Transcript 4/27/2012 - Sean Berthiaume

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Sean Berthiaume
Brooklyn, NY
Pizzaria operator

His two stores serve celebrity pizzas including a Whoopi Goldberger. Meredith says if she gives Sean a million dollars she should have a pizza named for her. Sean misunderstands at first and says she can have all the pizza she wants. Then he suggests maybe a "Meredith Vealiera" or something along those lines. "Work on it," Meredith responds.

Topic Tree: (randomized)
Tats All, Folks
Pseudonyms
Some Equipment Required
Harsh Reality
Flowery Poetry
New Era
Meat Math
Poetic Painter
Law of the Tongue
What's the News?

"I don't need a pizza named for me, I just want you to win a million dollars," Meredith says as game play begins.

Question #1 (What's the News?)
Which of these abbreviations is short for an international news agency and not a baseball statistic?
A - AP
B - HR
C - SB
D - AB

Spoiler

Answer: A (AP)
Value: $10,000
Bank: $10,000

Question #2 (Law of the Tongue)
Which of the following laws applies to linguistics and not thermodynamics?
A - Kopp's Law
B - Avogadro's Law
C - Grimm's Law
D - Boyle's Law

Sean...doesn't...know (said very slowly). He jumps the question

Spoiler

Answer: C (Grimm's Law)
Value: $5,000
Bank: $10,000 (unchanged)

Question #3 (Poetic Painter)
In a poem about one of his more difficult projects, who wrote, "My stomach's squashed under my chin, my beard's pointing at heaven"?
A - Leonardo da Vinci
B - Pablo Picasso
C - Michaelangelo
D - Caravaggio

Sean asks the audience.

ATA results

A - 23%
B - 13%
C - 57%
D - 7%

Sean believes the audience.

Spoiler

Answer: C (Michaelangelo)
Value: $500
Bank: $10,500

commercial break

Sean has convinced 14 people to tattoo his face on their bodies. She asks if they're drunk. Sean says they're young and want tattoos and he says if they'll have his face tattooed on their bodies he'll pay for it. He hopes one day all of Brooklyn will have his face on them. He doesn't care where they put it - it's their choice. Sean's girlfriend Mandy is in the relationship seat (she doesn't have Sean's face tattooed) and John his buddy (no word on his tattoo status).

Question #4 (Meat Math)
In "Meatless Monday" programs, people eat vegetarian one day a week, cutting their meat consumption by how much?
A - 10%
B - 15%
C - 25%
D - 40%

Sean jumps the question.

Spoiler

Answer: B (15%)
Value: $7,000
Bank: $10,500 (unchanged)

Question #5 (New Era)
In 2011, which of the following became a victim of the Internet after local leaders in San Francisco voted to restrict its distribution?
A - voting instructions
B - jury duty notices
C - property tax bills
D - Yellow Pages

Spoiler

Answer: D (Yellow Pages)
Value: $25,000
Bank: $35,500

Question #6 (Flowery Poetry)
William Wordsworth's poem "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" was inspired by an encounter with a field of what flowers?
A - irises
B - daffodils
C - orchids
D - lilies

Sean walks away.

Spoiler

Answer: B (daffodils)
Value: unrevealed
Bank: $17,750 (half the bank)

commercial break


Millionaire question of the day:
Which of these U.S. landmarks is the tallest?
A - Statue of Liberty
B - Gateway Arch
C - Washington Monument
D - Capitol Building
Answer:

Spoiler

B (Gateway Arch)

[MarleysGh0st]

His two stores serve celebrity pizzas including a Whoopi Goldberger. Meredith says if she gives Sean a million dollars she should have a pizza named for her. Sean misunderstands at first and says she can have all the pizza she wants. Then he suggests maybe a "Meredith Vealiera" or something along those lines. "Work on it," Meredith responds.

How about the Squashed Hamster pizza, Meredith?

Question #2 (Law of the Tongue)
Which of the following laws applies to linguistics and not thermodynamics?
A - Kopp's Law
B - Avogadro's Law
C - Grimm's Law
D - Boyle's Law

Sean...doesn't...know (said very slowly). He jumps the question

Spoiler

Answer: C (Grimm's Law)
Value: $5,000
Bank: $10,000 (unchanged)

Kopp's Law?

Question #4 (Meat Math)
In "Meatless Monday" programs, people eat vegetarian one day a week, cutting their meat consumption by how much?
A - 10%
B - 15%
C - 25%
D - 40%

Sean jumps the question.

Spoiler

Answer: B (15%)
Value: $7,000
Bank: $10,500 (unchanged)

Oh noes! Another math question!!!

One divided by seven*, Sean.



*But, yes, the question writers made a rounding error.

[ulysses5019]

Sean has convinced 14 people to tattoo his face on their bodies. She asks if they're drunk. Sean says they're young and want tattoos and he says if they'll have his face tattooed on their bodies he'll pay for it. He hopes one day all of Brooklyn will have his face on them. He doesn't care where they put it - it's their choice. Sean's girlfriend Mandy is in the relationship seat (she doesn't have Sean's face tattooed) and John his buddy (no word on his tattoo status).

That is some audition hook...

[SportsFan68]

Question #2 (Law of the Tongue)
Which of the following laws applies to linguistics and not thermodynamics?
A - Kopp's Law
B - Avogadro's Law
C - Grimm's Law
D - Boyle's Law

Sean...doesn't...know (said very slowly). He jumps the question

Spoiler

Answer: C (Grimm's Law)
Value: $5,000
Bank: $10,000 (unchanged)

Grimm's law is something like how th in one language is equivalent to d or z or I forget what in another as they developed. The vowels count for nothing and the consonants for very little.

Question #3 (Poetic Painter)
In a poem about one of his more difficult projects, who wrote, "My stomach's squashed under my chin, my beard's pointing at heaven"?
A - Leonardo da Vinci
B - Pablo Picasso
C - Michaelangelo
D - Caravaggio

Sean asks the audience.

ATA results

A - 23%
B - 13%
C - 57%
D - 7%

Sean believes the audience.

Spoiler

Answer: C (Michaelangelo)
Value: $500
Bank: $10,500

Painting the Sistine Chapel -- no wonder it took 12 years, or however long it took.

Question #6 (Flowery Poetry)
William Wordsworth's poem "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" was inspired by an encounter with a field of what flowers?
A - irises
B - daffodils
C - orchids
D - lilies

Sean walks away.

Spoiler

Answer: B (daffodils)
Value: unrevealed
Bank: $17,750 (half the bank)

I should know this but don't. JTQ.

[earendel]

Sean Berthiaume
Brooklyn, NY
Pizzaria operator

His two stores serve celebrity pizzas including a Whoopi Goldberger. Meredith says if she gives Sean a million dollars she should have a pizza named for her. Sean misunderstands at first and says she can have all the pizza she wants. Then he suggests maybe a "Meredith Vealiera" or something along those lines. "Work on it," Meredith responds.

Yeah, definitely work on it, Sean.

Question #2 (Law of the Tongue)
Which of the following laws applies to linguistics and not thermodynamics?
A - Kopp's Law
B - Avogadro's Law
C - Grimm's Law
D - Boyle's Law

Sean...doesn't...know (said very slowly). He jumps the question

Spoiler

Answer: C (Grimm's Law)
Value: $5,000
Bank: $10,000 (unchanged)

There are two different variants on Kopp's law but both of them have to do with melting points.

Question #4 (Meat Math)
In "Meatless Monday" programs, people eat vegetarian one day a week, cutting their meat consumption by how much?
A - 10%
B - 15%
C - 25%
D - 40%

Sean jumps the question.

Spoiler

Answer: B (15%)
Value: $7,000
Bank: $10,500 (unchanged)

I guess they were going for the straight percentage (which is closer to 14% than 15%), but it's a badly-worded question. If I eat 21 meals a week and only 7 of them feature meat and I eat vegetarian one day, my meat intake is only reduced by 1/21, not 1/7.

Question #6 (Flowery Poetry)
William Wordsworth's poem "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" was inspired by an encounter with a field of what flowers?
A - irises
B - daffodils
C - orchids
D - lilies

Sean walks away.

Spoiler

Answer: B (daffodils)
Value: unrevealed
Bank: $17,750 (half the bank)

I can hear Bullwinkle J. Moose's voice saying "A dollar apiece for daffodils?" from "Bullwinkle's Corner".

[MarleysGh0st]

Question #4 (Meat Math)
In "Meatless Monday" programs, people eat vegetarian one day a week, cutting their meat consumption by how much?
A - 10%
B - 15%
C - 25%
D - 40%

Sean jumps the question.

Spoiler

Answer: B (15%)
Value: $7,000
Bank: $10,500 (unchanged)

I guess they were going for the straight percentage (which is closer to 14% than 15%), but it's a badly-worded question. If I eat 21 meals a week and only 7 of them feature meat and I eat vegetarian one day, my meat intake is only reduced by 1/21, not 1/7.

You want to recheck that math, ear?

A nit-picking contestant would be free to ask for clarification, but the most straightforward interpretation of the question would be that there were no hidden assumptions (such as fasting on Fridays) and that hypothetical person would normally eat the same amount of meat each day.

[Bob Juch]

His two stores serve celebrity pizzas including a Whoopi Goldberger. Meredith says if she gives Sean a million dollars she should have a pizza named for her. Sean misunderstands at first and says she can have all the pizza she wants. Then he suggests maybe a "Meredith Vealiera" or something along those lines. "Work on it," Meredith responds.

Yeah, definitely work on it, Sean.

Her pizza would have to have scallops on it.