WWTBAM Bored

Barb Rufle
Brooklyn, NY
Business Analyst

$100 A man described as a "chick magnet" is reputed to have success attracting what?
A. Women
B. Money
C. Job offers
D. Livestock

$200 To remind consumers of the cleansing pumice its bars contain, what brand of soap features a volcano on its label?
A. Zest
B. Dial
C. Ivory
D. Lava

$300 A type of wasp discovered in 1926, the Mozartella beethoveni was named after two what?
A. Painters
B. Novelists
C. Composers
D. Dancers

$500 Life jackets are often called PFDs, an abbreviation in which the "F" stands for what/
A. Flotation
B. Flying
C. Farming
D. Forest

$1K Used to refer to a type of cuisine, the adjective "Tex-Mex" derives from the names of what?
A. A country and a continent
B. A state and a country
C. Two continents
D. A city and a continent

commercial break

Barb is a bargain hunter. She won't pay full retail price for anything.
Meredith admires a watch pendant that Barb is wearing.
Meredith asks if the watch is something that Barb got a flea market.
Barb says that she did get the watch from a flea market, years ago, for about $20.
The watch doesn't work, but she only gave $20.
She does have the watch set to the time her daughter was born, 2:28.

$2K What is the title of the 1964 hit by Manfred Mann that begins, "These she was just a-walkin' down the street"?
A. Do Wah Diddy Diddy
B. Da Da Da
C. De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da
D. Da Doo Ron Ron

$4K The Dominican Republic occupies the island of Hispaniola with what other country?
A. Jamaica
B. Cuba
C. Barbados
D. Haiti

$8K A traditional Irish delicacy, soda bread is mad from a recipe in which baking soda replaces what common ingredient?
A. Yeast
B. Egg
C. Buttermilk
D. Flour

$16K Widely believed to be a hoax, the famous Patterson "Bigfoot" film was shot in 1967 in what region of the U.S.?
A. Upper Michigan
B. Appalachia
C. Northern California
D. The Dakotas

ATA

11% A. Upper Michigan
30% B. Appalachia
50% C. Northern California
9% D. The Dakotas

commercial break

$25K Launched in 1954, the fashion label La Perla is best known for its pricey line of what?
A. Handbags
B. Lingerie
C. Footwear
D. Jeans

PAF - Connie, Barb's sister

Connie says that she is 80% sure the answer is handbags.

Barb decides to use the 50/50. (The audience applauds)

50/50 leaves B. Lingerie and D. Jeans.

commercial break

$50K Named for a British scholar, the observation that "work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion" is formally known as what?
A. Kendall's Law
B. Covington's Law
C. Carlock's Law
D. Parkinson's Law

STQ

$50K In the human body, which of these cells loses its nucleus during maturation?
A. Red blood cell
B. Muscle cell
C. Nerve cell
D. White blood cell

Barb doesn't know, so she takes a guess.
Some of the audience starts to applaud when she says which one she's going with.

horn

Barb will return for tomorrow's show.

Answer:
$100 A. Women
$200 D. Lava
$300 C. Composers
$500 A. Flotation
$1K B. A state and a country
$2K A. Do Wah Diddy Diddy
$4K D. Haiti
$8K A. Yeast
$16K C. Northern California
$25K B. Lingerie
$50K D. Parkinson's Law
$50K A. Red blood cell

$25K: I would've tried the audience here. If they didn't give a definitive answer, PAF would be next. But let's assume that the audience was definitive and right.

$50K: Smart use of the STQ. I had no clue either.

$50K #2: This question would be impossible to Google, so I would've taken the 50:50 and picked something. Unfortunately, I never would've guessed red blood cell. I thought it was either muscle cell or nerve cell.

25K: No idea. ATA.

50K: I've heard of Parkinson's Law, but I'd use a lifeline to be sure.

STQ 50K: Elementary biology. I'm surprised its a 50K Q.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Barb Rufle
Brooklyn, NY

Where else? (Although it was refreshing to see a parent in the Hot Seat with her child in the companion seat, instead of the other way around.)

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:$25K Launched in 1954, the fashion label La Perla is best known for its pricey line of what?
A. Handbags
B. Lingerie
C. Footwear
D. Jeans

PAF - Connie, Barb's sister

Connie says that she is 80% sure the answer is handbags.

Barb decides to use the 50/50. (The audience applauds)

50/50 leaves B. Lingerie and D. Jeans.

Whoa. I had no idea (ATA for me), but it sounded like Connie was googling that, so I was ready to criticise Barb for wasting the 50/50. But that 80% turned out to be a little weak, didn't it.


I was confusing Parkinson's Law with the Peter Principle, so I might have burned the STQ at $50K, if further thought didn't correct that misperception. And then I'd have needed the PAF on the red blood cell question. Rats.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Barb Rufle
Brooklyn, NY
Business Analyst

At first Barb's nervous titter of a laugh annoyed me, but by the end of the show I was rooting for her.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:$16K Widely believed to be a hoax, the famous Patterson "Bigfoot" film was shot in 1967 in what region of the U.S.?
A. Upper Michigan
B. Appalachia
C. Northern California
D. The Dakotas

ATA

11% A. Upper Michigan
30% B. Appalachia
50% C. Northern California
9% D. The Dakotas

I thought the audience might make A the second choice.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:$25K Launched in 1954, the fashion label La Perla is best known for its pricey line of what?
A. Handbags
B. Lingerie
C. Footwear
D. Jeans

PAF - Connie, Barb's sister

Connie says that she is 80% sure the answer is handbags.

Barb decides to use the 50/50. (The audience applauds)

50/50 leaves B. Lingerie and D. Jeans.

Barb's reasoning was very good on this one, figuring that in 1954 there weren't "designer jeans". I knew it wasn't footwear (I used to work in a ladies' shoe store), so I'd have gone with the 50/50 first rather than ATA. As the results came out, I'd have been in good shape. It's a good thing that Barb decided not to go with her PAF, although I'm uncertain as to why. IIRC Connie said she was 80% sure it was "handbags".

The interplay between Meredith and Barb's daughter about gambling was nice.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:$50K Named for a British scholar, the observation that "work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion" is formally known as what?
A. Kendall's Law
B. Covington's Law
C. Carlock's Law
D. Parkinson's Law

I would not have needed to STQ here.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:STQ

$50K In the human body, which of these cells loses its nucleus during maturation?
A. Red blood cell
B. Muscle cell
C. Nerve cell
D. White blood cell

Barb doesn't know, so she takes a guess.
Some of the audience starts to applaud when she says which one she's going with.

No problem here, either, so I'd be going for the $100K with ATA, PAF and STQ still available.

earendel wrote: At first Barb's nervous titter of a laugh annoyed me, but by the end of the show I was rooting for her.

My sentiments exactly! Well put!

This stack would have killed me. I'm not sure I would have trusted the audience on the Bigfoot question, and I think I would have bit on "Jeans" over "Lingerie"--I thought it was more likely that a 53-year-old company might have recently gotten on the pricey jeans band wagon than that the writers would include such an "obviously wrong" choice.

25K: Like the contestant, I can attest that there were no designer jeans in the 50s. I don't remember any designer handbags either, but wouldn't rule that out. ATA, & if they have no clear favorite, PAF.

50K: These days we primarily hear Parkinson's Law by a corollary "Everyone rises to their own level of incompetence". But I think this version given is the original deal. However, I'm thrown enough to 50/50 it.


STQ 50K: Say its my 100K: 99.999% sure its the red blood cells & not the white that lose their nucleus. Sure wish white wasn't up there! If have PAF left, use them to fill in that 1%.

ghostjmf wrote:50K: These days we primarily hear Parkinson's Law by a corollary "Everyone rises to their own level of incompetence". But I think this version given is the original deal. However, I'm thrown enough to 50/50 it.

Heh. That's what was distracting me, too. But it's the Peter Principle, not Parkinson's Law.

MarleysGh0st wrote:

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Barb Rufle
Brooklyn, NY

I was confusing Parkinson's Law with the Peter Principle, so I might have burned the STQ at $50K, if further thought didn't correct that misperception. And then I'd have needed the PAF on the red blood cell question. Rats.

Peter Principle is something like you get promoted to your level of incompetence - something like that.

Great for me to see a 50K that I know the answer to without the answers.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Barb Rufle
Brooklyn, NY
Business Analyst

$100 A man described as a "chick magnet" is reputed to have success attracting what?
A. Women
B. Money
C. Job offers
D. Livestock

$200 To remind consumers of the cleansing pumice its bars contain, what brand of soap features a volcano on its label?
A. Zest
B. Dial
C. Ivory
D. Lava

$300 A type of wasp discovered in 1926, the Mozartella beethoveni was named after two what?
A. Painters
B. Novelists
C. Composers
D. Dancers

$500 Life jackets are often called PFDs, an abbreviation in which the "F" stands for what/
A. Flotation
B. Flying
C. Farming
D. Forest

$1K Used to refer to a type of cuisine, the adjective "Tex-Mex" derives from the names of what?
A. A country and a continent
B. A state and a country
C. Two continents
D. A city and a continent

commercial break

Barb is a bargain hunter. She won't pay full retail price for anything.
Meredith admires a watch pendant that Barb is wearing.
Meredith asks if the watch is something that Barb got a flea market.
Barb says that she did get the watch from a flea market, years ago, for about $20.
The watch doesn't work, but she only gave $20.
She does have the watch set to the time her daughter was born, 2:28.

$2K What is the title of the 1964 hit by Manfred Mann that begins, "These she was just a-walkin' down the street"?
A. Do Wah Diddy Diddy
B. Da Da Da
C. De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da
D. Da Doo Ron Ron

$4K The Dominican Republic occupies the island of Hispaniola with what other country?
A. Jamaica
B. Cuba
C. Barbados
D. Haiti

$8K A traditional Irish delicacy, soda bread is mad from a recipe in which baking soda replaces what common ingredient?
A. Yeast
B. Egg
C. Buttermilk
D. Flour

$16K Widely believed to be a hoax, the famous Patterson "Bigfoot" film was shot in 1967 in what region of the U.S.?
A. Upper Michigan
B. Appalachia
C. Northern California
D. The Dakotas

ATA

11% A. Upper Michigan
30% B. Appalachia
50% C. Northern California
9% D. The Dakotas

commercial break

$25K Launched in 1954, the fashion label La Perla is best known for its pricey line of what?
A. Handbags
B. Lingerie
C. Footwear
D. Jeans

PAF - Connie, Barb's sister

Connie says that she is 80% sure the answer is handbags.

Barb decides to use the 50/50. (The audience applauds)

50/50 leaves B. Lingerie and D. Jeans.

commercial break

$50K Named for a British scholar, the observation that "work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion" is formally known as what?
A. Kendall's Law
B. Covington's Law
C. Carlock's Law
D. Parkinson's Law

STQ

$50K In the human body, which of these cells loses its nucleus during maturation?
A. Red blood cell
B. Muscle cell
C. Nerve cell
D. White blood cell

Barb doesn't know, so she takes a guess.
Some of the audience starts to applaud when she says which one she's going with.

horn

Barb will return for tomorrow's show.

Answer:
$100 A. Women
$200 D. Lava
$300 C. Composers
$500 A. Flotation
$1K B. A state and a country
$2K A. Do Wah Diddy Diddy
$4K D. Haiti
$8K A. Yeast
$16K C. Northern California
$25K B. Lingerie
$50K D. Parkinson's Law
$50K A. Red blood cell

If I were playing:

8k would of needed ATA
16k would of PAF
25k, would of had no idea, used the 50:50 but left with 16,000