WWTBAM Bored

Mark Thomas
Allentown, PA


$100
The Chipmunks is a classic cartoon trio that includes the rodent brothers Simon, Theodore and whom?

A: Grover B: Alvin
C: Oscar D: Sanjaya


$200
A compact is a small cosmetic case that often contains what helpful amenity?

A: Ashtray B: Calculator
C: Mirror D: Corkscrew


$300
California's Salinas Valley is nicknamed the "Salad Bowl of the World" due to its plentiful supply of which of these crops?

A: Lettuce B: Peanuts
C: Grapefruit D: Corn


$500
Which of these Hollywood leading men has a first and last name that are both surnames of U.S. presidents?

A: Morgan Freeman B: Kevin Kline
C: Harrison Ford D: Michael Douglas


$1,000
Which of these common French phrases literally means "already seen"?

A: Avant-garde B: Carte blanche
C: Vis-à-vis D: Déjà vu


-- Commercial Break --


Mark's friends say he is cheap.

Mark: I am not cheap! I'm thrifty.

Mark takes the little pieces of soap and melts them down into a bigger bar. He turns the empty bottles of ketchup upside down into a new bottle and he flattens a toothpaste tube to squeeze all the toothpaste out.


$2,000
In a hit 1985 single, Gloria Estefan urges you to "come on, shake your body, baby, do the" what?

A: Salsa B: Conga
C: Tango D: Polka


$4,000
"Wellies" are a type of what fashion accessory?

A: Clogs B: Argyle socks
C: Rain boots D: Woolen mittens

ATA: A: 15% B: 8% C: 71% D: 6%


$8,000
Aristotle believed that wind trapped in underground caves was the cause of what natural phenomenon?

A: Hurricanes B: Lightning
C: Avalanches D: Earthquakes

Mark is not positive, but he goes with A: Hurricanes.

Mark drops to $1,000.


Answers:
$100: B: Alvin
$200: C: Mirror
$300: A: Lettuce
$500: C: Harrison Ford
$1,000: D: Déjà vu
$2,000: B: Conga
$4,000: C: Rain boots
$8,000: D: Earthquakes

$1,000 ain't enough to fix the sewer, I don't think.

Nihil obstat®

A shame about that sewer/bakery thing but c'mon people, that 8K just isn't that hard.

I can sort of understand burning the ATA at 4K. If you don't know it you don't know it I suppose. But his answer on the 8K didn't make a lot of sense, even if he had never heard of it before.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Mark Thomas
Allentown, PA

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:$100
The Chipmunks is a classic cartoon trio that includes the rodent brothers Simon, Theodore and whom?

A: Grover B: Alvin
C: Oscar D: Sanjaya

FOX has been promoting the heck out of the upcoming movie - the chipmunks were used in show promos for AYSTA5G and DFTL last night.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Mark's friends say he is cheap.

Mark: I am not cheap! I'm thrifty.

Mark takes the little pieces of soap and melts them down into a bigger bar. He turns the empty bottles of ketchup upside down into a new bottle and he flattens a toothpaste tube to squeeze all the toothpaste out.

In our earlier years elwing and tried that soap idea but it never seemed to work quite right .

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:$8,000
Aristotle believed that wind trapped in underground caves was the cause of what natural phenomenon?

A: Hurricanes B: Lightning
C: Avalanches D: Earthquakes

Mark is not positive, but he goes with A: Hurricanes.

Mark drops to $1,000.

Didn't Mark hear "underground" in the question? Or did he just answer too quickly and not think it through?

Again, a nihil obstat® stack thus far.

earendel wrote:

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:$8,000
Aristotle believed that wind trapped in underground caves was the cause of what natural phenomenon?

A: Hurricanes B: Lightning
C: Avalanches D: Earthquakes

Mark is not positive, but he goes with A: Hurricanes.

Mark drops to $1,000.

Didn't Mark hear "underground" in the question? Or did he just answer too quickly and not think it through?

I don't think the quaint and obsolete scientific theories of Aristotle are all that well know. This reads more like one of those first tier questions where they're asking something really obscure but the answer is obvious from the choices. In this case, I think Mark got tripped up by the obvious distractor--winds (from) underground caves must be hurricanes, right? He didn't take long enough to notice 1) that the question said the winds were trapped in underground caves, so that "underground" became the critical clue, and 2) that hurricanes are not a phenomenon that occurs in the Mediterranean.

How ironic that a question about the Chipmunks comes up the day before the movie comes out.

I would have used 50/50 on the $8K. I was distracted by avalanches. Otherwise, fine.

8K: Earthquakes "makes most sense", but could be avalanches; who knows? I don't know for sure, as in "I haven't read Aristotle or his commentors directly on this", so would waste 50/50.