Transcript 9/14/17A Ren Peir
Posted: Sun Sep 17, 2017 2:30 pm
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Ren Peir
Brooklyn, NY
Ren is a marketing manager
$500
As Canada is still part of the Commonwealth, upon request its government will mail any Canadian a free photo of what famous Brit?
A: Benedict Cumberbatch B: Scary Spice
C: Gordon Ramsay D: Queen Elizabeth II
$1,000
In critiquing a writer's work, author F. Scott Fitzgerald is said to have told them: "Cut out all these" what, because they're "like laughing at your own joke"?
A: Exclamation points B: Verbs
C: Italian words D: Emojis
$2,000
Experienced by 70% of the population, hypnagogic jerks are the alarming spasms that happen when you're in bed trying to do what?
A: Finish a crossword puzzle B: Find the TV remote
C: Say your prayers D: Fall asleep
$3,000
Named in Eater.com's article on 2017 food trends, what turnover with meat, vegetables or fruit gets its name from the Spanish for "to cover in bread"?
A: Burrito B: Empanada
C: Tostada D: Enchilada
Second commercial break
$5,000
When Nicki Minaj raps about her desire for a man who made "...more money last year than Mr. Drummond," she likely means Philip Drummond, who is what?
A: The CEO of General Motors B: Owner of the New York Knicks
C: The dad from "Diff'rent Strokes" D: Secretary of the U.S. Treasury
$7,000
Said to look "like gray and brown had a baby," what "new direction" in "beautiful neutrals" did Sherwin-Williams pick as its 2017 Color of the Year?
A: Indulgent Puce B: Breezy Vermilion
C: Audacious Chartreuse D: Poised Taupe
Ren knows that
Third commercial break
In 1971, a memorial to Gus Grissom, Ed White, Roger B. Chaffee, Yuri Gagarin and Vladimir Komarov was left where?
A: At the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean B: In the Sahara Desert
C: On the moon D: At the North Pole
Ren thinks Yuri Gagarin sounds familiar.
Ren thinks both options are pretty rude—it's like littering.
The horn
Ren will return on Friday
Ren Peir
Brooklyn, NY
Ren is a marketing manager
$500
As Canada is still part of the Commonwealth, upon request its government will mail any Canadian a free photo of what famous Brit?
A: Benedict Cumberbatch B: Scary Spice
C: Gordon Ramsay D: Queen Elizabeth II
Spoiler
D: Queen Elizabeth II
$1,000
In critiquing a writer's work, author F. Scott Fitzgerald is said to have told them: "Cut out all these" what, because they're "like laughing at your own joke"?
A: Exclamation points B: Verbs
C: Italian words D: Emojis
Spoiler
A: Exclamation points!
$2,000
Experienced by 70% of the population, hypnagogic jerks are the alarming spasms that happen when you're in bed trying to do what?
A: Finish a crossword puzzle B: Find the TV remote
C: Say your prayers D: Fall asleep
Spoiler
D: Fall asleep
$3,000
Named in Eater.com's article on 2017 food trends, what turnover with meat, vegetables or fruit gets its name from the Spanish for "to cover in bread"?
A: Burrito B: Empanada
C: Tostada D: Enchilada
Spoiler
A: 9% B: 76% C: 9% D: 6%
Spoiler
B: Empanada
Second commercial break
$5,000
When Nicki Minaj raps about her desire for a man who made "...more money last year than Mr. Drummond," she likely means Philip Drummond, who is what?
A: The CEO of General Motors B: Owner of the New York Knicks
C: The dad from "Diff'rent Strokes" D: Secretary of the U.S. Treasury
Spoiler
Ren's +1 is her friend, Chris, who is the smartest person she knows. Chris pretends not to know it but then says it's definitely the dad from Diff'rent Strokes, Conrad Bain—the one choice Ren was sure wasn't correct.
Spoiler
C: The dad from "Diff'rent Strokes"
$7,000
Said to look "like gray and brown had a baby," what "new direction" in "beautiful neutrals" did Sherwin-Williams pick as its 2017 Color of the Year?
A: Indulgent Puce B: Breezy Vermilion
C: Audacious Chartreuse D: Poised Taupe
Ren knows that
Spoiler
Chartreuse is like a greenish-turquoisish color and Taupe is kind of tannish, "like gray and brown had a baby." She doesn't know what Puce or Vermilion are.
Spoiler
D: Poised Taupe
Third commercial break
$10,000QotD wrote: Standing majestically in New York Harbor, the Statue of Liberty faces in what direction?
A: Northeast B: Southeast
C: Southwest D: Northwest
Spoiler
B: Southeast
In 1971, a memorial to Gus Grissom, Ed White, Roger B. Chaffee, Yuri Gagarin and Vladimir Komarov was left where?
A: At the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean B: In the Sahara Desert
C: On the moon D: At the North Pole
Ren thinks Yuri Gagarin sounds familiar.
Spoiler
50/50 leaves At the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean & On the moon.
Ren thinks both options are pretty rude—it's like littering.
Spoiler
C: On the moon
The horn
Ren will return on Friday