WWTBAM Bored

This is one of the few specialty weeks I really enjoy. 6ABC only showed the first ten minutes of today's episode, then switched to a Trump-Trudeau press conference. Sad! Hope they show the rest of it sometime tonight.

Meanwhile, the Millionaire FB page just posted an application for next year's Whiz Kids Week.

I watched as much of Whiz Kids Week as I could, though much of it was preempted by special news reports. Despite their average age of 13, the kids knew more than last week's Bachelor Fan Favorites. The questions were different too. Most of them were traditional trivia, with not many pop culture questions that the Bachelor contestants loved, and few WWOQs.

thought this was another Twitler story LOL

a1mamacat wrote:thought this was another Twitler story LOL

I thought it was another Trump/Russia story.

jarnon wrote:I watched as much of Whiz Kids Week as I could, though much of it was preempted by special news reports. Despite their average age of 13, the kids knew more than last week's Bachelor Fan Favorites. The questions were different too. Most of them were traditional trivia, with not many pop culture questions that the Bachelor contestants loved, and few WWOQs.

Totally agree. The questions were not dumbed down; the only real filter was to remove vapid pop culture references that 13 year olds wouldn't (shouldn't) have been exposed to. To nitpick just a little, it seems as if they were all coaxed (coached) to express their thinking process aloud and this resulted in overly long monologues going through why the other three answers were incorrect.

Bob Juch wrote:

a1mamacat wrote:thought this was another Twitler story LOL

I thought it was another Trump/Russia story.

What do you think she meant, genius?

Estonut wrote:

Bob Juch wrote:

a1mamacat wrote:thought this was another Twitler story LOL

I thought it was another Trump/Russia story.

What do you think she meant, genius?

I thought she was talking about the Russian hookers pissing on him.

bazodee wrote:To nitpick just a little, it seems as if they were all coaxed (coached) to express their thinking process aloud and this resulted in overly long monologues going through why the other three answers were incorrect.

Which is funny because when I was in the Green Room, we were discouraged from doing this on the first five. The example they gave: "If we ask you 'What cereal goes "snap, crackle, pop"?', don't tell us why it's not Cheerios."

I would like to congratulate the 4-5 people who were able to refrain from politicizing this subject and actually talk about WWTBAM.