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Transcript 12/18/2007 Terence Tchen

#1 Post by BBTranscriptTeam » Tue Dec 18, 2007 9:55 pm

Terence Tchen
Los Angeles, CA
Banker

$100- Though frequent vacuuming can help, "shedding" is a frustrating problem for pet owners whose pets do which of the following?
A. Chew the furniture B. Get hair on the furniture
C. Claw the furniture D. Sell the furniture on eBay

$200- The Crayola crayon color Tropical Rain Forest is a deep shade of what?
A. Green B. Red
C. Yellow D. Orange

$300- Fittingly, the calf-length pants known as "pedal pushers" were originally designed to be worn during what activity?
A. Gardening B. Swimming
C. Dancing D. Bicycling

$500- Featuring distinctive stripes on its head, neck and shoulders, the quagga is an extinct kind of what?
A. Zebra B. Rhinoceros
C. Lion D. Hippopotamus

$1000- In May 2007, Entertainment Weekly counted "Heroes" and "Battlestar Galactica" among TV's best offerings in what genre?
A. Romantic comedy B. Science fiction
C. Legal drama D. Horror


$2000- One week comprises approximately what percentage of a year?
A. 2% B. 3%
C. 4% D. 5%

$4000- Which of these airline names is also the name for a letter in the Greek alphabet?
A. United B. Qantas
C. Lufthansa D. Delta

$8000- Because of the railway tracks that surround it, a section of downtown Chicago is famously known as the what?
A. Spiral B. Bend
C. Loop D. Arc

$16,000
In 2007, thousands of fans assembled in the city of Bangalore to watch Aerosmith play its first-ever concert in what country?
A. Thailand B. Vietnam
C. India D. Turkey

$25,000
On the job, which of these professionals would most likely make use of a pentatonic scale?
A. Musician B. Nutritionist
C. Pharmacist D. Interior designer


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ATA
A. 53% B. 11%
C. 27% D. 9%




Commercial break

$50,000
Early in his career, what famous novelist wrote under the unusual pen name "Boz"?
A. Kurt Vonnegut B. John Irving
C. Stephen King D. Charles Dickens



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Terence quickly (on air) resorts to STQ.


STQ $50K
In the sixteenth century, the Inca empire was conquered by what conquistador?
A. Francisco Pizarro B. Hernán Cortés
C. Vasco Núñez de Balboa D. Francisco Vásquez de Coronado


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PAF, Dave, friend of his, says it can't be B because he was born before then.

50/50 left A or C

With a free guess, Terence chose the incorrect one and left keeping his $25K.





Answers:
$100- B. Get hair on the furniture
$200- A. Green
$300- D. Bicycling
$500- A. Zebra
$1000- B. Science fiction
$2000- A. 2%
$4000- D. Delta
$8000- C. Loop
$16K- C. India
$25K- A. Musician
$50K- D. Charles Dickens
STQ $50K- A. Francisco Pizarro

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#2 Post by silvercamaro » Tue Dec 18, 2007 10:16 pm

This seems like the most straightforward stack I've seen in a long, long time.

Maybe ever. These questions include nothing tricky, nothing particularly obscure or from the WGAS pile, nothing that requires listening to a special-interest radio station, and nothing that anyone could not have encountered while wandering through life in a fairly normal manner.

Now I'm really curious about whatever questions might have followed.

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#3 Post by slam » Tue Dec 18, 2007 10:34 pm

silvercamaro wrote:This seems like the most straightforward stack I've seen in a long, long time.

Maybe ever. These questions include nothing tricky, nothing particularly obscure or from the WGAS pile, nothing that requires listening to a special-interest radio station, and nothing that anyone could not have encountered while wandering through life in a fairly normal manner.

Now I'm really curious about whatever questions might have followed.
Agreed. A very, very straight forward stack.

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#4 Post by takinover » Wed Dec 19, 2007 2:15 am

silvercamaro wrote:This seems like the most straightforward stack I've seen in a long, long time.

Maybe ever. These questions include nothing tricky, nothing particularly obscure or from the WGAS pile, nothing that requires listening to a special-interest radio station, and nothing that anyone could not have encountered while wandering through life in a fairly normal manner.

Now I'm really curious about whatever questions might have followed.
I thought so too.

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#5 Post by NellyLunatic1980 » Wed Dec 19, 2007 4:49 am

Nihil obstat® on all of the questions, so I'd be going for $100K with all lifelines intact.

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#6 Post by earendel » Wed Dec 19, 2007 6:12 am

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Terence Tchen
Los Angeles, CA
Banker

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:$300- Fittingly, the calf-length pants known as "pedal pushers" were originally designed to be worn during what activity?
A. Gardening B. Swimming
C. Dancing D. Bicycling
My youngest son delivers sub sandwiches for a restaurant in West Lafayette - he can wear bike shorts but not pedal pushers.
BBTranscriptTeam wrote:$500- Featuring distinctive stripes on its head, neck and shoulders, the quagga is an extinct kind of what?
A. Zebra B. Rhinoceros
C. Lion D. Hippopotamus
Perhaps not much longer. There's an effort underway to "recreate" the species by selective breeding of plains zebras.
BBTranscriptTeam wrote:$25,000
On the job, which of these professionals would most likely make use of a pentatonic scale?
A. Musician B. Nutritionist
C. Pharmacist D. Interior designer

ATA
A. 53% B. 11%
C. 27% D. 9%
Nice distractors - each of these professions is likely to use a scale of some sort.
BBTranscriptTeam wrote:STQ $50K
In the sixteenth century, the Inca empire was conquered by what conquistador?
A. Francisco Pizarro B. Hernán Cortés
C. Vasco Núñez de Balboa D. Francisco Vásquez de Coronado

PAF, Dave, friend of his, says it can't be B because he was born before then.

50/50 left A or C

With a free guess, Terence chose the incorrect one and left keeping his $25K.
The way that Terence interacted with his PAF I suspect the PAF was supposed to be Googling the answer. He started out by saying, "Sixteenth century, Inca, conqueror" then read the whole question.

Overall a nihil obstat® stack.
"Elen sila lumenn omentielvo...A star shines on the hour of our meeting."

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#7 Post by MarleysGh0st » Wed Dec 19, 2007 6:48 am

Nihil obstat®

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#8 Post by etaoin22 » Wed Dec 19, 2007 9:52 am

The table, so far. I thought Dickens as "Boz" was overvalued, but it got switched out of, so I guess not.

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#9 Post by ghostjmf » Wed Dec 19, 2007 4:52 pm

so far so good.

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#10 Post by ghostjmf » Wed Dec 19, 2007 5:05 pm

by the way, since I haven't "seen" you since when, welcome back, Mr. shrdlu

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#11 Post by peacock2121 » Thu Dec 20, 2007 5:59 am

What Uday said.

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