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More Geo Trouble Today
Posted: Thu Apr 24, 2008 6:32 am
by themanintheseersuckersuit
One contestant on today's show is a young beautiful American woman. I was pulling for her. As it happens she is also has Southeast Asian roots. And then she got a Southeast Asia geography question and it doesn't go well. Sort of like me getting a question on Scotland and muffing it.
Oh and you get a see another contestant walking with $2K
Posted: Thu Apr 24, 2008 6:43 am
by OhTheHumanity
It looks like I'm about to make a crash landing in the studio!
Look out below!
Re: More Geo Trouble Today
Posted: Thu Apr 24, 2008 6:55 am
by kusch
themanintheseersuckersuit wrote:One contestant on today's show is a young beautiful American woman. I was pulling for her. As it happens she is also has Southeast Asian roots. And then she got a Southeast Asia geography question and it doesn't go well. Sort of like me getting a question on Scotland and muffing it.
Oh and you get a see another contestant walking with $2K
I usually (98%) have no problem with a contestant missing an easy question either because they do not know or hotseatitis or whatever (muffing), it happens.
2nd spoiler--that is just plain wrong.
Posted: Thu Apr 24, 2008 7:35 am
by kayrharris
The geo question was easily googled. I put in "landlocked Southeast Asian country" and the answer was on the first hit. PAF's either need maps or computers. Looks like it wouldn't hurt for future potential contestants to brush up on their geography either!
Posted: Thu Apr 24, 2008 7:50 am
by gsabc
kayrharris wrote:The geo question was easily googled. I put in "landlocked Southeast Asian country" and the answer was on the first hit. PAF's either need maps or computers. Looks like it wouldn't hurt for future potential contestants to brush up on their geography either!
This is a question from the Capcom game on my phone. Nice to know I'm studying while playing it.
Re: More Geo Trouble Today
Posted: Thu Apr 24, 2008 9:41 am
by tanstaafl2
themanintheseersuckersuit wrote:One contestant on today's show is a young beautiful American woman. I was pulling for her. As it happens she is also has Southeast Asian roots. And then she got a Southeast Asia geography question and it doesn't go well. Sort of like me getting a question on Scotland and muffing it.
Depending on how far removed she is from her Asian roots it isn't that surprising. The more "American" you become, the more of a geo nit-wit you become or so it seems. Youth, unless one is a Geography Bee nerd, tends to correspond to geo nit-witism as well. So "young" and "American", regardless of how attractive she may be, didn't bode well for her chances...
themanintheseersuckersuit wrote:
Oh and you get a see another contestant walking with $2K
No, fortunately I don't...
Re: More Geo Trouble Today
Posted: Thu Apr 24, 2008 10:25 am
by Appa23
themanintheseersuckersuit wrote:One contestant on today's show is a young beautiful American woman. I was pulling for her. As it happens she is also has Southeast Asian roots. And then she got a Southeast Asia geography question and it doesn't go well. Sort of like me getting a question on Scotland and muffing it.
I'm curious. Did she say that she had Southeast Asia heritage, but not state an ethnicity/nationality?
Re: More Geo Trouble Today
Posted: Thu Apr 24, 2008 10:57 am
by themanintheseersuckersuit
Appa23 wrote:
I'm curious. Did she say that she had Southeast Asia heritage, but not state an ethnicity/nationality?
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I don't listen to the chatter that close, she is obviously Asian in her features and her last name was Nguyen. She is as American as me.
Posted: Thu Apr 24, 2008 8:50 pm
by gotribego26
gsabc wrote:kayrharris wrote:The geo question was easily googled. I put in "landlocked Southeast Asian country" and the answer was on the first hit. PAF's either need maps or computers. Looks like it wouldn't hurt for future potential contestants to brush up on their geography either!
This is a question from the Capcom game on my phone. Nice to know I'm studying while playing it.
Or you can be a fan of Hank Hill
Hank: (meeting Khan) So are you Chinese or Japanese?
Khan: No, we are Laotian.
Bill: The ocean? What ocean?
Khan: From Laos, stupid! It's a landlocked country in South East Asia between Vietnam and Thailand, population approximately 4.7 million!
Hank: (after a few seconds of silence) So are you Chinese or Japanese?
Kahn: D'oh