Transcript 10/01/12 Joey Yagoda

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Joey Yagoda
New Hyde Park, NY
College student - Yale
19 years old

Topic Tree:

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New Businesses
Disney Don’ts
Web Research
Birthday Surprise
Muscle Mags
Presidential Initials
Day Job
Thick Accents
Dew Blends
Early Medicine

Question 1 – Early Medicine
What medical procedure dates to 1740, when the Paris Academy of Sciences recommended mouth-to mouth resuscitation for drowning victims?
A. Root canal
B. Liposuction
C. CPR
D. Appendectomy

Spoiler

C. CPR
$100
Bank - $100

Question 2 - Dew Blends
Drawing concern for its sugar content, Taco Bell’s new breakfast menu beverage nicknamed “Dewdriver” is a blend of Mountain Dew and what?
A. Orange juice
B. Coffee
C. Earl Grey tea
D. Milk

Spoiler

A. Orange juice
$10K
Bank - $10,100

commercial break

Question 3 – Thick Accents
A popular phrase that makes fun of a classic Boston accent tells you to “pahk the cah in” where?
A. Bunkah Hill
B. Fenway Pahk
C. Hahvahd Yahd
D. Bahk Bay

Spoiler

C. Hahvahd Yahd
$2K
Bank - $12,100

Question 4 – Day Job
T.S. Eliot released many of his major works, including “The Waste Land,” while holding what job?
A. Bank clerk
B. Postmaster
C. Personal secretary
D. Health inspector

JTQ 1

Spoiler

A. Bank clerk
$3K
Bank - $12,100

Question 5 – Presidential Initials
Which of these sets of letters would not be found on the monogrammed towels of a U.S. president?
A. WHT
B. JEF
C. CAA
D. RBH

ATA

ATA results

0% A. WHT
66% B. JEF
32% C. CAA
2% D. RBH

Spoiler

B. JEF
$1K
Bank - $13,100

commercial break

Question 6 – Muscle Mags
“Work your buns off!” and “Tighten your tush in half the time!” were cover headlines on a 2012 special edition of Oxygen magazine dedicated to what?
A. Abs
B. Glutes
C. Delts
D. Quads

Spoiler

B. Glutes
$500
Bank - $13,600

end of show noise

Joey will return on tomorrow’s show.

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Question 5 – Presidential Initials
Which of these sets of letters would not be found on the monogrammed towels of a U.S. president?
A. WHT
B. JEF
C. CAA
D. RBH

ATA

ATA results

0% A. WHT
66% B. JEF
32% C. CAA
2% D. RBH

Spoiler

B. JEF
$1K
Bank - $13,100

commercial break

INCREDIBLY surprised the audience somehow got this. How long did he deliberate before asking them? I would have made everyone sit through me meticulously listing the presidents one by one until I got to Taft.

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How could he feel so comfortable going with the audience there? You still won't feel 100% sure unless you figure out who CAA or JEF is.

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Question 2 - Dew Blends
Drawing concern for its sugar content, Taco Bell’s new breakfast menu beverage nicknamed “Dewdriver” is a blend of Mountain Dew and what?
A. Orange juice
B. Coffee
C. Earl Grey tea
D. Milk

Spoiler

A. Orange juice
$10K
Bank - $10,100

Dewdriver? It's Mtn Dew A.M!

Didn't take long for this trivia to be used!

[SportsFan68]

Question 5 – Presidential Initials
Which of these sets of letters would not be found on the monogrammed towels of a U.S. president?
A. WHT
B. JEF
C. CAA
D. RBH

ATA

ATA results

0% A. WHT
66% B. JEF
32% C. CAA
2% D. RBH

Spoiler

B. JEF
$1K
Bank - $13,100

OK, lessee -- WHT, nothing offhand, come back to it, JEF, same thing, CAA, Chester A. Arthur, RBH, Rutherford B. Hayes, back to WHT, William Howard Taft. JEF, final answer.

[earendel]

Joey Yagoda
New Hyde Park, NY
College student - Yale
19 years old

Question 3 – Thick Accents
A popular phrase that makes fun of a classic Boston accent tells you to “pahk the cah in” where?
A. Bunkah Hill
B. Fenway Pahk
C. Hahvahd Yahd
D. Bahk Bay

Spoiler

C. Hahvahd Yahd
$2K
Bank - $12,100

Joey joked about being a Yalie; afterward Meredith said that he owed Harvard big time.

Question 5 – Presidential Initials
Which of these sets of letters would not be found on the monogrammed towels of a U.S. president?
A. WHT
B. JEF
C. CAA
D. RBH

ATA

ATA results

0% A. WHT
66% B. JEF
32% C. CAA
2% D. RBH

Spoiler

B. JEF
$1K
Bank - $13,100

Hmmm...William Howard Taft, Rutherford B. Hayes, Chester A. Arthur...that makes it "B". Plus we've only had one president whose last name started with "F" - Fillmore.

Question 6 – Muscle Mags
“Work your buns off!” and “Tighten your tush in half the time!” were cover headlines on a 2012 special edition of Oxygen magazine dedicated to what?
A. Abs
B. Glutes
C. Delts
D. Quads

Spoiler

B. Glutes
$500
Bank - $13,600

Once again there was an attempt to "sex up" the show as Meredith said she felt uncomfortable talking about buns with someone who was "barely legal".

[MarleysGh0st]

Question 5 – Presidential Initials
Which of these sets of letters would not be found on the monogrammed towels of a U.S. president?
A. WHT
B. JEF
C. CAA
D. RBH

ATA

ATA results

0% A. WHT
66% B. JEF
32% C. CAA
2% D. RBH

Spoiler

B. JEF
$1K
Bank - $13,100

Hmmm...William Howard Taft, Rutherford B. Hayes, Chester A. Arthur...that makes it "B". Plus we've only had one president whose last name started with "F" - Fillmore.

Jerry Ford would be shocked to hear that.

[earendel]

Question 5 – Presidential Initials
Which of these sets of letters would not be found on the monogrammed towels of a U.S. president?
A. WHT
B. JEF
C. CAA
D. RBH

ATA

ATA results

0% A. WHT
66% B. JEF
32% C. CAA
2% D. RBH

Spoiler

B. JEF
$1K
Bank - $13,100

Hmmm...William Howard Taft, Rutherford B. Hayes, Chester A. Arthur...that makes it "B". Plus we've only had one president whose last name started with "F" - Fillmore.

Jerry Ford would be shocked to hear that.

He's an accidental president so he doesn't count.

[MarleysGh0st]

Here's an article about Joey's first episode:

http://www.yaledailynews.com/news/2012/ ... oss-campus

Yagoda said he auditioned because he’s “always loved game shows," adding that auditions were easy to attend since they were held in his home state of New York.

For all of you out there wondering whether he missed class to tape this episode, fret not — he was able to finish his taping and then catch the train back to New Haven in time for class.

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INCREDIBLY surprised the audience somehow got this. How long did he deliberate before asking them? I would have made everyone sit through me meticulously listing the presidents one by one until I got to Taft.

He came up with Taft almost instantly, gave up fairly quickly on JEF, mulled over CAA for a bit, then moved on to RBH, which took him a good 10 or 15 seconds to come up with. He went back and tried a bit more on CAA, then threw up his hands and asked the audience.

I agree that it was odd for him to use his lifeline that way. He could have at least tried to go through the presidents chronologically; even if he didn't know every single one, there's a reasonable chance that he'd stumble on a match.

Here's an article about Joey's first episode:

http://www.yaledailynews.com/news/2012/ ... oss-campus

Yagoda, who collected $13,600 by the end of the first taping, advanced past six questions before the show ended, correctly answering questions about early medicine, "thick accents" and T.S. Eliot.

Oh, so jumping the question counts as answering it correctly?

[Bob78164]

I just noticed that the author of Draft (a New York Times column on writing) is Ben Yagoda. I assume they're related. --Bob