Transcript 5/4/2011 - Rebecca Goldstein

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Rebecca Goldstein
New York City, NY
Graduate student in pharmacology

When she was young her siblings teased her because she liked to heal things. They asked, "What if you grow up and all the diseases have been cured?" Her answer was that she would find one or create one and then cure it.

Topic Tree: (unrandomized)
10 - The Planets
9 - War Correspondence
8 - The Feds
7 - Take a Stan
6 - Really Bad Songs
5 - World Records
4 - Game Decisions
3 - Elizabeth Hasselbeck
2 - As Seen on TV
1 - Wardrobe Malfunction

Topic Tree: (randomized)
1 - Wardrobe Malfunction
5 - World Records
4 - Game Decisions
8 - The Feds
3 - Elizabeth Hasselbeck
10 - The Planets
7 -Take a Stan
6 - Really Bad Songs
9 - War Correspondence
2 - As Seen on TV

Question #1 (As Seen on TV - Level 2)
In the 1980s, a TV ad campaign that featured the "Ricola shout" was used to sell a popular brand of what?
A - chocolate bars
B - popcorn
C - cough drops
D - mouthwash

Rebecca has a counselor in a summer program who used the "Ricola shout" with her name.

Spoiler

Answer: C (cough drops)
Value: $10,000
Bank: $10,000

Question #2 (War Correspondence - Level 9)
Asked by the Germans to surrender at the Battle of the Bulge, General Anthony McAuliffe famously sent back which of these replies?
A - Fudge!
B - Nuts!
C - Scram!
D - Baloney!

Rebecca doesn't recognize the battle or the general so she jumps the question.

Spoiler

Answer: B (Nuts!)
Value: $3,000
Bank: $10,000

Question #3 (Really Bad Songs - Level 6)
What band's single "We Built This City" topped Blender magazine's 2004 list of "The 50 Worst Songs Ever"?
A - Animotion
B - DeBarge
C - Starship
D - Mr. Mister

Rebecca knows this song - "We built this city on rock and roll" - but she doesn't know the artist. She thinks the audience looks intelligent so she decides to ask them. She's leaning toward one but she's not sure.

ATA results

A - 5%
B - 6%
C - 72%
D - 17%

That's the one she was leaning toward.

Spoiler

Answer: C (Starship)
Value: $2,000
Bank: $12,000

commercial break

Rebecca's brother Danny and sister Sarah are in the audience. They have a vested interest in her outcome. She promised Danny she'd take him to Vegas for poker and would help Sarah with her outstanding student loans.

Question #4 (Take a Stan - Level 7)
Which of these Asian "Stans" is an ethnic region and not an independent country?
A - Kyrgyzstan
B - Tajikistan
C - Turkmenistan
D - Kurdistan

Rebecca isn't sure she knows; she's not even leaning in any particular direction. She uses her second Jump the Question.

Spoiler

Answer: D (Kurdistan)
Value: $5,000
Bank: $12,000

Question #5 (The Planets - Level 10)
Though most planets are named after Roman deities, what is the only one named for a figure in Greek mythology?
A - Venus
B - Jupiter
C - Saturn
D - Uranus

Rebecca says "

Spoiler

Jupiter

is Roman, I believe. I can't even put a finger on Uranus." She realizes what she said as the audience laughs and Meredith looks shamefacedly away. "You're going to cut that out," Rebecca says. "That will be edited, I'm sure." She adds, "I don't think you can say that on television." Meredith is trying hard not to break out laughing. "Rebecca, you know I really need this job," she says. "I'm in graduate school, not in medical school. That much I know." Rebecca is pretty sure that

Spoiler

Saturn

is Roman also. She thinks it's not

Spoiler

D

either. She makes

Spoiler

A

her final answer.

Spoiler

Answer: D (Uranus)
Value: unrevealed
Bank: $1,000 (consolation prize)

commercial break

[SportsFan68]

Question #3 (Really Bad Songs - Level 6)
What band's single "We Built This City" topped Blender magazine's 2004 list of "The 50 Worst Songs Ever"?
A - Animotion
B - DeBarge
C - Starship
D - Mr. Mister

I wonder how many LS Meisters have used this one.

[mellytu74]

Question #3 (Really Bad Songs - Level 6)
What band's single "We Built This City" topped Blender magazine's 2004 list of "The 50 Worst Songs Ever"?
A - Animotion
B - DeBarge
C - Starship
D - Mr. Mister

I wonder how many LS Meisters have used this one.

I just started laughing when I saw it.

[wintergreen48]

Question #2 (War Correspondence - Level 9)
Asked by the Germans to surrender at the Battle of the Bulge, General Anthony McAuliffe famously sent back which of these replies?
A - Fudge!
B - Nuts!
C - Scram!
D - Baloney!

Rebecca doesn't recognize the battle or the general so she jumps the question.

Spoiler

Answer: B (Nuts!)
Value: $3,000
Bank: $10,000

I can ALMOST understand not remembering the name of the General (althought this is probably the single most famous event of the Battle of the Bulge), but not even recognizing the name of the battle itself???

I have heard a couple times that McAuliffe's reply was actually somewhat less, um, suitable for family audiences, and it was sanitized for public consumption. I do not know if he actually said 'Nuts!' or, um, something else, but it is interesting either way. And something everyone should know about.

[mellytu74]

Question #2 (War Correspondence - Level 9)
Asked by the Germans to surrender at the Battle of the Bulge, General Anthony McAuliffe famously sent back which of these replies?
A - Fudge!
B - Nuts!
C - Scram!
D - Baloney!

Rebecca doesn't recognize the battle or the general so she jumps the question.

Spoiler

Answer: B (Nuts!)
Value: $3,000
Bank: $10,000

I can ALMOST understand not remembering the name of the General (althought this is probably the single most famous event of the Battle of the Bulge), but not even recognizing the name of the battle itself???

I have heard a couple times that McAuliffe's reply was actually somewhat less, um, suitable for family audiences, and it was sanitized for public consumption. I do not know if he actually said 'Nuts!' or, um, something else, but it is interesting either way. And something everyone should know about.

That flummoxed us, too.

We just looked at each other. Boonie went on a small rant - understandable.

[elwoodblues]

Question #3 (Really Bad Songs - Level 6)
What band's single "We Built This City" topped Blender magazine's 2004 list of "The 50 Worst Songs Ever"?
A - Animotion
B - DeBarge
C - Starship
D - Mr. Mister

I wonder how many LS Meisters have used this one.

I have. I needed one of their songs to make it an official game.

There were a number of Merry Man shoutouts in this stack.

[jarnon]

Question #2 (War Correspondence - Level 9)
Asked by the Germans to surrender at the Battle of the Bulge, General Anthony McAuliffe famously sent back which of these replies?
A - Fudge!
B - Nuts!
C - Scram!
D - Baloney!

Rebecca doesn't recognize the battle or the general so she jumps the question.

Spoiler

Answer: B (Nuts!)
Value: $3,000
Bank: $10,000

One of my favorite war stories. Wikipedia refers to this account by a general who was there: "NUTS!" Revisited

McAuliffe then wrote down: "To the German Commander, "Nuts!" The American Commander."

The German major then asked, "Is the reply negative or affirmative?"

"If you don't know what 'Nuts' means, in plain English it is the same as 'Go to Hell'. And I'll tell you something else, if you continue to attack we will kill every goddam German that tries to break into this city."

[earendel]

Rebecca Goldstein
New York City, NY
Graduate student in pharmacology

When she was young her siblings teased her because she liked to heal things. They asked, "What if you grow up and all the diseases have been cured?" Her answer was that she would find one or create one and then cure it.

They must be getting close to the end of the taping season because so many NYCers are getting on.

Question #2 (War Correspondence - Level 9)
Asked by the Germans to surrender at the Battle of the Bulge, General Anthony McAuliffe famously sent back which of these replies?
A - Fudge!
B - Nuts!
C - Scram!
D - Baloney!

Rebecca doesn't recognize the battle or the general so she jumps the question.

Spoiler

Answer: B (Nuts!)
Value: $3,000
Bank: $10,000

I can understand her not knowing the name, but never hearing of the battle? What do they teach in school these days?

Question #5 (The Planets - Level 10)
Though most planets are named after Roman deities, what is the only one named for a figure in Greek mythology?
A - Venus
B - Jupiter
C - Saturn
D - Uranus

Rebecca says "

Spoiler

Jupiter

is Roman, I believe. I can't even put a finger on Uranus." She realizes what she said as the audience laughs and Meredith looks shamefacedly away. "You're going to cut that out," Rebecca says. "That will be edited, I'm sure." She adds, "I don't think you can say that on television." Meredith is trying hard not to break out laughing. "Rebecca, you know I really need this job," she says. "I'm in graduate school, not in medical school. That much I know." Rebecca is pretty sure that

Spoiler

Saturn

is Roman also. She thinks it's not

Spoiler

D

either. She makes

Spoiler

A

her final answer.

Spoiler

Answer: D (Uranus)
Value: unrevealed
Bank: $1,000 (consolation prize)

The clip is available on YouTube - it's really funny.



But I think that Rebecca may have been thrown off by this so that she didn't get the right answer. I did note that neither she nor Meredith said "Uranus" again during the segment. As for me, I would not have thought this would be the most difficult question in the stack.

[rayxtwo]

Question #3 (Really Bad Songs - Level 6)
What band's single "We Built This City" topped Blender magazine's 2004 list of "The 50 Worst Songs Ever"?
A - Animotion
B - DeBarge
C - Starship
D - Mr. Mister

I wonder how many LS Meisters have used this one.

I thought Weird Al did this one????? lb????

Ray

[Brit Canuck]

On the positive side, that one clip has probably now been uploaded to YouTube more times than any $0 'llama' moment from the original and clock formats.
Yay for the shuffle format.

[MarleysGh0st]

On the positive side, that one clip has probably now been uploaded to YouTube more times than any $0 'llama' moment from the original and clock formats.
Yay for the shuffle format.

Why does the shuffle format get credit for an inadvertant Uranus joke?

[Jefferson Starplane]

Question #3 (Really Bad Songs - Level 6)
What band's single "We Built This City" topped Blender magazine's 2004 list of "The 50 Worst Songs Ever"?
A - Animotion
B - DeBarge
C - Starship
D - Mr. Mister

Rebecca knows this song - "We built this city on rock and roll" - but she doesn't know the artist. She thinks the audience looks intelligent so she decides to ask them. She's leaning toward one but she's not sure.

ATA results

A - 5%
B - 6%
C - 72%
D - 17%

That's the one she was leaning toward.

Spoiler

Answer: C (Starship)
Value: $2,000
Bank: $12,000

commercial break

This show is knee deep in something.....