Transcript 11/04/09 Cyrus Condran

[BBTranscriptTeam]

Cyrus Condran
<no job given>
Jonestown, PA

No Category Tree yet

$500
Which of these presidents has a state named after him?
A: Abraham Lincoln B: George Washington
C: Thomas Jefferson D: Dwight D. Eisenhawaii

Spoiler

B: George Washington (6)

$1000
A child who is especially dependent on his mother is said to be "tied to her" what?
A: Kite strings B: Bakery strings
C: Guitar strings D: Apron strings

Spoiler

D: Apron strings (10)

$2000
Polar Bears, African elephants and humpback whales are the stars of an acclaimed documentary with what title?
A: Baseball B: Earth
C: The Civil War D: The Moon

Spoiler

B: Earth (10)

$3000 *Building Materials
An inexpensive building material, particle board is made by pressing together small pieces of what?
A: Wood B: Glass
C: Concrete D: Iron

Spoiler

A: Wood (11)

$5000
Because he is the youngest member of Congress, 28-year-old Rep. Aaron Schock has been frequently compared to what TV character?
A: Sam Malone B: George Costanza
C: Doogie Howser D: Al Bundy

Spoiler

C: Doogie Howser (9)

commercial break

Still no Category Tree

Meredith introduces the Ask the Expert, Joel Stein. Joel is a Time magazine columnist.

$7500
Consumer product packages commonly feature a bar code representing a 12-digit number called a what?
A: UPC B: URL
C: USC D: UAW

Spoiler

A: UPC (23)

Finally the categories

*Published Works
*Mammals
*Electronics
*Geography
*Mythology
*The Oscars
*Unusual Creatures
*Tech Talk
*Baseball
*(Consumer Products)
*(Congressman)
*(Building Materials)
*(Documentaries)
*(Popular Sayings)
*(States of the Union)

$10,000 *Baseball
According to its official ground rules, it's a double if the "baseball sticks in the vines on the bleacher wall" at what major league ballpark?
A: Fenway Park B: Yankee Stadium
C: Wrigley Field D: Dodger Stadium

Spoiler

C: Wrigley Field (24)

$12,500 *Tech Talk
Computer software like the operating system Linux, which can be freely redistributed and modified by its users, is known as what?
A: Open source B: Forward use
C: Clear channel D: Unified access

At 23 seconds, Cyrus uses ATA

ATA Results

A- 70%, B- 6%, C- 9%, D- 15%

Spoiler

A: Open source (22)

$15,000 *Unusual Creatures
A rare and possibly legendary animal, the acid-spitting Mongolian death worm is believed to live in what inhospitable location?
A: Himalayas B: Siberia
C: Kalahari desert D: Gobi desert

At 19 seconds, Cyrus uses the Ask the Expert.

Joel Smith doesn't real have much of an idea and asks if there are any sports or music questions he can help with. Joel leans towards Himalayas and wants to eliminate Siberia but is really unsure.

At 18 seconds, Cyrus uses his Double Dip

Cyrus' first guess is

Spoiler

D: Gobi desert

Spoiler

D: Gobi desert (18)

Commercial break

$25,000 *The Oscars
What is the only documentary ever to win an Oscar for Best Original Song?
A: Buena Vista Social Club B: An Inconvenient Truth
C: When We Were Kings D: March of the Penguins


At 23 seconds, Cyrus uses his Phone A Friend

Cyrus' PAF team:

Enrique- Chadler, AZ
Judd- Annville, PA
Lori- Hondo, TX

Cyrus calls his brother Judd.

Judd says Cyrus owes him ten bucks so this is good.

Judd runs out of time before giving an answer.

Cyrus doesn't watch too many movies so he doesn't know and decides to walk away with $15,000.

Spoiler

B: An Inconvenient Truth

Horn Sounds.

Tournament of Ten Leaderboard

1. Jehan Shamsid-Dean $250K - 2:09
2. Keilani Goggins $100K - 1:53
3. Jeff Birt $100K - 1:53
4. Matt Schultz $100K - 2:26
5. Tim Janus $100K - 2:44
6. Ralph Cambeis $50K - 1:13
7. Robin Schwartz $50K - 1:40
8. Tony Westmoreland $50K - 2:08
9. Alex Ortiz $50K - 2:19
10. Fred Roberts $50K - 2:27

[Bob78164]

What was the answer to the last question? --Bob

[Phil Ken Sebbin]

What was the answer to the last question? --Bob

Whoops, sorry. Corrected.

[Bob78164]

What was the answer to the last question? --Bob

Whoops, sorry. Corrected.

No worries. The job is harder than it looks. --Bob

[Jeemie]

What was the answer to the last question? --Bob

Whoops, sorry. Corrected.

No worries. The job is harder than it looks. --Bob

It sure is. Which is why I (somewhat) hesitate to pile on.

But Phil- you didn't use the BBTranscriptTeam handle to post these. Were you subbing, and no one gave you access to that userid?

I can transfer these over to the BBTranscriptTeam userid if necessary.

[Phil Ken Sebbin]

Whoops, sorry. Corrected.

No worries. The job is harder than it looks. --Bob

It sure is. Which is why I (somewhat) hesitate to pile on.

But Phil- you didn't use the BBTranscriptTeam handle to post these. Were you subbing, and no one gave you access to that userid?

I can transfer these over to the BBTranscriptTeam userid if necessary.

Yes, I was. No, I wasn't and please do.

Thanks.
DoItNeatly didn't seem to have a sub so I volunteered yesterday.

[doitneatly]

Whoops, sorry. Corrected.

No worries. The job is harder than it looks. --Bob

It sure is. Which is why I (somewhat) hesitate to pile on.

But Phil- you didn't use the BBTranscriptTeam handle to post these. Were you subbing, and no one gave you access to that userid?

I can transfer these over to the BBTranscriptTeam userid if necessary.

Yes it's necessary, but are you sure you can do that?

If so, that means you know the "new" BBTranscriptTeam password that's apparently changed since last wednesday! Please share via PM.

If not, then I think we need bob to reset that password...

thank you PKS for subbing for me, you did a fine fine job.

[Bob78164]

If so, that means you know the "new" BBTranscriptTeam password that's apparently changed since last wednesday! Please share via PM.

If not, then I think we need bob to reset that password...

I can't reset passwords. I'm not even sure Administrators can do that. --Bob

[guillotine06]

This is getting worse and worse for me. Its looking more and more like

Spoiler

I get knocked out of the TOT on the last day of qualifying

[MarleysGh0st]

No worries. The job is harder than it looks. --Bob

It sure is. Which is why I (somewhat) hesitate to pile on.

But Phil- you didn't use the BBTranscriptTeam handle to post these. Were you subbing, and no one gave you access to that userid?

I can transfer these over to the BBTranscriptTeam userid if necessary.

Yes it's necessary, but are you sure you can do that?

If so, that means you know the "new" BBTranscriptTeam password that's apparently changed since last wednesday! Please share via PM.

If not, then I think we need bob to reset that password...

thank you PKS for subbing for me, you did a fine fine job.

I just checked it and the password is the same as it's always been.

However, I believe we need an account that has moderator status on this forum to move the threads over to the Transcripts forum, before BBTranscriptTeam can move them back to here (with a shadow post left behind).

[vamomof3]

This is getting worse and worse for me. Its looking more and more like

Spoiler

I get knocked out of the TOT on the last day of qualifying

Oh, wow!

Spoiler

I really hate hearing that...been watching this week and hoping that you were "safe".

[Jeemie]

I certainly did not change the password.

[ten96lt]

Dream stack so far, would have only DD'd on the worm question like the contestant and would have been going for $50K with 3 LL's.

[hanzz]

$7500
Consumer product packages commonly feature a bar code representing a 12-digit number called a what?
A: UPC B: URL
C: USC D: UAW

While not too difficult, Google did recently have that logo design celebrating the invention of the UPC, showing that those BAM writers definitely pay attention to those.

[littlebeast13]

If so, that means you know the "new" BBTranscriptTeam password that's apparently changed since last wednesday! Please share via PM.

If not, then I think we need bob to reset that password...

I can't reset passwords. I'm not even sure Administrators can do that. --Bob

Sure we can...

lb13

[Jeemie]

If so, that means you know the "new" BBTranscriptTeam password that's apparently changed since last wednesday! Please share via PM.

If not, then I think we need bob to reset that password...

I can't reset passwords. I'm not even sure Administrators can do that. --Bob

Sure we can...

lb13

Did you have to reset it?

I am 99.999999999% sure I did not change the password (I will not deny the 0.000000001% chance that I inadvertently did it).

[earendel]

Cyrus Condran
<no job given>
Jonestown, PA

$25,000 *The Oscars
What is the only documentary ever to win an Oscar for Best Original Song?
A: Buena Vista Social Club B: An Inconvenient Truth
C: When We Were Kings D: March of the Penguins


At 23 seconds, Cyrus uses his Phone A Friend

Cyrus' PAF team:

Enrique- Chadler, AZ
Judd- Annville, PA
Lori- Hondo, TX

Cyrus calls his brother Judd.

Judd says Cyrus owes him ten bucks so this is good.

Judd runs out of time before giving an answer.

Cyrus doesn't watch too many movies so he doesn't know and decides to walk away with $15,000.

Spoiler

B: An Inconvenient Truth

I'm OK until this question. My inclination would have been A, but at this level it's time to burn lifelines. Start with ATA and go from there.

[littlebeast13]

I can't reset passwords. I'm not even sure Administrators can do that. --Bob

Sure we can...

lb13

Did you have to reset it?

I am 99.999999999% sure I did not change the password (I will not deny the 0.000000001% chance that I inadvertently did it).

I did not reset it, and Marley said he was able to log in with it. And I think pcmaxey was able to as well because I saw BBTranscriptTeam logged on late last night right after he made a brief appearance....

lb13

[NellyLunatic1980]

Nihil obstat®

This is getting worse and worse for me. Its looking more and more like

Spoiler

I get knocked out of the TOT on the last day of qualifying

That makes me really mad.

[Bob78164]

I certainly did not change the password.

Sorry for the false alarm. I must have misremembered the password. Does it include a space and a punctuation mark? --Bob

[MarleysGh0st]

I certainly did not change the password.

Sorry for the false alarm. I must have misremembered the password. Does it include a space and a punctuation mark? --Bob

No.