Transcript 04/27/15 Charlie Blatt

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Charlie Blatt
Scarsdale, NY

Charlie auditioned for the show seven days after her 18th birthday.

Question 1 – With names like “Lennon, Balzac and Caravaggio, most of the craters on Mercury pay tribute to famous, musicians, authors and whom?
A. Emperors
B. Artist
C. Popes
D. Mob Bosses

Charlie is thinking

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artist

, but isn’t 100% sure.

+1

Charlie’s Plus One is her debate coach, Mr. Vaughn.

Mr. Vaughn says he believes Charlie is right with her guess, because

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Caravaggio is a painter, Balzac is a writer and Lennon is a singer

.

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B. Artist
$500
Bank - $500

Question 2 – Celebrating their local fauna, cars’ license plates in the Canadian Northwest Territories are shaped like what?
A. Penguins
B. Siberian tigers
C. Sea turtles
D. Polar bears

Charlie says that

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Siberian tigers and sea turtles

aren’t in Northwest Canada.
She then goes on to say the problem is that both

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penguins and polar bears

could be in the Canadian Northwest Territories.
She doesn’t think the audience would know this one, so she decides to JTQ.

JTQ

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D. Polar bears
$5K
Bank - $500

Question 3 – What long-running television show has mercilessly killed off one of its main characters nearly 100 different times? You bastards!
A. Two and a Half Men
B. Grey’s Anatomy
C. South Park
D. American Idol

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C. South Park
$10K
Bank - $10,500

commercial break

Question 4 – Before his untimely death, Tupac Shakur was reportedly engaged to the older sister of what actress?
A. Gabourey Sidibe
B. Amy Adams
C. Jessica Alba
D. Rashida Jones

ATA

ATA results

13% A. Gabourey Sidibe
2% B. Amy Adams
16% C. Jessica Alba
69% D. Rashida Jones

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D. Rashida Jones
$2K
Bank - $12,500

Question 5 – In the 1830’s, Englishmen John Wheeley Lea and William Henry Perrins invented what condiment, known to the Spanish as “salsa inglesa”?
A. Tartar sauce
B. Mayonnaise
C. Worcestershire sauce
D. Ketchup

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C. Worcestershire sauce
$3K
Bank - $15,500

commercial break

Question 6 – George Gallop rose to fame when his presidential poll contradicted a rival’s that predicted a landslide for Alf Landon over whom?
A. Franklin D. Roosevelt
B. Dwight D. Eisenhower
C. Teddy Roosevelt
D. John F. Kennedy

Charlie can rule out

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Eisenhower, because he ran against Adlai Stevenson and Kennedy, because he ran against Nixon

.
She says

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FDR ran against Hoover, but she doesn’t know who Teddy ran against, so Charlie makes Teddy Roosevelt her final answer.

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A. Franklin D. Roosevelt
Charlie leaves with $1K

end of show, no noise

[Estonut]

Question 2 – Celebrating their local fauna, cars’ license plates in the Canadian Northwest Territories are shaped like what?
A. Penguins
B. Siberian tigers
C. Sea turtles
D. Polar bears

Charlie says that

Spoiler

Siberian tigers and sea turtles

aren’t in Northwest Canada.
She then goes on to say the problem is that both

Spoiler

penguins and polar bears

could be in the Canadian Northwest Territories.
She doesn’t think the audience would know this one, so she decides to JTQ.

JTQ

Spoiler

D. Polar bears
$5K
Bank - $500

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Kind of presumptuous (and insulting) to assume a majority of the audience wouldn't know there aren't any penguins in Canada.

[SportsFan68]

This contestant drove me crazy. I always want the contestants to do well, but I was relieved when she went out.

Question 2 – Celebrating their local fauna, cars’ license plates in the Canadian Northwest Territories are shaped like what?
A. Penguins
B. Siberian tigers
C. Sea turtles
D. Polar bears

Charlie says that

Spoiler

Siberian tigers and sea turtles

aren’t in Northwest Canada.
She then goes on to say the problem is that both

Spoiler

penguins and polar bears

could be in the Canadian Northwest Territories.
She doesn’t think the audience would know this one, so she decides to JTQ.

JTQ

Spoiler

D. Polar bears
$5K
Bank - $500

AARGH! Polar bears in the north, penguins in the south. Aargh!

Question 3 – What long-running television show has mercilessly killed off one of its main characters nearly 100 different times? You bastards!
A. Two and a Half Men
B. Grey’s Anatomy
C. South Park
D. American Idol

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C. South Park
$10K
Bank - $10,500

LB and that stupid possum live! And they killed Kenny!

Question 4 – Before his untimely death, Tupac Shakur was reportedly engaged to the older sister of what actress?
A. Gabourey Sidibe
B. Amy Adams
C. Jessica Alba
D. Rashida Jones

ATA

ATA results

13% A. Gabourey Sidibe
2% B. Amy Adams
16% C. Jessica Alba
69% D. Rashida Jones

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D. Rashida Jones
$2K
Bank - $12,500

ATA

Question 6 – George Gallop rose to fame when his presidential poll contradicted a rival’s that predicted a landslide for Alf Landon over whom?
A. Franklin D. Roosevelt
B. Dwight D. Eisenhower
C. Teddy Roosevelt
D. John F. Kennedy

Charlie can rule out

Spoiler

Eisenhower, because he ran against Adlai Stevenson and Kennedy, because he ran against Nixon

.
She says

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FDR ran against Hoover, but she doesn’t know who Teddy ran against, so Charlie makes Teddy Roosevelt her final answer.

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A. Franklin D. Roosevelt
Charlie leaves with $1K

I thought I'd seen an old news clip of Landon's concession speech, but I couldn't find it. I must be confusing it with something else. I did find his speech where he accepted the Republican nomination -- very powerful stuff.

[earendel]

Charlie Blatt
Scarsdale, NY

Charlie auditioned for the show seven days after her 18th birthday.

Question 4 – Before his untimely death, Tupac Shakur was reportedly engaged to the older sister of what actress?
A. Gabourey Sidibe
B. Amy Adams
C. Jessica Alba
D. Rashida Jones

ATA

ATA results

13% A. Gabourey Sidibe
2% B. Amy Adams
16% C. Jessica Alba
69% D. Rashida Jones

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D. Rashida Jones
$2K
Bank - $12,500

I'd have to JTQ also.

[TheConfessor]

Question 2 – Celebrating their local fauna, cars’ license plates in the Canadian Northwest Territories are shaped like what?
A. Penguins
B. Siberian tigers
C. Sea turtles
D. Polar bears

Charlie says that

Spoiler

Siberian tigers and sea turtles

aren’t in Northwest Canada.
She then goes on to say the problem is that both

Spoiler

penguins and polar bears

could be in the Canadian Northwest Territories.
She doesn’t think the audience would know this one, so she decides to JTQ.

JTQ

Spoiler

D. Polar bears
$5K
Bank - $500

Spoiler

Kind of presumptuous (and insulting) to assume a majority of the audience wouldn't know there aren't any penguins in Canada.

I agree. I found her pretty annoying and full of herself. She managed to answer 2 of 6 questions correctly on her own, so maybe that's better than average for an 18 year old. Casting people like this is good for the show's budget.

[ghostjmf]

Q4: No idea. ATA & pray.

Q6: Despite having recently watched the Ken Burns documentary on the Roosevelts, I couldn't remember who Teddy or Franklin ran against in their various years. Well, OK, I can remember Teddy coming back to unsuccessfully run against Taft, but that's not relevant here. However, I knew Eisenhower ran against Adlai Stevenson, twice I believe, & Kennedy against Nixon. And I know Gallup wasn't around as a poller during the Teddy years. And neither was Landon old enough to run at that time. So it has to be Franklin R.


Comment on contestant, who seems to have rubbed some of us the wrong way: She's no more full of herself than some other bad players. Just younger. I would cut her some slack for her youth. But she didn't even get the pop culture Q without help, as it was probably from "before her time". (I don't have that excuse; I just didn't know. Or care, unless you were suddenly to pay me to know, as BAM has a habit of doing with Qs like this.)


We all, we who try to get on, have to take a test to get to the interview. With some contestants, its just hard to believe they even passed the test. At my most recent test-taking I can't say they picked out people & just gave them a pretend-pass. There was a young woman at my test-taking table who didn't pass, & therefore didn't get to the interview, though her boyfriend did. And she was a lot more trivia savvy, as well as being eye-candy for the potential youth audience, than some who have apparently passed, because they got on the show. Who knows?

[Estonut]

Comment on contestant, who seems to have rubbed some of us the wrong way: She's no more full of herself than some other bad players. Just younger. I would cut her some slack for her youth.

It doesn't bother me when young people don't know stuff. I commented because she didn't have a clue as to the (simple) answer, yet went ahead to doubt that the audience would, too. She should have kept that thought to herself.

The "that was before my time" excuse, however, irks me. These people are in the internet age. We (geezers) didn't have that growing up. This excuse implies that no on should ever get a history question right.

[ghostjmf]

Estonut:

You know that stuff you lived through, if you were old enough to pay attention & were, makes a bigger impression than stuff you heard/read etc about.

[MarleysGh0st]

Question 2 – Celebrating their local fauna, cars’ license plates in the Canadian Northwest Territories are shaped like what?
A. Penguins
B. Siberian tigers
C. Sea turtles
D. Polar bears

Charlie says that

Spoiler

Siberian tigers and sea turtles

aren’t in Northwest Canada.
She then goes on to say the problem is that both

Spoiler

penguins and polar bears

could be in the Canadian Northwest Territories.
She doesn’t think the audience would know this one, so she decides to JTQ.

JTQ

Spoiler

D. Polar bears
$5K
Bank - $500

Spoiler

Kind of presumptuous (and insulting) to assume a majority of the audience wouldn't know there aren't any penguins in Canada.

I agree. I found her pretty annoying and full of herself. She managed to answer 2 of 6 questions correctly on her own, so maybe that's better than average for an 18 year old. Casting people like this is good for the show's budget.

Being clueless is not being presumptuous and insulting. If she had any idea that penguins were an Antarctic species, she'd have never needed that lifeline.

Congratulations to her for getting cast on this show, which so many of us have failed to do. While her youth made her a desirable contestant, some more life experience might have made her a more successful one.

[earendel]

Congratulations to her for getting cast on this show, which so many of us have failed to do. While her youth made her a desirable contestant, some more life experience might have made her a more successful one.

I'm not so sure they want "successful". They seem to give contestants the big bucks up front and then wait for them to either fail and take the $1K or leave with half the bank.