Transcript 1/10/08 Roland Dean

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Roland Dean
New York City
exuberant

100 - "Vote Republican" and "Vote Democrat" are the names of two Internet eCards designed for what holiday?

A New Year's Day
B Valentine's Day
C Election Day
D November Fool's Day

200 - A kitchen knife is featured in the logo of what reality TV show?

A American Idol
B Top Chef
C Dancing With the Stars
D Project Runway

300 - What U.S. state captured a Guinness world record in 2007 when 8,962 of its residents made snow angels in one place?

A North Dakota
B Arizona
C Florida
D Mississippi

500 - What sport is the subject of Abbott and Costello's classic comedy routine "Who's on First"?

A hockey
B baseball
C tennis
D golf

1K - What national organization publishes the monthly magazine "Car & Travel"?

A NRA
B ASPCA
C YMCA
D AAA

2K - Latin students commonly recite "amo, amas, amat" when memorizing the different forms of what verb?

A to love
B to have
C to go
D to be

4K - Just like its United States counterpart, the Cour supreme du Canada consists of how many total members?

A 5
B 7
C 9
D 11

8K - What illusionist and escape artist is the star of the popular TV series "Mindfreak"?

A David Blaine
B Penn Jillette
C Lance Burton
D Chriss Angel

16K - By definition, a ptochocracy is a type of government in which power rests with what people?

A the landowners
B the poor
C the monarchs
D the clergy

ATA
A 25
B 12
C 12
D 51

50/50 leaves B and C, and Meredith chastises the audience.

PAF is Roland's cousin Johnny. He chooses answer B with just enough time for Roland to ask how sure he is, and he says not very. Roland commits anyway, Meredith pulls a convincing fake-out, and he gets it right.

25K - Philosopher Soren Kierkegaard is regarded as the founder of what school of philosophy?

A existentialism
B rationalism
C positivism
D empiricism

Roland would have guessed answer A but he walks with 16K.












100 C Election Day
200 B Top Chef
300 A North Dakota
500 B baseball
1K D AAA
2K A to love
4K C 9
8K D Chriss Angel
16K B the poor
25K A existentialism

[Ritterskoop]

100 - "Vote Republican" and "Vote Democrat" are the names of two Internet eCards designed for what holiday?

A New Year's Day
B Valentine's Day
C Election Day
D November Fool's Day

Election Day is not a holiday. Maybe it should be, to encourage participation. But it's not. Not most places.

200 - A kitchen knife is featured in the logo of what reality TV show?

A American Idol
B Top Chef
C Dancing With the Stars
D Project Runway

None of these are reality shows. They are competitions.

500 - What sport is the subject of Abbott and Costello's classic comedy routine "Who's on First"?

I had to restrain myself from using two question marks on this question:

"Who's on First?"?

25K - Philosopher Soren Kierkegaard is regarded as the founder of what school of philosophy?

It is to chuckle.

[silverscreenselect]

Roland Dean
New York City
exuberant

16K - By definition, a ptochocracy is a type of government in which power rests with what people?

A the landowners
B the poor
C the monarchs
D the clergy

16K B the poor

Is it just me, but I've never heard of this term. I might have gotten it by a process of elimination, but it seems very tough for a 16K question.

[earendel]

Roland Dean
New York City
exuberant

"I love a parade..."

16K - By definition, a ptochocracy is a type of government in which power rests with what people?

A the landowners
B the poor
C the monarchs
D the clergy

ATA
A 25
B 12
C 12
D 51

50/50 leaves B and C, and Meredith chastises the audience.

PAF is Roland's cousin Johnny. He chooses answer B with just enough time for Roland to ask how sure he is, and he says not very. Roland commits anyway, Meredith pulls a convincing fake-out, and he gets it right.

My study of New Testament Greek would have paid off here - ptochos is the word used in Luke 4 where Jesus, quoting from Isaiah, says that he has come to preach good news to the poor (ptochoi).

25K - Philosopher Soren Kierkegaard is regarded as the founder of what school of philosophy?

A existentialism
B rationalism
C positivism
D empiricism

Roland would have guessed answer A but he walks with 16K.[/quote]

Too bad Roland didn't take that "leap of faith".

Nihil obstat® again.

[earendel]

Roland Dean
New York City
exuberant

16K - By definition, a ptochocracy is a type of government in which power rests with what people?

A the landowners
B the poor
C the monarchs
D the clergy

16K B the poor

Is it just me, but I've never heard of this term. I might have gotten it by a process of elimination, but it seems very tough for a 16K question.

It's not something you're likely to come across. It's one of those WWOQs designed to get the contestant to burn up all the lifelines before reaching the third tier.

[NellyLunatic1980]

Roland Dean
New York City

WE®

exuberant

Not the first word I had in mind. (NTTAWWT®...)

200 - A kitchen knife is featured in the logo of what reality TV show?

A American Idol
B Top Chef
C Dancing With the Stars
D Project Runway

If you're around Naomi Campbell, D could be acceptable...

Chalk up another nihil obstat® for me.

[ghostjmf]

8K: I didn't supposed it was Jillette, though he hosted something recently, & thought Blaine was more a "specials" kind of guy, but I really no nothing about this, & have never heard of the other 2. ATA

16K: I have no idea. I do not know this word. I can eliminate the 3 wrong answers, though, because even though I can't think of all their words, I know this is not one of them. Brrrr.

otherwise good