Transcript 10/4/2013 - Uche Aguoji (carryover contestant)

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Uche Aguoji
Elmont, NY

Uche is a student who says he wouldn't be on the show if not for the support of his parents. His dad Michael is in the relationship seat but his mother Josaphine is working (she's a teacher). All the children have traditional Ibo Nigerian names. Uche has $44,000 in his bank and his ATA and one JTQ lifeline remaining. He has already answered the double money question.

Topic Tree (randomized):
5 - City Attractions
10 - Not So Wild Animal

Question #9 (Not So Wild Animal - Level 10):
In 1981, Delaware adopted what timid sounding creature as one of its official state animals?
A - limpfly
B - weakfish
C - feeblejay
D - lamesnake

Uche doesn't know this one so he's going to have to JTQ.

Spoiler

Answer: B (weakfish)
Value: $100
Bank: $44,000 (unchanged)

Question #10 (City Attractions - Level 5):
A feat of urban engineering, what city's BU bridge lets a person see a plane flying over a car driving over a train going over a boat?
A - Baltimore
B - Boise
C - Boston
D - Buffalo

Uche is going to have to ask the audience.

Ask the Audience results

A - 29%
B - 10%
C - 51%
D - 10%

That's what Uche thought at first but he's been there and never seen any of that. It could be

Spoiler

Baltimore

and that's what he makes his final answer.

Spoiler

Answer: C (Boston)
Value: $10,000 (by default)
Bank: $1,000 (consolation prize)

commercial break

[SportsFan68]

Question #9 (Not So Wild Animal - Level 10):
In 1981, Delaware adopted what timid sounding creature as one of its official state animals?
A - limpfly
B - weakfish
C - feeblejay
D - lamesnake

Uche doesn't know this one so he's going to have to JTQ.

Spoiler

Answer: B (weakfish)
Value: $100
Bank: $44,000 (unchanged)

JTQ 1

Question #10 (City Attractions - Level 5):
A feat of urban engineering, what city's BU bridge lets a person see a plane flying over a car driving over a train going over a boat?
A - Baltimore
B - Boise
C - Boston
D - Buffalo

Uche is going to have to ask the audience.

Ask the Audience results

A - 29%
B - 10%
C - 51%
D - 10%

That's what Uche thought at first but he's been there and never seen any of that. It could be

Spoiler

Baltimore

and that's what he makes his final answer.

Spoiler

Answer: C (Boston)
Value: $10,000 (by default)
Bank: $1,000 (consolation prize)

Gotta be Boston or Baltimore. JTQ 2

[MarleysGh0st]

Question #9 (Not So Wild Animal - Level 10):
In 1981, Delaware adopted what timid sounding creature as one of its official state animals?
A - limpfly
B - weakfish
C - feeblejay
D - lamesnake

Uche doesn't know this one so he's going to have to JTQ.

Spoiler

Answer: B (weakfish)
Value: $100
Bank: $44,000 (unchanged)

I've heard of the weakfish. Since the question doesn't use the "which of these animals" phrasing, I assume the others are all joke answes.

Question #10 (City Attractions - Level 5):
A feat of urban engineering, what city's BU bridge lets a person see a plane flying over a car driving over a train going over a boat?
A - Baltimore
B - Boise
C - Boston
D - Buffalo

Uche is going to have to ask the audience.

Ask the Audience results

A - 29%
B - 10%
C - 51%
D - 10%

That's what Uche thought at first but he's been there and never seen any of that. It could be

Spoiler

Baltimore

and that's what he makes his final answer.

Spoiler

Answer: C (Boston)
Value: $10,000 (by default)
Bank: $1,000 (consolation prize)

Ouch.

If "BU" doesn't stand for Boston College, what else could it be?

[Estonut]

If "BU" doesn't stand for Boston College, what else could it be?

Boston University.

[MarleysGh0st]

D'oh!

[thejeopardyfan]

JTQ question 9, ATA question 10. It's a little late to be asking this but for our purposes, when we use the ATA, do we presume we can move on to the next question? In this case, I'd already used one JTQ in the previous episode.

[earendel]

Uche Aguoji
Elmont, NY

Uche is a student who says he wouldn't be on the show if not for the support of his parents. His dad Michael is in the relationship seat but his mother Josaphine is working (she's a teacher). All the children have traditional Ibo Nigerian names. Uche has $44,000 in his bank and his ATA and one JTQ lifeline remaining. He has already answered the double money question.

Question #10 (City Attractions - Level 5):
A feat of urban engineering, what city's BU bridge lets a person see a plane flying over a car driving over a train going over a boat?
A - Baltimore
B - Boise
C - Boston
D - Buffalo

Uche is going to have to ask the audience.

Ask the Audience results

A - 29%
B - 10%
C - 51%
D - 10%

That's what Uche thought at first but he's been there and never seen any of that. It could be

Spoiler

Baltimore

and that's what he makes his final answer.

Spoiler

Answer: C (Boston)
Value: $10,000 (by default)
Bank: $1,000 (consolation prize)

I'd JTQ on this one.

[Maddy]

JTQ question 9, ATA question 10. It's a little late to be asking this but for our purposes, when we use the ATA, do we presume we can move on to the next question? In this case, I'd already used one JTQ in the previous episode.

Being "dursted" is relatively rare, no?

ETA: I mean, assuming you are using it on something the audience can help with.

[ulysses5019]

JTQ question 9, ATA question 10. It's a little late to be asking this but for our purposes, when we use the ATA, do we presume we can move on to the next question? In this case, I'd already used one JTQ in the previous episode.

If you get the question correct...or you can walk away.

[ulysses5019]

JTQ question 9, ATA question 10. It's a little late to be asking this but for our purposes, when we use the ATA, do we presume we can move on to the next question? In this case, I'd already used one JTQ in the previous episode.

Being "dursted" is relatively rare, no?

ETA: I mean, assuming you are using it on something the audience can help with.

But in this case he wasn't dursted since they gave him the correct answer...but he dursted himself.

[Maddy]

JTQ question 9, ATA question 10. It's a little late to be asking this but for our purposes, when we use the ATA, do we presume we can move on to the next question? In this case, I'd already used one JTQ in the previous episode.

Being "dursted" is relatively rare, no?

ETA: I mean, assuming you are using it on something the audience can help with.

But in this case he wasn't dursted since they gave him the correct answer...but he dursted himself.

I know. So sad. It is a lot easier to think from home but BU could only be Boston University in my mind. It seemed so clear.

Then again I took over 5 minutes to say Tree when I was sure that was the answer. Those lights and that money make it harder to think. I also think the questions was worded strangely so Uche may have thought the bridge depicted these things. Or maybe it does. There are SO MANY bridges in Boston over the Charles. I once went for a run and criss crossed the river on no fewer than 4.

Uh ETA: which also made me think: BOston, the land o bridges.

[ulysses5019]

Being "dursted" is relatively rare, no?

ETA: I mean, assuming you are using it on something the audience can help with.

But in this case he wasn't dursted since they gave him the correct answer...but he dursted himself.

I know. So sad. It is a lot easier to think from home but BU could only be Boston University in my mind. It seemed so clear.

Then again I took over 5 minutes to say Tree when I was sure that was the answer. Those lights and that money make it harder to think. I also think the questions was worded strangely so Uche may have thought the bridge depicted these things. Or maybe it does. There are SO MANY bridges in Boston over the Charles. I once went for a run and criss crossed the river on no fewer than 4.

Uh ETA: which also made me think: BOston, the land o bridges.

The "B" in the BU probably threw him...you're right, he could not visualize such a bridge since he had probably been there and didn't know Baltimore as well and decided to make that his choice. And I'm sure there are plenty of bridges in Baltimore.

[thejeopardyfan]

JTQ question 9, ATA question 10. It's a little late to be asking this but for our purposes, when we use the ATA, do we presume we can move on to the next question? In this case, I'd already used one JTQ in the previous episode.

If you get the question correct...or you can walk away.

But ATA can't help us, since we don't have an audience to poll. It would be as if you weren't using a lifeline.
What is "dursted," by the way?

[thejeopardyfan]

JTQ question 9, ATA question 10. It's a little late to be asking this but for our purposes, when we use the ATA, do we presume we can move on to the next question? In this case, I'd already used one JTQ in the previous episode.

Being "dursted" is relatively rare, no?

ETA: I mean, assuming you are using it on something the audience can help with.

I'd use ATA last since it's far less certain than JTQ.

[ulysses5019]

JTQ question 9, ATA question 10. It's a little late to be asking this but for our purposes, when we use the ATA, do we presume we can move on to the next question? In this case, I'd already used one JTQ in the previous episode.

If you get the question correct...or you can walk away.

But ATA can't help us, since we don't have an audience to poll. It would be as if you weren't using a lifeline.
What is "dursted," by the way?

From wiki...

On February 24, 2000, Durst was used as a phone-a-friend lifeline on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire by contestant Rudy Reber. The question, worth $500,000, was "who directed Michael Jackson's music video for the song Bad". After hearing the choices, Durst said "Landis," as in director John Landis. Reber locked it in as his final answer, which was wrong. (Martin Scorsese was the correct answer). As a result, Reber's winnings plummeted from $250,000 to $32,000, a loss of $218,000. Durst later wrote an article for TV Guide on the incident.

The bored began using it for that type of PAF result and ATA.

[Bob Juch]

If you get the question correct...or you can walk away.

But ATA can't help us, since we don't have an audience to poll. It would be as if you weren't using a lifeline.
What is "dursted," by the way?

From wiki...

On February 24, 2000, Durst was used as a phone-a-friend lifeline on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire by contestant Rudy Reber. The question, worth $500,000, was "who directed Michael Jackson's music video for the song Bad". After hearing the choices, Durst said "Landis," as in director John Landis. Reber locked it in as his final answer, which was wrong. (Martin Scorsese was the correct answer). As a result, Reber's winnings plummeted from $250,000 to $32,000, a loss of $218,000. Durst later wrote an article for TV Guide on the incident.

The bored began using it for that type of PAF result and ATA.

Durst's book, “The All American Sport of Bipartisan Bashing,” is published by Ulysses Press.