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Transcript 9/15/17A Ren Peir (carryover)
Posted: Fri Sep 15, 2017 10:27 pm
by BBTranscriptTeam
MI - 16005i
Ren Peir
Brooklyn, NY
Ren has been living paycheck to paycheck.
Ren has no lifelines remaining.
$20,000
Going by the U.N.'s official spelling, which country is one of the only three in the world whose capital city starts with three consecutive consonants?
A: Libya B: Haiti
C: Cambodia D: Czech Republic
Ren never knows how to pronounce it, but she thinks
Cambodia's capital is Pnohm Penh or Phonm Penh. She says Czech's capital is Budapest [sic].
C: Cambodia
Ren gets tears in her eyes—$20,000 is a lot of money for her.
$30,000
According to the Canva Design School's blog, the most popular Instagram filter in the U.S.—which is the first choice to the right of the 'Normal' setting—is what?
A: Aden B: Lark
C: Clarendon D: X-Pro II
Although she is on Instagram, Ren is a snob with the filters and likes to do her own.
Ren decides to walk.
Ren would have guessed X-Pro II
The correct answer is C: Clarendon
Ren wins $20,000.
Re: Transcript 9/15/17A Ren Peir (carryover)
Posted: Fri Sep 15, 2017 11:18 pm
by Agrajag
BBTranscriptTeam wrote:$20,000
Going by the U.N.'s official spelling, which country is one of the only three in the world whose capital city starts with three consecutive consonants?
A: Libya B: Haiti
C: Cambodia D: Czech Republic
Ren never knows how to pronounce it, but she thinks
Cambodia's capital is Pnohm Penh or Phonm Penh. She says Czech's capital is Budapest [sic].
C: Cambodia
Before the answers appeared, I thought one of the answers might be (the misspelled)
Djbouti
.
After I eliminated the three incorrect answers
Tripoli, Port-au-Prince, Prague
, I knew the right answer without KNOWING-knowing it (after she started talking about it, I "remembered" it).
Then I spent a good 10 minutes or so trying to come up with either of the other two capitals. All the weirdly spelled ones that took me forever to learn kept having a vowel too early:
Skopje, Ljubjana, Tbilisi, Chisinau
. I even came up with one that starts with three vowels:
Ouagadougou
(although I had to look up how to spell the whole thing correctly)
While looking up the spelling on that one, I did find one of the other two—
N'Djamena, Chad
—but couldn't find a third! Anyone else know which one they're referring to (or have better eyes than me looking at a list of capital cities)?
Re: Transcript 9/15/17A Ren Peir (carryover)
Posted: Sat Sep 16, 2017 4:17 am
by K.P.
Agrajag wrote:
While looking up the spelling on that one, I did find one of the other two—
N'Djamena, Chad
—but couldn't find a third! Anyone else know which one they're referring to (or have better eyes than me looking at a list of capital cities)?
They wouldn't be talking about Tskhinvali, the capital of
South Ossetia, could they? A disputed region only recognized by four nations?
Edit: No, they couldn't, because we can only count UN countries.
Re: Transcript 9/15/17A Ren Peir (carryover)
Posted: Sat Sep 16, 2017 4:57 am
by Estonut
K.P. wrote:Agrajag wrote:
While looking up the spelling on that one, I did find one of the other two—
N'Djamena, Chad
—but couldn't find a third! Anyone else know which one they're referring to (or have better eyes than me looking at a list of capital cities)?
They wouldn't be talking about Tskhinvali, the capital of
South Ossetia, could they? A disputed region only recognized by four nations?
Edit: No, they couldn't, because we can only count UN countries.
St. John's?
Re: Transcript 9/15/17A Ren Peir (carryover)
Posted: Sat Sep 16, 2017 5:00 am
by Estonut
BBTranscriptTeam wrote:$20,000
Going by the U.N.'s official spelling, which country is one of the only three in the world whose capital city starts with three consecutive consonants?
A: Libya B: Haiti
C: Cambodia D: Czech Republic
Ren never knows how to pronounce it, but she thinks
Cambodia's capital is Pnohm Penh or Phonm Penh. She says Czech's capital is Budapest [sic].
C: Cambodia
Did she spell them out that way and then go with an answer that she thought had a vowel in the 3rd position in either spelling?
Re: Transcript 9/15/17A Ren Peir (carryover)
Posted: Sat Sep 16, 2017 6:32 am
by ghostjmf
30K: No blinking idea. Dint know it even had filters. ATA.
Oops, now that part 1 has been posted I see I'd have already burnt ATA, so +1 on this.
Re: Transcript 9/15/17A Ren Peir (carryover)
Posted: Sat Sep 16, 2017 9:01 am
by Agrajag
Estonut wrote:K.P. wrote:Agrajag wrote:
While looking up the spelling on that one, I did find one of the other two—
N'Djamena, Chad
—but couldn't find a third! Anyone else know which one they're referring to (or have better eyes than me looking at a list of capital cities)?
They wouldn't be talking about Tskhinvali, the capital of
South Ossetia, could they? A disputed region only recognized by four nations?
Edit: No, they couldn't, because we can only count UN countries.
St. John's?
Oh, maybe... I never knew the U.N. had official spellings of capitals!
Re: Transcript 9/15/17A Ren Peir (carryover)
Posted: Sat Sep 16, 2017 9:03 am
by Agrajag
Estonut wrote:BBTranscriptTeam wrote:$20,000
Going by the U.N.'s official spelling, which country is one of the only three in the world whose capital city starts with three consecutive consonants?
A: Libya B: Haiti
C: Cambodia D: Czech Republic
Ren never knows how to pronounce it, but she thinks
Cambodia's capital is Pnohm Penh or Phonm Penh. She says Czech's capital is Budapest [sic].
C: Cambodia
Did she spell them out that way and then go with an answer that she thought had a vowel in the 3rd position in either spelling?
I think that country was the only one whose capital she knew. She started thinking it might be three consonants (did a little writing in the air) and spelled the first three letters correctly.
Then she talked about Budapest
.
Then she came back with the wrong spelling & not being sure, but decided to go for it and hope for the best!
Re: Transcript 9/15/17A Ren Peir (carryover)
Posted: Sat Sep 16, 2017 9:29 am
by jarnon
Agrajag wrote:Estonut wrote:K.P. wrote:They wouldn't be talking about Tskhinvali, the capital of
South Ossetia, could they? A disputed region only recognized by four nations?
Edit: No, they couldn't, because we can only count UN countries.
St. John's?
Oh, maybe... I never knew the U.N. had official spellings of capitals!
Antigua and Barbuda
Re: Transcript 9/15/17A Ren Peir (carryover)
Posted: Sat Sep 16, 2017 9:37 am
by Agrajag
jarnon wrote:Agrajag wrote:Estonut wrote:St. John's?
Oh, maybe... I never knew the U.N. had official spellings of capitals!
Antigua and Barbuda
Nice find! South Ossetia isn't listed there so that can't be the third either...
Re: Transcript 9/15/17A Ren Peir (carryover)
Posted: Mon Sep 18, 2017 11:22 am
by andrewjackson
Agrajag wrote:jarnon wrote:Agrajag wrote:
Oh, maybe... I never knew the U.N. had official spellings of capitals!
Antigua and Barbuda
Nice find! South Ossetia isn't listed there so that can't be the third either...
This is tough.
Plymouth, Montserrat?
I wouldn't count that as three consonants but maybe. Plymouth has been abandoned since it is covered by lava but it is still the de jure capital of Montserrat. Montserrat is a British Overseas Territory so I don't know if that counts.
Re: Transcript 9/15/17A Ren Peir (carryover)
Posted: Mon Sep 18, 2017 11:47 am
by mrkelley23
Agrajag wrote:jarnon wrote:Agrajag wrote:
Oh, maybe... I never knew the U.N. had official spellings of capitals!
Antigua and Barbuda
Nice find! South Ossetia isn't listed there so that can't be the third either...
Don't be too sure. The UN has several divisions that deal with countries, many times with conflicting info.
Re: Transcript 9/15/17A Ren Peir (carryover)
Posted: Mon Sep 18, 2017 1:16 pm
by earendel
BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Ren Peir
Brooklyn, NY
Ren has been living paycheck to paycheck.
Ren has no lifelines remaining.
BBTranscriptTeam wrote:$30,000
According to the Canva Design School's blog, the most popular Instagram filter in the U.S.—which is the first choice to the right of the 'Normal' setting—is what?
A: Aden B: Lark
C: Clarendon D: X-Pro II
Although she is on Instagram, Ren is a snob with the filters and likes to do her own.
Ren decides to walk.
Ren would have guessed X-Pro II
The correct answer is C: Clarendon
Ren wins $20,000.
I don't use Instagram. I have lifelines so I'll use them, starting with ATA.