Transcript 11/16/16 Garrett White

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Garrett White
Student
Plano, Texas

Garrett is 13 years old. He already invests in the stock market and hopes to work on Wall Street.

$500
According to the Oxford Dictionary of Modern Quotations, what cartoon character said, “Kids, you tried your best and you failed miserably. The lesson is, never try”?
A: John F. Kennedy B: Mahatma Gandhi
C: Martin Luther King, Jr. D: Homer Simpson

Answer

D: Homer Simpson

$1,000
A Boy Scout newsletter urges Scouts around campfires to avoid “rusty coat hangers” and getting their what “engulfed in flames”?
A: Compass B: Canteen
C: Marshmallow D: First aid kit

Answer

C: Marshmallow

$2,000
Which of these rhyming pairs of creatures have a symbiotic relationship, with the latter living in the fur of the former?
A: Cats & bats B: Dogs & frogs
C: Ferrets & parrots D: Sloths & moths

ATA

A: 7% B: 0% C: 2% D: 91%

Answer

D: Sloths & moths

$3,000
Lying in a border river, Pheasant Island - known both as “Isla de los Faisanes” and “Ile des Faisans” - switches ownership every 6 mos. between what 2 countries?
A: Norway & Sweden B: France & Spain
C: Italy & Austria D: Germany & Poland

Answer

B: France & Spain

Commercial break

$5,000
Unveiled in 2016, the arcade game “War of Currents” pits what 2 inventors against each other, delivering players actual electric shocks when they take damage?
A: Bill Gates and Steve Jobs B: Alfred Nobel and Johannes Gutenberg
C: Archimedes and Leonardo da Vinci D: Nikola Tesla and Thomas Edison

Answer

D: Nikola Tesla and Thomas Edison

$7,000
If, like Phileas Fogg, you were to travel around the world in 80 days, how many miles would you need to average per day to complete the 25,000-mile journey?
A: 31.52 B: 312.5
C: 3,125 D: 3,152

Answer

B: 312.5

Commercial break

$10,000
Derived from the world meaning “almond,” which of these is a part of the brain that processes emotions, and NOT a character in Greek literature?
A: Agamemnon B: Amygdala
C: Antigone D: Ajax

CTQ

Answer

B: Amygdala

$10,000
Like “He” for “Helium,” if the element represented by the symbol H used the first two letters of its name instead, it would appear on the periodic table how?
A: Hi B: Ha
C: Hy D: Hu

Answer

C: Hy

$20,000
Which of the following has the sole power to impeach a U.S. president?
A: The House of Representatives B: The Supreme Court
C: The Electoral College D: The Senate

Answer

A: The House of Representatives

Commercial break

QotD
According to the Mayo Clinic, in order to stay healthy, most teens need to do what for about nine hours every day?
A: Read B: Sleep
C: Fix their hair D: Look at their phones

Answer

B: Sleep

$30,000
While there are about a half million words between the four of them combined, which of the following J.R.R. Tolkien books is by far the longest?
A: The Hobbit B: The Fellowship of the Ring
C: The Two Towers D: The Return of the King

50/50

50/50 leaves The Fellowship of the Ring and The Return of the King.

+1

Garrett’s +1 is his mom. She doesn’t know. She advises him to walk.

Answer

B: The Fellowship of the Ring
Garrett wins $20,000.

[earendel]

Garrett White
Student
Plano, Texas

Garrett is 13 years old. He already invests in the stock market and hopes to work on Wall Street.

$5,000
Unveiled in 2016, the arcade game “War of Currents” pits what 2 inventors against each other, delivering players actual electric shocks when they take damage?
A: Bill Gates and Steve Jobs B: Alfred Nobel and Johannes Gutenberg
C: Archimedes and Leonardo da Vinci D: Nikola Tesla and Thomas Edison

Answer

D: Nikola Tesla and Thomas Edison

Easy enough question but who would play it?

$30,000
While there are about a half million words between the four of them combined, which of the following J.R.R. Tolkien books is by far the longest?
A: The Hobbit B: The Fellowship of the Ring
C: The Two Towers D: The Return of the King

50/50

50/50 leaves The Fellowship of the Ring and The Return of the King.

+1

Garrett’s +1 is his mom. She doesn’t know. She advises him to walk.

Answer

B: The Fellowship of the Ring
Garrett wins $20,000.

They must be excluding the appendices in ROTK.

[ghostjmf]

30K: Like contestant, know isn't Hobbit. +1

Comment: Despite telling on several Qs how much he liked science, he missed several easy science Qs, 10K & 2K (obviously, he doesn't think biology is science), & almost talked himself out of 5K.

Yeah I know he's a kid. He's still gotta lose the attitude.

[Kazoo65]

Did anyone else think this kid looked like a mini Donald Trump? I bet he could win a Trump lookalike contest-and he invests in the stock market!!

[ghostjmf]

Kid has the smug down, but is actually too smart to be T. Even at kid's age.

[SportsFan68]

$5,000
Unveiled in 2016, the arcade game “War of Currents” pits what 2 inventors against each other, delivering players actual electric shocks when they take damage?
A: Bill Gates and Steve Jobs B: Alfred Nobel and Johannes Gutenberg
C: Archimedes and Leonardo da Vinci D: Nikola Tesla and Thomas Edison

Answer

D: Nikola Tesla and Thomas Edison

This sounds like disaster waiting to happen.

$30,000
While there are about a half million words between the four of them combined, which of the following J.R.R. Tolkien books is by far the longest?
A: The Hobbit B: The Fellowship of the Ring
C: The Two Towers D: The Return of the King

50/50

50/50 leaves The Fellowship of the Ring and The Return of the King.

+1

Garrett’s +1 is his mom. She doesn’t know. She advises him to walk.

Answer

B: The Fellowship of the Ring
Garrett wins $20,000.

50/50, and if Return of the King is up there, I get it. IIRC, the notes at the end take up about a third of the book.