Transcript 3/4/2011 - Paul Ryan (supermawg)

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Paul Ryan (supermawg)
Willowbrook, IL
Cardiologist

Paul is very competitive within his family. His dad said he never let them win anything. His wife Julie and brother Joe are in the relationship seats. His brother made it to the Fastest Finger show in primetime a few years ago and Paul's going to try to do better.

Topic Tree: (unrandomized)
- Have Faith
- Legal Age
- Local Hero
- Lovely Bones
- Two Voices
- Food Units
- Dot What
- Voice Mail
- Tapping TV
- Latin Literature

Topic Tree: (randomized)
- Food Units
- Two Voices
- Tapping TV
- Lovely Bones
- Legal Age
- Voice Mail
- Have Faith
- Latin Literature
- Local Hero
- Dot What

Question #1 (Dot What)
The ".tv" Internet address often used for television-related websites, belongs to what country?
A - Tajikistan
B - Tanzania
C - Tunisia
D - Tuvalu

Spoiler

Answer: D (Tuvalu)
Value: $100
Bank: $100

Question #2 (Local Hero)
Preserving it behind a shield of glass, the University of Virginia is home to the former dorm room of what author?
A - Edgar Allen Poe
B - William Faulkner
C - Herman Melville
D - Walt Whitman

Paul says it probably isn't

Spoiler

Edgar Allen Poe

. He thinks his brother would know. Paul decides to jump the question.

Spoiler

Answer: A (Edgar Allen Poe)
Value: $10,000
Bank: $100

Question #3 (Latin Literature)
Edwardus Ursus and Christophorus Robinus are two characters in a Latin version of what classic children's story?
A - Winnie-the-Pooh
B - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
C - Babar
D - Curious George
"Christopher Robin ought to help me," Paul says.

Spoiler

Answer: A (Winnie-the-Pooh)
Value: $7,000
Bank: $7,100

Question #4 (Have Faith)
What is the term for the Christian belief that the bread and wine at Communion turn into the blood and body of Christ?
A - transposition
B - transcendentalism
C - transubstantiation
D - transliteration

Paul says he can't go home if he doesn't get this one right.

Spoiler

Answer: C (transubstantiation)
Value: $1,000
Bank: $8,100

Question #5 (Voice Mail)
In 2010, what Supreme Court justice's wife asked Anita Hill to apologize for events that occurred nearly 20 years ago?
A - Stephen Breyer
B - Clarence Thomas
C - Antonin Scalia
D - Anthony Kennedy

Spoiler

Answer: B (Clarence Thomas)
Value: $5,000
Bank: $13,100

commercial break

Meredith says that Paul is the perfect person to answer a question she's wondered about - could the stress of the show cause someone to have a heart attack? She says that contestants in the past have said that they felt like they were having one. Paul says "I'll let you know." He does say that if someone was close enough it could. Meredith asks Paul's brother Joe how he feels about Paul saying he wants to make him look bad. Joe's all for that if Paul can win a lot of money.

Question #6 (Legal Age)
In what year was the law passed requiring all states to enforce a minimum legal age of 21 for purchasing alcoholic beverages?
A - 1969
B - 1974
C - 1979
D - 1984

Paul was a freshman in college when the law was changed; the state where he went to school had a drinking age of 21 but neighboring states didn't. He thinks he started college in

Spoiler

1982

(he can't remember under the pressure of the Hot Podium). It might have happened slightly before he started college.

Spoiler

Answer: D (1984)
Value: $2,000
Bank: $15,100

Question #7 (Lovely Bones)
Believed by the ancient Greeks to be a sacred or holy bone, the sacrum is located in what part of the human body?
A - neck
B - pelvis
C - skull
D - rib cage

Meredith says that Paul's patients are watching carefully. He replies that this is a little south of his specialty. He studied the human body as part of his college work but he's been more concerned with rib cages lately.

Spoiler

Answer: B (pelvis)
Value: $15,000
Bank: $30,100

Question #8 (Tapping TV)
In TV ads, "The Most Interesting Man in the World" often says, "I don't always drink beer but when I do I prefer" what?
A - Dos Equis
B - Guinness
C - Heineken
D - Foster's

Paul's not sure why he's so happy that all these drinking questions are coming up, but he doesn't mind.

Spoiler

Answer: A (Dos Equis)
Value: $3,000
Bank: $33,100

commercial break

The "Blast from the past" question was worth $100,000 in 2008
Wittmaack-Ekbon syndrome is a medical condition more commonly known as what?
A - chronic fatigue
B - carpal tunnel
C - restless legs
D - sleep apnea

Spoiler

C (restless legs)

Paul says it's intimidating being on the show because he's not in control.

Question #9 (Two Voices)
In the 2010 hit song "California Gurls," Katy Perry mentions "sippin' gin and juice," probably because the song features what rapper?
A - Kanye West
B - Eminem
C - Snoop Dogg
D - Diddy

Meredith says it's another drinking question. But Paul doesn't like gin. He could take a guess but that would be silly so he decides to ask the audience.

ATA results

A - 8%
B - 4%
C - 83%
D - 5%

Paul has no reason not to believe "these fine people" so he goes with their answer.

Spoiler

Answer: C (Snoop Dogg)
Value: $25,000
Bank: $58,100

THE END OF GAME "NOISE"

[earendel]

Paul Ryan (supermawg)
Willowbrook, IL
Cardiologist

Paul is very competitive within his family. His dad said he never let them win anything. His wife Julie and brother Joe are in the relationship seats. His brother made it to the Fastest Finger show in primetime a few years ago and Paul's going to try to do better.

I'm guessing that Paul's brother Joe didn't get past the FF. Any idea when he was on the show? Also I didn't realize that Paul was a BB.

Question #4 (Have Faith)
What is the term for the Christian belief that the bread and wine at Communion turn into the blood and body of Christ?
A - transposition
B - transcendentalism
C - transubstantiation
D - transliteration

Paul says he can't go home if he doesn't get this one right.

Spoiler

Answer: C (transubstantiation)
Value: $1,000
Bank: $8,100

Why didn't they use "transpiration" as a choice?

Question #6 (Legal Age)
In what year was the law passed requiring all states to enforce a minimum legal age of 21 for purchasing alcoholic beverages?
A - 1969
B - 1974
C - 1979
D - 1984

Paul was a freshman in college when the law was changed; the state where he went to school had a drinking age of 21 but neighboring states didn't. He thinks he started college in

Spoiler

1982

(he can't remember under the pressure of the Hot Podium). It might have happened slightly before he started college.

Spoiler

Answer: D (1984)
Value: $2,000
Bank: $15,100

I'd have used JTQ on this one. I know it's not A or B but can't decide between C and D.

Question #8 (Tapping TV)
In TV ads, "The Most Interesting Man in the World" often says, "I don't always drink beer but when I do I prefer" what?
A - Dos Equis
B - Guinness
C - Heineken
D - Foster's

Paul's not sure why he's so happy that all these drinking questions are coming up, but he doesn't mind.

Spoiler

Answer: A (Dos Equis)
Value: $3,000
Bank: $33,100

I haven't seen the other replies in this thread - did our MM make an appearance?

Question #9 (Two Voices)
In the 2010 hit song "California Gurls," Katy Perry mentions "sippin' gin and juice," probably because the song features what rapper?
A - Kanye West
B - Eminem
C - Snoop Dogg
D - Diddy

Meredith says it's another drinking question. But Paul doesn't like gin. He could take a guess but that would be silly so he decides to ask the audience.

ATA results

A - 8%
B - 4%
C - 83%
D - 5%

Paul has no reason not to believe "these fine people" so he goes with their answer.

Spoiler

Answer: C (Snoop Dogg)
Value: $25,000
Bank: $58,100

No idea - and even after seeing the answer I don't get the connection. So I'd ATA also.

[vettech]

Question #6 (Legal Age)
In what year was the law passed requiring all states to enforce a minimum legal age of 21 for purchasing alcoholic beverages?
A - 1969
B - 1974
C - 1979
D - 1984

Paul was a freshman in college when the law was changed; the state where he went to school had a drinking age of 21 but neighboring states didn't. He thinks he started college in

Spoiler

1982

(he can't remember under the pressure of the Hot Podium). It might have happened slightly before he started college.

Spoiler

Answer: D (1984)
Value: $2,000
Bank: $15,100

I was 19 and the legal age in Maine was already 20, so it didn't affect me much but I do remember it. When I moved to Tennessee later that year, I was able to drink legally because those that were 18+ at the time the law went into effect were grandfathered in. Since I've never been a big drinker, I can remember all this.

[Jeemie]

Question #6 (Legal Age)
In what year was the law passed requiring all states to enforce a minimum legal age of 21 for purchasing alcoholic beverages?
A - 1969
B - 1974
C - 1979
D - 1984

Paul was a freshman in college when the law was changed; the state where he went to school had a drinking age of 21 but neighboring states didn't. He thinks he started college in

Spoiler

1982

(he can't remember under the pressure of the Hot Podium). It might have happened slightly before he started college.

Spoiler

Answer: D (1984)
Value: $2,000
Bank: $15,100

I was 19 and the legal age in Maine was already 20, so it didn't affect me much but I do remember it. When I moved to Tennessee later that year, I was able to drink legally because those that were 18+ at the time the law went into effect were grandfathered in. Since I've never been a big drinker, I can remember all this.

And I was confused because I remember going with my then-girlfriend/now-wife to visit friends, and I remember buying the beer because I was the only one over what I recall was the then NY-drinking age of 19.

That was in 1988- were states given a long time to comply with this?

Or maybe this trip took place later in 1988 than I thought, and I was already 21.

Wow- that's bad!!!!!

[TheConfessor]

Question #6 (Legal Age)
In what year was the law passed requiring all states to enforce a minimum legal age of 21 for purchasing alcoholic beverages?
A - 1969
B - 1974
C - 1979
D - 1984

Paul was a freshman in college when the law was changed; the state where he went to school had a drinking age of 21 but neighboring states didn't. He thinks he started college in

Spoiler

1982

(he can't remember under the pressure of the Hot Podium). It might have happened slightly before he started college.

Spoiler

Answer: D (1984)
Value: $2,000
Bank: $15,100

This question is not correct. There is no federal law that requires states to enforce a minimum age for purchasing alcohol. What really happened is that the states were told that if they did not enforce the 21 y/o minimum age, they would receive only 90% of their share of federal highway funding. Most states quickly caved in under the financial pressure. As I recall, Louisiana was the last holdout for age 18 drinking, but eventually they changed their law to preserve their full federal highway funding.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_M ... ng_Age_Act

[secondchance]

Listen to the cruelty of this! --

In Illinois, the drinking age (at least for beer and wine; can't remember) when I was a teenager in the late 70's, had been 19. I had already been partying and going to the bars for OVER A YEAR at school in Carbondale- a college town where the bars, drinking, and dancing to live bands was THE thing to do. Shortly after I turned 20, the drinking age was abruptly moved up to 21. No grandfathers anywhere in sight... just booted out until the next birthday rolled along! Now how does that make ANY sense at all?!?! It didn't to me at the time, that's for damn sure. It still pisses me off!

[CarShark]

Question #2 (Local Hero)
Preserving it behind a shield of glass, the University of Virginia is home to the former dorm room of what author?
A - Edgar Allen Poe
B - William Faulkner
C - Herman Melville
D - Walt Whitman

I wasn't thinking it was Poe, because I associate him more with Baltimore, Maryland. In retrospect, he's probably closer to being in the right area than anyone else.

Question #4 (Have Faith)
What is the term for the Christian belief that the bread and wine at Communion turn into the blood and body of Christ?
A - transposition
B - transcendentalism
C - transubstantiation
D - transliteration

This was supposedly the hardest question he had in Round One, but I guess the wrong answers weren't good enough to trick me, because even though I had no idea initially, none of the other answers made sense to me.

Question #9 (Two Voices)
In the 2010 hit song "California Gurls," Katy Perry mentions "sippin' gin and juice," probably because the song features what rapper?
A - Kanye West
B - Eminem
C - Snoop Dogg
D - Diddy

This one was easy for me. Whenever I think think of the consumption of mind-altering substances, Snoop Dogg is the first one I think of.