Transcript 02/02/15 Justin Peters

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Justin Peters
Lake Bluff, IL

Justin’s +1 is his good friend, Kelly.

Question 1 – Unless you’re doing it as a “signal of imminent danger,” in New York City it’s illegal to do what while driving?
A. Flip the bird at other drivers
B. Honk your horn
C. Use your windshield wipers
D. Sing along to your car stereo

Spoiler

B. Honk your horn
$15K
Bank - $15K

Question 2 – If you want to know why minutes and seconds are in units of 60, you have to go back 4,000 years, when some ancient cultures used what counting system?
A. Nonary
B. Sexagesimal
C. Octal
D. Pentatridecimal

Spoiler

B. Sexagesimal
$10K
Bank - $25K

Question 3 – Nothing to be afraid of, the servers in your Rainforest Café are actually referring to a cake when you hear them yell what?
A. “Volcano!”
B. “Tornado!”
C. “Earthquake!”
D. “Typhoon!”

Spoiler

A. “Volcano!”
$500
Bank - $25,500

Question 4 – Alabama, California, New Mexico and Maryland are the only four states whose flags do NOT have what?
A. The color blue
B. An animal
C. Their state seal
D. Stripes

JTQ

Spoiler

A. The color blue
$2K
Bank - $25,500

commercial break

Question 5 – Standing 5’8” in height, Connie Britton joked about losing out to Renée Zellweger for a role in what Tom Cruise movie, saying, “maybe I was too tall”?
A. Top Gun
B. Mission: Impossible
C. Jerry Maguire
D. Risky Business

Spoiler

C. Jerry Maguire
$100
Bank - $25,600

Question 6 – Bought for just $19.95, whose weapon did Life magazine call “the most infamous mail-order gun of all time?
A. John Hinckley
B. David Berkowitz
C. Mark David Chapman
D. Lee Harvey Oswald


ATA

ATA results

9% A. John Hinckley
11% B. David Berkowitz
13% C. Mark David Chapman
67% D. Lee Harvey Oswald

+1

Justin: So what do you think?
Do you think I’m right to say it’s probably not

Spoiler

D

? A rifle, even in, like, the

Spoiler

‘60s

would cost more than $19.95, right?

Kelly: Well, All right, when this question first came up, that was my first thought. Let’s talk through it. You want to talk through it?

Justin: Let’s talk through it.

Kelly: All right, great. So John Hinckley shot at Reagan, right?

Justin: He did. He did.

Kelly: Do we think Life magazine was a thing in the ‘80s? That could be a clue.

Justin: Yeah, it was still a thing. It was still around. And Mark David Chapman Shot Lennon.

Kelly: Well, he bought his gun in like, Hawaii.

Justin: He did?

Kelly: I don’t know why I know that.

Justin: That’s actually true?

Kelly: Yes, this 4’11” woman you brought knows a lot about guns. Um, now. Lets see. David Berkowitz is - - he’s the Son of Sam. Right?

Justin: Yeah, right, Son of Sam. And no one knows anything about the guns he used or even if he did use guns, so, um,

Spoiler

it’s not him and it’s not Chapman

.

Kelly: It’s not

Spoiler

Chapman

.

Justin: John Hinckley’s got - - wouldn’t be infamous, right?

Kelly: I just feel like - - and forgive me - - , but I feel like it’s more infamous if a person dies. Is that terrible? What a terrible thing to say.

Justin: You’re a terrible person. What is wrong with you?

Terry: No, she’s not. She’s your Plus One. She’s a wonderful person.

Justin: Yeah, you’re my Plus One.

Kelly: Infamy, I mean …

Justin: Yeah

Kelly: I don’t want to steer you wrong. You’re one of my best friends, but I think it’s

Spoiler

D

.

Spoiler

D. Lee Harvey Oswald
$25K
Bank - $50,600

commercial break

Question 7 – Which of these musicians’ names includes an adjective that could also describe an early job he had as an accordion repo man?
A. Lil Wayne
B. Dizzy Gillespie
C. Young Jeezy
D. Weird Al Yankovic

Justin makes Weird Al Yankovic his final answer, because an accordion repo man is an extremely weird job.

Spoiler

D. Weird Al Yankovic
$3K
Bank - $53,600

Question 8 – If you like seeing friends just as much as you like staying home to watch TV, you might be neither an introvert nor extrovert, but a what?
A. Autovert
B. Ambivert
C. Absovert
D. Antivert

Spoiler

B. Ambivert
$1K
Bank - $54,600

commercial break

Question 9 – Helping women slip on something more comfortable after a night in the club, Rollasole operates vending machines in Las Vegas that sell what?
A. Headbands
B. Flat shoes
C. Jeggings
D. Corsets

Spoiler

B. Flat shoes
$5K
Bank - $59,600

end of show noise

Justin will return on tomorrow’s show.

[earendel]

Justin Peters
Lake Bluff, IL

Justin’s +1 is his good friend, Kelly.

Justin reminded me of Leonard from "The Big Bang Theory".

Question 2 – If you want to know why minutes and seconds are in units of 60, you have to go back 4,000 years, when some ancient cultures used what counting system?
A. Nonary
B. Sexagesimal
C. Octal
D. Pentatridecimal

Spoiler

B. Sexagesimal
$10K
Bank - $25K

For the first few questions Justin was very analytical, coming to his final answer through process of elimination.

Question 3 – Nothing to be afraid of, the servers in your Rainforest Café are actually referring to a cake when you hear them yell what?
A. “Volcano!”
B. “Tornado!”
C. “Earthquake!”
D. “Typhoon!”

Spoiler

A. “Volcano!”
$500
Bank - $25,500

elwing is a big fan of Rainforest Cafe.

Question 4 – Alabama, California, New Mexico and Maryland are the only four states whose flags do NOT have what?
A. The color blue
B. An animal
C. Their state seal
D. Stripes

JTQ

Spoiler

A. The color blue
$2K
Bank - $25,500

New Mexico's flag is the one with which I'm most familiar. It has stripes, but no blue. California's flag has an animal but no blue. So that looks like the right answer.

Question 6 – Bought for just $19.95, whose weapon did Life magazine call “the most infamous mail-order gun of all time?
A. John Hinckley
B. David Berkowitz
C. Mark David Chapman
D. Lee Harvey Oswald

ATA

ATA results

9% A. John Hinckley
11% B. David Berkowitz
13% C. Mark David Chapman
67% D. Lee Harvey Oswald

+1

Justin: So what do you think?
Do you think I’m right to say it’s probably not

Spoiler

D

? A rifle, even in, like, the

Spoiler

‘60s

would cost more than $19.95, right?

Kelly: Well, All right, when this question first came up, that was my first thought. Let’s talk through it. You want to talk through it?

Justin: Let’s talk through it.

Kelly: All right, great. So John Hinckley shot at Reagan, right?

Justin: He did. He did.

Kelly: Do we think Life magazine was a thing in the ‘80s? That could be a clue.

Justin: Yeah, it was still a thing. It was still around. And Mark David Chapman Shot Lennon.

Kelly: Well, he bought his gun in like, Hawaii.

Justin: He did?

Kelly: I don’t know why I know that.

Justin: That’s actually true?

Kelly: Yes, this 4’11” woman you brought knows a lot about guns. Um, now. Lets see. David Berkowitz is - - he’s the Son of Sam. Right?

Justin: Yeah, right, Son of Sam. And no one knows anything about the guns he used or even if he did use guns, so, um,

Spoiler

it’s not him and it’s not Chapman

.

Kelly: It’s not

Spoiler

Chapman

.

Justin: John Hinckley’s got - - wouldn’t be infamous, right?

Kelly: I just feel like - - and forgive me - - , but I feel like it’s more infamous if a person dies. Is that terrible? What a terrible thing to say.

Justin: You’re a terrible person. What is wrong with you?

Terry: No, she’s not. She’s your Plus One. She’s a wonderful person.

Justin: Yeah, you’re my Plus One.

Kelly: Infamy, I mean …

Justin: Yeah

Kelly: I don’t want to steer you wrong. You’re one of my best friends, but I think it’s

Spoiler

D

.

Spoiler

D. Lee Harvey Oswald
$25K
Bank - $50,600

I guess being old enough to have lived through the JFK assassination and its aftermath helps a lot with this question.

Question 7 – Which of these musicians’ names includes an adjective that could also describe an early job he had as an accordion repo man?
A. Lil Wayne
B. Dizzy Gillespie
C. Young Jeezy
D. Weird Al Yankovic

Justin makes Weird Al Yankovic his final answer, because an accordion repo man is an extremely weird job.

Spoiler

D. Weird Al Yankovic
$3K
Bank - $53,600

I thought "yank" was the adjective, but Justin focused on "weird" and also that Al is an accordion virtuoso.

[Kazoo65]

I really liked him and thought he got an easy stack.

Spoiler

I saw today's show, where he starts things. He got what I thought was a really overvalued $100K question that any BB would immediately know the answer to-I did. The next two he got were doozies.

[SportsFan68]

Question 6 – Bought for just $19.95, whose weapon did Life magazine call “the most infamous mail-order gun of all time?
A. John Hinckley
B. David Berkowitz
C. Mark David Chapman
D. Lee Harvey Oswald


ATA

ATA results

9% A. John Hinckley
11% B. David Berkowitz
13% C. Mark David Chapman
67% D. Lee Harvey Oswald

+1

Justin: So what do you think?
Do you think I’m right to say it’s probably not

Spoiler

D

? A rifle, even in, like, the

Spoiler

‘60s

would cost more than $19.95, right?

Kelly: Well, All right, when this question first came up, that was my first thought. Let’s talk through it. You want to talk through it?

Justin: Let’s talk through it.

Kelly: All right, great. So John Hinckley shot at Reagan, right?

Justin: He did. He did.

Kelly: Do we think Life magazine was a thing in the ‘80s? That could be a clue.

Justin: Yeah, it was still a thing. It was still around. And Mark David Chapman Shot Lennon.

Kelly: Well, he bought his gun in like, Hawaii.

Justin: He did?

Kelly: I don’t know why I know that.

Justin: That’s actually true?

Kelly: Yes, this 4’11” woman you brought knows a lot about guns. Um, now. Lets see. David Berkowitz is - - he’s the Son of Sam. Right?

Justin: Yeah, right, Son of Sam. And no one knows anything about the guns he used or even if he did use guns, so, um,

Spoiler

it’s not him and it’s not Chapman

.

Kelly: It’s not

Spoiler

Chapman

.

Justin: John Hinckley’s got - - wouldn’t be infamous, right?

Kelly: I just feel like - - and forgive me - - , but I feel like it’s more infamous if a person dies. Is that terrible? What a terrible thing to say.

Justin: You’re a terrible person. What is wrong with you?

Terry: No, she’s not. She’s your Plus One. She’s a wonderful person.

Justin: Yeah, you’re my Plus One.

Kelly: Infamy, I mean …

Justin: Yeah

Kelly: I don’t want to steer you wrong. You’re one of my best friends, but I think it’s

Spoiler

D

.

Spoiler

D. Lee Harvey Oswald
$25K
Bank - $50,600

JTQ

Question 7 – Which of these musicians’ names includes an adjective that could also describe an early job he had as an accordion repo man?
A. Lil Wayne
B. Dizzy Gillespie
C. Young Jeezy
D. Weird Al Yankovic

Justin makes Weird Al Yankovic his final answer, because an accordion repo man is an extremely weird job.

Spoiler

D. Weird Al Yankovic
$3K
Bank - $53,600

Plus One

[jarnon]

I guess being old enough to have lived through the JFK assassination and its aftermath helps a lot with this question.

I also remember the Life magazine photo:



Justin didn't, but he used lifelines and logic to figure it out. WTG!

[TheConfessor]

New Mexico's flag is the one with which I'm most familiar. It has stripes, but no blue.

You call these "stripes"? Well, maybe. I guess I'd try to make that case if I had to.

[SportsFan68]

New Mexico's flag is the one with which I'm most familiar. It has stripes, but no blue.

You call these "stripes"? Well, maybe. I guess I'd try to make that case if I had to.

I looked at all four, and two of the quarters on Maryland's flag are definitely stripes. California has one stripe across the bottom, so I guess that doesn't count as "stripeS," but Maryland removes all doubt.

[MarleysGh0st]

New Mexico's flag is the one with which I'm most familiar. It has stripes, but no blue.

You call these "stripes"? Well, maybe. I guess I'd try to make that case if I had to.

Read the question more closely:

Question 4 – Alabama, California, New Mexico and Maryland are the only four states whose flags do NOT have what?

It doesn't say that these flags all have the other choices. In fact, one or more of these states might be missing one or more of these choices, as long as there's at least one other state which is also missing animals, state seals, and/or stripes.

A very challenging "NOT" question.

[MarleysGh0st]

Justin Peters
Lake Bluff, IL

They said that Justin is a beer vendor at a sports stadium. (And I could easily see why his personality got the Happy E-mail from TPTB.) Aside from that, he also writes a blog for Slate.

http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/201 ... riter.html

[MarleysGh0st]

Justin reminded me of Leonard from "The Big Bang Theory".

Perhaps. Or like Eugene Levy with a bit more hair.

[TheConfessor]

New Mexico's flag is the one with which I'm most familiar. It has stripes, but no blue.

You call these "stripes"? Well, maybe. I guess I'd try to make that case if I had to.

Read the question more closely:

Question 4 – Alabama, California, New Mexico and Maryland are the only four states whose flags do NOT have what?

It doesn't say that these flags all have the other choices. In fact, one or more of these states might be missing one or more of these choices, as long as there's at least one other state which is also missing animals, state seals, and/or stripes.

A very challenging "NOT" question.

I was responding to earendel's statement about New Mexico's flag, which I quoted.

[Estonut]

Justin reminded me of Leonard from "The Big Bang Theory".

Perhaps. Or like Eugene Levy with a bit more hair.

Or Fred Armisen:

[ghostjmf]

Best contestant we've seen in a long, long time, despite his personality quirks (which I'll bet were what got him cast, not his obvious talent for the game).

I didn't see this day's show because Boston area was doing Snow Stuff; I saw him the next day, which is where my comments are from.

Q3: I've heard of a volcano cake, I think, but have never been to Rainbow Cafe. ATA

Q4: I'm screwed on this. I know Cal has that bear, & that NM has that sun-symbol which I guess qualifies as stripes, but I'm blanking on AL & MD. And am thrown by Georgia's disgusting highway signs (I've driven there a lot in past years) reminding people to fasten their seat belts, with the belt on sign arranged to look like the Confed flag. But I think those signs are supposed to remind people of GA's flag. But are red, white & blue. But should having nothing to do with AL's flag. Anyway, I've confused myself.

I think the Cal flag has the state seal. But am unsure. STQ

Q6: By this time I'm disgusted enough with myself just to "go for it" on Oswald's rife; yes, I was alive at the time, but don't remember reading what it cost! However, I think I remembered it was mail-order, & anyway Kennedy's murder "rates" even over John Lennon's.

[TheConfessor]

And am thrown by Georgia's disgusting highway signs (I've driven there a lot in past years) reminding people to fasten their seat belts, with the belt on sign arranged to look like the Confed flag.

I guess "disgusting" is in the eye of the beholder.

[ghostjmf]

There used to be stars on the belt, & belt segments crossed to better resemble that flag. I remember doing a double take when I first saw it; the message to "buckle up" was clearly 2ndary. They seem to have cleaned it up a bit. I'll research this when I'm back at a real computer.