Transcript 5/20/2016 - George Herz

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George Herz
Boston, MA

George was named for George Washington.

$500: "3.14159265358979323846264338327950258" is a hand-cramping inscription found on the grave of Ludolph van Couler, a famous Dutch what?
A - mathematician
B - fishmonger
C - composer
D - blacksmith

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Answer: A (mathematician)

$1000: Named for the noise it makes, what popular parenting device is said to engage a baby's "natural calming cycle"?
A - Baby Buzzer
B - Baby Shusher
C - Baby Clanger
D - Baby Honker

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Answer: B (Baby Shusher)

$2000: Coincidentally, what Marvel Comics character debuted in a 1966 issue just months before the political party of the same name?
A - Vegetarian
B - Puerto Rico Socialist
C - Black Panther
D - Modern Whig

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Answer: C (Black Panther)

$3000: What apt nickname did NASA give the newly discovered celestial body 2012 VP 113?
A - Boehner
B - Scalia
C - Biden
D - Kerry

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Answer: C (Biden)

$5000: Often erroneously reported to have been named Thelma Ursula Beatrice Eleanor (or "T.U.B.E."), in 1924 a baby girl was born on which of the following?
A - the Chicago "L"
B - the Paris Metro
C - the New York City Subway
D - the London Underground

George knows that

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the London Underground is called "the tube"

.

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Answer: D (the London Underground)

$7000: When they toured in 2015, which band's lineup featured only one of its original members, singer Mike Love?
A - the Beach Boys
B - the Rolling Stones
C - Fleetwood Mac
D - Aerosmith

George isn't 100% sure so he asks the audience.

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Ask the Audience results:
A - 60%
B - 9%
C - 17%
D - 14%

That's how George was leaning.

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Answer: A (the Beach Boys)

commercial break

$10,000: At a Japanese restaurant, your tuna sushi would technically be sashimi - not sushi - if you ordered it without which ingredient?
A - wasabi sauce
B - seaweed
C - tuna
D - rice

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Answer: D (rice)

$20,000: Killing an estimated 8,000 of 40,000 residents in a thriving coastal community, the deadliest hurricane in US history struck what city in 1900?
A - New Orleans, LA
B - Miami, FL
C - Galveston, TX
D - Charleston, SC

George uses his +1, his girlfriend Laurie, to help him talk it out. She doesn't know but she wonders which of the four would have been a major city in 1900. She says

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her gut tells her that it's "C"

. George agrees.

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Answer: C (Galveston, TX)

commercial break

MILLIONAIRE "QUESTION OF THE DAY": In 2014, Howard University came under fire for hosting what commencement speaker, because he dropped out of school in 1990?
A - Rick Ross
B - Kanye West
C - Diddy
D - Snoop Dogg

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Answer: C (Diddy)

$30,000: Since light travels at about 186,000 miles per second, when gazing up at the Moon, you're actually seeing what it looked like when?
A - 1.3 seconds ago
B - 1.3 minutes ago
C - 1.3 hours ago
D - 1.3 days ago

George uses his 50:50.

50:50 results

A and B

George says

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"A"

but doesn't want to make that his final answer, so then he says

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"B"

and that's his final answer.

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Answer: A (1.3 seconds ago)

END OF SHOW "NOISE"

[earendel]

George Herz
Boston, MA

George was named for George Washington.

$30,000: Since light travels at about 186,000 miles per second, when gazing up at the Moon, you're actually seeing what it looked like when?
A - 1.3 seconds ago
B - 1.3 minutes ago
C - 1.3 hours ago
D - 1.3 days ago

George uses his 50:50.

50:50 results

: A and B

George says

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"A"

but doesn't want to make that his final answer, so then he says

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"B"

and that's his final answer.

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Answer: A (1.3 seconds ago)

He couldn't do the math?

Nihil obstat®.

[Estonut]

He couldn't do the math?

Math isn't going to help you if you don't know the distance.

[earendel]

He couldn't do the math?

Math isn't going to help you if you don't know the distance.

I thought he had mentioned the distance; thanks for the correction.

[ghostjmf]

So far so good. No need to know distance when answers are so far apart in time. It did not take days for moon landing footage to get back. Or even hours or minutes.

[SportsFan68]

$10,000: At a Japanese restaurant, your tuna sushi would technically be sashimi - not sushi - if you ordered it without which ingredient?
A - wasabi sauce
B - seaweed
C - tuna
D - rice

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Answer: D (rice)

ATA

$20,000: Killing an estimated 8,000 of 40,000 residents in a thriving coastal community, the deadliest hurricane in US history struck what city in 1900?
A - New Orleans, LA
B - Miami, FL
C - Galveston, TX
D - Charleston, SC

George uses his +1, his girlfriend Laurie, to help him talk it out. She doesn't know but she wonders which of the four would have been a major city in 1900. She says

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her gut tells her that it's "C"

. George agrees.

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Answer: C (Galveston, TX)

Plus One. My guess woulda been Miami.