Transcript 04/11/2012 Dionne Otey

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Dionne Otey
Bowie, MD
grad student, hopes to get into cancer research
just wants to win enough to buy a camera
Mom is in the audience


Topic Tree (pre-randomized):
10. What is It?
9. Novel Words
8. City on a Hill
7. Grading Curve
6. Mythical Creatures
5. Fashion Forward
4. First Ladies
3. Motorless Vehicles
2. Camp Songs
1. Award Eats


Topic Tree: (Randomized)
5. Fashion Forward
8. City on a Hill
10. What is It?
2. Camp Songs
6. Mythical Creatures
4. First Ladies
3. Motorless Vehicles
9. Novel Words
7. Grading Curve
1. Award Eats


Question 1 - Level 1. Award Eats

Promoting alternatives to fast food, Slow Food is a grassroots organization that honors restaurants with what aptly named award?

A: Shark of Excellence
B: Hart of Gold
C: Snail of Approval
D: Badger of Honor

Answer and value

C: Snail of Approval
Value: $5,000
Bank: $5,000

Question 2 - Level 7. Grading Curve

Which of the following is not one of the eight USDA grades of beef?

A: Choice
B: Select
C: Superior
D: Prime

Has a very good idea but isn't sure. Asks the audience.

Spoiler

A: 2%
B: 6%
C: 91%
D: 1%

Answer and value

C: Superior (That's also what she was thinking.)
Value: $15,000
Bank: $20,000

Question 3 - Level 9. Novel Words

Released in 1958, the first British edition of what novel featured the words "Liquor," "Girls," "Fun," and "Jazz" in its cover design?

A: On the Road
B: Naked Lunch
C: Catcher in the Rye
D: Catch-22

She has an idea, but she wants to keep playing. She jumps the question.

Answer and value

A: On the Road (Her guess was catcher in the Rye.)
Value: $2,000
Bank: $20,000

Question 4 - Level 3. Motorless Vehicles

Wooden racing cars powered by gravity are known as what?

A: Ice chest cars
B: Apple box cars
C: Milk crate cars
D: Soap box cars

Answer and value

D: Soap box cars
Value: $1,000
Bank: $21,000

Question 5 - Level 4. First Ladies

In 1982, what former First Lady started a famous center in Rancho Mirage, California, to treat people for substance abuse issues?

A: Nancy Reagan
B: Betty Ford
C: Rosalyn Carter
D: Pat Nixon

Answer and value

B: Betty Ford
Value: $500
Bank: $21,500

Question 6 - Level 6. Mythical Creatures

Historian Brian Regal claims that after Darwin;s theory of evolution became famous, sighting of what creatures went on the decline?

A: Ghosts
B: Dragons
C: Werewolves
D: Fairies

She's thinking...

...dragons.

She's trying to get money to help her mom recover from a series of strokes. She's gonna be cautious and jump the Q.

Answer and value

C: Werewolves (Good thing she jumped.)
Value: $3,000
Bank: $21,500

Question 7 - Level 2. Camp Songs

A parody of the original "On Top of Old Smokey," kids at summer camps can often be heard singing "On Top of" what?

A: Granada
B: My cabin
C: Old wedgy
D: Spaghetti

Some of the answers make sense to her:

My cabin and Old wedgy, for older and younger kids respectively.

She's almost certain it's

Spoiler

C

, but she's gonna walk.

Answer and value

D: Spaghetti
Value: $not revealed
Bank: half of $21,500

Dionne leaves with $10,750.

Commercial break.

[SportsFan68]

Good stack! For me anyway, not so much for this contestant.

Oh well.

[MarleysGh0st]

just wants to win enough to buy a camera

Stop right there!

I'll give you that camera, plus the $1,000 guaranteed minimum. Now step aside for someone who wants to be a millionaire.

[littlebeast13]

Question 7 - Level 2. Camp Songs

A parody of the original "On Top of Old Smokey," kids at summer camps can often be heard singing "On Top of" what?

A: Granada
B: My cabin
C: Old wedgy
D: Spaghetti

Some of the answers make sense to her:

My cabin and Old wedgy, for older and younger kids respectively.

She's almost certain it's

Spoiler

C

, but she's gonna walk.

Answer and value

D: Spaghetti
Value: $not revealed
Bank: half of $21,500

That ain't what we used to sing on the mean playgrounds of GC back in the day.....

On top of old Smokey
All covered with blood
I shot my poor teacher
With a .44 slug

I went to her funeral
I went to her grave
I stepped on her flowers
And threw hand grenades


lb13

[MarleysGh0st]

Question 6 - Level 6. Mythical Creatures

Historian Brian Regal claims that after Darwin;s theory of evolution became famous, sighting of what creatures went on the decline?

A: Ghosts
B: Dragons
C: Werewolves
D: Fairies

She's thinking...

...dragons.

She's trying to get money to help her mom recover from a series of strokes. She's gonna be cautious and jump the Q.

Answer and value

C: Werewolves (Good thing she jumped.)
Value: $3,000
Bank: $21,500

I hadn't heard of Brian Regal or his claim, but here's an interview with his discussing the topic.

http://blogs.sciencemag.org/origins/200 ... olves.html

Q: How did Darwin kill the werewolves?
B.R.: There were already writers in learned circles questioning the concept of the werewolf in the late 1500s. From an evolutionary point of view, the werewolf makes no sense. A half-human half-wolf/dog composite doesn’t work. An ape-man, however, a Bigfoot, makes sense because the ape-man idea is [at] the heart of human evolution.

So the folk who would claim to seen a werewolf suddenly became educated enough to know it made no sense? I doubt it, but good for them if it was so.

And for the record:

Q: How do you think Darwin viewed werewolves, centaurs, and other half-man, half-animal creatures?
B.R.: I have checked Darwin’s correspondence and published works, and I have not found him [to] make any direct reference to werewolves. In a letter from Darwin to the naturalist G. R. Waterhouse, dated 3 or 17 December 1843, he does mention that he did not believe there can be half of one thing and half of another. He also called animal monsters "a nasty, curious subject” when addressing a new book he had read by the French naturalist Saint-Hilaire.

I believe the "animal monsters" reference was to animals with severe birth defects, like having two heads, rather than to werewolves, centaurs and so forth.

[earendel]

Dionne Otey
Bowie, MD
grad student, hopes to get into cancer research
just wants to win enough to buy a camera
Mom is in the audience

Not very ambitious a goal. This is supposed to be "Who Wants to be a MILLIONAIRE".

Question 1 - Level 1. Award Eats

Promoting alternatives to fast food, Slow Food is a grassroots organization that honors restaurants with what aptly named award?

A: Shark of Excellence
B: Hart of Gold
C: Snail of Approval
D: Badger of Honor

Answer and value

C: Snail of Approval
Value: $5,000
Bank: $5,000

$5K should get her a camera. So why play on?

Question 2 - Level 7. Grading Curve

Which of the following is not one of the eight USDA grades of beef?

A: Choice
B: Select
C: Superior
D: Prime

Has a very good idea but isn't sure. Asks the audience.

Spoiler

A: 2%
B: 6%
C: 91%
D: 1%

Answer and value

C: Superior (That's also what she was thinking.)
Value: $15,000
Bank: $20,000

If she "has a very good idea" why is she burning a lifeline?

Question 6 - Level 6. Mythical Creatures

Historian Brian Regal claims that after Darwin;s theory of evolution became famous, sighting of what creatures went on the decline?

A: Ghosts
B: Dragons
C: Werewolves
D: Fairies

She's thinking...

...dragons.

She's trying to get money to help her mom recover from a series of strokes. She's gonna be cautious and jump the Q.

Answer and value

C: Werewolves (Good thing she jumped.)
Value: $3,000
Bank: $21,500

None of the answers particularly make sense to me - why would werewolf sightings be affected by the theory of evolution? I'd JTQ also.

Question 7 - Level 2. Camp Songs

A parody of the original "On Top of Old Smokey," kids at summer camps can often be heard singing "On Top of" what?

A: Granada
B: My cabin
C: Old wedgy
D: Spaghetti

Some of the answers make sense to her:

My cabin and Old wedgy, for older and younger kids respectively.

She's almost certain it's

Spoiler

C

, but she's gonna walk.

Answer and value

D: Spaghetti
Value: $not revealed
Bank: half of $21,500

Dionne leaves with $10,750.

It's a shame she used her ATA on a question she probably would have answered correctly because the audience surely would have known this one. What's surprising is that she didn't. I guess she never went to camp.