Transcript 11/18/2011 - Brandon Smith

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Brandon Smith
Harrisburg, PA
vending machine business owner

Brandon needs money to expand his business.

Topic Tree: (unrandomized)
10 - Broken Record
9 - Knives Out
8 - Mountain Ranges
7 - Women on the Telly
6 - Heavenly Deed
5 - The Right Suit
4 - Alcohol Fall
3 - Western Women
2 - Traffic Citations
1 - Name of the Game


Topic Tree: (randomized)
5 - The Right Suit
3 - Western Women
2 - Traffic Citations
10 - Broken Record
4 - Alcohol Fall
7 - Women on the Telly
8 - Mountain Ranges
6 - Heavenly Deed
9 - Knives Out
1 - Name of the Game

Question #1 (Name of the Game - Level 1)
What classic game was created by a wealthy Canadian couple to play with friends on their luxury boat?
A - Jenga
B - Boggle
C - Yahtzee
D - Scrabble

"You know what, Meredith? I'm going to have to jump it," Brandon says.

Spoiler

Answer: C (Yahtzee)
Value: $1,000
Bank: $0

Question #2 (Knives Out - Level 9)
As part of the assassination attempt, the Secretary of State survived a knife attack the same day that what U.S. president was shot?
A - Abraham Lincoln
B - James Garfield
C - William McKinley
D - John F. Kennedy

"Boy, two in a row," Brandon jokes. He decides to ask the audience.

ATA results

A - 52%
B - 23%
C - 23%
D - 2%

That's what Brandon was thinking, so that's his final answer

Spoiler

Answer: A (Abraham Lincoln)
Value: $10,000
Bank: $10,000

Brandon feels better now.

Question #3 (Heavenly Deed - Level 6)
Considered rather tongue in cheek, what religion's folklore states that making three matches that lead to marriage earns you a spot in heaven?
A - Judaism
B - Catholicism
C - Mormonism
D - Buddhism

"If I remember correctly I think that the matchmaking thing is...is...is...big in...in

Spoiler

the Jewish faith.

Spoiler

Answer: A (Judaism)
Value: $5,000
Bank: $15,000

Meredith says they have a word for it - yente.

Question #4 (Mountain Ranges - Level 8)
Stretching over 4,400 miles, what is the world's longest mountain range above sea level?
A - Himalayas
B - Alps
C - Rockies
D - Andes

Brandon mutters "Forty-four hundred miles...I don't think it's the

Spoiler

Rockies.

He's thinking it's either the

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Alps or the Andes

but he doesn't know for sure. He jumps the question.

Spoiler

Answer: D (Andes)
Value: $7,000
Bank: $15,000

commercial break

Question #5 (Women on the Telly - Level 7)
Jillian Harris, Ali Fedotowsky and Ashley Hebert have all been the star of what reality TV series?
A - Top Chef
B - The Bachelorette
C - America's Next Top Model
D - Nashville Star

Brandon doesn't think it's

Spoiler

Top Chef

because he's watched that show occasionally. They're all three women so it could be

Spoiler

America's Next Top Model or The Bachelorette.

Meredith explains his options, noting that if he misses it - at which point Brandon says, "You don't have to finish it, I know." Meredith then asks if any of the names ring a bell. Brandon says they don't. Two of the shows are pretty popular and they're in the tabloids but he doesn't remember hearing any of the names, so it might be

Spoiler

Nashville Star.

He doesn't know for sure. He hates to do it but he's going to walk away.

Spoiler

Answer: B (The Bachelorette)
Value: unrevealed
Bank: $7,500 (half the bank)

THE END OF GAME "NOISE"

[Bob78164]

Question #1 (Name of the Game - Level 1)
What classic game was created by a wealthy Canadian couple to play with friends on their luxury boat?
A - Jenga
B - Boggle
C - Yahtzee
D - Scrabble

"You know what, Meredith? I'm going to have to jump it," Brandon says.

Spoiler

Answer: C (Yahtzee)
Value: $1,000
Bank: $0

The first question demonstrates why it's helpful to know which questions are the first-tier questions. I wasn't paying attention to the Topic Tree when I watched the show and managed to reason out the answer via elimination. But when I saw on the transcript that it was meant to be a Level 1 question, I took a second look and realized that it was probably originally called "Yacht-zee." --Bob

[earendel]

Brandon Smith
Harrisburg, PA
vending machine business owner

Brandon needs money to expand his business.

Question #1 (Name of the Game - Level 1)
What classic game was created by a wealthy Canadian couple to play with friends on their luxury boat?
A - Jenga
B - Boggle
C - Yahtzee
D - Scrabble

"You know what, Meredith? I'm going to have to jump it," Brandon says.

Spoiler

Answer: C (Yahtzee)
Value: $1,000
Bank: $0

This does not bode well for him winning a lot of money for his business. Could he not see the connection between "luxury boat" and the "yacht" in "Yahtzee"?

Question #2 (Knives Out - Level 9)
As part of the assassination attempt, the Secretary of State survived a knife attack the same day that what U.S. president was shot?
A - Abraham Lincoln
B - James Garfield
C - William McKinley
D - John F. Kennedy

"Boy, two in a row," Brandon jokes. He decides to ask the audience.

ATA results

A - 52%
B - 23%
C - 23%
D - 2%

That's what Brandon was thinking, so that's his final answer

Spoiler

Answer: A (Abraham Lincoln)
Value: $10,000
Bank: $10,000

I'm a bit surprised that the audience response was as strong as it was.

Question #4 (Mountain Ranges - Level
Stretching over 4,400 miles, what is the world's longest mountain range above sea level?
A - Himalayas
B - Alps
C - Rockies
D - Andes

Brandon mutters "Forty-four hundred miles...I don't think it's the

Spoiler

Rockies.

He's thinking it's either the

Spoiler

Alps or the Andes

but he doesn't know for sure. He jumps the question.

Spoiler

Answer: D (Andes)
Value: $7,000
Bank: $15,000

I don't understand why this was so difficult.

Question #5 (Women on the Telly - Level 7)
Jillian Harris, Ali Fedotowsky and Ashley Hebert have all been the star of what reality TV series?
A - Top Chef
B - The Bachelorette
C - America's Next Top Model
D - Nashville Star

Brandon doesn't think it's

Spoiler

Top Chef

because he's watched that show occasionally. They're all three women so it could be

Spoiler

America's Next Top Model or The Bachelorette.

Meredith explains his options, noting that if he misses it - at which point Brandon says, "You don't have to finish it, I know." Meredith then asks if any of the names ring a bell. Brandon says they don't. Two of the shows are pretty popular and they're in the tabloids but he doesn't remember hearing any of the names, so it might be

Spoiler

Nashville Star.

He doesn't know for sure. He hates to do it but he's going to walk away.

Spoiler

Answer: B (The Bachelorette)
Value: unrevealed
Bank: $7,500 (half the bank)

I'll ATA on this one.

[MarleysGh0st]

Question #2 (Knives Out - Level 9)
As part of the assassination attempt, the Secretary of State survived a knife attack the same day that what U.S. president was shot?
A - Abraham Lincoln
B - James Garfield
C - William McKinley
D - John F. Kennedy

"Boy, two in a row," Brandon jokes. He decides to ask the audience.

ATA results

A - 52%
B - 23%
C - 23%
D - 2%

That's what Brandon was thinking, so that's his final answer

Spoiler

Answer: A (Abraham Lincoln)
Value: $10,000
Bank: $10,000

I'm a bit surprised that the audience response was as strong as it was.

It was an interesting result. I think everyone was familiar enough with the history of the Kennedy assassination to know that, second gunman conspiracies aside, no other government officials were targeted in separate but related attacks, that day. That would leave the other three choices with 33% each, if they were randomly guessing. Lincoln, therefore, got about 10% of Garfield and McKinley's votes, from people who knew enough history to remember that the latter were victims of lone gunmen, while Booth was part of a southern sympathizer plot. Not an unreasonable ATA result, IMHO.

[Estonut]

Question #5 (Women on the Telly - Level 7)
Jillian Harris, Ali Fedotowsky and Ashley Hebert have all been the star of what reality TV series?
A - Top Chef
B - The Bachelorette
C - America's Next Top Model
D - Nashville Star

Brandon doesn't think it's

Spoiler

Top Chef

because he's watched that show occasionally. They're all three women so it could be

Spoiler

America's Next Top Model or The Bachelorette.

Meredith explains his options, noting that if he misses it - at which point Brandon says, "You don't have to finish it, I know." Meredith then asks if any of the names ring a bell. Brandon says they don't. Two of the shows are pretty popular and they're in the tabloids but he doesn't remember hearing any of the names, so it might be

Spoiler

Nashville Star.

He doesn't know for sure. He hates to do it but he's going to walk away.

Spoiler

Answer: B (The Bachelorette)
Value: unrevealed
Bank: $7,500 (half the bank)

I'll ATA on this one.

I don't understand why this was so difficult.

[earendel]

Question #5 (Women on the Telly - Level 7)
Jillian Harris, Ali Fedotowsky and Ashley Hebert have all been the star of what reality TV series?
A - Top Chef
B - The Bachelorette
C - America's Next Top Model
D - Nashville Star

Brandon doesn't think it's

Spoiler

Top Chef

because he's watched that show occasionally. They're all three women so it could be

Spoiler

America's Next Top Model or The Bachelorette.

Meredith explains his options, noting that if he misses it - at which point Brandon says, "You don't have to finish it, I know." Meredith then asks if any of the names ring a bell. Brandon says they don't. Two of the shows are pretty popular and they're in the tabloids but he doesn't remember hearing any of the names, so it might be

Spoiler

Nashville Star.

He doesn't know for sure. He hates to do it but he's going to walk away.

Spoiler

Answer: B (The Bachelorette)
Value: unrevealed
Bank: $7,500 (half the bank)

I'll ATA on this one.

I don't understand why this was so difficult.

For me it's because I have never watched an episode of any of those shows. "The Bachelorette" seems likely, but it is a Level 7 question, which means it may not be the obvious answer.

[MarleysGh0st]

Question #5 (Women on the Telly - Level 7)
Jillian Harris, Ali Fedotowsky and Ashley Hebert have all been the star of what reality TV series?
A - Top Chef
B - The Bachelorette
C - America's Next Top Model
D - Nashville Star

Brandon doesn't think it's

Spoiler

Top Chef

because he's watched that show occasionally. They're all three women so it could be

Spoiler

America's Next Top Model or The Bachelorette.

Meredith explains his options, noting that if he misses it - at which point Brandon says, "You don't have to finish it, I know." Meredith then asks if any of the names ring a bell. Brandon says they don't. Two of the shows are pretty popular and they're in the tabloids but he doesn't remember hearing any of the names, so it might be

Spoiler

Nashville Star.

He doesn't know for sure. He hates to do it but he's going to walk away.

Spoiler

Answer: B (The Bachelorette)
Value: unrevealed
Bank: $7,500 (half the bank)

I'll ATA on this one.

I don't understand why this was so difficult.

Probably, I'm guessing, because earendel hasn't watched any of these series or paid attention to the entertainment news media discussing them.

I had the right answer, but only because Ashley's name was vaguely familiar to me from watching--well, not so much watching as being in the same room while it was on--this summer's season of The Bachelorette.

From a perspective of trying to reason out a pop culture question, I noted that all of the other shows were competitions, where someone ends up the champion but wouldn't properly be considered the "star" of the season. The Bachelorette, OTOH, was the center of each season, around which a group of bachelors vied for favor.

[Estonut]

I'll ATA on this one.

I don't understand why this was so difficult.

For me it's because I have never watched an episode of any of those shows. "The Bachelorette" seems likely, but it is a Level 7 question, which means it may not be the obvious answer.

I haven't watched an episode of any of those shows, either, but the Bachelorette is so relentlessly hyped in commercials, magazines and elsewhere that you'd have to live under a rock to be unaware of these 3 names.

[earendel]

I don't understand why this was so difficult.

For me it's because I have never watched an episode of any of those shows. "The Bachelorette" seems likely, but it is a Level 7 question, which means it may not be the obvious answer.

I haven't watched an episode of any of those shows, either, but the Bachelorette is so relentlessly hyped in commercials, magazines and elsewhere that you'd have to live under a rock to be unaware of these 3 names.

Actually Rivendell is a forest. Seriously, though, although I've heard about the show, I've never read a magazine article about it, nor heard any of the names mentioned in commercials. Tabloid covers in the grocery store line don't attract my attention, either.

[Estonut]

For me it's because I have never watched an episode of any of those shows. "The Bachelorette" seems likely, but it is a Level 7 question, which means it may not be the obvious answer.

I haven't watched an episode of any of those shows, either, but the Bachelorette is so relentlessly hyped in commercials, magazines and elsewhere that you'd have to live under a rock to be unaware of these 3 names.

Actually Rivendell is a forest. Seriously, though, although I've heard about the show, I've never read a magazine article about it, nor heard any of the names mentioned in commercials. Tabloid covers in the grocery store line don't attract my attention, either.

When I just opened a different window to verify the listings for BAM for another thread, I noticed another place I pick up this stuff. Right now, trending #4 on Yahoo is Ali Fedotowsky. Whenever I notice a name there that I don't recognize, I click to see why they're trending. In this case, in what surely must be the rarest of occurrences, Ali and her beau have broken up...

[vettech]

I'll ATA on this one.

I don't understand why this was so difficult.

For me it's because I have never watched an episode of any of those shows. "The Bachelorette" seems likely, but it is a Level 7 question, which means it may not be the obvious answer.

But you do follow this show http://wwtbambored.com/viewtopic.php?f= ... ley+hebert

[Estonut]

I don't understand why this was so difficult.

For me it's because I have never watched an episode of any of those shows. "The Bachelorette" seems likely, but it is a Level 7 question, which means it may not be the obvious answer.

But you do follow this show http://wwtbambored.com/viewtopic.php?f= ... ley+hebert

Ha! I KNEW that either Ashley or Ali had been on some other show that was discussed here. I thought it was DwtS, but I checked their cast lists and found 3 other Bachelor(ette) types, but not them.