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Transcript 1/23/2007

Rachel Ball
Production coordinator
New York, NY

$100

The classic TV series "Mister Ed" featured which of
these lines in its opening theme song?

A: A cat is a cat
B: A horse is a horse
C: A pig is a pig
D: Holy crap! He talks!


$200

In the board game "Clue", what room often features a
sink, a cupboard and some pots and pans?

A: The library
B: The ballroom
C: The kitchen
D: The study


$300

Historically, avalanches have been a major cause of
tragedy for adventure seekers doing which of the
following?

A: Scaling the Eiffel Tower
B: Swimming the English Channel
C: Running the Boston Marathon
D: Climbing Mount Everest


$500

"Point d'interrogation" is the French term for what
punctuation symbol?

A: Comma
B: Apostrophe
C: Question Mark
D: Colon


$1000

Enacted in many of the fifty states, "defense of
marriage" laws are aimed at preventing what?

A: Same-sex marriages
B: Teen marriages
C: Coerced marriages
D: Rising divorce rates


Rachel doesn't know and uses her ATA.

ATA:

A: 49%
B: 7%
C: 20%
D: 24%


Rachel thinks the audience looks good and goes with
them.


Commercial Break


Rachel would one day like to be the next Woody Allen.
She wants to write and produce movies.

$2000

Life on Earth is often said to have emerged from an
organic compound known as "primordial" what?

A: Gravy
B: Pudding
C: Salad
D: Soup


$4,000

The murder trials of Belva Gaertner and Beulah
Annan inspired what Best Picture winner?

A: The Departed
B: American Beauty
C: Chicago
D: The Silence of the Lambs


$8,000

A lighthearted ode to rural life and moonshine,
"Rocky Top" is one of the official songs of what
U.S. state?

A: Alabama
B: Georgia
C: Florida
D: Tennessee


$16,000

A primary food source for baleen whales,
krill are a variety of what?

A: Jellyfish
B: Seaweed
C: Squid
D: Crustacean

Rachel is 90% sure it's seaweed, but thought she'd be risky.
She's changed her mind and uses the 50/50.


50/50 leaves

C: Squid
D: Crustacean

She doesn't think anyone on her PAF list would know & takes a guess.


$25,000

Which of these is not one of the 121 subjects for which the
Boy Scouts of America issues merit badges?

A: Disabilities awareness
B: Personal management
C: Diversity appreciation
D: Nuclear science

Her father was an assistant boy scout master, so she decides
to call him. Time runs out with no answer from Dad.
Rachel says $16,000 is a whole lot of money and decides to walk.









Answers:

$100 B - A horse is a horse
$200 C - The kitchen
$300 D - Climbing Mt Everest
$500 C - Question Mark
$1000 A - Same-sex marriage
$2000 D - Soup
$4000 C - Chicago
$8000 D - Tennessee
$16000 D - Crustacean
$25000 C - Diversity appreciation

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Rachel Ball
Production coordinator
New York, NY

Sounds like a WE/WE® to me.

Rachel would one day like to be the next Woody Allen.
She wants to write and produce movies.

Yep, that confirms that she's a WE/WE®.

$4K: The embarrassing thing is that I've seen the movie "Chicago", but that just didn't register in my brain. I would've ATAed.

$8K: I'm between Georgia and Tennessee. Gotta PAF.

$16K: Say goodnight, Gracie! I locked in with seaweed and crashed.

I wonder if I would have had the guts to guess 'diversity appreciation' and say out loud how they don't appreciate diversity, so why would they want to teach it?

I would probably get a whole lot of hate mail.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote: $25,000

Which of these is not one of the 121 subjects for which the
Boy Scouts of America issues merit badges?

A: Disabilities awareness
B: Personal management
C: Diversity appreciation
D: Nuclear science

Her father was an assistant boy scout master, so she decides
to call him. Time runs out with no answer from Dad.
Rachel says $16,000 is a whole lot of money and decides to walk.

I wonder how long ago her dad was a scoutmaster? My hunch was that A, B and C would all have been relatively recent additions to the merit badge list.

BTW, did everyone see the newspaper article about how the scouts are now being taught how to deal with bullying? So, if a bully wants to steal your lunch money, you're supposed to talk to him about how that makes you feel? Does anyone really think that would work?

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Transcript 1/23/2007

Rachel Ball
Production coordinator
New York, NY

And she wants to write and produce movies like Woody Allen. That definitely puts her in the WE/WE® category.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:$100
The classic TV series "Mister Ed" featured which of these lines in its opening theme song?

A: A cat is a cat
B: A horse is a horse
C: A pig is a pig
D: Holy crap! He talks!

Meredith's reply was, "Of course, of course."

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:$300
Historically, avalanches have been a major cause of tragedy for adventure seekers doing which of the following?

A: Scaling the Eiffel Tower
B: Swimming the English Channel
C: Running the Boston Marathon
D: Climbing Mount Everest

How many Everest climbers have actually fallen victim to avalanches?

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:$1000

Enacted in many of the fifty states, "defense of marriage" laws are aimed at preventing what?

A: Same-sex marriages
B: Teen marriages
C: Coerced marriages
D: Rising divorce rates

Rachel doesn't know and uses her ATA.

ATA:
A: 49%
B: 7%
C: 20%
D: 24%


Rachel thinks the audience looks good and goes with them.

I don't know which puzzles me more - that Rachel didn't know this (I'll bet Mary Ann did ) or that the audience didn't, since they gave the right answer only a plurality.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:$4,000
The murder trials of Belva Gaertner and Beulah Annan inspired what Best Picture winner?

A: The Departed
B: American Beauty
C: Chicago
D: The Silence of the Lambs

Haven't seen any of these movies, but could get the right answer by process of elimination.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:$16,000
A primary food source for baleen whales, krill are a variety of what?

A: Jellyfish
B: Seaweed
C: Squid
D: Crustacean

Rachel is 90% sure it's seaweed, but thought she'd be risky. She's changed her mind and uses the 50/50.

50/50 leaves

C: Squid
D: Crustacean

She doesn't think anyone on her PAF list would know & takes a guess.

There's so much to comment on here I don't know where to begin. First, doesn't it seem a little suspicious that they used specific terms for three of the answers and a generic "crustacean" for the last? Second, I thought Rachel said "D" when she mentioned what she was thinking, rather than "seaweed" (I had to go back and replay the DVR to make sure), so I initially excoriated her for wasting a lifeline. Good thing she did. And finally, I wonder about her PAF list.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:$25,000
Which of these is not one of the 121 subjects for which the Boy Scouts of America issues merit badges?

A: Disabilities awareness
B: Personal management
C: Diversity appreciation
D: Nuclear science

Her father was an assistant boy scout master, so she decides to call him. Time runs out with no answer from Dad. Rachel says $16,000 is a whole lot of money and decides to walk.

Good choice of PAF, but it's a tough question to try and read through and give the answers, much less have to repeat them (as her PAF asked). I know the BSA used to have an "atomic energy" merit badge because I earned it back in the day. The others, though, are anybody's guess - although in retrospect one might have gambled on "diversity appreciation" given the Scouts' views on homosexuality. But had this been me, I'd have gone with the 50/50 to see what was eliminated, then try PAF. I don't know how it could be Googled, but I'm sure it can be.

So I'd be going for $50K with two or three lifelines available.

earendel wrote:

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:$1000

Enacted in many of the fifty states, "defense of marriage" laws are aimed at preventing what?

A: Same-sex marriages
B: Teen marriages
C: Coerced marriages
D: Rising divorce rates

Rachel doesn't know and uses her ATA.

ATA:
A: 49%
B: 7%
C: 20%
D: 24%


Rachel thinks the audience looks good and goes with them.

I don't know which puzzles me more - that Rachel didn't know this (I'll bet Mary Ann did ) or that the audience didn't, since they gave the right answer only a plurality.

D might be a reasonable guess for someone who doesn't follow the news, but why did 20% vote for C? When is the last time anyone attended a shotgun wedding?

MarleysGh0st wrote:

earendel wrote:

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:$1000

Enacted in many of the fifty states, "defense of marriage" laws are aimed at preventing what?

A: Same-sex marriages
B: Teen marriages
C: Coerced marriages
D: Rising divorce rates

Rachel doesn't know and uses her ATA.

ATA:
A: 49%
B: 7%
C: 20%
D: 24%


Rachel thinks the audience looks good and goes with them.

I don't know which puzzles me more - that Rachel didn't know this (I'll bet Mary Ann did ) or that the audience didn't, since they gave the right answer only a plurality.

D might be a reasonable guess for someone who doesn't follow the news, but why did 20% vote for C? When is the last time anyone attended a shotgun wedding?

Well, gsabc has just started his wedding blog . . .

MarleysGh0st wrote:

earendel wrote:

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:$1000

Enacted in many of the fifty states, "defense of marriage" laws are aimed at preventing what?

A: Same-sex marriages
B: Teen marriages
C: Coerced marriages
D: Rising divorce rates

Rachel doesn't know and uses her ATA.

ATA:
A: 49%
B: 7%
C: 20%
D: 24%


Rachel thinks the audience looks good and goes with them.

I don't know which puzzles me more - that Rachel didn't know this (I'll bet Mary Ann did ) or that the audience didn't, since they gave the right answer only a plurality.

D might be a reasonable guess for someone who doesn't follow the news, but why did 20% vote for C? When is the last time anyone attended a shotgun wedding?

Perhaps some of the audience members were thinking of "arranged" marriages as coerced, which many of them are, even if the parents' intentions are good and no shotguns are involved (until the reception.)

silvercamaro wrote:Perhaps some of the audience members were thinking of "arranged" marriages as coerced, which many of them are, even if the parents' intentions are good and no shotguns are involved (until the reception.)

Sure, arranged marriages are a tradition in other cultures, but could anyone imagine that's become a hot issue here in the states?

Appa23 wrote:

MarleysGh0st wrote:D might be a reasonable guess for someone who doesn't follow the news, but why did 20% vote for C? When is the last time anyone attended a shotgun wedding?

Well, gsabc has just started his wedding blog . . .

IIRC, gsabc's future SIL is in the military. I think his armament could outmatch a shotgun.

MarleysGh0st wrote:
Sure, arranged marriages are a tradition in other cultures, but could anyone imagine that's become a hot issue here in the states?

I have seen occasional news stories about brides for arranged marriages in families of Middle Eastern or Asian descent who live in the U.S., and even MTV did one show about such situations. That said, I usually can't come up with even one reason why significant numbers of people don't know the stuff they don't know.

Which of these is not one of the 121 subjects for which the
Boy Scouts of America issues merit badges?

A: Disabilities awareness
B: Personal management
C: Diversity appreciation
D: Nuclear science

I think I earned the Nuclear science merit badge back in the day, although I think it was called Atomic rather than nuclear. And no, I'm not confusing it with a flint and steel fire making merit badge.

themanintheseersuckersuit wrote:

Which of these is not one of the 121 subjects for which the
Boy Scouts of America issues merit badges?

A: Disabilities awareness
B: Personal management
C: Diversity appreciation
D: Nuclear science

I think I earned the Nuclear science merit badge back in the day, although I think it was called Atomic rather than nuclear. And no, I'm not confusing it with a flint and steel fire making merit badge.

I didn't comment on it when I did the trancription, but Rachel's pronunciaton of nuclear was...shall we say...interesting for a New Yorker anyway. Very close to Dubya's....not exactly the same...but pretty close, or at least it seemed so to me.

MarleysGh0st wrote:

Appa23 wrote:

MarleysGh0st wrote:D might be a reasonable guess for someone who doesn't follow the news, but why did 20% vote for C? When is the last time anyone attended a shotgun wedding?

Well, gsabc has just started his wedding blog . . .

IIRC, gsabc's future SIL is in the military. I think his armament could outmatch a shotgun.

My thought exactly. Plus he could probably beat the crap out of me. Literally.

themanintheseersuckersuit wrote:

Which of these is not one of the 121 subjects for which the
Boy Scouts of America issues merit badges?

A: Disabilities awareness
B: Personal management
C: Diversity appreciation
D: Nuclear science

I think I earned the Nuclear science merit badge back in the day, although I think it was called Atomic rather than nuclear. And no, I'm not confusing it with a flint and steel fire making merit badge.

I believe you're right about it being called the "Atomic Energy" badge back in the day. It was one of the few I earned.