Transcript 01/23/14 - Greg Apostle

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Greg Apostle
Yonkers, NY

Greg is a math teacher.


Cedric says the money and questions have already been randomized. The Topic Tree is not shown, but it is after the first question.

Topic Tree (Randomized)
?: Stage Names
?: Up in the Air
?: Bubble Attack
?: Heavy Hitter
?: Good Service
?: Humble Opinions
?: History at the Bat
?: Obstacle Course
?: Movie Review
?: Leftover Materials


Question #1 - Level ?: Leftover Materials
Literally built from a fallen empire, the Burj Khalifa was constructed using tons of steel recycled from whose old parliament building?

A: Baghdad B: Tehran
C: East Berlin D: Cairo

Greg knows this building is in Dubai, but they could have brought in material from anywhere in the world. He jumps the question.

Answer/Value/Bank

C: East Berlin
Question Value: $5,000
Bank: $0

Question #2 - Level ?: Movie Review
Showing where her loyalties lie, Siri describes what movie as "just more misunderstood cyborgs getting fried to a crisp"?

A: The Matrix B: Avatar
C: The Terminator D: Jurassic Park

Answer/Value/Bank

C: The Terminator
Question Value: $2,000
Bank: $2,000

Question #3 - Level ?: Obstacle Course
In addition to land mines, soldiers at the Battle of El Alamein faced what hazard during World War II?

A: Poison ivy B: Avalanches
C: Quicksand D: Hay fever

Greg doesn't know where this battle was; he's not a history teacher. He's leaning one way (he doesn't say for which answer, except that

Spoiler

he doesn't think it's hay fever

), but he jumps the question.

Answer/Value/Bank

C: Quicksand
Question Value: $500
Bank: $2,000

-- Commercial Break --


Question #4 - Level ?: History at the Bat
Though he sounds like a Hall of Fame baseball player, who led Suriname when it gained independence from the Netherlands in 1975?

A: Willy Mies B: Bibi Root
C: Henck Arron D: Jacques Erobson

Greg isn't sure, but he's going to go for it.

Answer/Value/Bank

C: Henck Arron
Question Value: $3,000
Bank: $5,000

-- The End of Game "Noise" --


Greg will return on tomorrow's show.

[MarleysGh0st]

Question #3 - Level ?: Obstacle Course
In addition to land mines, soldiers at the Battle of El Alamein faced what hazard during World War II?

A: Poison ivy B: Avalanches
C: Quicksand D: Hay fever

Greg doesn't know where this battle was; he's not a history teacher. He's leaning one way (he doesn't say for which answer, except that

Spoiler

he doesn't think it's hay fever

), but he jumps the question.

Answer/Value/Bank

C: Quicksand
Question Value: $500
Bank: $2,000

I won't give Greg a pass for not knowing where El Alamein was (even with the clue in the Arabic name), but I am wondering exactly how many casualties were officially recorded as a result of quicksand.

Question #4 - Level ?: History at the Bat
Though he sounds like a Hall of Fame baseball player, who led Suriname when it gained independence from the Netherlands in 1975?

A: Willy Mies B: Bibi Root
C: Henck Arron D: Jacques Erobson

Greg isn't sure, but he's going to go for it.

Answer/Value/Bank

C: Henck Arron
Question Value: $3,000
Bank: $5,000

A totally obscure WWOQ.

[Kazoo65]

I might have gone out on the very first question-that Arabic name made me think they were talking about somewhere in the Mideast-I was leaning toward Baghdad. If I use my brain, I JTQ since I have no clue.

I'm fine up to the one about the leader of Suriname in 1975. This, as Marley pointed out, is definitely a WWOQ. How he got this right is beyond me. I would use JTQ.

[Kazoo65]

I might have gone out on the very first question-that Arabic name made me think they were talking about somewhere in the Mideast-I was leaning toward Baghdad. If I use my brain, I JTQ since I have no clue.

I'm fine up to the one about the leader of Suriname in 1975. This, as Marley pointed out, is definitely a WWOQ. How he got this right is beyond me. I would use JTQ.

[MarleysGh0st]

I might have gone out on the very first question-that Arabic name made me think they were talking about somewhere in the Mideast-I was leaning toward Baghdad. If I use my brain, I JTQ since I have no clue.

That was certainly an obscure question, too, but none of the other cities had anything to do with a fallen empire (at least a recent one that would have used steel in its parliament building). East Berlin, OTOH, was an outpost of the Evil Empire, and it would no longer have any need of a parliament building. So I hope I would have gone with the clue, if it had been my stack.

[SportsFan68]

Question #1 - Level ?: Leftover Materials
Literally built from a fallen empire, the Burj Khalifa was constructed using tons of steel recycled from whose old parliament building?

A: Baghdad B: Tehran
C: East Berlin D: Cairo

Greg knows this building is in Dubai, but they could have brought in material from anywhere in the world. He jumps the question.

Answer/Value/Bank

C: East Berlin
Question Value: $5,000
Bank: $0

I don't know, and none of these make any sense to me. JTQ 1

Question #3 - Level ?: Obstacle Course
In addition to land mines, soldiers at the Battle of El Alamein faced what hazard during World War II?

A: Poison ivy B: Avalanches
C: Quicksand D: Hay fever

Greg doesn't know where this battle was; he's not a history teacher. He's leaning one way (he doesn't say for which answer, except that

Spoiler

he doesn't think it's hay fever

), but he jumps the question.

Answer/Value/Bank

C: Quicksand
Question Value: $500
Bank: $2,000

I'm sure it's poison ivy or quicksand, but between those two, I dunno. JTQ 2.

I'm doomed.

[MarleysGh0st]

I won't give Greg a pass for not knowing where El Alamein was (even with the clue in the Arabic name), but I am wondering exactly how many casualties were officially recorded as a result of quicksand.

Okay, maybe it didn't inflict casaulties, but at least it was tactically significant terrain.

http://www.nam.ac.uk/exhibitions/online ... el-alamein

For a while it seemed that Rommel would realise his grand strategic vision of linking up with German forces advancing in the Caucasus and so overrun the whole of the Middle East. The British were forced to conduct a chaotic retreat into Egypt, but were just able to rally their battered army and make a stand at El Alamein. This was a position that, unlike others in the desert, could not be turned by a flanking manoeuvre. It bordered both the sea and the Qattara Depression, a sea of quicksand impassable to mechanised forces.

(Emphasis added.)