Transcript 4/27/16 Jason Collins

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Jason Collins
Firefighter
Tuscon, Ariz.

Jason got an elementary teaching degree and taught for one year; it was the hardest thing he ever did. Now he’d rather run into a burning building than teach.

$500
Shortly after the death of Thomas Edison, President Hoover urged all Americans to do what for one minute in his honor?
A: Turn off their lights B: Talk on their telephones
C: Take a ride in their automobiles D: Operate their cotton gins

Answer

A: Turn off their lights

$1,000
With the most recent season featuring 18 people and one goat living in a house together, “Gran Hermano” is the Spanish version of what reality show?
A: The Voice B: Dancing with the Stars
C: Top Chef D: Big Brother

Answer

D: Big Brother

$2,000
Flagging them as prime opportunities to save a little cash, HowStuffWorks.com lists cereal and medicine as two of its “10 Items You Should Always Buy” how?
A: Used B: Generic
C: On the black market D: With $100 bills

Answer

B: Generic

Commercial break

$3,000
According to legend, what snack treat was invented in 1853, after Cornelius Vanderbilt complained to a Saratoga Springs chef that his fries were too thick?
A: Tater tots B: Potato chips
C: Potato latkes D: Potato salad

Answer

B: Potato chips

$5,000
In what Destiny’s Child hit were the poor financial planning skills of a boyfriend lamented?
A: Charges, Charges, Charges B: Bills, Bills, Bills
C: Taxes, Taxes, Taxes D: Debt, Debt, Debt

ATA

A: 5% B: 76% C: 3% D: 16%

Answer

B: Bills, Bills, Bills

$7,000
The B&O Railroad Museum is located not in Ohio, but in what other U.S. state hinted at in its name?
A: New Jersey B: Pennsylvania
C: Maryland D: Kentucky

+1

Jason thinks it’s Maryland, but it’s a guess, so he uses his +1.
Jason’s +1 Craig is a friend and co-worker, and a Jeopardy! champion.
Craig knows from playing Monopoly that B&O stands for Baltimore & Ohio.

Answer

C: Maryland

Commercial break

$10,000
A classic 1902 work by Joseph Conrad ends with the description of a river that “seemed to lead into the heart of an immense” what?
A: Mountain B: Snowfall
C: Tranquility D: Darkness

Answer

D: Darkness

$20,000
The world’s first democratically-elected female head of state, Vigdís Finnbogdóttir became president of what country in 1980?
A: Iceland B: Denmark
C: Sweden D: Belgium

50/50

50/50 leaves Iceland and Denmark.

Answer

A: Iceland

Commercial break

QotD
The characters on what teen drama series are tormented by a mysterious figure known only as “A”?
A: Gossip Girl B: The Carrie Diaries
C: Pretty Little Liars D: The Fosters

Answer

C: Pretty Little Liars

$30,000
In March 2015, Christie’s auction house sold a Sercial 1790 for almost $4,000. What’s a Sercial 1790?
A: A designer handbag B: A 24-karat gold wristwatch
C: A bottle of Portuguese wine D: An early U.S. coin

Spoiler

Jason reasons that designer handbags and gold watches often cost more than $4,000, even when new. Sercial suggests serial numbers on money, so he goes with the coin.

Answer

C: A bottle of Portuguese wine
Jason wins $5,000.

[jarnon]

Jason’s +1 Craig is a friend and co-worker, and a Jeopardy! champion.

I think this is Craig Westphal, who won $116,601 in 2006 and another $10,000 in the 2007 Tournament of Champions.

$20,000
The world’s first democratically-elected female head of state, Vigdís Finnbogdóttir became president of what country in 1980?
A: Iceland B: Denmark
C: Sweden D: Belgium

50/50

50/50 leaves Iceland and Denmark.

Answer

A: Iceland

Earlier and better known female leaders like Indira Ghandi and Golda Meir were Prime Ministers, not heads of state. Isabel Perón was Vice President when President Juan Perón died in 1974. (Unlike her contemporary Gerald Ford, Isabel had been Juan's running mate, so you could say she was democratically elected.) Other female Presidents like Corazón Aquino were elected later. (I don't know any others with accent marks to annoy Ed.)

[ne1410s]

In Iceland, all males last names must end in "son" and all females end with "dottir."

[jarnon]

In Iceland, all males last names must end in "son" and all females end with "dottir."

Also, the other countries don't have Presidents (I've visited all three).

[ghostjmf]

5K: Bills makes best title to me, but I don't know song. ATA

20K: Name is Icelandic form for last names.

30K: Ruled out handbag & watch by price criteria. 50/50. Which will leave wine & coin. ATA

[K.P.]

In Iceland, all males last names must end in "son" and all females end with "dottir."

Isn't that true of Sweden as well though?

[silvercamaro]

In Iceland, all males last names must end in "son" and all females end with "dottir."

Isn't that true of Sweden as well though?

No. While some Swedish last names end in "son" (Peterson and Larson, for example), the majority of last names are based on an ancestor's occupation, geographical location or appearance, just as in the rest of Europe. Swedish names may have lots of syllables, umlauts and/or other diacritical marks, but the only ones that end in "dottir" usually prove to be immigrants from Iceland. . .or Denmark, which is more likely to be the first destination of Icelandic travelers to Scandinavia.

I'm no authority on last names around the world, but I did have a Swedish grandfather named Magnus (with an umlaut over the u) whose last name lost its own umlaut when he came through Ellis Island to the U.S. In addition, for reasons that escape even me, I read a lot of Icelandic novels.

[earendel]

Jason Collins
Firefighter
Tuscon, Ariz.

Jason got an elementary teaching degree and taught for one year; it was the hardest thing he ever did. Now he’d rather run into a burning building than teach.

$30,000
In March 2015, Christie’s auction house sold a Sercial 1790 for almost $4,000. What’s a Sercial 1790?
A: A designer handbag B: A 24-karat gold wristwatch
C: A bottle of Portuguese wine D: An early U.S. coin

Spoiler

Jason reasons that designer handbags and gold watches often cost more than $4,000, even when new. Sercial suggests serial numbers on money, so he goes with the coin.

Answer

C: A bottle of Portuguese wine
Jason wins $5,000.

No idea, and I don't know if lifelines would help, but I'll use them, starting with ATA.

[SportsFan68]

$3,000
According to legend, what snack treat was invented in 1853, after Cornelius Vanderbilt complained to a Saratoga Springs chef that his fries were too thick?
A: Tater tots B: Potato chips
C: Potato latkes D: Potato salad

Answer

B: Potato chips

Mom had a book called Why Did They Name It .. . Potato chips were called Saratoga Chips for a long time.

$5,000
In what Destiny’s Child hit were the poor financial planning skills of a boyfriend lamented?
A: Charges, Charges, Charges B: Bills, Bills, Bills
C: Taxes, Taxes, Taxes D: Debt, Debt, Debt

ATA

A: 5% B: 76% C: 3% D: 16%

Answer

B: Bills, Bills, Bills

ATA

$30,000
In March 2015, Christie’s auction house sold a Sercial 1790 for almost $4,000. What’s a Sercial 1790?
A: A designer handbag B: A 24-karat gold wristwatch
C: A bottle of Portuguese wine D: An early U.S. coin

Spoiler

Jason reasons that designer handbags and gold watches often cost more than $4,000, even when new. Sercial suggests serial numbers on money, so he goes with the coin.

Answer

C: A bottle of Portuguese wine
Jason wins $5,000.

50/50

[Estonut]

$3,000
According to legend, what snack treat was invented in 1853, after Cornelius Vanderbilt complained to a Saratoga Springs chef that his fries were too thick?
A: Tater tots B: Potato chips
C: Potato latkes D: Potato salad

Answer

B: Potato chips

Mom had a book called Why Did They Name It .. . Potato chips were called Saratoga Chips for a long time

Spoiler

The Travel Channel recently re-ran an episode of "Mysteries at the Museum" which included this story. They said he had complained that the chef's specialty potatoes were too thick and too soft.

Pissed off, the chef decided to teach him a lesson. He sliced some potatoes as thinly as he could, fried them to a crisp and then salted the hell out of them. Expecting him to blow up, he was gobsmacked when CV found them delicious.

[ghostjmf]

I don't know if it was featured in the Travel Channel program, but a program I saw on some channel long ago cites potato chips as being invented by an African American, as the chef in question was a mixture of, if, I'm remembering it right, African American, Native American & probably European descent.

[ghostjmf]

debunkifying link: http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php ... tato-chip/

George (Speck) Crum (the chef) is for real, but, as with all great stories, tracing the chips directly to him doesn't completely stick. Article wonders, among other things, why he left it out of his own biography (he eventually owned his own restaurant). Maybe because he wanted to be remembered as chef?

[Estonut]

I don't know if it was featured in the Travel Channel program, but a program I saw on some channel long ago cites potato chips as being invented by an African American, as the chef in question was a mixture of, if, I'm remembering it right, African American, Native American & probably European descent.

The show didn't mention his heritage, but the actor cast for the re-enactment definitely was at least part African-American.