Transcript 9/27/11 John Kuczaj

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Double Your Money Week

John Kuczaj
Chicago, IL
Account Service Rep

Topic Tree:

10 Bewildering Bylines
9 Foreign Leaders
8 Cover Girl
7 Hard and Soft Drinks
6 The Old is New Again
5 Book Buying
4 Ancient Trends
3 Different Strokes
2 Winning Formulas
1 Party Time

Topic Tree: (randomized)

6 The Old is New Again
7 Hard and Soft Drinks
8 Cover Girl
9 Foreign Leaders
3 Different Strokes
2 Winning Formulas
5 Book Buying (Double Money)
1 Party Time
4 Ancient Trends
10 Bewildering Bylines

Question 1 – 10 Bewildering Bylines
What unusual twosome co-wrote an opinion piece in USA Today in 2011 about the need to eradicate dirty stoves in homes worldwide?
A. Angelina Jolie and Bob Dole
B. Sandra Bullock and Joe Biden
C. Julia Roberts and Hillary Clinton
D. Madonna and Colin Powell

JTQ 1

Spoiler

C. Julia Roberts and Hillary Clinton
$1K
Bank - $0

Question 2 – 4 Ancient Trends
Finding 57 of them preserved on a 5,300-year-old-mummy, scientists had to rethink the origins of what body decoration?
A. Tattoos
B. Bracelets
C. Piercings
D. Necklaces

JTQ 2

Spoiler

A. Tattoos
$3K
Bank - $0

Question 3 – 1 Party Time
A recent social trend, “dadchelor parties” are events thrown for men who are about to what?
A. Graduate from college
B. Buy a home
C. Have a baby
D. Retire from a job

Spoiler

C. Have a baby
$25K
Bank - $25K

commercial break

Question 4 – 5 Book Buying (Double Money)
Using an image from a classic children’s book, Barnes & Noble offers a gift card that shows a girl and her pig looking at a what?
A. Ant
B. Butterfly
C. Spider
D. Grasshopper

ATA

ATA results

1% A. Ant
9% B. Butterfly
87% C. Spider
3% D. Grasshopper

Spoiler

C. Spider
$100 doubles to $200
Bank - $25,200

Question 5 – 2 Winning Formulas
“All I had to do was keep turning left,” said George Robson about his 1946 victory in what sporting event?
A. Boston Marathon
B. Indianapolis 500
C. PGA Championship
D. Wimbledon

Spoiler

B. Indianapolis 500
$7K
Bank - $32,200

Question 6 – 3 Different Strokes
Due to his unusual painting technique, what artist earned the nickname “Jack the Dripper”?
A. Jackson Pollock
B. Salvador Dalí
C. Jasper Johns
D. Marcel Duchamp

Spoiler

A. Jackson Pollock
$15K
Bank - $47,200

Question 7 – 9 Foreign Leaders
In the 1950s and ‘60s, what Asian country had a president who was affectionately referred to by his citizens as “Uncle Ho”?
A. Japan
B. India
C. Vietnam
D. China

Spoiler

C. Vietnam
$500
Bank - $47,700

commercial break

Question 8 – 8 Cover Girl
What supermodel has appeared on the most covers of the annual Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue?
A. Elle Macpherson
B. Christie Brinkley
C. Kathy Ireland
D. Cheryl Tiegs

John makes

Spoiler

Kathy Ireland

his final answer.

Spoiler

A. Elle Macpherson
John leaves with $1K.

end of show noise

[MarleysGh0st]

John Kuczaj
Chicago, IL
Account Service Rep

John said he's wanted to be on Millionaire ever since it started in syndication. If this wasn't just a blatant attempt to brown-nose Meredith, I can't imagine why he wouldn't have wanted to be on the show while it was in primetime, but would want to appear on SyndieBAM. Was he afraid he'd win too much money with Regis?

Question 1 – 10 Bewildering Bylines
What unusual twosome co-wrote an opinion piece in USA Today in 2011 about the need to eradicate dirty stoves in homes worldwide?
A. Angelina Jolie and Bob Dole
B. Sandra Bullock and Joe Biden
C. Julia Roberts and Hillary Clinton
D. Madonna and Colin Powell

JTQ 1

Spoiler

C. Julia Roberts and Hillary Clinton
$1K
Bank - $0

Here's a link to the op-ed in question:

http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/fo ... oves_n.htm

Question 2 – 4 Ancient Trends
Finding 57 of them preserved on a 5,300-year-old-mummy, scientists had to rethink the origins of what body decoration?
A. Tattoos
B. Bracelets
C. Piercings
D. Necklaces

JTQ 2

Spoiler

A. Tattoos
$3K
Bank - $0

My hunch was that this question was about Ötzi the Iceman, and so it is.

Ötzi had several carbon tattoos including groups of short, parallel, vertical lines to both sides of the lumbar spine, a cruciform mark behind the right knee, and various marks around both ankles. Radiological examination of his bones showed "age-conditioned or strain-induced degeneration" in these areas, including osteochondrosis and slight spondylosis in the lumbar spine and wear-and-tear degeneration in the knee and especially the ankle joints.[19] It has been speculated that these tattoos may have been related to pain relief treatments similar to acupressure or acupuncture. If so, this is at least 2000 years before their previously known earliest use in China (c. 1000 BC).[20]

Question 7 – 9 Foreign Leaders
In the 1950s and ‘60s, what Asian country had a president who was affectionately referred to by his citizens as “Uncle Ho”?
A. Japan
B. India
C. Vietnam
D. China

Spoiler

C. Vietnam
$500
Bank - $47,700

That's the name of the country now, but technically he was only president of North Vietnam.

[JBillyGirl]

John Kuczaj
Chicago, IL
Account Service Rep

John said he's wanted to be on Millionaire ever since it started in syndication. If this wasn't just a blatant attempt to brown-nose Meredith, I can't imagine why he wouldn't have wanted to be on the show while it was in primetime, but would want to appear on SyndieBAM. Was he afraid he'd win too much money with Regis?

I don't know, but John is a friend of mine. I can ask him for you. Maybe he just didn't want to face the Fastest Finger round. There's no shame in that IMHO.

[chad1m]

John's blogging about his experience on his website. He's posted about his audition and the trip to New York and the prelude to taping.

[peacock2121]

John Kuczaj
Chicago, IL
Account Service Rep

John said he's wanted to be on Millionaire ever since it started in syndication. If this wasn't just a blatant attempt to brown-nose Meredith, I can't imagine why he wouldn't have wanted to be on the show while it was in primetime, but would want to appear on SyndieBAM. Was he afraid he'd win too much money with Regis?

I don't know, but John is a friend of mine. I can ask him for you. Maybe he just didn't want to face the Fastest Finger round. There's no shame in that IMHO.

I would imagine that many people might have thought that the phone game was too tedious and too left to chance to even think of trying and the odds were too great of wasting your time. Going to an audition seems so much more doable.

That's how it was for Sting.

[MarleysGh0st]

John said he's wanted to be on Millionaire ever since it started in syndication. If this wasn't just a blatant attempt to brown-nose Meredith, I can't imagine why he wouldn't have wanted to be on the show while it was in primetime, but would want to appear on SyndieBAM. Was he afraid he'd win too much money with Regis?

I don't know, but John is a friend of mine. I can ask him for you. Maybe he just didn't want to face the Fastest Finger round. There's no shame in that IMHO.

I would imagine that many people might have thought that the phone game was too tedious and too left to chance to even think of trying and the odds were too great of wasting your time. Going to an audition seems so much more doable.

That's how it was for Sting.

Perhaps that's how John felt. I'm sure there were millions of folks who tried the Phone Game, when the show first premiered, but quickly lost their motivation to keep trying. Hey, they called that phone number once, twice, may even three times and they still couldn't get the questions right, or didn't get the callback if they did.

But that's different from not wanting to be on the show.

You know, for instance, that I still deeply, desperately want to be on the show now, but I don't want to jump through the hoops to make myself appear to be the person the APs like at auditions. Those are two different things.

[earendel]

Double Your Money Week

John Kuczaj
Chicago, IL
Account Service Rep

Question 1 – 10 Bewildering Bylines
What unusual twosome co-wrote an opinion piece in USA Today in 2011 about the need to eradicate dirty stoves in homes worldwide?
A. Angelina Jolie and Bob Dole
B. Sandra Bullock and Joe Biden
C. Julia Roberts and Hillary Clinton
D. Madonna and Colin Powell

JTQ 1

Spoiler

C. Julia Roberts and Hillary Clinton
$1K
Bank - $0

Easy to see why this was the toughest question in the unrandomized stack. I had no idea and even after the answers were revealed I didn't understand why those two would write about dirty stoves. I'd JTQ.

Question 2 – 4 Ancient Trends
Finding 57 of them preserved on a 5,300-year-old-mummy, scientists had to rethink the origins of what body decoration?
A. Tattoos
B. Bracelets
C. Piercings
D. Necklaces

JTQ 2

Spoiler

A. Tattoos
$3K
Bank - $0

Another pretty tough one. Mummies are usually wrapped, so you wouldn't ordinarily see tattoos or piercings. My inclination was "tattoos" and I probably would have gone with that answer.

Question 4 – 5 Book Buying (Double Money)
Using an image from a classic children’s book, Barnes & Noble offers a gift card that shows a girl and her pig looking at a what?
A. Ant
B. Butterfly
C. Spider
D. Grasshopper

ATA

ATA results

1% A. Ant
9% B. Butterfly
87% C. Spider
3% D. Grasshopper

Spoiler

C. Spider
$100 doubles to $200
Bank - $25,200

I guess he's unfamiliar with "Charlotte's Web".

Question 8 – 8 Cover Girl
What supermodel has appeared on the most covers of the annual Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue?
A. Elle Macpherson
B. Christie Brinkley
C. Kathy Ireland
D. Cheryl Tiegs

John makes

Spoiler

Kathy Ireland

his final answer.

Spoiler

A. Elle Macpherson
John leaves with $1K.

I'd use another JTQ on this one. From my recliner I guessed correctly but on a question this high up the unrandomized stack I couldn't be sure.

[15QuestionsAway]

Easy to see why this was the toughest question in the unrandomized stack. I had no idea and even after the answers were revealed I didn't understand why those two would write about dirty stoves. I'd JTQ.

It has to do with wood and dung burning stoves in less developed countries, not about getting people to use Easy-Off in their ovens. Not only are these stoves a huge source of carbon pollution, the carbon monoxide created by cooking with these basic stoves kills people. Someone developed a cheap, simple stove that cooks more cleanly and efficiently with the same fuel sources - there is a big effort to deploy them where they would be most useful.

This was a good level 10 question - if you weren't familiar with the editorial, you may have been able to figure it out based on knowing the above, knowing which of the actresses had a relationship with the UN, and speculating which politician would be most likely to take up this cause. I might have gone for it, as I had narrowed the actress down to Sandra Bullock or Angelina Jolie, and thought Hillary Clinton would have been much more likely to pen the editorial than Bob Dole.

Of course it would have been a level 14 or 15 question with Regis, but them's the breaks with the syndicated Millionaire budget.

[earendel]

Easy to see why this was the toughest question in the unrandomized stack. I had no idea and even after the answers were revealed I didn't understand why those two would write about dirty stoves. I'd JTQ.

It has to do with wood and dung burning stoves in less developed countries, not about getting people to use Easy-Off in their ovens. Not only are these stoves a huge source of carbon pollution, the carbon monoxide created by cooking with these basic stoves kills people. Someone developed a cheap, simple stove that cooks more cleanly and efficiently with the same fuel sources - there is a big effort to deploy them where they would be most useful.

This was a good level 10 question - if you weren't familiar with the editorial, you may have been able to figure it out based on knowing the above, knowing which of the actresses had a relationship with the UN, and speculating which politician would be most likely to take up this cause. I might have gone for it, as I had narrowed the actress down to Sandra Bullock or Angelina Jolie, and thought Hillary Clinton would have been much more likely to pen the editorial than Bob Dole.

Of course it would have been a level 14 or 15 question with Regis, but them's the breaks with the syndicated Millionaire budget.

It was the "unusual twosome" that threw me. The two that I thought were most dissimilar were Angelina Jolie and Bob Dole.

[tanstaafl2]

Easy to see why this was the toughest question in the unrandomized stack. I had no idea and even after the answers were revealed I didn't understand why those two would write about dirty stoves. I'd JTQ.

It has to do with wood and dung burning stoves in less developed countries, not about getting people to use Easy-Off in their ovens. Not only are these stoves a huge source of carbon pollution, the carbon monoxide created by cooking with these basic stoves kills people. Someone developed a cheap, simple stove that cooks more cleanly and efficiently with the same fuel sources - there is a big effort to deploy them where they would be most useful.

This was a good level 10 question - if you weren't familiar with the editorial, you may have been able to figure it out based on knowing the above, knowing which of the actresses had a relationship with the UN, and speculating which politician would be most likely to take up this cause. I might have gone for it, as I had narrowed the actress down to Sandra Bullock or Angelina Jolie, and thought Hillary Clinton would have been much more likely to pen the editorial than Bob Dole.

Of course it would have been a level 14 or 15 question with Regis, but them's the breaks with the syndicated Millionaire budget.

It was the "unusual twosome" that threw me. The two that I thought were most dissimilar were Angelina Jolie and Bob Dole.

Indeed, I had a similar initial reaction. In fact I saw nothing particularly unusual about that couple or possibly even the Bullock/Biden pairing. Madonna/Powell would perhaps be a little odd I suppose but still not as much as Jolie/Dole, at least to me.