PT-WWTBAM Transcript 08/10/09 John Zimcosky

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Fastest Finger

Put these popular Web sites in the order they launched, starting with the earliest.
A. Hulu
B. Google
C. Facebook
D. eBay

Spoiler

DBCA

Fred Roberts
Melissa Mayer – 5.15s
Dan Green
Karl Allis – 5.06s
Bobbie Laguio – 6.99s
Jeff Birt
Ron Geltz – 6.05s
Gabrielle McMahan – 7.83s
John Zimcosky – 4.92s


John Zimcosky
Chicago, IL
Financial Analyst

John is 24 years old.
John qualified via the phone game.
He learned the phone game was starting from his mother.
John says he didn’t get all five questions right until day ten, the final day, of the call in period.

Regis: On day ten huh? Wow, it took you that long. Well you were patient .

Topic Tree:

Special Delivery
Amella Earhart
Gimme Your Digits
Brave New Words
Long Strange Trip
Exotic Cuisine
Rock Writing
Online Shopping
Common Ground
Diver Down
The Dickens
The Graduate
What a Joke!
Look It Up
Total Meltdown

$100 Cash4Gold is a business that pays consumers primarily for their unwanted what?
A. Clothing
B. Jewelry
C. Cars
D. ABBA records

Spoiler

B. Jewelry (7)

$200 In Roget’s Thesaurus, what literary character’s name is a synonym for the word “detective”?
A. Huckleberry Finn
B. Anna Karenina
C. Sherlock Holmes
D. Lolita

Spoiler

C. Sherlock Holmes (9)

$300 What is the punch line to the old joke that asks, “What did the nut say when it sneezed?”
A. “Cashew!”
B. “Almond!”
C. “Pecan!”
D. “Walnut!”

Spoiler

A. “Cashew!” (7)

$500 What famous world leader graduated from the University of Havana in 1950?
A. Nelson Mandela
B. Mikhail Gorbachev
C. Kim Jong-Il
D. Fidel Castro

Spoiler

D. Fidel Castro (7)

$1K Which of these Charles Dickens novels shares its title with a popular book about pregnancy and childbirth?
A. A Tale of Two Cities
B. David Copperfield
C. Great Expectations
D. Nicholas Nickleby

Spoiler

C. Great Expectations (4)

commercial break

John’s mother, Laurie, is in the relationship seat.
Regis tells John he has a young-looking mom.
He then asks John if they did anything when they arrived in New York.
John says the first thing on their list was to see the Naked Cowboy.

Regis: Let me get this straight. You took your mother. Your sainted mother to go see the Naked Cowboy?
Well, what did you think of the Naked Cowboy mom?

Laurie: He’s hot.

$2K In standard scuba diving hand signals, a slashing gesture at the throat communicates what?
A. Stay at this depth
B. Where is the boat?
C. Follow me
D. I’m out of air

Spoiler

D. I’m out of air (16)

$4K Though they are very different, the movies “Spider-Man” and “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” both feature what movie cliché?
A. Weepy deathbed scene
B. Kiss in the rain
C. High-speed car chase
D. Mustachioed bad guy

Spoiler

B. Kiss in the rain (7)

$8K Fittingly, the online retailer Zappos adapted its name form “zapatos,” the Spanish word for what?
A. Toys
B. Cookware
C. Flowers
D. Shoes

Spoiler

D. Shoes (19)

$16K In 2007, Rolling Stone magazine wrote “Hip-hop was peanut butter; rock was chocolate” in reference to a 1986 remake of what song?
A. Sweet Home Alabama
B. Like a Virgin
C. Walk This Way
D. Thriller

ATA ( 18 )

14% A. Sweet Home Alabama
9% B. Like a Virgin
70% C. Walk This Way
7% D. Thriller

Spoiler

C. Walk This Way (12)

$25K Tagine, which refers both to a cone-shaped covered pot and to the food prepared in it, is traditional in the cuisine of which of these countries?
A. India
B. Turkey
C. Indonesia
D. Morocco

ATE (10)

George: Oh, I know it.

John: Have you heard of this?

George: Yeah. I know what it is. You want me to tell you?

John: Yeah, of course. ‘Cause I don’t know.

Regis: Unless you want a piece of the pie George.

George: I'm pretty sure it is D. Morocco.

Spoiler

D. Morocco (9)

John will return on tomorrow’s show.

commercial break

Answers:

FF – DBCA
$100 B. Jewelry
$200 C. Sherlock Holmes
$300 A. “Cashew!”
$500 D. Fidel Castro
$1K C. Great Expectations
$2K D. I’m out of air
$4K B. Kiss in the rain
$8K D. Shoes
$16K C. Walk This Way
$25K D. Morocco

[etaoin22]

Shoes walk this way ?

[MarleysGh0st]

Here's an article about John's appearance.

http://www.mlive.com/news/bay-city/inde ... makes.html

No new info in the article we don't already have in the transcript.

[NellyLunatic1980]

John Zimcosky
Chicago, IL
Financial Analyst

John is 24 years old.
John qualified via the phone game.
He learned the phone game was starting from his mother.
John says he didn’t get all five questions right until day ten, the final day, of the call in period.

Regis: On day ten huh? Wow, it took you that long. Well you were patient .

<sigh>®...

$25K: I see a tagine all of the time on Food Network... but I don't know the country of origin. Since you can get any ethnicity of cuisine in NYC, I will ask the audience.

[Jeemie]

$8K Fittingly, the online retailer Zappos adapted its name form “zapatos,” the Spanish word for what?

Are they hiring J! question-writers for BAM now?

This is one of several questions I've seen where clues to the answer are to be found in the question.

If you can remember anything about the songs in the $16K question, that question ALSO contains a clue to the answer within the question.

[Jeemie]

John Zimcosky
Chicago, IL
Financial Analyst

John is 24 years old.
John qualified via the phone game.
He learned the phone game was starting from his mother.
John says he didn’t get all five questions right until day ten, the final day, of the call in period.

Regis: On day ten huh? Wow, it took you that long. Well you were patient .

<sigh>®...

$25K: I see a tagine all of the time on Food Network... but I don't know the country of origin. Since you can get any ethnicity of cuisine in NYC, I will ask the audience.

I had no clue- but my wife pulled my old "I don't know why I know this, but I do" trick last night- she said it was Morocco, but couldn't remember why she knew it.

[Jeemie]

ATA on $25K (with ATE if I didn't get a good readout)- no problems otherwise.

Of course, I never would have seen this stack- I forgot how old EBay was- I could have sworn Google was older.

[hanzz]

I porbably would have risked it and said Morocco. Tagine sounds like Tangier, and cone-shaped reminds me the cone-shaped Fez hats.

[Lackadaisical Stumblebum]

A Vh1 watcher would have a leg up. Everytime they talk about Walk this Way, they show a clip of Joe Perry talking about it being the first time anybody had mixed chocolate with peanut butter.

I knew tagine for the most stupidest reason ever.... There is a game on Pogo that I love called Penguin Blocks. An antarctic chef goes around the world learning to make dishes using various types of fish. He went to Morocco to learn to make Seafood Tagine.

On the whole, these questions seemed a lot easier. I would take knowing what kind of store Zappo's is or knowing that zapato is Spanish for shoe over a Seinfeld episode that you either saw or you didn't (I didn't) any day of the week.

[Jeemie]

I would take knowing what kind of store Zappo's is or knowing that zapato is Spanish for shoe over a Seinfeld episode that you either saw or you didn't (I didn't) any day of the week.

And it also had the J!-like "fittingly" clue in it as well!

[wintergreen48]

I would take knowing what kind of store Zappo's is or knowing that zapato is Spanish for shoe over a Seinfeld episode that you either saw or you didn't (I didn't) any day of the week.

And it also had the J!-like "fittingly" clue in it as well!

And of course one hopes that one's shoes are 'fitting,' after all, which makes it a triple clue.

[Jeemie]

I porbably would have risked it and said Morocco. Tagine sounds like Tangier, and cone-shaped reminds me the cone-shaped Fez hats.

Nice example of using logic to get to the correct answer even if the logic is specious!

Here is a fez (not really cone-shaped):



Here is a tagine:

[Estonut]

$8K Fittingly, the online retailer Zappos adapted its name form “zapatos,” the Spanish word for what?

Are they hiring J! question-writers for BAM now?

This is one of several questions I've seen where clues to the answer are to be found in the question.

They use "fittingly" fairly often. At least 27 times since 12/2007. I don't believe that was a "secret" clue, just coincidence.

[frogman042]

I guessed Morroco before the choices because that dish was in 'The Man Who Knew Too Much' the remake with Jimmy Stuart and Doris Day.

[ghostjmf]

I got the FF, & rapidly too.

8K: Vaguely thought of the right answer, but would have ATAed.

16K: No hope in hell. Even being given the answer doesn't explain the clue, which I'd guess involves the lyrics, which I do not know. Googler time.

25K: This has been one of my dream questions. I actually thought if it ever appeared it would be worth more. Morrocan food is that popular here nowadays?

[Appa23]

16K: No hope in hell. Even being given the answer doesn't explain the clue, which I'd guess involves the lyrics, which I do not know. Googler time.

"Walk This Way" was an Aerosmith song. Run DMC covered it, and they brought in Aerosmith to collaborate. Aerosmith is a rcok band. Run DMC were rappers (well, two MC's and a DJ). The song fused rock and rap.

As for the PB and chocolate -- there was a very famous commercial: "You got your chocolate in my peanut butter"; "You got your peanut butter on my chocolate". "Two great tastes that taste great together."

(I can't believe that it has been two decades since that song was huge. Now,I feel old. )

[ghostjmf]

Appa says: (history of the song & the chocolate/peanut butter refs, which prove to be completely independent of each other)

Well, I remember the story of the song, though still not the song. If the Q had been "what hard rock song was brought back with a rap version incorporated in it" I still would not have known the song title, but would have remembered Aerosmith as the rock group. Maybe that could have helped me somehow. Such as, if a PAF was able to bring up Aerosmith connected to the right song title.

But I'd have thought that chocolate/peanut butter reference was important, whereas, unless you remember the commercial (I honestly don't) or memorize Rolling Stone articles (not me, not for a long long time) it was extraneous junk thrown in to confuse.

Well, you could, working backwards, guess that the rap band was meant to be "chocolate" & the rock band "peanut butter". Working backwards.

I was still hoping for "the peanut butter & chocolate hit song lyrics", which is not to be.

[Estonut]

But I'd have thought that chocolate/peanut butter reference was important, whereas, unless you remember the commercial (I honestly don't) or memorize Rolling Stone articles (not me, not for a long long time) it was extraneous junk thrown in to confuse.

Without the "extraneous junk thrown in to confuse," one wouldn't know that the remake in question was a mixture of rock and hip-hop. That is what set it apart from tens of thousands of previous remakes. It was not necessary to remember the commercial nor to be a reader of Rolling Stone...

[ghostjmf]

Estonut says:

Without the "extraneous junk thrown in to confuse," one wouldn't know that the remake in question was a mixture of rock and hip-hop. That is what set it apart from tens of thousands of previous remakes. It was not necessary to remember the commercial nor to be a reader of Rolling Stone...

And have the other 3 been remade into hits, by anyone except Weird Al, that is? If not, I'd focus in on the new hit being a remake at all, not the style or styles it was in. Like I said, I knew about Aerosmith having a song of theirs covered with their song sampled in it; the other junk truly did confuse & distract me.

[Jeemie]

Estonut says:

Without the "extraneous junk thrown in to confuse," one wouldn't know that the remake in question was a mixture of rock and hip-hop. That is what set it apart from tens of thousands of previous remakes. It was not necessary to remember the commercial nor to be a reader of Rolling Stone...

And have the other 3 been remade into hits, by anyone except Weird Al, that is? If not, I'd focus in on the new hit being a remake at all, not the style or styles it was in. Like I said, I knew about Aerosmith having a song of theirs covered with their song sampled in it; the other junk truly did confuse & distract me.

That it confused you in no ways means it was "extraneous junk".