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Transcript 10/18/12 - Fran Pennarola

#1 Post by BBTranscriptTeam » Sun Oct 21, 2012 1:49 pm

Fran Pennarola
Newtown, CT
Lawyer

Meredith asks the computer to randomize the money and the questions. The unrandomized Topic Tree is not shown.

Topic Tree (Randomized)
?: Good and Evil
?: Basement Level
?: Talk to the Animals
?: How-To Books
?: Belly Laughs
?: Slang
?: One Man's Goal
?: Family Business
?: What an Honor
?: Mayor Knows Best


Question #1 - Level ?: Mayor Knows Best
Having led a crusade against cigarettes, trans fats & super-sized sodas, Mayor Bloomberg was dubbed "nanny-in-chief" of what city?

A: San Francisco B: New York City
C: Chicago D: Houston
Answer/Value/Bank
B: New York City
Question Value: $5,000
Bank: $5,000

Question #2 - Level ?: What an Honor
"Welcome to the Vajungle!" is the tagline for an all-female cover band by what name?

A: Guns N' Hoses B: Misstallica
C: Lez Zeppelin D: Allison Chains

Fran jumps the question.
Answer/Value/Bank
A: Guns N' Hoses
Question Value: $25,000
Bank: $5,000

-- Commercial Break --


Question #3 - Level ?: Family Business
A man who came from a family of grocers, what historic figure has a last name that translates to "grocer"?

A: Che Guevara B: Galileo Galilei
C: Mahatma Gandhi D: Mikhail Gorbachev

Fran jumps the question.
Answer/Value/Bank
C: Mahatma Gandhi
Question Value: $15,000
Bank: $5,000

Question #4 - Level ?: Family Business
Which professional athlete hit a major league homerun within a week of scoring a touchdown in the NFL?

A: Bo Jackson B: Jim Thorpe
C: John Elway D: Deion Sanders

Fran is pretty sure it was
Spoiler
Bo Jackson, because he was a two-sport athlete
. He makes that his final answer.
Answer
D: Deion Sanders
Fran leaves with "total winnings" of $1,000.


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#2 Post by SportsFan68 » Sun Oct 21, 2012 2:53 pm

Question #1 - Level ?: Mayor Knows Best
Having led a crusade against cigarettes, trans fats & super-sized sodas, Mayor Bloomberg was dubbed "nanny-in-chief" of what city?

A: San Francisco B: New York City
C: Chicago D: Houston
Answer/Value/Bank
B: New York City
Question Value: $5,000
Bank: $5,000
I bet that woulda got close to 100% on an ATA.
Question #2 - Level ?: What an Honor
"Welcome to the Vajungle!" is the tagline for an all-female cover band by what name?

A: Guns N' Hoses B: Misstallica
C: Lez Zeppelin D: Allison Chains

Fran jumps the question.
Answer/Value/Bank
A: Guns N' Hoses
Question Value: $25,000
Bank: $5,000
I know this because of Clint Eastwood's The Dead Pool -- Welcome to the Jungle is featured near the beginning of the movie.
Question #3 - Level ?: Family Business
A man who came from a family of grocers, what historic figure has a last name that translates to "grocer"?

A: Che Guevara B: Galileo Galilei
C: Mahatma Gandhi D: Mikhail Gorbachev

Fran jumps the question.
Answer/Value/Bank
C: Mahatma Gandhi
Question Value: $15,000
Bank: $5,000
One of those I should know but don't. JTQ
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-- America would be a better place if leaders would do more long-term thinking. -- Wilma Mankiller
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#3 Post by MarleysGh0st » Sun Oct 21, 2012 3:02 pm

SportsFan68 wrote:
Answer/Value/Bank
C: Mahatma Gandhi
Question Value: $15,000
Bank: $5,000


One of those I should know but don't. JTQ
Why should you know it? Gandhi was a lawyer. His father, according to Wikipedia, was a senior government official. I don't recall ever hearing of his more distant ancestors being grocers, in the epic film with Ben Kingsley, for instance.

Or perhaps you think we should all be fluent in Hindi or whichever unstated Indian language the name comes from?
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#4 Post by SportsFan68 » Sun Oct 21, 2012 5:11 pm

MarleysGh0st wrote:
SportsFan68 wrote:
Answer/Value/Bank
C: Mahatma Gandhi
Question Value: $15,000
Bank: $5,000


One of those I should know but don't. JTQ
Why should you know it? Gandhi was a lawyer. His father, according to Wikipedia, was a senior government official. I don't recall ever hearing of his more distant ancestors being grocers, in the epic film with Ben Kingsley, for instance.

Or perhaps you think we should all be fluent in Hindi or whichever unstated Indian language the name comes from?
I thought I should know it because it came up in the movie with Ben Kingsley, a movie which I have seen about 10 minutes of. I've changed my mind, I now think it should have been in the second tier.
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#5 Post by Bob Juch » Sun Oct 21, 2012 7:05 pm

SportsFan68 wrote:
MarleysGh0st wrote:
SportsFan68 wrote:
Answer/Value/Bank
C: Mahatma Gandhi
Question Value: $15,000
Bank: $5,000


One of those I should know but don't. JTQ
Why should you know it? Gandhi was a lawyer. His father, according to Wikipedia, was a senior government official. I don't recall ever hearing of his more distant ancestors being grocers, in the epic film with Ben Kingsley, for instance.

Or perhaps you think we should all be fluent in Hindi or whichever unstated Indian language the name comes from?
I thought I should know it because it came up in the movie with Ben Kingsley, a movie which I have seen about 10 minutes of. I've changed my mind, I now think it should have been in the second tier.
Gandhi is an Indian family name, meaning a seller of perfumes .
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gandhi_(surname)
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#6 Post by hss501 » Sun Oct 21, 2012 8:05 pm

I spent a lot of time talking to Fran in the green room. One of the genuinely nicest guys I've met.

He taped near the end of my first day, and I was so genuinely disappointed that night when my wife told me what had happened to him. I think his final question counts as a WWOQ, as was the grocer thing. Fran and I have since discussed whether he made a mistake not ATAing on Vajungle. I told him I didn't think he was going to get a number he was going to feel great about - maybe 45-25-15-15. But his result kind of freed me from my own expectations - if this nice-guy former Jeopardy contestant sharp attorney just got ruined by an awful stack, I could feel okay with whatever was going to happen to me.
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#7 Post by MarleysGh0st » Sun Oct 21, 2012 8:12 pm

Bob Juch wrote:Gandhi is an Indian family name, meaning a seller of perfumes .
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gandhi_(surname)
Gosh, thank you for Googling that, Bob!

Perhaps you could Google some further resources to answer the questions I had above; namely, what particular language that's in and how anyone could be expected to know this WWOQ without having the opportunity to Google it after seeing it on the show.
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#8 Post by themanwho » Sun Oct 21, 2012 11:05 pm

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Fran Pennarola
Question #4 - Level ?: Family Business
Which professional athlete hit a major league homerun within a week of scoring a touchdown in the NFL?

A: Bo Jackson B: Jim Thorpe
C: John Elway D: Deion Sanders

Fran is pretty sure it was
Spoiler
Bo Jackson, because he was a two-sport athlete
. He makes that his final answer.
Answer
D: Deion Sanders
Fran leaves with "total winnings" of $1,000.
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#9 Post by earendel » Mon Oct 22, 2012 12:43 pm

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Fran Pennarola
Newtown, CT
Lawyer
BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Question #1 - Level ?: Mayor Knows Best
Having led a crusade against cigarettes, trans fats & super-sized sodas, Mayor Bloomberg was dubbed "nanny-in-chief" of what city?

A: San Francisco B: New York City
C: Chicago D: Houston
Answer/Value/Bank
B: New York City
Question Value: $5,000
Bank: $5,000
Living in "where else" territory probably made this easier, although Bloomberg has made enough headlines to indelibly associate him with NYC.
BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Question #2 - Level ?: What an Honor
"Welcome to the Vajungle!" is the tagline for an all-female cover band by what name?

A: Guns N' Hoses B: Misstallica
C: Lez Zeppelin D: Allison Chains

Fran jumps the question.
Answer/Value/Bank
A: Guns N' Hoses
Question Value: $25,000
Bank: $5,000
I'd JTQ also.
BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Question #4 - Level ?: Family Business
Which professional athlete hit a major league homerun within a week of scoring a touchdown in the NFL?

A: Bo Jackson B: Jim Thorpe
C: John Elway D: Deion Sanders

Fran is pretty sure it was
Spoiler
Bo Jackson, because he was a two-sport athlete
. He makes that his final answer.
Answer
D: Deion Sanders
Yeah, Bo was a 2-sport athlete also and a wicked distractor.
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#10 Post by hss501 » Mon Oct 22, 2012 2:52 pm

earendel wrote:Yeah, Bo was a 2-sport athlete also and a wicked distractor.
And Bo played on offense, whereas Deion played on defense, so you'd expect Bo to be more likely to score a touchdown. I don't know how to make this question hard without being a WWOQ; if you keep Bo and Deion as choices, Bo is too wicked a distractor; if you remove Bo, Deion becomes too easy no matter who else you make a choice.
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#11 Post by Appa23 » Mon Oct 22, 2012 3:50 pm

hss501 wrote:I don't know how to make this question hard without being a WWOQ; if you keep Bo and Deion as choices, Bo is too wicked a distractor; if you remove Bo, Deion becomes too easy no matter who else you make a choice.
The question is really easy if you remember that Bo Jackson's contract with the Raiders allowed him to be paid for a full season while not joining the team until after the baseball season ended. ;)
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#12 Post by hss501 » Mon Oct 22, 2012 4:01 pm

Appa23 wrote:
hss501 wrote:I don't know how to make this question hard without being a WWOQ; if you keep Bo and Deion as choices, Bo is too wicked a distractor; if you remove Bo, Deion becomes too easy no matter who else you make a choice.
The question is really easy if you remember that Bo Jackson's contract with the Raiders allowed him to be paid for a full season while not joining the team until after the baseball season ended. ;)
They're all easy if you know them. But in that case you'd have to know Bo's deal, you'd have to know Deion had a different deal, and it's STILL very possible Bo had a late-season tater followed by rushing TD.
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