingerprints

My grandmother lost her fingerprints early, and it looks like I'm going to as well.

$7000 :
Gare du Nord is not only Paris'- but also Europe's- busiest what?
A: Airport B: Shopping mall
C: Railway station D: Freeway

50/50

50/50: C & D

Blake said he first thought of Nordstrom shopping mall but that is not based in Paris.

Spoiler

C: Railway station

Finally, a 50/50 that was some good.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Blake Baird
Olympia, WA

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:$7000 :
Gare du Nord is not only Paris'- but also Europe's- busiest what?
A: Airport B: Shopping mall
C: Railway station D: Freeway

50/50

50/50: C & D

Blake said he first thought of Nordstrom shopping mall but that is not based in Paris.

Spoiler

C: Railway station

When I was on temporary duty in Germany elwing and I took a weekend trip, riding Eurail from Wiesbaden to Paris and then to Brussels and Amsterdam. Our train stopped at Gare du Nord.