Transcript 10/30/2015 - Mark Pagliarulo (carryover)

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BUCKET WEEK final day.

Mark Pagliarulo
Salem, MA

Mark fell in love with video games at age 7 and wants to have his own private arcade. He grew up north of Boston in a beach town with lots of arcades, mechanical games and early video games. He wants a building for his own. Mark has reached the $5,000 plateau and has his ATA and +1 lifelines remaining.

$7000: Like Nik Wallenda did on his trek across the Grand Canyon, tightrope walkers will often carry a long pole to lower their what?
A - center of gravity
B - terminal velocity
C - heart rate
D - wind resistance

Spoiler

Answer: A (center of gravity)

$10,000: Granted in 1876, the UK's first registered trademark, featuring a single triangle, belongs to whom?
A - Barclay's
B - British Petroleum
C - Bass Ale
D - Bunberry

Spoiler

Answer: C (Bass Ale)

$20,000: With a plot that hinges on a fight about water, what classic LA film did Marketwatch recently call "perhaps more timely than ever"?
A - Rebel Without a Cause
B - The Graduate
C - Valley of the Dolls
D - Chinatown

Spoiler

Answer: D (Chinatown)

$30,000: The word "scavenger" comes from an Old English term used to refer to what occupation?
A - tax collector
B - lawyer
C - gravedigger
D - bounty hunter

Mark says he's going to put his trust in the audience.

Spoiler

Ask the Audience results:
A - 26%
B - 3%
C - 46%
D - 25%

Mark thinks that's a pretty good indicator but he thinks he's seen this question before and the answer was

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bounty hunter

. He calls for his +1, his wife Eileen. She notes that

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"C is digging a grave, not robbing it"

. He's not sure so he decides to walk away.

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Answer: A (tax collector)

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[earendel]

BUCKET WEEK final day.

Mark Pagliarulo
Salem, MA

Mark fell in love with video games at age 7 and wants to have his own private arcade. He grew up north of Boston in a beach town with lots of arcades, mechanical games and early video games. He wants a building for his own. Mark has reached the $5,000 plateau and has his ATA and +1 lifelines remaining.

$10,000: Granted in 1876, the UK's first registered trademark, featuring a single triangle, belongs to whom?
A - Barclay's
B - British Petroleum
C - Bass Ale
D - Bunberry

Spoiler

Answer: C (Bass Ale)

I know it's not BP but that's all I can rule out, so I'll try my 50:50 and hope that B is one of the remaining answers.

$30,000: The word "scavenger" comes from an Old English term used to refer to what occupation?
A - tax collector
B - lawyer
C - gravedigger
D - bounty hunter

Mark says he's going to put his trust in the audience.

Spoiler

Ask the Audience results:
A - 26%
B - 3%
C - 46%
D - 25%

Mark thinks that's a pretty good indicator but he thinks he's seen this question before and the answer was

Spoiler

bounty hunter

. He calls for his +1, his wife Eileen. She notes that

Spoiler

C is digging a grave, not robbing it"

. He's not sure so he decides to walk away.

Spoiler

Answer: A (tax collector)

I associate the word "scavenger" with someone picking through junk to find a treasure. So it's not "lawyer" and it's not "bounty hunter". I agree with Eileen that "gravedigger" is not "grave robber", so I go with A.

[ghostjmf]

10K: Think I've seen triangle on Bass. 50/50 to be surer.

30K: Pick A as best of all bad choices, to me.

[SportsFan68]

Let's pretend it's so far, so good.

$10,000: Granted in 1876, the UK's first registered trademark, featuring a single triangle, belongs to whom?
A - Barclay's
B - British Petroleum
C - Bass Ale
D - Bunberry

Spoiler

Answer: C (Bass Ale)

Absolutely no idea. ATA and pray.

[ghostjmf]

going through my head is the Robert Burns song

"the de'l's awa, the de'l's awa, the de'l's awa the excise man"

pronounced "ex-cise" in the pattern of the song.

Its in Broad Scots; in English it would be

"The devil's away with the excise man"

Even in folksong its never been "scavenger".