Transcript 04/24/2009 - Dave Haddy (carryover contestant)

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Dave Haddy
Minneapolis, MN

Topic tree:
- My Dogs Are Barking
- The Nobel Prize
- Words and Pictures
- Under One Condition
- Fifty Big Ones
- Monkey Business
- The United Nations
- Hot Soup!
- Definition Please
- What Are We?
- Fight the Power
- Sing-Alongs
- The Grind
- Curses!
- That Smarts

Meredith recaps Dave's intentions with his winnings from yesterday's show. His inlaws worked some hard jobs during their lives; they don't know when they can retire or what kind of retirement they can have. The money is immaterial for him if he can help them out. Dave's wife Amy is in the relationship seat. He met her at a cartoon convention; he went to an after-convention party and saw her jumping on a bed acting like a ten-year old and he knew that was the girl for him.

Dave has his ATA lifeline still available.

$100K - Wittmaack-Ekbon syndrome is a medical condition more commonly known as what?
A - chronic fatigue
B - carpal tunnel
C - restless legs
D - sleep apnea

Dave has no idea so he decides to ask the audience, stopping the clock with 32 seconds remaining.

ATA results

ATA results:
A - 21%
B - 15%
C - 42%
D - 22%

Dave loves the audience and he's certain they're right but he needs to do good with the money and if he blows it he can't do as much as he could, so he decides to walk away.

Spoiler

C - restless legs (18)

[ulysses5019]

Dave Haddy
Minneapolis, MN

Topic tree:
- My Dogs Are Barking
- The Nobel Prize
- Words and Pictures
- Under One Condition
- Fifty Big Ones
- Monkey Business
- The United Nations
- Hot Soup!
- Definition Please
- What Are We?
- Fight the Power
- Sing-Alongs
- The Grind
- Curses!
- That Smarts

Meredith recaps Dave's intentions with his winnings from yesterday's show. His inlaws worked some hard jobs during their lives; they don't know when they can retire or what kind of retirement they can have. The money is immaterial for him if he can help them out. Dave's wife Amy is in the relationship seat. He met her at a cartoon convention; he went to an after-convention party and saw her jumping on a bed acting like a ten-year old and he knew that was the girl for him.

Dave has his ATA lifeline still available.

$100K - Wittmach-Ekbon syndrome is a medical condition more commonly known as what?
A - chronic fatigue
B - carpal tunnel
C - restless legs
D - sleep apnea

Dave has no idea so he decides to ask the audience, stopping the clock with 32 seconds remaining.

ATA results

ATA results:
A - 21%
B - 15%
C - 42%
D - 22%

Dave loves the audience and he's certain they're right but he needs to do good with the money and if he blows it he can't do as much as he could, so he decides to walk away.

Spoiler

C - restless legs (18)

Would anyone pull the trigger with those ATA results?

[SportsFan68]

Dave Haddy
Minneapolis, MN

Topic tree:
- My Dogs Are Barking
- The Nobel Prize
- Words and Pictures
- Under One Condition
- Fifty Big Ones
- Monkey Business
- The United Nations
- Hot Soup!
- Definition Please
- What Are We?
- Fight the Power
- Sing-Alongs
- The Grind
- Curses!
- That Smarts

Meredith recaps Dave's intentions with his winnings from yesterday's show. His inlaws worked some hard jobs during their lives; they don't know when they can retire or what kind of retirement they can have. The money is immaterial for him if he can help them out. Dave's wife Amy is in the relationship seat. He met her at a cartoon convention; he went to an after-convention party and saw her jumping on a bed acting like a ten-year old and he knew that was the girl for him.

Dave has his ATA lifeline still available.

$100K - Wittmach-Ekbon syndrome is a medical condition more commonly known as what?
A - chronic fatigue
B - carpal tunnel
C - restless legs
D - sleep apnea

Dave has no idea so he decides to ask the audience, stopping the clock with 32 seconds remaining.

ATA results

ATA results:
A - 21%
B - 15%
C - 42%
D - 22%

Dave loves the audience and he's certain they're right but he needs to do good with the money and if he blows it he can't do as much as he could, so he decides to walk away.

Spoiler

C - restless legs (18)

Would anyone pull the trigger with those ATA results?

Not me -- not unless I knew there was a bunch of BBs in the audience.

[hbomb1947]

Dave Haddy
Minneapolis, MN

Topic tree:
- My Dogs Are Barking
- The Nobel Prize
- Words and Pictures
- Under One Condition
- Fifty Big Ones
- Monkey Business
- The United Nations
- Hot Soup!
- Definition Please
- What Are We?
- Fight the Power
- Sing-Alongs
- The Grind
- Curses!
- That Smarts

Meredith recaps Dave's intentions with his winnings from yesterday's show. His inlaws worked some hard jobs during their lives; they don't know when they can retire or what kind of retirement they can have. The money is immaterial for him if he can help them out. Dave's wife Amy is in the relationship seat. He met her at a cartoon convention; he went to an after-convention party and saw her jumping on a bed acting like a ten-year old and he knew that was the girl for him.

Dave has his ATA lifeline still available.

$100K - Wittmach-Ekbon syndrome is a medical condition more commonly known as what?
A - chronic fatigue
B - carpal tunnel
C - restless legs
D - sleep apnea

Dave has no idea so he decides to ask the audience, stopping the clock with 32 seconds remaining.

ATA results

ATA results:
A - 21%
B - 15%
C - 42%
D - 22%

Dave loves the audience and he's certain they're right but he needs to do good with the money and if he blows it he can't do as much as he could, so he decides to walk away.

Spoiler

C - restless legs (18)

Would anyone pull the trigger with those ATA results?

Not me -- not unless I knew there was a bunch of BBs in the audience.

Not sure that I would rely on those results anyway; but still I'm impressed that the correct answer got such a substantial plurality. I myself certainly didn't really have much of a clue on this one, although I had pretty much ruled out chronic fatigue (because there's already Epstein-Barr, and it seemed unlikely there'd be another hyphenated syndrome dealing w/ essentially the same malady).

[MarleysGh0st]

Dave Haddy
Minneapolis, MN

Topic tree:
- My Dogs Are Barking
- The Nobel Prize
- Words and Pictures
- Under One Condition
- Fifty Big Ones
- Monkey Business
- The United Nations
- Hot Soup!
- Definition Please
- What Are We?
- Fight the Power
- Sing-Alongs
- The Grind
- Curses!
- That Smarts

Meredith recaps Dave's intentions with his winnings from yesterday's show. His inlaws worked some hard jobs during their lives; they don't know when they can retire or what kind of retirement they can have. The money is immaterial for him if he can help them out. Dave's wife Amy is in the relationship seat. He met her at a cartoon convention; he went to an after-convention party and saw her jumping on a bed acting like a ten-year old and he knew that was the girl for him.

Dave has his ATA lifeline still available.

$100K - Wittmach-Ekbon syndrome is a medical condition more commonly known as what?
A - chronic fatigue
B - carpal tunnel
C - restless legs
D - sleep apnea

Dave has no idea so he decides to ask the audience, stopping the clock with 32 seconds remaining.

ATA results

ATA results:
A - 21%
B - 15%
C - 42%
D - 22%

Dave loves the audience and he's certain they're right but he needs to do good with the money and if he blows it he can't do as much as he could, so he decides to walk away.

Spoiler

C - restless legs (18)

Would anyone pull the trigger with those ATA results?

I can't be sure if I would, if I ever got in the actual Hot Seat, but I was thinking that this was an awfully good ATA result for a high level question. A nice 20% margin over the other choices, with no spike on the second place answer and nothing that I noticed that would make C a wicked distractor. Since this is a level where I'd still like the odds, I think I'd have gone for it.

[ulysses5019]

Dave Haddy
Minneapolis, MN

Topic tree:
- My Dogs Are Barking
- The Nobel Prize
- Words and Pictures
- Under One Condition
- Fifty Big Ones
- Monkey Business
- The United Nations
- Hot Soup!
- Definition Please
- What Are We?
- Fight the Power
- Sing-Alongs
- The Grind
- Curses!
- That Smarts

Meredith recaps Dave's intentions with his winnings from yesterday's show. His inlaws worked some hard jobs during their lives; they don't know when they can retire or what kind of retirement they can have. The money is immaterial for him if he can help them out. Dave's wife Amy is in the relationship seat. He met her at a cartoon convention; he went to an after-convention party and saw her jumping on a bed acting like a ten-year old and he knew that was the girl for him.

Dave has his ATA lifeline still available.

$100K - Wittmach-Ekbon syndrome is a medical condition more commonly known as what?
A - chronic fatigue
B - carpal tunnel
C - restless legs
D - sleep apnea

Dave has no idea so he decides to ask the audience, stopping the clock with 32 seconds remaining.

ATA results

ATA results:
A - 21%
B - 15%
C - 42%
D - 22%

Dave loves the audience and he's certain they're right but he needs to do good with the money and if he blows it he can't do as much as he could, so he decides to walk away.

Spoiler

C - restless legs (18)

Would anyone pull the trigger with those ATA results?

I can't be sure if I would, if I ever got in the actual Hot Seat, but I was thinking that this was an awfully good ATA result for a high level question. A nice 20% margin over the other choices, with no spike on the second place answer and nothing that I noticed that would make C a wicked distractor. Since this is a level where I'd still like the odds, I think I'd have gone for it.

Good analysis mr. gh0st. This is what I was thinking as well. The bottom three seemed to elicit an even distribution of guesses and there was a spike for the correct answer.

[earendel]

Dave Haddy
Minneapolis, MN

Never did learn what Dave did for a living.

$100K - Wittmach-Ekbon syndrome is a medical condition more commonly known as what?
A - chronic fatigue
B - carpal tunnel
C - restless legs
D - sleep apnea

Dave has no idea so he decides to ask the audience, stopping the clock with 32 seconds remaining.

ATA results

ATA results:
A - 21%
B - 15%
C - 42%
D - 22%

Dave loves the audience and he's certain they're right but he needs to do good with the money and if he blows it he can't do as much as he could, so he decides to walk away.

Spoiler

C - restless legs (18)

I'm not sure I would trust the audience to know this, even though it turns out they were right. As for me, I'm pretty sure it's not chronic fatigue or sleep apnea and I don't think it's carpal tunnel (I 've known several people with this problem and never heard them mention Wittmach-Ekbon. I'd go with the DD (saving ATE for later) and make C my first final answer.

[SportsFan68]

I'm guessing that enough people in the audience have restless leg syndrome that they knew what it meant.

Now all y'all know what Gullain-Barre is too! Wonder if that will be a question soon, or if Wittmach-Ekbon did it in.

[tanstaafl2]

The kind of question I would most dislike. To get taken out by a question in the medical field. Not that I can claim to know everything but it doesn't make you feel any less bad to miss a question in an area you feel is a strength.

Maybe even worse to me than if I were to get taken out by a simple geography question...

Google and most medical sites seems to think it is "Wittmaack-Ekbom" syndrome. Not that it would have help me to see it written out. Not sure if I had any lifelines at this point but if so would have to use them. Doubt I would have trusted ATA here even with the decent outcome. It would be an easy google PAF.

[Bob Juch]

The kind of question I would most dislike. To get taken out by a question in the medical field. Not that I can claim to know everything but it doesn't make you feel any less bad to miss a question in an area you feel is a strength.

Maybe even worse to me than if I were to get taken out by a simple geography question...

Google and most medical sites seems to think it is "Wittmaack-Ekbom" syndrome. Not that it would have help me to see it written out. Not sure if I had any lifelines at this point but if so would have to use them. Doubt I would have trusted ATA here even with the decent outcome. It would be an easy google PAF.

I think the transcript is wrong and that the show did use two As.

[earendel]

The kind of question I would most dislike. To get taken out by a question in the medical field. Not that I can claim to know everything but it doesn't make you feel any less bad to miss a question in an area you feel is a strength.

Maybe even worse to me than if I were to get taken out by a simple geography question...

Google and most medical sites seems to think it is "Wittmaack-Ekbom" syndrome. Not that it would have help me to see it written out. Not sure if I had any lifelines at this point but if so would have to use them. Doubt I would have trusted ATA here even with the decent outcome. It would be an easy google PAF.

I think the transcript is wrong and that the show did use two As.

It's possible - I did the transcript and could have missed that second "a".

[NellyLunatic1980]

My gut instinct was restless legs, but I'm using lifelines first. I'll ask Bill Nye first. If he's not sure, I'll PAF.