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Transcript 10/10/16 Zeke Spector

#1 Post by BBTranscriptTeam » Mon Oct 10, 2016 5:52 pm

Zeke Spector
Evanston, IL

$500 By definition, drinks are free at which of the following?
A. A dive bar
B. An open bar
C. An oyster bar
D. A Genius Bar
Spoiler
B. An open bar
$1K Though employers often try to impose a gag rule, the National Labor Relations Board specifically forbids them from telling workers not to talk to each other about what?
A. Their weekend plans
B. Their wages
C. Their lottery numbers
D. Their Meemaw’s carrot cake recipe
Spoiler
B. Their wages
$2K Tough a popular craze at the time, MGM cut what song-and-dance routine from “The Wizard of Oz,” fearing it would date the film?
A. The Robot
B. The Jitterbug
C. The Cabbage Patch
D. The Running Man
Spoiler
B. The Jitterbug
commercial break

$3K Dubbed “economy class syndrome,” which of these do scientists say can be caused not just by long periods of sitting, but also by poor cabin air quality?
A. Acute cirrhosis
B. Multiple sclerosis
C. Paranoid psychosis
D. Deep vein thrombosis

ATA
ATA results
7% A. Acute cirrhosis
5% B. Multiple sclerosis
13% C. Paranoid psychosis
75% D. Deep vein thrombosis

Spoiler
D. Deep vein thrombosis
$5K Before being renamed by “prim and proper” Anglo-Americans, what NE landform was known to Native Americans by a name that loosely translates to “Male Elk Genitalia”?
A. Mount Rushmore
B. Chimney Rock
C. Grand Teton
D. El Capitan
Spoiler
B. Chimney Rock
commercial break

QOTD

Which of the following countries applied to join the European Union in 1987, only to be quickly rejected for not actually being in Europe?
A. Serbia
B. Albania
C. Italy
D. Morocco

Spoiler
D. Morocco


$7K As Crayola’s website explains, “while artists consider” what a color, “scientists do not,” since it’s technically “the absence of all color”?
A. White
B. Gray
C. Brown
D. Black
Spoiler
D. Black
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#2 Post by ghostjmf » Mon Oct 10, 2016 9:37 pm

7K: In cat genetics, white fur is caused by the absence of genes for orange or black pigment.

I would have parlayed that info into a loss.

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#3 Post by earendel » Tue Oct 11, 2016 8:27 am

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Zeke Spector
Evanston, IL
BBTranscriptTeam wrote:and proper” Anglo-Americans, what NE landform was known to Native Americans by a name that loosely translates to “Male Elk Genitalia”?
A. Mount Rushmore
B. Chimney Rock
C. Grand Teton
D. El Capitan
Spoiler
B. Chimney Rock
A is in SD, C is in WY and D is in CA, so it has to be B.

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#4 Post by ontellen » Wed Oct 12, 2016 11:17 pm

I was always taught in school that white was the total absence of colour and black was total colour?

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#5 Post by bazodee » Thu Oct 13, 2016 7:34 am

ontellen wrote:I was always taught in school that white was the total absence of colour and black was total colour?
Me too. When it comes to pigment, all colors together will form black. But when it comes to light, all colors together will form white.

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