Transcript 4/30/2014 Hazel Spears (carryover)

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Hazel Spears
Philadelphia, PA
Psychology professor

$18600 banked and no lifelines remaining

Topic Tree: (Randomized shown only)
New Ideas
Too Pretty to Forget
Apple a Day
(jumped)
$500
$2000
$1000
(jumped)
$15000
$100

Question 8 - Apple a Day
As History.com has noted, children's books about Johnny Appleseed often don't mention that much of his fruit was used to make what?
A. Table decorations B. Alcohol
C. Compost D. Paper

Answer and value

B. Alcohol
Value: $500
Bank: $23600

Question 9- Too Pretty to Forget
In 2013, Brad Pitt claimed the reason he never remembers anyone he meets is because he has undiagnosed facial blindness, or what?
A. Prosopagnosia B. Paronomasia
C. Parasthesia D. Preeclampsia

Spoiler

Hazel debated A and C much before arriving at a conclusion that it is most likely A and that she did not want to walk on this.

Answer and value

A. Prosopagnosia
Value: $7000
Bank: $30600

Question 10 - New Ideas
According to historical novelist Lindsay Ashford, what author's untimely passing at the age of 41 was the result of arsenic poisoning?
A. Charlotte Bronte B. Jane Austen
C. Louisa May Alcott D. Mary Shelley

Spoiler

Hazel said before the choices she did not think it would be a woman. Who died young? All of those died young those days. She said she read their books but not their autobiographies.
She said she had no idea and would walk.

Answer and value

B. Jane Austen
Value: known to be $10K
Bank: Walk: $15300

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Question 9- Too Pretty to Forget
In 2013, Brad Pitt claimed the reason he never remembers anyone he meets is because he has undiagnosed facial blindness, or what?
A. Prosopagnosia B. Paronomasia
C. Parasthesia D. Preeclampsia

Spoiler

Hazel debated A and C much before arriving at a conclusion that it is most likely A and that she did not want to walk on this.

Answer and value

A. Prosopagnosia
Value: $7000
Bank: $30600

ATA, then leave. WWOQ.

Question 10 - New Ideas
According to historical novelist Lindsay Ashford, what author's untimely passing at the age of 41 was the result of arsenic poisoning?
A. Charlotte Bronte B. Jane Austen
C. Louisa May Alcott D. Mary Shelley

Spoiler

Hazel said before the choices she did not think it would be a woman. Who died young? All of those died young those days. She said she read their books but not their autobiographies.
She said she had no idea and would walk.

Answer and value

B. Jane Austen
Value: known to be $10K
Bank: Walk: $15300

Not that I ever see this question, but I dunno this one either.

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Question 8 - Apple a Day
As History.com has noted, children's books about Johnny Appleseed often don't mention that much of his fruit was used to make what?
A. Table decorations B. Alcohol
C. Compost D. Paper

This has been one of my favorite bits of trivia. Apples trees don't breed true from seeds, so most of the apples grown from the seeds he distributed would have been sour and only useful for cider. Most (maybe all) of our moderns apples are from grafted trees.