Transcript 11/04/2014 Isaac Dabkowski (carryover)

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Whiz Kids Week

Isaac Dabkowski
Tucson, AZ

If he wins the million, he would take his family to see his father in the military stationed in Africa.

Bank - $62,600
No lifelines remain

Question 10 -
Of the following, who was not alive at the same time as ANY of the other three?
A. Archiduke Franz Ferdinand B. Ronald Reagan
C. Davy Crockett D. Ariana Grande

Walk

Isaac said he knows A was assassinated at the beginning of World War I and is confident Reagan was born by then, but not sure when Reagan died or of D's birth year.
He said Davy Crockett is the oldest of them but not sure of the years.

Answer and value

C. Davy Crockett (Terry mentioned he died in 1836, 25 years before A was born)
Value: known to be $1000
Bank: $31300 (Walk)

no break before next contestant

[MarleysGh0st]

<sigh>

Isaac should have gotten this. He knew Franz Ferdinand died just before WWI and I'm sure he knew where Crockett died. What he didn't do (at least as far as he verbalized it) was to put some dates on those event and calculate the age F.F. would have to be to overlap the Alamo. I'm sure he'd have concluded that F.F. wasn't 78 when he was shot.

As for myself, I had no idea who Ariana Grande was, but I figured she was some recent celebrity. That was an old Phone Game rule of thumb, right? The one you don't know is probably the most recent! And, therefore, if she didn't overlap Crockett, nobody else did, either.

[smilergrogan]

As for myself, I had no idea who Ariana Grande was, but I figured she was some recent celebrity. That was an old Phone Game rule of thumb, right? The one you don't know is probably the most recent! And, therefore, if she didn't overlap Crockett, nobody else did, either.

Once you know that two overlap, and a third doesn't overlap either of those two, then it doesn't matter who the fourth is. There is a group of three, and a group of one (the correct answer), so if the third person isn't in the group of three (which he can't be because he would have to overlap one of the first two), then he has to be the group of one.

[earendel]

Whiz Kids Week

Isaac Dabkowski
Tucson, AZ

If he wins the million, he would take his family to see his father in the military stationed in Africa.

Bank - $62,600
No lifelines remain

Question 10 -
Of the following, who was not alive at the same time as ANY of the other three?
A. Archiduke Franz Ferdinand B. Ronald Reagan
C. Davy Crockett D. Ariana Grande

Walk

Isaac said he knows A was assassinated at the beginning of World War I and is confident Reagan was born by then, but not sure when Reagan died or of D's birth year.
He said Davy Crockett is the oldest of them but not sure of the years.

Answer and value

C. Davy Crockett (Terry mentioned he died in 1836, 25 years before A was born)
Value: known to be $1000
Bank: $31300 (Walk)

I told elwing that he would probably be a one-and-done. Since Crockett died in 1836, it was only a matter of whether Ferdinand was alive then. I seem to recall that he was fairly young when he was assassinated in 1914, so I'd have gone with Crockett.

[ghostjmf]

I had to read the Q twice to figure out exactly what they were asking. At least the contestant was not in doubt about that. I knew Ariana G. was a recent celeb of some sort, but also that she's probably late teens or early 20s, old enough to have overlapped Reagan. Which leaves "was Franz F. born before the Alamo battle?". I think I would have gone for Crockett rather than using up a lifeline left.