Transcript 02/15/2012 Greg Sandukus

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Greg Sandukus
New York, NY
attorney

Prepared by reading girlfriend's gossip magazines and the fun facts from the bottle caps on his drinks. Also a little bit of Wikipedia. He figures, it's either in there, or it's not.

When he was a kid, he said he had grapefruit for brains.

Topic Tree: (Randomized only)
Clandestine Club
Playing with Snakes
Birth Date/DOUBLE MONEY
Censor Your Kids
Legendary Duo
New Money
Paging Einstein
Military Cars
Smart Marketing
Age Limit

Question 1 - Age Limit

Which of these competitions requires entrants be between the ages of 17 and 24?

A: National Spelling Bee
B: Wimbledon
C: Miss America Pageant
D: Grammy Awards

Answer and value

C: Miss America Pageant
Value: $10,000
Bank: $10,000

Question 2 - Smart Marketing

In 2011, HBO refurbished a working NYC subway car from 1917, allowing riders to enjoy rattan seats, ceiling fans and ads for what TV show?

A: Game of Thrones
B: Big Love
C: Boardwalk Empire
D: Eastbound and Down

He connects the year with the show and says...

Answer and value

C: Boardwalk Empire
Value: $2,000
Bank: $12,000

Question 3 - Military Cars

A medieval war tactic for climbing fortress walls lends its name to what popular SUV model?

A: Sequoia
B: Escalade
C: Durango
D: Wrangler

He doesn't know it, but...

A sequoia is a type of tree. Climbing walls sounds like...

Answer and value

B: Escalade
Value: $1,000
Bank: $13,000

Question 4 - Paging Einstein

According to Einstein's theory of special relativity, anything that is traveling at the speed of light must have which of these qualities?

A: Infinite length
B: Zero mass
C: Infinite velocity
D: Zero energy

He goes right to the answer.

Answer and value

B: Zero mass
Value: $15,000
Bank: $28,000

Question 5 - New Money

In 2010, the U.S. Mint introduced a new design for the back of which coin, which it called "Preservation of the Union"?

A: Quarter
B: Penny
C: Nickel
D: Dime

Spoiler

He connects the "Preservation of the Union" to "Lincoln and the Civil War" to the penny

Answer and value

B: Penny
Value: $3,000
Bank: $31,000

Question 6 - Legendary Duo

Luke the Drifter was the gospel singing alter ego of what country music legend?

A: Hank Williams
B: Johnny Cash
C: Jimmie Rodgers
D: Waylon Jennings

He has a guess, but he'll ask the audience.

Spoiler

A: 22%
B: 39%
C: 14%
D: 25%

He's very unsure. He was thinking Cash, but he doesn't know.

He jumps the question.

Answer and value

A: Hank Williams
Value: $100 (whew!)
Bank: $31,000

Question 7 - Censor Your Kids

In the 1990s, what children's book was frequently banned because it reputedly contained a tiny topless woman?

A: Where's Waldo
B: Doctor De Soto
C: Amelia Bedilia
D: Hop on Pop

Doesn't know it, but...

Spoiler

"tiny people are all over Where's Waldo," which was popular in the 90s.

Answer and value

A: Where's Waldo
Value: $25,000
Bank: $56,000

Commercial Break.

In the last couple of months he's grown a "lucky beard" that his mom (sitting in the audience, along with his dad) doesn't like.

Question 8 - Birth Date (DOUBLE MONEY)

Used to identify ancient dates, the abbreviation B.C. refers to the birth of whom?

A: Jesus Christ
B: Cicero
C: Charlemagne
D: Augustus Caesar

Spoiler

Greg: I'm going to assume it's not a trick question and say A.

Meredith: No...

Answer and value

...it's not a trick question.

A: Jesus Christ
Value: $5,000 ---> $10,000
Bank: $66,000

Question 9 - Playing with Snakes

In India, snake charmers mesmerize their cobras while playing the pungi, which is often compared to what musical instrument?

A: Piano
B: Violin
C: Guitar
D: Flute

Answer and value

D: Flute
Value: $7,000
Bank: $73,000

Question 10 - Clandestine Club

According to conspiracy theorists, the "Majestic 12" was a secret comittee assembled to investigate what event?

A: Moon landing
B: Elvis sightings
C: JFK assassination
D: Roswell incident

This is somewhere in his brain (along with that grapefruit). He clarifies that if he jumps the question, he will then be able to keep his full bank.

Spoiler

He thinks it's D. He should use the lifeline, but he doesn't want to. He goes with D.

Answer and value

Meredith does another fakeout.
D: Roswell incident
Value: $500
Bank: $73,500

Commercial break.

CLASSIC MILLIONAIRE

Question 11 - $100K

Which artist was a law clerk until he took up art while recovering from appendicitis?

A: Henri Matisse
B: Gustav Klimt
C: Paul Cezanne
D: Edvard Munch

He's a lawyer, but not much of an artist.

Any guess is just a guess, so he jumps the question.

Answer

Henri Matisse (Bedridden for a year, he began copying paintings.)

End of show noise. He sees the $250,000 question tomorrow.

[themanwho]

Always fun to watch these no-nonsense players who are just smart and good at trivia. Glad KSFY didn't mess up and air the wrong episode again.

-M

[earendel]

Greg Sandukus
New York, NY
attorney

Prepared by reading girlfriend's gossip magazines and the fun facts from the bottle caps on his drinks. Also a little bit of Wikipedia. He figures, it's either in there, or it's not.

When he was a kid, he said he had grapefruit for brains.

Better than having **** for brains.

Question 6 - Legendary Duo

Luke the Drifter was the gospel singing alter ego of what country music legend?

A: Hank Williams
B: Johnny Cash
C: Jimmie Rodgers
D: Waylon Jennings

He has a guess, but he'll ask the audience.

Spoiler

A: 22%
B: 39%
C: 14%
D: 25%

He's very unsure. He was thinking Cash, but he doesn't know.

He jumps the question.

Answer and value

A: Hank Williams
Value: $100 (whew!)
Bank: $31,000

I'd have done the same thing.

Question 10 - Clandestine Club

According to conspiracy theorists, the "Majestic 12" was a secret comittee assembled to investigate what event?

A: Moon landing
B: Elvis sightings
C: JFK assassination
D: Roswell incident

This is somewhere in his brain (along with that grapefruit). He clarifies that if he jumps the question, he will then be able to keep his full bank.

Spoiler

He thinks it's D. He should use the lifeline, but he doesn't want to. He goes with D.

Answer and value

Meredith does another fakeout.
D: Roswell incident
Value: $500
Bank: $73,500

Hmmm...I don't think it's the JFK assassination or the moon landing. I'm sure it's not Elvis sightings. Am I willing to risk it or use a lifeline? I'll use my last JTQ.

Question 11 - $100K[/b]

Which artist was a law clerk until he took up art while recovering from appendicitis?

A: Henri Matisse
B: Gustav Klimt
C: Paul Cezanne
D: Edvard Munch

He's a lawyer, but not much of an artist.

Any guess is just a guess, so he jumps the question.

Answer

Henri Matisse (Bedridden for a year, he began copying paintings.)

I'll have to walk away from this one.

[frogman042]

Question 4 - Paging Einstein

According to Einstein's theory of special relativity, anything that is traveling at the speed of light must have which of these qualities?

A: Infinite length
B: Zero mass
C: Infinite velocity
D: Zero energy

He goes right to the answer.

Answer and value

B: Zero mass
Value: $15,000
Bank: $28,000

Was this transcribed correctly? If so then this is a terrible question - the correct answer (IMO) would be infinite mass or zero rest mass.

Light itself has 'mass', that is why it bends in a gravitational field. Although a photon has zero rest mass, it doesn't have zero mass.

As an object (that has a non-zero rest mass) approaches the speed of light, to a stationary observer would see its mass increase, i.e. more and more force would be required to keep accelerating it, to the point that at C (the speed of light) it would take an infinate amount of force, since the object would have an infinite amount of mass - that's what makes C the universal speed limit.

[themanintheseersuckersuit]

And a shout out to our buddy Majestic-12 [Bot]

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[themanwho]

Question 4 - Paging Einstein

According to Einstein's theory of special relativity, anything that is traveling at the speed of light must have which of these qualities?

A: Infinite length
B: Zero mass
C: Infinite velocity
D: Zero energy

He goes right to the answer.

Answer and value

B: Zero mass
Value: $15,000
Bank: $28,000

Was this transcribed correctly? If so then this is a terrible question - the correct answer (IMO) would be infinite mass or zero rest mass.

Light itself has 'mass', that is why it bends in a gravitational field. Although a photon has zero rest mass, it doesn't have zero mass.

As an object (that has a non-zero rest mass) approaches the speed of light, to a stationary observer would see its mass increase, i.e. more and more force would be required to keep accelerating it, to the point that at C (the speed of light) it would take an infinate amount of force, since the object would have an infinite amount of mass - that's what makes C the universal speed limit.

This question has been accurately transcribed.

[earendel]

Question 4 - Paging Einstein

According to Einstein's theory of special relativity, anything that is traveling at the speed of light must have which of these qualities?

A: Infinite length
B: Zero mass
C: Infinite velocity
D: Zero energy

He goes right to the answer.

Answer and value

B: Zero mass
Value: $15,000
Bank: $28,000

Was this transcribed correctly? If so then this is a terrible question - the correct answer (IMO) would be infinite mass or zero rest mass.

Light itself has 'mass', that is why it bends in a gravitational field. Although a photon has zero rest mass, it doesn't have zero mass.

As an object (that has a non-zero rest mass) approaches the speed of light, to a stationary observer would see its mass increase, i.e. more and more force would be required to keep accelerating it, to the point that at C (the speed of light) it would take an infinate amount of force, since the object would have an infinite amount of mass - that's what makes C the universal speed limit.

Yes, that's how the question read. I don't think the average person (or question-writer for BAM) knows the difference between zero mass and zero rest mass. Of the four choices given, B was the "right" answer.

[TheConfessor]

Always fun to watch these no-nonsense players who are just smart and good at trivia. Glad KSFY didn't mess up and air the wrong episode again.

Your gain was my loss. KEYE in Austin showed Tuesday's episode for the second day in a row.

I hope the local station that shows Jeopardy doesn't make that mistake. One of the contestants on J! Teachers Week is from Austin, and I see her pretty often at a weekly pub quiz. She seems pretty knowledgeable, but hasn't studied betting strategy. I asked if she knew about the two-thirds rule and she didn't, which didn't seem to bother her much.

[Weyoun]

Always fun to watch these no-nonsense players who are just smart and good at trivia. Glad KSFY didn't mess up and air the wrong episode again.

Your gain was my loss. KEYE in Austin showed Tuesday's episode for the second day in a row.

I hope the local station that shows Jeopardy doesn't make that mistake. One of the contestants on J! Teachers Week is from Austin, and I see her pretty often at a weekly pub quiz. She seems pretty knowledgeable, but hasn't studied betting strategy. I asked if she knew about the two-thirds rule and she didn't, which didn't seem to bother her much.

It's like a football player not knowing what a blitz is. I mean, you can throw the ball, and run, and such, but if you don't have a plan, welllll...

I enjoyed this contestant. I would have dreaded the art question, as before it came up I was like "It's either Matisse or Cezanne, but I forget which..."

[wintergreen48]

Question 4 - Paging Einstein

According to Einstein's theory of special relativity, anything that is traveling at the speed of light must have which of these qualities?

A: Infinite length
B: Zero mass
C: Infinite velocity
D: Zero energy

He goes right to the answer.

Answer and value

B: Zero mass
Value: $15,000
Bank: $28,000

Was this transcribed correctly? If so then this is a terrible question - the correct answer (IMO) would be infinite mass or zero rest mass.

Light itself has 'mass', that is why it bends in a gravitational field. Although a photon has zero rest mass, it doesn't have zero mass.

As an object (that has a non-zero rest mass) approaches the speed of light, to a stationary observer would see its mass increase, i.e. more and more force would be required to keep accelerating it, to the point that at C (the speed of light) it would take an infinate amount of force, since the object would have an infinite amount of mass - that's what makes C the universal speed limit.

Thank you for this. I was very bothered by the question: if it had been a Jeopardy! question, without choices, my instant answer would have been "What is infinite mass?" So I feel reassured that I am right and they just asked the wrong question (or set it up wrong, or had the wrong form for the answer).

[SportsFan68]

Question 5 - New Money

In 2010, the U.S. Mint introduced a new design for the back of which coin, which it called "Preservation of the Union"?

A: Quarter
B: Penny
C: Nickel
D: Dime

Spoiler

He connects the "Preservation of the Union" to "Lincoln and the Civil War" to the penny

Answer and value

B: Penny
Value: $3,000
Bank: $31,000

JTQ 1

Question 6 - Legendary Duo

Luke the Drifter was the gospel singing alter ego of what country music legend?

A: Hank Williams
B: Johnny Cash
C: Jimmie Rodgers
D: Waylon Jennings

He has a guess, but he'll ask the audience.

Spoiler

A: 22%
B: 39%
C: 14%
D: 25%

He's very unsure. He was thinking Cash, but he doesn't know.

He jumps the question.

Answer and value

A: Hank Williams
Value: $100 (whew!)
Bank: $31,000

JTQ 2

CLASSIC MILLIONAIRE

Question 11 - $100K

Which artist was a law clerk until he took up art while recovering from appendicitis?

A: Henri Matisse
B: Gustav Klimt
C: Paul Cezanne
D: Edvard Munch

He's a lawyer, but not much of an artist.

Any guess is just a guess, so he jumps the question.

Answer

Henri Matisse (Bedridden for a year, he began copying paintings.)

I'll ATA just because I don't want to leave a lifeline on the table, but I bet the percentages are about 25-25-25-25. And I'm outta there.

[Snaxx]

I hope the local station that shows Jeopardy doesn't make that mistake. One of the contestants on J! Teachers Week is from Austin, and I see her pretty often at a weekly pub quiz. She seems pretty knowledgeable, but hasn't studied betting strategy. I asked if she knew about the two-thirds rule and she didn't, which didn't seem to bother her much.

It's like a football player not knowing what a blitz is. I mean, you can throw the ball, and run, and such, but if you don't have a plan, welllll...

Before I was aware of game-show-related Internet message boards, I learned many of the rules-of-thumb on my own by watching and figuring what I would wager in each person's shoes, and I only learned the terms (besides the "Cliff Clavin Rule") when lurking on the Jeopardy board. Hopefully she's a regular watcher who knows what to do without knowing the lingo. Then again given some of the lousy wagering we've seen lately...