Transcript 02/05/18 Henry Huschke (Whiz Kids Week)

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Transcript 02/05/18 Henry Huschke (Whiz Kids Week)

#1 Post by BBTranscriptTeam » Mon Apr 30, 2018 1:36 pm

Whiz Kids get an extra Lifeline—Cut the Question.

Henry Huschke
Traverse City, MI
Henry has an IQ in the 99.7th percentile.

$500
According to Euclid's theorem, there are infinitely many what?
A: Lame cable channels B: "Diary of a Wimpy Kid" books
C: Annoying YouTube celebrities D: Prime numbers

Spoiler
D: Prime numbers

$1000
Earning a spot on Forbes' 2017 "Top-30-Under-30" list, 19-year-old inventor Ann Makosinski is known for her invention of a flashlight powered by what?
A: Leprechauns B: A team of horses
C: Black magic D: The heat from your hand

Spoiler
D: The heat from your hand

$2,000
Derived from the Latin root "vorare," the suffix "-vore" is used to form words that tell us what about an animal?
A: What they eat B: How big they are
C: What color they are D: How many legs they have

Spoiler
A: What they eat

$3,000
Which of the following is a phrase found in the title of a "Hunger Games" movie, and NOT a variety of Mountain Dew?
A: Live Wire B: Code Red
C: Catching Fire D: Pitch Black

Spoiler
C: Catching Fire

$5,000
Imagine you flip a coin 9 times, and all 9 times it comes up heads. What are the chances that it will come up heads on the 10th flip?
A: 10% B: 50%
C: 90% D: 99.99%

Spoiler
B: 50%

$7,000
In nature, what is typically yellow, green or orange?
A: Octopus ink B: Firefly light
C: A robin's egg D: A giraffe's tongue

Spoiler
B: Firefly light

First commercial break

$10,000
Named for the wife of Perseus in Greek mythology, what closest large galaxy to ours is predicted to merge with the Milky Way in about four billion years?
A: Andromeda B: Isis
C: Medusa D: Cassiopeia

Spoiler
A: Andromeda

$20,000
If you put all nine of Santa's reindeer, including Rudolph, in alphabetical order, which reindeer would come exactly in the middle?
A: Dancer B: Cupid
C: Donner D: Dasher

Spoiler
A: 13% B: 18% C: 45% D: 24%

Spoiler
Henry goes with the audience & guesses Donner
The correct answer is D: Dasher
Henry wins $5,000

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Re: Transcript 02/05/18 Henry Huschke (Whiz Kids Week)

#2 Post by earendel » Tue May 01, 2018 5:45 am

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Whiz Kids get an extra Lifeline—Cut the Question.

Henry Huschke
Traverse City, MI
Henry has an IQ in the 99.7th percentile.
No surprise, nihil obstat®.
"Elen sila lumenn omentielvo...A star shines on the hour of our meeting."

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Re: Transcript 02/05/18 Henry Huschke (Whiz Kids Week)

#3 Post by ghostjmf » Tue May 01, 2018 7:05 am

20K: need +1 to make sure I've named all 9 reindeer right_

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