Transcript 10/25/12 - Lynette Burkley

[BBTranscriptTeam]

Lynette Burkley
Harlem, NY

Lynette's buddies call her "LB".

Lynette believes she can ask the universe for anything and she will get it.

Lynette: I asked the universe for $1 million and the next thing I knew, I ended here!

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

Topic Tree (Randomized)
?: New Markets
?: Talk to the Animals
?: Urban Life
?: That's a Lot of Kids
?: Division of Labor
?: No Relation
?: Sweet Tweet
?: Supportive Men
?: Historic Towns
?: Unique Promotions


Question #1 - Level ?: Unique Promotions
On the day of its industry's 2012 awards show, the producers of Broadway's "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark" offered free seats to anyone with what name?

A: Oscar B: Tony
C: Emmy D: Grammy

Answer/Value/Bank

B: Tony
Question Value: $5,000
Bank: $5,000

Question #2 - Level ?: Historic Towns
In Ulm, Germany, there is a single stone or "ein stein," that indicates the fact that the town is the birthplace of a famous what?

A: Scientist B: Olympic athlete
C: Poet D: Pop singer

Answer/Value/Bank

A: Scientist
Question Value: $10,000
Bank: $15,000

Question #3 - Level ?: Supportive Men
In architecture, a column or structural support that is sculpted to look like a man is named after what mythological character?

A: Hercules B: Apollo
C: Atlas D: Zeus

Lynette jumps the question.

Answer/Value/Bank

C: Atlas
Question Value: $7,000
Bank: $15,000

-- Commercial Break --


Question #4 - Level ?: Sweet Tweet
Sitcom writer Harris Witteis coined what term to describe people backhandedly complimenting themselves on Twitter?

A: Humblebrag B: Tootsuite
C: Dweeter D: Fail Whale

Lynette asks the audience.

ATA

A: 52% B: 10% C: 34% D: 4%

Lynette goes with the audience.

Answer/Value/Bank

A: Humblebrag
Question Value: $1,000
Bank: $16,000

Question #5 - Level ?: No Relation
Which of these movies was directed by someone with the same last name as the current prime minister of the United Kingdom?

A: The Avengers B: Avatar
C: Star Wars D: Blade Runner

Lynette jumps the question.

Answer/Value/Bank

B: Avatar
Question Value: $15,000
Bank: $16,000

-- The End of Game "Noise" --


Lynette will return on tomorrow's show.

[SportsFan68]

Question #4 - Level ?: Sweet Tweet
Sitcom writer Harris Witteis coined what term to describe people backhandedly complimenting themselves on Twitter?

A: Humblebrag B: Tootsuite
C: Dweeter D: Fail Whale

Lynette asks the audience.

ATA

A: 52% B: 10% C: 34% D: 4%

Lynette goes with the audience.

Answer/Value/Bank

A: Humblebrag
Question Value: $1,000
Bank: $16,000

ATA

Question #5 - Level ?: No Relation
Which of these movies was directed by someone with the same last name as the current prime minister of the United Kingdom?

A: The Avengers B: Avatar
C: Star Wars D: Blade Runner

Lynette jumps the question.

Answer/Value/Bank

B: Avatar
Question Value: $15,000
Bank: $16,000

JTQ

[Snaxx]

Question #5 - Level ?: No Relation
Which of these movies was directed by someone with the same last name as the current prime minister of the United Kingdom?

A: The Avengers B: Avatar
C: Star Wars D: Blade Runner

Lynette jumps the question.

Answer/Value/Bank

B: Avatar
Question Value: $15,000
Bank: $16,000

JTQ

This is one of those two-step questions that if it weren't Avatar, I would have asked out loud which one was directed by "Cameron" and then asked the audience.

[etaoin22]

Question #5 - Level ?: No Relation
Which of these movies was directed by someone with the same last name as the current prime minister of the United Kingdom?

A: The Avengers B: Avatar
C: Star Wars D: Blade Runner

Lynette jumps the question.

Answer/Value/Bank

B: Avatar
Question Value: $15,000
Bank: $16,000

JTQ

This is one of those two-step questions that if it weren't Avatar, I would have asked out loud which one was directed by "Cameron" and then asked the audience.

It's a minority gov't and Camerson is 30 points down in the polls, but he is still PM. I would have liked to see them put in an overlay "Since the question was posed, Ed Balls has become PM of Britain, so it is a ^%%%^^ed-up question".

[MarleysGh0st]

Question #4 - Level ?: Sweet Tweet
Sitcom writer Harris Witteis coined what term to describe people backhandedly complimenting themselves on Twitter?

A: Humblebrag B: Tootsuite
C: Dweeter D: Fail Whale

Lynette asks the audience.

ATA

A: 52% B: 10% C: 34% D: 4%

Lynette goes with the audience.

Answer/Value/Bank

A: Humblebrag
Question Value: $1,000
Bank: $16,000

The question specifically says the word describes people, not what they're doing. Shouldn't it be Humblebraggers, then?

[earendel]

Lynette Burkley
Harlem, NY

Lynette's buddies call her "LB".

Lynette believes she can ask the universe for anything and she will get it.

Lynette: I asked the universe for $1 million and the next thing I knew, I ended here!

The universe may be playing a colossal joke on you, Lynette. We'll see.

Question #3 - Level ?: Supportive Men
In architecture, a column or structural support that is sculpted to look like a man is named after what mythological character?

A: Hercules B: Apollo
C: Atlas D: Zeus

Lynette jumps the question.

Answer/Value/Bank

C: Atlas
Question Value: $7,000
Bank: $15,000

I know female figures are called caryatids, a fact I learned from the first edition of the Dungeons & Dragons game, which had a monster called a "caryatid column", an animated statue. "Atlas" makes sense for a male figure.