Transcript 04/05/10 Tim McCauley (carryover from 3/26/10)

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Tim McCauley
South Bend, IN

Tim still has his DD.

Topic Tree:

The Eighties
Magazines
On the Books
The Civil War
Ode to Keats
(Freshly Squeezed)
(Magazines)
(Classic TV)
(States of the Union)
(CELEBRITY Q)
(Hit Songs)
(Fast Food)
(Training Day)
(Household Brands)
(Kid Lit)

$50K “Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness / Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun” is the opening of a John Keats poem with what title?
A. To Winter
B. To Spring
C. To Summer
D. To Autumn

DD (15)

Tim’s first choice “To Spring” is incorrect.
Tim’s second choice “To Summer” is also incorrect.

Spoiler

D. To Autumn (4)

Tim leaves with $25K.

Answers:
$50K To Autumn

[MarleysGh0st]

Dang. I wanted to see a $100K question about the Civil War.

[Kazoo65]

READ the question!!! I figured this one out from the words in the quote. You don't associate a "maturing sun" with spring or summer. Autumn/fall is sometimes rainy around here (especially in October/November.)

[drew scheeler]

Autumn mist anyone?

This is a great example where two of the answers are perfect distractors, namely the two he chose. What is more stereotypical than a poem about spring or summer? And those would be WWOQs around the $15K question .

[takinover]

I agree with Kazoo, I thought it was easy enough to get from reading the question.

[TheConfessor]

READ the question!!! I figured this one out from the words in the quote. You don't associate a "maturing sun" with spring or summer. Autumn/fall is sometimes rainy around here (especially in October/November.)

Keats was from Kalamazoo?

I don't think the word "maturing" necessarily implies autumn. Any living thing is either maturing or dying, and plants tend to start dying in autumn.

[NellyLunatic1980]

$50K “Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness / Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun” is the opening of a John Keats poem with what title?
A. To Winter
B. To Spring
C. To Summer
D. To Autumn

I don't remember what I would've had left in the way of lifelines for Tim's stack, but I know that I would've been out on this question. I probably would've done the same thing--Double Dipped on B and C.

[earendel]

Tim McCauley
South Bend, IN

Tim still has his DD.

$50K “Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness / Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun” is the opening of a John Keats poem with what title?
A. To Winter
B. To Spring
C. To Summer
D. To Autumn

DD (15)

Tim’s first choice “To Spring” is incorrect.
Tim’s second choice “To Summer” is also incorrect.

Spoiler

D. To Autumn (4)

Tim leaves with $25K.

I can't remember how I measured up against his stack, but assuming I still have the DD, I go with it and make B and D my final answers. My first thought was "spring", but "mellow fruitfulness" could also be autumn.