Transcript 9/14/17B Paul Schmalz (carryover)

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Paul Schmalz
Sugar Land, TX
Paul has used all of his lifelines

$50,000
While he would later find his way into acting, who dropped out of his Florida high school in the late 1970s to pursue a career as a musician?
A: George Clooney B: Samuel L. Jackson
C: Johnny Depp D: Alec Baldwin

Paul is leaning toward

Spoiler

Johnny Depp because he's the right age and in a band now.

Spoiler

C: Johnny Depp

$100,000
Though it has a different meaning and pronunciation in the 21st century, which word does the OED cite as having first been used way back in the 1600s?
A: Snapchat B: Chillax
C: Noob D: Email

Spoiler

Paul guesses Noob.
The correct answer is D: Email
Paul wins $50,000

First commercial break

[Agrajag]

$100,000
Though it has a different meaning and pronunciation in the 21st century, which word does the OED cite as having first been used way back in the 1600s?
A: Snapchat B: Chillax
C: Noob D: Email

Spoiler

Paul guesses Noob.
The correct answer is D: Email
Paul wins $50,000

First commercial break

Had it narrowed down to

Spoiler

C or D; No-ob or em-ail.

Before Paul guessed, I thought I'd probably go with Email (mistakenly thinking that Noob isn't in the OED). Tried searching for the original meaning of Email but their appeals section lists it as originating in the 1970s

Google's N-grams to the rescue (kind of)

[andrewjackson]

Interesting

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email, according the OED, has a meaning similar to enamel. It was used in the term "email ink", which was used on glass and other similar materials, and "email ombrant", which was a process that created a design with shadows on pottery. "Emailed" is a word referring to enamelled or embossed. That usage goes back to 1480 with a variant spelling.

[earendel]

Paul Schmalz
Sugar Land, TX
Paul has used all of his lifelines

$50,000
While he would later find his way into acting, who dropped out of his Florida high school in the late 1970s to pursue a career as a musician?
A: George Clooney B: Samuel L. Jackson
C: Johnny Depp D: Alec Baldwin

Paul is leaning toward

Spoiler

Johnny Depp because he's the right age and in a band now.

Spoiler

C: Johnny Depp

High school in the late 1970s? Has to be Depp - the others are older than that.

$100,000
Though it has a different meaning and pronunciation in the 21st century, which word does the OED cite as having first been used way back in the 1600s?
A: Snapchat B: Chillax
C: Noob D: Email

Spoiler

Paul guesses Noob.
The correct answer is D: Email
Paul wins $50,000

If I have the 50:50 remaining, I use it. I don't think ATA or +1 will help.

[Estonut]

$50,000
While he would later find his way into acting, who dropped out of his Florida high school in the late 1970s to pursue a career as a musician?
A: George Clooney B: Samuel L. Jackson
C: Johnny Depp D: Alec Baldwin

Paul is leaning toward

Spoiler

Johnny Depp because he's the right age and in a band now.

Spoiler

C: Johnny Depp

High school in the late 1970s? Has to be Depp - the others are older than that.

Clooney is only 2 years older than Depp and would have done all of his high school in the late 70s. Depp wouldn't have graduated until the early 80s.

[andrewjackson]

$50,000
While he would later find his way into acting, who dropped out of his Florida high school in the late 1970s to pursue a career as a musician?
A: George Clooney B: Samuel L. Jackson
C: Johnny Depp D: Alec Baldwin

Paul is leaning toward

Spoiler

Johnny Depp because he's the right age and in a band now.

Spoiler

C: Johnny Depp

High school in the late 1970s? Has to be Depp - the others are older than that.

Clooney is only 2 years older than Depp and would have done all of his high school in the late 70s. Depp wouldn't have graduated until the early 80s.

Yep.

Spoiler

George Clooney is about two weeks older than me. I graduated from high school in 1979 on my 18th birthday.
Johnny Depp is two years younger. He dropped out of school in 1979.

Both were born in Kentucky.