Transcript 09/24/2008 Holly Briggs

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Holly Briggs

Oakdale, CA
Political Campaign Designer

Needs the money for a mortgage

Topic tree:
Familiar Phrases
The Military
Atheletes
Animated Movies
JFK
Foreign Wars
Show Tunes
The Post Office
On the Web
Everyday Science
Compaign Ads
Movie Songs
Vocabulary
Customs
Advertising

$100 - Advertising
A 2008 ad for Starbucks features teh slogan "life happens over" what?
A. Coffee B. Grape juice
C. Beer D. Expensive scones

Spoiler

A. Coffee (:8)

$200 - Customs
A marriage that takes place at short notice, usually because the bride is pregnant, is known as what type of wedding?
A. Musket B. Shotgun
C. Pistol D. Revolver

Spoiler

B. Shotgun (:10)

$300 - Vocabulary
Man-made levees are raised embankments designed to hold back what?
A. Pollution B. Invading armies
C. Wild animals D. Floodwaters

Spoiler

D. Floodwaters (:9)

$500 - Movie Songs
The uplifting theme song "Eye of the Tiger" is featred in the third installment of what movie franchise?
A. Rocky B. Die Hard
C. The Godfather D. Harry Potter

Spoiler

A. Rocky (:9)

$1000 - Compaign Ads
in 2008, a controversial TV ad for Hillary Clinton mentioned a phone ringing in the White House at what odd hour?
A. 11:00 p.m. B. 1:00 a.m.
C. 3:00 a.m. D. 5:00 a.m.

At 8 seconds Holly uses ATA lifeline:
A: 3% B: 5% C: 91% D: 1%

Holly goes with C

Spoiler

C. 3:00 a.m. (:7)

Holly gets the ATE lifeline

$2000 - Everyday Science
Which of these pieces of playgrond equipment can be used to demonstrate the scientific principle of rotational kinematics?
A. Slide B. Monkey bars
C. Merry-go-round D. Sandbox

Spoiler

C. Merry-go-round (:24)

$4000 - On the Web
The Web site Facebook hosts a wildly popular online word game with what Scrabble-esque name?
A. Scrabnormal B. Scrabulous
C. Scrabsolutely D. Scrabracadabra

At 20 seconds she uses ATE but Sam is not sure but guesses Scrabracadabra.

At 18 seconds she uses her PAF who tells her its Scrabulous. Holly goes with B. Scrabulous

Spoiler

B. Scrabulous (:16)

$8000 - The Post Office
Which of theseU.S. states has a postal abbreviation whose letters are not in alphabetical order?
A. Delaware B. Minnesota
C. Hawii D. New Mexico

Spoiler

D. New Mexico (:20)

$16,000 - Show Tunes
Which of these Broadway musicals was inspired by a famous painting?
A. Sunday in the Park with George B. Miss Saigon
C. Little Shop of Horrors D. Dreamgirls

Spoiler

A. Sunday in the Park with George (:24)

$25,000 - Foreign Wars
The Boer Wars were fought in what is now what country?
A. Spain B. Algeria
C. South Africa D. Ireland

At 11 seconds Holly chooses to DD picking C. South Africa

Spoiler

C. South Africa (:11)

$50,000 - JFK
In 1960, the theme song for JFK's presidential campaign was a revised version of what Frank Sinatra song?
A. Come Fly With Me B. High Hopes
C. Good Thing Going D. Night and Day

Spoiler

B. High Hopes (:25)

Holly answers C: incorrectly and leaves with $25,000

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Familiar Phrases
The Military
Atheletes
Animated Movies
JFK
Foreign Wars
Show Tunes
The Post Office
On the Web
Everyday Science
Compaign Ads
Movie Songs
Vocabulary
Customs
Advertising

Show tunes, foreign wars, JFK, and the military look like lifeline usage points for me.

$200 - Customs
A marriage that takes place at short notice, usually because the bride is pregnant, is known as what type of wedding?
A. Musket B. Shotgun
C. Pistol D. Revolver

E. Palin

$1000 - Compaign Ads
in 2008, a controversial TV ad for Hillary Clinton mentioned a phone ringing in the White House at what odd hour?
A. 11:00 p.m. B. 1:00 a.m.
C. 3:00 a.m. D. 5:00 a.m.

At 8 seconds Holly uses ATA lifeline:
A: 3% B: 5% C: 91% D: 1%

Holly works for political campaigns. I'm surprised that she needed a lifeline here.

$4K: I'm on MySpace, not Facebook. ATA.

$16K: I surprised myself on this one. Georges Seurat's "Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte" immediately came to mind when I saw the choice "Sunday in the Park with George".

$25K: Got this one before the choices came up.

$50K: I saw the "Rat Pack" TV movie many years ago. I know that JFK's campaign was featured in it. But I couldn't remember the song. PAF.

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No problems at all with this stack. All lifelines left and looking at the $100K question.

I'm starting to get grumpy about not surviving the interview. Too many dream stacks for me so far this year. But I'm sure there will be many later ones where the dream would have been a nightmare. These things balance out.

[Bob Juch]

How ironic that a campaign manager would miss a campaign question!

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Holly Briggs
Oakdale, CA
Political Campaign Designer

Needs the money for a mortgage

To pay off a mortgage maybe??

$4000 - On the Web
The Web site Facebook hosts a wildly popular online word game with what Scrabble-esque name?
A. Scrabnormal B. Scrabulous
C. Scrabsolutely D. Scrabracadabra

At 20 seconds she uses ATE but Sam is not sure but guesses Scrabracadabra.

At 18 seconds she uses her PAF who tells her its Scrabulous. Holly goes with B. Scrabulous

Spoiler

B. Scrabulous (:16)

I read about this and I believe there was also a discussion here on the Bored about it.

$16,000 - Show Tunes
Which of these Broadway musicals was inspired by a famous painting?
A. Sunday in the Park with George B. Miss Saigon
C. Little Shop of Horrors D. Dreamgirls

Spoiler

A. Sunday in the Park with George (:24)

I'd have thought "song tunes" would feature a question about a song, not about a musical per se. Just goes to show how the categories may not be all that helpful.

$50,000 - JFK
In 1960, the theme song for JFK's presidential campaign was a revised version of what Frank Sinatra song?
A. Come Fly With Me B. High Hopes
C. Good Thing Going D. Night and Day

Spoiler

B. High Hopes (:25)

My mother was a big fan of Sinatra's but after this song was used by the Kennedy campaign she stopped listening to it. Being a staunch Republican and all.

So it's nihil obstat® - I'd be going for $100K with all lifelines available.