Transcript 11/15/17 Shiva Oswal (carryover)

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Transcript 11/15/17 Shiva Oswal (carryover)

#1 Post by BBTranscriptTeam » Thu Nov 16, 2017 1:00 am

Shiva Oswal
13-year-old
Cupertino, Cal.


$250,000
Certainly a bizarre term, a “bezoar” is another word for what?
A: The end of a sidewalk B: A cat’s hairball
C: A wrinkle on a shirt D: A round of applause

Spoiler
A: 15% B: 42% C: 16% D: 27%


Spoiler
Shiva’s +1 is his dad. He advises Shiva to bank the 100 grand, but Shiva says, “You know what? This is Vegas. Let’s go!” He chooses a cat’s hairball.


Commercial break

Spoiler
B: A cat’s hairball


$500,000
Though now associated with Barack Obama, who used the actual word “change” more often than any other president in his inaugural address?
A: Theodore Roosevelt B: John F. Kennedy
C: Lyndon B. Johnson D: George H.W. Bush

Shiva thinks it’s Kennedy, but he walks away.

Spoiler
C: Lyndon B. Johnson
Shiva wins $250,000.


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Re: Transcript 11/15/17 Shiva Oswal (carryover)

#2 Post by earendel » Thu Nov 16, 2017 6:56 am

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Shiva Oswal
13-year-old
Cupertino, Cal.
BBTranscriptTeam wrote:$250,000
Certainly a bizarre term, a “bezoar” is another word for what?
A: The end of a sidewalk B: A cat’s hairball
C: A wrinkle on a shirt D: A round of applause
Spoiler
A: 15% B: 42% C: 16% D: 27%

Spoiler
Shiva’s +1 is his dad. He advises Shiva to bank the 100 grand, but Shiva says, “You know what? This is Vegas. Let’s go!” He chooses a cat’s hairball.

Spoiler
B: A cat’s hairball
Not according to Professor Snape:

"A bezoar is a stone taken from the stomach of a goat and it will save you from most poisons." (Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone)
BBTranscriptTeam wrote:$500,000
Though now associated with Barack Obama, who used the actual word “change” more often than any other president in his inaugural address?
A: Theodore Roosevelt B: John F. Kennedy
C: Lyndon B. Johnson D: George H.W. Bush

Shiva thinks it’s Kennedy, but he walks away.
Spoiler
C: Lyndon B. Johnson
Shiva wins $250,000.
I'd still have all lifelines except for CTQ (not usable after the $50K question). I don't know if any of them would help, but I'd start with the 50:50.
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Re: Transcript 11/15/17 Shiva Oswal (carryover)

#3 Post by ghostjmf » Thu Nov 16, 2017 7:17 am

250K: A gift! A no-brainer for anyone with a cat! I literally got up from watching this, wondering why Tuck wasn't sitting on his favorite chair, & had to clean up... well, this one didn't have hair in it, so it was just cat-throwup, which to my knowledge doesn't have a special name.

I'm so happy for this kid that the proud citizens of Las Vegas were cat-lovers.

500K: Unless you're a scholar of inaugural addresses, who would know this? Unless +1 is sure I throw remaining lifelines (ATA & possibly 50/50) at it but walk.

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Re: Transcript 11/15/17 Shiva Oswal (carryover)

#4 Post by jarnon » Thu Nov 16, 2017 11:57 pm

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:$500,000
Though now associated with Barack Obama, who used the actual word “change” more often than any other president in his inaugural address?
A: Theodore Roosevelt B: John F. Kennedy
C: Lyndon B. Johnson D: George H.W. Bush

Shiva thinks it’s Kennedy, but he walks away.

Spoiler
C: Lyndon B. Johnson
Shiva wins $250,000.
I'd never get this far, but if I did I'd crash on this question. Roosevelt and Johnson had been President for 1-3 years before their inaugural address, and Vice President before that. Bush was VP for 8 years. So why would they promise change?
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Re: Transcript 11/15/17 Shiva Oswal (carryover)

#5 Post by K.P. » Fri Nov 17, 2017 12:28 pm

jarnon wrote:
BBTranscriptTeam wrote:$500,000
Though now associated with Barack Obama, who used the actual word “change” more often than any other president in his inaugural address?
A: Theodore Roosevelt B: John F. Kennedy
C: Lyndon B. Johnson D: George H.W. Bush

Shiva thinks it’s Kennedy, but he walks away.

Spoiler
C: Lyndon B. Johnson
Shiva wins $250,000.
I'd never get this far, but if I did I'd crash on this question. Roosevelt and Johnson had been President for 1-3 years before their inaugural address, and Vice President before that. Bush was VP for 8 years. So why would they promise change?
Exactly my thought. My pick would have been Kennedy, but never would have pulled the trigger.

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Re: Transcript 11/15/17 Shiva Oswal (carryover)

#6 Post by Appa23 » Fri Nov 17, 2017 12:45 pm

jarnon wrote:
BBTranscriptTeam wrote:$500,000
Though now associated with Barack Obama, who used the actual word “change” more often than any other president in his inaugural address?
A: Theodore Roosevelt B: John F. Kennedy
C: Lyndon B. Johnson D: George H.W. Bush

Shiva thinks it’s Kennedy, but he walks away.

Spoiler
C: Lyndon B. Johnson
Shiva wins $250,000.
I'd never get this far, but if I did I'd crash on this question. Roosevelt and Johnson had been President for 1-3 years before their inaugural address, and Vice President before that. Bush was VP for 8 years. So why would they promise change?
I had exactly the opposite reaction. It had to be LBJ.

Why would he discuss change?

- Space race;

- civil rights;

- war on poverty

The mid-1960s were all about how much the world was rapidly changing -- socially, politically, technologically.

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