Transcript 3/9/2012 - Queta Gavin

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Queta Gavin
Holland, OH

Queta is "amped" because she can mark this off her bucket list.

Topic Tree: (randomized)
Extreme Close-up
En Français
Bark Shark
Game Time
Elemental Cinema
Hi Stan
Crying Time
Get in Line
On Campus
Album Covers

Question #1 (Album Covers)
Released in 2011, "Newermind" is a track-by-track cover of what band's classic 1991 CD?
A - Boys II Men
B - Nirvana
C - Guns N' Roses
D - Def Leppard

Queta has no idea so she's going to jump the question.

Spoiler

Answer: B (Nirvana)
Value: $15,000
Bank: $0

Question #2 (On Campus)
In 2000, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago renamed what type of facility after Gene Siskel?
A - dance studio
B - sculpture garden
C - film center
D - modern art museum

Queta knows that Gene Siskel was a

Spoiler

film critic so she's going to make C her final answer

.

Spoiler

Answer: C (film center)
Value: $2,000
Bank: $2,000

Question #3 (Get in Line)
Changing centuries-old laws, the British monarchy announced in 2011 that what person can now be first in line to inherit the throne?
A - first born daughter
B - second born son
C - first born nephew
D - second born niece

Queta thinks she should ask the audience.

ATA results

A - 81%
B - 17%
C - 2%
D - 0%

That's a big number and Queta is going to hope the audience is right.

Spoiler

Answer: A (first born daughter)
Value: $7,000
Bank: $9,000

commercial break

Queta's fiance Arthur is in the relationship seat.

Question #4 (Crying Time)
The "kiss and cry corner" is the area where competitors in which of these sports wait for their scores?
A - fencing
B - figure skating
C - bowling
D - boxing

Queta sees this in the Olympics all the time.

Spoiler

Answer: B (figure skating)
Value: $1,000
Bank: $10,000

Question #5 (Hi Stan)
Of the seven countries whose names end in "stan," five of them border which of these other countries?
A - India
B - China
C - Russia
D - Iran

Queta starts naming the "stan"s but then decides to jump the question.

Spoiler

Answer: B (China)
Value: $500
Bank: $10,000

Meredith tries to name the five but stumbles over "Kyrgyzstan" (NOTE: the others are Pakistan, Afghanistan, Turkestan and Kazakhstan).

Question #6 (Elemental Cinema)
Based on its atomic number, what semimetal might a scientist confuse with the Bruce Willis film "The Fifth Element"?
A - boron
B - beryllium
C - magnesium
D - silicon

"Oh, no, I don't know that," Queta mutters as Meredith reads the question. She says "semimetal" several times then adds that

Spoiler

magnesium has a metallic taste to it in milk of magnesia

. Queta says that she'll lose $4,000 if she's wrong and Meredith agrees. She decides to take a chance. The audience cheers.

Spoiler

Answer: A (boron)
Value: unrevealed
Bank: $1,000 (consolation prize) - a loss of $9,000, not $4,000

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Question #1 (Album Covers)
Released in 2011, "Newermind" is a track-by-track cover of what band's classic 1991 CD?
A - Boys II Men
B - Nirvana
C - Guns N' Roses
D - Def Leppard

Queta has no idea so she's going to jump the question.

Spoiler

Answer: B (Nirvana)
Value: $15,000
Bank: $0

ATA.

Question #5 (Hi Stan)
Of the seven countries whose names end in "stan," five of them border which of these other countries?
A - India
B - China
C - Russia
D - Iran

Queta starts naming the "stan"s but then decides to jump the question.

Spoiler

Answer: B (China)
Value: $500
Bank: $10,000

Meredith tries to name the five but stumbles over "Kyrgyzstan" (NOTE: the others are Pakistan, Afghanistan, Turkestan and Kazakhstan).

I'm outta there. I would have answered Russia without hesitation.

Question #6 (Elemental Cinema)
Based on its atomic number, what semimetal might a scientist confuse with the Bruce Willis film "The Fifth Element"?
A - boron
B - beryllium
C - magnesium
D - silicon

"Oh, no, I don't know that," Queta mutters as Meredith reads the question. She says "semimetal" several times then adds that

Spoiler

magnesium has a metallic taste to it in milk of magnesia

. Queta says that she'll lose $4,000 if she's wrong and Meredith agrees. She decides to take a chance. The audience cheers.

Spoiler

Answer: A (boron)
Value: unrevealed
Bank: $1,000 (consolation prize) - a loss of $9,000, not $4,000

I never see this Q, but if I had, I would have jumped it.