BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Jeffrey Price (BB: RanBadSoSadByeBye)
Fox River Grove, IL
Middle-school Teacher and coaches a quiz team
His wife Michelle is in the audience
Funny how edited things get! They didn't show my smooch on the cheek of Meredith, which was going to be the one thing I could really brag to my father about!
The AP briefed me on how Meredith would ask a leading question like, "So I understand you're a quizbowl coach, right?" which was to be my opening to start talking about what a tremendous year my middle school team had last year, taking 2nd in the Middle School National Championships. However, it didn't work like that at all, did it?
Topic Tree (pre-randomized was shown!):
10 Scary Mascots
9 Original Titles
8 Dollar Bills, Ya'll
7 High Tech Hunts
6 Passing Remarks
5 Rockin' Jobs
4 European Vacation
3 Horsing Around
2 Facebook Foresight
1 Food Analogies
OMG OMG OMG I'm struggling so hard to commit at least the top 3 to memory since, on the advice of Mr. Sirop, those are the three you may be most likely to need your lifelines on... Jeez, that light over the board is BRIGHT! OK, so there was Scary Monsters, Famous Faces, and aw, they're scrambling....
Topic Tree: (Randomized)
10 Scary Mascots
2 Facebook Foresight
3 Horsing Around
4 European Vacation
6 Passing Remarks
8 Dollar Bills, Ya'll
7 High Tech Hunts
5 Rockin' Jobs
9 Original Titles
1 Food Analogies
and hey, the one on bottom didn't move. So I get an easy one to start, right?
Question 1 - Level 1 Food Analogies
What breakfast food did comedian Mitch Hedberg liken to "pancakes with syrup traps"?
A. Scrambled eggs B. Waffles
C. French toast D. Hash browns
Jeffrey said waffles make sense even though he does not know Mitch Hedberg.
B. Waffles
Value: $10K
Bank: $10K
Before the answers came up, I tried to imagine what the right answer could be and instantly thought of waffles, thus the "well, whatdya know?" expression on my face as it's one of the answer choices. I try to be enthusiastic about spiking $10K on my first question but I'm still terribly far from relaxed...
Question 2 - Level 9 Original Titles
The best-seller "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" was originally published in Sweden under a title that translates as what?
A. The Reluctant Hacker B. Men Who Hate Women
C. Pressed Flowers D. Father Figures
UGH. And here we go. Notice my squinting as I try to look studious and study the answers, but two things are at work. I'm utterly out of luck with this book AND the squinting is as much my problem with the BRIGHT light. The added stimulus, plus my skyhigh adrenaline levels, really did make it difficult for me to read and focus. Yeah, jump it without a 2nd thought.
Jeffrey is "totally not familiar with this book, much less its original title"
B. Men Who Hate Women
Value: $3000 jumped
Bank: $10K
Question 3 - Level 5 Rockin' Jobs
Though he still tours playing The Who classics, what former frontman owns a trout fishery in East Sussex, England?
A. Robert Plant B. Jimmy Page
C. Roger Daltrey D. Peter Gabriel
"I believe I know this but I don't want to take a chance just yet"
A-5% B-6% C-74% D-15%
"That's the way I was leaning but wasn't 100% sure"
And this, ladies and gentlemen, is where I lost the game. I wasted a lifeline here because I was a scared bunny. Maybe I didn't trust the audience would be able to bail me out later when I really needed it. I don't know. But I snap-called for the lifeline almost too fast. And my processing of the question was terrible! The wording of the question is not what I remembered it to be at all. I thought it said "he tours with Whonation," and totally don't recall the reference to the trout fishery. But I did catch the Who reference and, in the presence of other rockers, I was suddenly wondering irrationally if something newsworthy had happened with the Who where one of these other guys who wasn't a member of that band was now playing with them. And I think I also was confusing Peter Gabriel with Pete Townsend, in that moment, too. So even as the audience is picking up their controllers, I started to realize what a mistake I was making as Meredith told the audience to grab their keypads. I said to myself, "This is so stupid. They're going to pick the same thing I'M thinking. If it's a trick, we're all going to be wrong anyway!" I wanted to shout, "WAIT! I've changed my mind!" but thought better of it and tried to compose myself.
C. Roger Daltrey
Value: $5000
Bank: $15K
Question 4 - Level 7 High Tech Hunts
Recently making large finds in the city of Tanis, scientists are using satellite images from space to discover hidden what?
A. Dinosaur fossils B. Cave paintings
C. Roman amphitheatres D. Pyramids
And here we go again. I know of Tanis via Raiders of the Lost Ark, and NOT from recent news. The Indiana Jones trilogy isn't exactly the best place to pick up historic facts, so I don't pay it too much mind. Plus, I couldn't recall Indy and the Nazis digging around pyramids. Tombs? Sure... Then I recall my trip to Rome just two months earlier where I saw the Roman Colosseum. There I read that the Romans built LOTS of colosseums and entertainment venues throughout their empire, but the one in Rome was the grandest of all, blah blah blah. Give me a different distractor answer than C and I may ship off pyramids here, but I talked myself out of taking any chances here, yet again.
Jeffrey "I see a couple of credible answers up there. I'm not sure, I believe Tanis is in north Africa.
Discover hidden pyramids? It doesn't seem like pyramids would be hidden.
I didn't want to do this (so) early" but will have to use his last lifeline and JTQ
He said he was leaning C.
D. Pyramids
Value: $100
Bank: $15K
Question 5 - Level 8 Dollar Bills, Ya'll
Who is the only person currently featured on the front of U.S. paper currency whose portrait faces to the left?
A. Benjamin Franklin B. Abraham Lincoln
C. Alexander Hamilton D. Andrew Jackson
OK, confession time. I love to play poker. I especially love going to the cage and cashing out with Ben Franklin staring back several times. So, I nearly snapped off A, since I clearly remember him looking to his left. but I caught myself as I suddenly pictured Abe Lincoln on the OLD $5 bill looking the same direction. "But wait," I thought, "This is on the new money of course. And his shoulders are to his right, but isn't his head turned to his left?" And this is when I said, "oh wow," as I suddenly realized I had conflicting answers. I thought more, as Meredith reminded me of my dollar amount to walk. And then I couldn't clearly reconcile which way Andrew Jackson was facing, which ALSO seemed to be his left. I suddenly mutter to Meredith, "Can I ask whose left we're talking about?" She replied, "Just a second, we're checking." At least a whole minute goes by which gives me invaluable time to relax my brain for a second and let the visuals come to me of.... Alexander Hamilton definitely looking off to his right, UNLIKE the others.
Rick comes out and says to me, "It's your left."
"MY left?"
"Yes."
I lay my hands flat on the podium, spreading out an imaginary, oversized piece of currency and say, so if I spread it out, he's facing THIS hand??" And I pat the podium 3 times with my left hand for emphasis. Rick nods and walks away.
Only then do I say, "I'm going to say C then, final answer." I hear a shock of gasps and "awwwws" from the audience behind me, wherein you can see and hear my reaction to their reaction, as I suddenly believe I've screwed up royally...
Jeffrey "I'm trying to remember my currency ,so I know it's not George Washington. Oh Wow."
Mere reminds him of the "good news" he can walk with $7500
Jeffrey says it's "good news/bad news"
Mere says he doesn't have to walk.
Jeffrey "I'm going to say C, then, final answer"
Jeffrey oh no?
Mere oh, yes!
Mere expressed hope it is a big amount as it was a hard question
C. Alexander Hamilton
Value: $500 (Jeffrey "That's OK", Mere "You deserve $25K on that one," and Jeff thanks Mere)
Bank: $15500
Commercial break, please! No? We're moving on I guess....
Question 6 - Level 6 Passing Remarks
In a 2011 Washington Post obit, what game's co-creator was described as "standing (a number) feet tall with a gray (body part)"?
A. Jenga B. Boggle
C. Mad Libs D. Taboo
pffft. Can I have any worse luck? Where's my easy question? Something in my quizbowl wheelhouse that I can rock. And now here's a question where the answers include three games I've never played. I think about Jenga, the only one I've played, and can't imagine how that would have squat to do with it. OK, let's rule that out for now. Before my little speech you see on the show, I ask, "How much to walk away?" And Meredith gives me that amount. What you saw was her 2nd time telling me. And then I run the numbers, looking over to my left, I see the average prize amount is $10,000. I'm staking $6750 for the chance to secure an average of $5000 in walk-away money. But then the poker player in me reminds me of the implied odds of getting paid off on the next question or two because there MUST be easier questions on the other side of this, right? (and a glance at my randomized stack in this thread confirms my suspicions). With the more likely payouts being $10-$15K in total walk-away money, I realize this is way +EV to take stab, even though I don't know it. I then remember that Boggle is a dice game and suddenly recall from somewhere that Taboo involves omitted words in some way, so I decide to ship off $6750... Then my speech, followed by a replay of the groans and gasps I had just heard on the previous question, except this time they were right.
Jeffrey: "I know taboo is the one you're not supposed to say anything, words you're not supposed to describe...I see you've got blanks in there, it makes sense that it's D. This is definitely taking a chance...I did not read this obit.
Mere said Jeff can walk with $7750
Jeff: "The more I thinking about it the more D-Taboo seems like a good reasonable answer since you've got missing blanks in there,
so I'm going to say D, Taboo, final answer and if I'm wrong I'll live with it"
Mere "I'm sorry it is not Taboo..."
C. Mad Libs
Value: $not revealed
Bank: $1000 consolation
Commercial break
). I've never played Mad Libs or Taboo, but your reasoning sounded good to me.
