Transcript 2/12/2016 - Ian Ridenhour (carryover)

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Whiz Kids Week

Ian Ridenhour
Black Mountain, NC

Ian graduated 2 years before he could get his driver's license. He wants to use the money to help drop his 2nd album. He has $20,000 in his bank and no lifelines remaining.

$30,000: Bridging quantum mechanics and general relativity, string theory attempts to explain why there seem to be different rules for the behavior of what?
A - fast things and slow things
B - big things and small things
C - hot things and cold things
D - solid things and liquid things

Spoiler

Answer: B (big things and small things)

$50,000: Twitter limits standard users to 2,400 tweets per day, which averages to exactly what?
A - a tweet every 4 seconds
B - a tweet every 12 seconds
C - a tweet every 36 seconds
D - a tweet every 108 seconds

Spoiler

Answer: C (a tweet every 36 seconds)

$100,000: Dr. Seuss' 1960 bestseller "Green Eggs and Ham" famously uses only 50 different words. Which of the following is NOT one of the 50?
A - cat
B - goat
C - mouse
D - tree

Ian guesses

Spoiler

tree

Spoiler

Answer: A (cat)

commercial break

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Whiz Kids Week

Ian Ridenhour
Black Mountain, NC

Ian graduated 2 years before he could get his driver's license. He wants to use the money to help drop his 2nd album. He has $20,000 in his bank and no lifelines remaining.

$100,000: Dr. Seuss' 1960 bestseller "Green Eggs and Ham" famously uses only 50 different words. Which of the following is NOT one of the 50?
A - cat
B - goat
C - mouse
D - tree

Ian guesses

Spoiler

tree

Spoiler

Answer: A (cat)

I'm sure enough about A to make that my final answer without resorting to a lifeline.

[ghostjmf]

100K:

If I have lifelines I use them here.