Transcript 11/02/11 Maya McDoom-Echebiri

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Maya McDoom-Echebiri
Boston, MA
PhD student (Health services research)
Wants to win to start a scholarship fund to help others
Her brother Michael and buddy Michelle are in the audience (they later mention she is married, and neither she nor her husband know what her last name means)


Topic Tree (pre-randomized):
10 Racy Second Lady
9 Stress Factors
8 Winning Diet
7 Little People
6 Womanly Weapon
5 Wardrobe Explanations
4 Twitter
3 Unstoppable
2 Movie Myth
1 Angelic Effect


Topic Tree: (Randomized)
1 Angelic Effect
9 Stress Factors
10 Racy Second Lady
6 Womanly Weapon
2 Movie Myth
3 Unstoppable
8 Winning Diet
5 Wardrobe Explanations
7 Little People
4 Twitter



Question 1 - Level 4 Twitter
In Twitter lingo, the letters RT stand for what?
A. Retrieve B. Retall
C. Retype D. Retweet

Answer and value

D. Retweet
Value: $15K!
Bank: $15K

Question 2 - Level 7 Little People
Because of the secretive nature of their occupation, the phrase "the gnomes of Zurich" was coined in the '60s to refer to whom?
A. Italian chefs B. Swiss bankers
C. French poets D. German soldiers

Spoiler

Maya "Well I know Zurich is in Switzerland, and Italian Chefs doesn't really make sense, but I dont know Swiss bankers are short? German Soldiers, that doesn't really make much sense to me too. OK, I'll go with B, Swiss Bankers, final answer."

Note: I started to transcribe all that on playback because for some reason I had remembered her using ATA after solving it on her own, and getting 93%... Then I see her answer w/o a LL. Oops, I guess it wasn't this one...

Answer and value

B. Swiss bankers
Value: $1000
Bank: $16000

Question 3 - Level 5 Wardrobe Explanations
Often asked about his wardrobe, who wrote a song that explains, "I wear the black for the poor and the beaten down"?
A. Stevie Wonder B. Bruce Springsteen
C. Johnny Cash D. Paul Simon

ATA

OK, this was the ATA one:
Maya "Well I know that Johnny Cash was always referred to as 'the man in black' so that seems like the most intutive for me. Stevie Wonder, I always see him in colorful outfits. Bruce Springsteen, I think he wears a lot of black too. I think I'm gonna ask the audience on this one:"

ATA result: A-2% B-2% C-93% D-3%

Answer and value

C. Johnny Cash
Value: $3000
Bank: $19000

Commercial break
Mere points out that Maya's last name is a Nigerian name that neither Maya nor her husband know what it means. Mere said maybe it means millionaire.


Question 4 - Level 8 Winning Diet
Designed by the U.S. government, what balanced diet was ranked the best overall by U.S. News & World Report in 2011?
A. Mayo Clinic Diet B. DASH Diet
C. Mediterranean Diet D. Volumetrics Diet

JTQ 1

"I have absolutely no idea"

Answer and value

B. DASH Diet
Value: $5000 jumped
Bank: $19000

Question 5 - Level 3 Unstoppable
In 2006, the Oxford English Dictionary defined what mascot as "a persistent or indefatigable person or phenomenon"?
A. Geico Gecko B. Energizer Bunny
C. Chester Cheetah D. Mr. Peanut

Answer and value

B. Energizer Bunny
Value: $500
Bank: $19500

Question 6 - Level 2 Movie Myth
Despite it being totally untrue, what film is credited with creating the myth that Eskimos kiss by rubbing noses?
A. Juno B. Mystery, Alaska
C. Snow Dogs D. Nanook of The North

JTQ 2

"I don't know this one either"

Answer and value

D. Nanook of The North
Value: $7000 jumped
Bank: $19500

Maya returns tomorrow with $19500 banked and no lifelines remaining.

[Snaxx]

(bumping this up)

[SportsFan68]

Question 1 - Level 4 Twitter
In Twitter lingo, the letters RT stand for what?
A. Retrieve B. Retall
C. Retype D. Retweet

Answer and value

D. Retweet
Value: $15K!
Bank: $15K

ATA very confidently.

Question 4 - Level 8 Winning Diet
Designed by the U.S. government, what balanced diet was ranked the best overall by U.S. News & World Report in 2011?
A. Mayo Clinic Diet B. DASH Diet
C. Mediterranean Diet D. Volumetrics Diet

JTQ 1

"I have absolutely no idea"

Answer and value

B. DASH Diet
Value: $5000 jumped
Bank: $19000

Dietary Approach to Stop Hypertension, final answer.

[MarleysGh0st]

Question 6 - Level 2 Movie Myth
Despite it being totally untrue, what film is credited with creating the myth that Eskimos kiss by rubbing noses?
A. Juno B. Mystery, Alaska
C. Snow Dogs D. Nanook of The North

JTQ 2

"I don't know this one either"

Answer and value

D. Nanook of The North
Value: $7000 jumped
Bank: $19500

That wasn't the only myth, according to Wikipedia.

Flaherty has been criticized for deceptively portraying staged events as reality, although staging events for the camera was the norm of documentary filmmakers of the time.[2] "Nanook" was in fact named Allakariallak, while the "wife" shown in the film was not really his wife. According to Charles Nayoumealuk, who was interviewed in Nanook Revisited (1988), "the two women in Nanook - Nyla (Alice [?] Nuvalinga) and Cunayou (whose real name we do not know) were not Allakariallak's wives, but were in fact common-law wives of Flaherty."[3] And although Allakariallak normally used a gun when hunting, Flaherty encouraged him to hunt after the fashion of his recent ancestors in order to capture the way the Inuit lived before European influence. On the other hand, while Flaherty made his Inuit actors use spears instead of guns during the walrus and seal hunts, the hunting actually involved wild animals. Flaherty also exaggerated the peril to Inuit hunters with his claim, often repeated, that Allakariallak had died of starvation two years after the film was completed, whereas in fact he died at home, likely of tuberculosis.[4][5]

Allakariallak of The North likely wouldn't have been as successful, because people wouldn't have been able to pronounce it.

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Question 6 - Level 2 Movie Myth
Despite it being totally untrue, what film is credited with creating the myth that Eskimos kiss by rubbing noses?
A. Juno B. Mystery, Alaska
C. Snow Dogs D. Nanook of The North

JTQ 2

"I don't know this one either"

Answer and value

D. Nanook of The North
Value: $7000 jumped
Bank: $19500

That wasn't the only myth, according to Wikipedia.

Flaherty has been criticized for deceptively portraying staged events as reality, although staging events for the camera was the norm of documentary filmmakers of the time.[2] "Nanook" was in fact named Allakariallak, while the "wife" shown in the film was not really his wife. According to Charles Nayoumealuk, who was interviewed in Nanook Revisited (1988), "the two women in Nanook - Nyla (Alice [?] Nuvalinga) and Cunayou (whose real name we do not know) were not Allakariallak's wives, but were in fact common-law wives of Flaherty."[3] And although Allakariallak normally used a gun when hunting, Flaherty encouraged him to hunt after the fashion of his recent ancestors in order to capture the way the Inuit lived before European influence. On the other hand, while Flaherty made his Inuit actors use spears instead of guns during the walrus and seal hunts, the hunting actually involved wild animals. Flaherty also exaggerated the peril to Inuit hunters with his claim, often repeated, that Allakariallak had died of starvation two years after the film was completed, whereas in fact he died at home, likely of tuberculosis.[4][5]

Allakariallak of The North likely wouldn't have been as successful, because people wouldn't have been able to pronounce it.

Flaherty would have done just fine with the reality shows of today.

[elwoodblues]

My reasoning for Question 6 would have been that the other three choices are recent movies, and that myth has been around much longer than any of them. And Juno had nothing to do with Alaska except it is pronounced the same as the state capital.

Well, that would have been my reasoning if I were watching at home. If I had been the actual contestant my thought process would have been more along the lines of, "Oh shit, what do I do now? Are those actual movies? I forgot! But I'll figure this out or my name isn't... oh shit, what's my name?"

My only other comment on this transcript is that "Maya McDoom-Echebiri" is one of the coolest names I have ever seen.

[earendel]

Maya McDoom-Echebiri
Boston, MA
PhD student (Health services research)
Wants to win to start a scholarship fund to help others
Her brother Michael and buddy Michelle are in the audience (they later mention she is married, and neither she nor her husband know what her last name means)

That's a nice goal.

Question 4 - Level 8 Winning Diet
Designed by the U.S. government, what balanced diet was ranked the best overall by U.S. News & World Report in 2011?
A. Mayo Clinic Diet B. DASH Diet
C. Mediterranean Diet D. Volumetrics Diet

JTQ 1

"I have absolutely no idea"

Answer and value

B. DASH Diet
Value: $5000 jumped
Bank: $19000

No idea either, so I'll JTQ because this doesn't seem like something the audience would know.

[Bob78164]

Maya McDoom-Echebiri
Boston, MA
PhD student (Health services research)
Wants to win to start a scholarship fund to help others
Her brother Michael and buddy Michelle are in the audience (they later mention she is married, and neither she nor her husband know what her last name means)

That's a nice goal.

Question 4 - Level 8 Winning Diet
Designed by the U.S. government, what balanced diet was ranked the best overall by U.S. News & World Report in 2011?
A. Mayo Clinic Diet B. DASH Diet
C. Mediterranean Diet D. Volumetrics Diet

JTQ 1

"I have absolutely no idea"

Answer and value

B. DASH Diet
Value: $5000 jumped
Bank: $19000

No idea either, so I'll JTQ because this doesn't seem like something the audience would know.

I went with the correct answer simply because I figured

Spoiler

that only a government-designed diet would be known by an acronym of some sort.

--Bob