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#1 Post by Bob Juch » Mon May 07, 2018 8:00 pm

I just saw a familiar face sitting in the +1 seat for the last contestant. She'll be back tomorrow.
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#2 Post by Snaxx » Wed May 09, 2018 6:37 am

Ulysses1950 did serve as +1 Tuesday but the show was "nuked" by Iran news in my area. I was to be the one transcribing the show.


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For $10K
If you order a McDonald's Quarter Pounder when you're in a place that uses the metric system, how much does your burger weigh?

A: 13.4 grams B: 31.4 grams
C: 113.4 grams D: 311.4 grams


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50/50 eliminated A and B first before +1.
Contestant did get it right and moved on, but I do not know how far.
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#3 Post by earendel » Wed May 09, 2018 7:01 am

Snaxx wrote:Ulysses1950 did serve as +1 Tuesday but the show was "nuked" by Iran news in my area. I was to be the one transcribing the show.


Spoiler
For $10K
If you order a McDonald's Quarter Pounder when you're in a place that uses the metric system, how much does your burger weigh?

A: 13.4 grams B: 31.4 grams
C: 113.4 grams D: 311.4 grams


Spoiler
50/50 eliminated A and B first before +1.
Contestant did get it right and moved on, but I do not know how far.
The $20K question asked for the Palo Alto tech firm founded in 1939 that developed a self-flushing urinal and a bowling lane foul line indicator. The choices were Intel, IBM, Cisco Systems, and Hewlett-Packard.
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She had no lifelines and walked away because she couldn't decide among the four choices
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Re: Today's show

#4 Post by ghostjmf » Wed May 09, 2018 8:25 am

I couldn't see the show because my convertor box burped & the picture froze but I could hear it (couldn't fix reception as this was on tape).

One of the hardest 20K Qs in a while.

Coming after 10K grams Q, fooey. Unless you deal drugs or live outside the US or have taken Chem recently you don't know grams conversions.
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#5 Post by christie1111 » Wed May 09, 2018 8:36 am

Or daily convert from lbs to grams and back the other way as part of you job. We work in grams on the bench but our pilot plant and NA production facilities work in lbs.
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#6 Post by ghostjmf » Wed May 09, 2018 9:01 am

christie1111 says "works with grams".

That fits under "taken Chem recently".

My sister who lived in Europe 30 years has metric baking measures. Which crack me up.
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#7 Post by Bob78164 » Wed May 09, 2018 9:25 am

ghostjmf wrote:I couldn't see the show because my convertor box burped & the picture froze but I could hear it (couldn't fix reception as this was on tape).

One of the hardest 20K Qs in a while.

Coming after 10K grams Q, fooey. Unless you deal drugs or live outside the US or have taken Chem recently you don't know grams conversions.
I haven't taken chemistry since high school, and California is still part of the United States, but doesn't everyone know that 1 kg is approximately 2.2 pounds? From there, you can do the math. I happen to remember that 1 pound is approximately 454 grams, but that's less widely known.

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#8 Post by ghostjmf » Wed May 09, 2018 9:52 am

Frankly, though I don't deal drugs either, I was working backward from what those bricks of drugs on the cop shows looked like they weighed. Depends on the drugs, of course.
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#9 Post by elwoodblues » Wed May 09, 2018 12:48 pm

Snaxx wrote:Ulysses1950 did serve as +1 Tuesday but the show was "nuked" by Iran news in my area. I was to be the one transcribing the show.


Spoiler
For $10K
If you order a McDonald's Quarter Pounder when you're in a place that uses the metric system, how much does your burger weigh?

A: 13.4 grams B: 31.4 grams
C: 113.4 grams D: 311.4 grams


Spoiler
50/50 eliminated A and B first before +1.
Contestant did get it right and moved on, but I do not know how far.
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#10 Post by ulysses1950 » Wed May 09, 2018 5:15 pm

I'm the dumb one....Shoulda gone to kilo (1,000 grams)=2.2 lbs. On the other hand I knew HP cold. We just had it as an answer to a question on Monday night's trivia.
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#11 Post by Bob Juch » Wed May 09, 2018 6:55 pm

ulysses1950 wrote:I'm the dumb one....Shoulda gone to kilo (1,000 grams)=2.2 lbs. On the other hand I knew HP cold. We just had it as an answer to a question on Monday night's trivia.
HP was easy if you know none of the others are headquartered in Palo Alto.
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#12 Post by Estonut » Thu May 10, 2018 3:15 am

ghostjmf wrote:Unless you deal drugs or live outside the US or have taken Chem recently you don't know grams conversions.
You see them every day. You just don't notice them.
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#13 Post by triviawayne » Thu May 10, 2018 5:34 am

Estonut wrote:
ghostjmf wrote:Unless you deal drugs or live outside the US or have taken Chem recently you don't know grams conversions.
You see them every day. You just don't notice them.
I see them, I notice them...just can't convert them because I don't stare at them and do the math when the english weight is right there.
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