Transcript 5/20/2016 - Ty Walker

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Ty Walker
Camp Hill, PA
opera singer

Ty wants to get tattoo "sleeves" and hopes that winning the million will soften the blow when he tells his wife. Ty has banked $10,000 and has used his ATA.

$20,000: A recent surprise hit in China, what dense James Joyce work required 17 lines of footnotes just to translate its first sentence?
A - One Hundred Years of Solitude
B - Finnegan's Wake
C - Remembrance of Things Past
D - The Waste Land

Spoiler

Answer: B (Finnegan's Wake)

$30,000: Which of the following "Bethlehem"s is closest to the one that's mentioned in the Bible?
A - Bethlehem, South Africa
B - Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
C - Bethlehem, Germany
D - Bethlehem, New Zealand

Ty opts to use his 50:50.

50:50 results

A and C

He has a feeling but doesn't want to overthink it. He considers using his +1 but this isn't a category that his brother-in-law Mike was brought for. He decides to walk away.

Spoiler

Answer: C (Bethlehem, Germany)

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Ty Walker
Camp Hill, PA
opera singer

Ty wants to get tattoo "sleeves" and hopes that winning the million will soften the blow when he tells his wife. Ty has banked $10,000 and has used his ATA.

$20,000: A recent surprise hit in China, what dense James Joyce work required 17 lines of footnotes just to translate its first sentence?
A - One Hundred Years of Solitude
B - Finnegan's Wake
C - Remembrance of Things Past
D - The Waste Land

Spoiler

Answer: B (Finnegan's Wake)

Joyce only wrote one of these.

$30,000: Which of the following "Bethlehem"s is closest to the one that's mentioned in the Bible?
A - Bethlehem, South Africa
B - Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
C - Bethlehem, Germany
D - Bethlehem, New Zealand

Ty opts to use his 50:50.
[spoiler="50:50 results" A and C[/spoiler]He has a feeling but doesn't want to overthink it. He considers using his +1 but this isn't a category that his brother-in-law Mike was brought for. He decides to walk away.

Spoiler

Answer: C (Bethlehem, Germany)

Tough one. Africa is large, so the distance between South Africa and Israel is probably greater than from Germany to Israel. The 50:50 doesn't help. I probably would have gone with C just because Europe is smaller than Africa.

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30K: Euro choice has tobe closest.

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$20,000: A recent surprise hit in China, what dense James Joyce work required 17 lines of footnotes just to translate its first sentence?
A - One Hundred Years of Solitude
B - Finnegan's Wake
C - Remembrance of Things Past
D - The Waste Land

Spoiler

Answer: B (Finnegan's Wake)

This amazes me. I looked it up to see if some article would shed some light. I agree wholeheartedly with this: "The book's language is thick with multilingual puns and brazenly defies grammatical conventions." The translator goes on to say: "Dai ventures that Chinese readers may appreciate Joyce's rumination on the cyclical nature of history, the relationships between his male and female characters, and the sheer challenge of interpreting his prose."

I love James Joyce, even though I didn't get to him until I was a senior in college. My Senior Seminar concerned itself with only two authors, Joyce and D.H. Lawrence, probably because they were contemporaries. I took it the first year it was offered, and the following year the department dropped Joyce because we liked Lawrence better. Also, Lawrence spent considerable time hanging around in the Taos area, just down the river a bit. OK, a lot.