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Tom Zulewski (BB Tommynator)
Sports writer
Cedar City, Utah

$50,000
When Jesse Owens won the 200 meters at the 1936 Olympics, the silver medalist was the brother of who?
A: Baseball’s Jackie Robinson B: Boxing’s Joe Louis
C: Football’s Red Grange D: Basketball’s Bob Cousy

Tom says

Spoiler

Jackie Robinson

was a track star at UCLA.

Spoiler

A: Baseball’s Jackie Robinson

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$100,000
Which of these Gandhis is not related to the other three Gandhis listed?
A: Mahatma Gandhi B: Indira Gandhi
C: Rajiv Gandhi D: Rahul Gandhi

Spoiler

Tom answers D: Rahul Gandhi.
The correct answer is A: Mahatma Gandhi.
Tom wins $50,000.

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BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Tom Zulewski (BB Tommynator)
Sports writer
Cedar City, Utah

$50,000
When Jesse Owens won the 200 meters at the 1936 Olympics, the silver medalist was the brother of who?
A: Baseball’s Jackie Robinson B: Boxing’s Joe Louis
C: Football’s Red Grange D: Basketball’s Bob Cousy

Tom says

Spoiler

Jackie Robinson

was a track star at UCLA.

Spoiler

A: Baseball’s Jackie Robinson

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$100,000
Which of these Gandhis is not related to the other three Gandhis listed?
A: Mahatma Gandhi B: Indira Gandhi
C: Rajiv Gandhi D: Rahul Gandhi

Spoiler

Tom answers D: Rahul Gandhi.
The correct answer is A: Mahatma Gandhi.
Tom wins $50,000.

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As I understand it, Mahatma is actually a sobriquet meaning "great-souled." (It comes from "maha," as in "maharaja," and "atma.") So I think the reference should be to Mohandas Gandhi. --Bob

Bob78164 wrote: As I understand it, Mahatma is actually a sobriquet meaning "great-souled." (It comes from "maha," as in "maharaja," and "atma.") So I think the reference should be to Mohandas Gandhi. --Bob

That's like saying that the answer to a baseball question should be "George Herman Ruth" instead of "Babe Ruth." It only really matters if the real first name figures into the answer.

As an aside, I remember playing an early version of the Jeopardy board game back in the 1960s, when this came up, and the "answer" to one of the clues was something like "First name of the Indian political leader Gandhi." They had an answer book so that people could look up the answers and they specifically said not to accept Mahatma as a correct answer for this particular question.

silverscreenselect wrote:As an aside, I remember playing an early version of the Jeopardy board game back in the 1960s, when this came up, and the "answer" to one of the clues was something like "First name of the Indian political leader Gandhi." They had an answer book so that people could look up the answers and they specifically said not to accept Mahatma as a correct answer for this particular question.

Years ago, i imagined my "ideal" Millionaire stack - hard questions that I could answer because of something in my life experience (like Jamal in Slumdog Millionaire). Here's one:

$250,000
What is the first name of famed MIT linguist Chomsky?
A: Avram B: Noah
C: Noam D: Jacob

Spoiler

A: Avram

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Tom Zulewski (BB Tommynator)
Sports writer
Cedar City, Utah

Nihil obstat®.

50K:

I did not know the one that was a college track star & would need all the help I could get here. In all the stuff I've read/seen on Owens, I've never heard/seen this.

Way to go, sports expert!

100K: This one I knew, though I probably wouldn't get to see it..

I had Mahatma in my head for the briefest of moments, but got too hung up in the "how they're related" part of the question instead of treating them individually.

Mahatma was the one who led the fight for independence from Britain around the turn of the 20th century, and he was in his 40s before Indira was even born. She married into the Gandhi family.

Such is life when you know these things after the fact, but I'm not the least bit mad. I have $50,000!!!!! (not yet, but soon!)

Tommynator wrote:She married into the Gandhi family.

She did, but a different Gandhi family. It is a common surname in that part of India. She is not related to the family of Mahatma Gandhi.

Estonut wrote:

Tommynator wrote:She married into the Gandhi family.

She did, but a different Gandhi family. It is a common surname in that part of India. She is not related to the family of Mahatma Gandhi.

Gandhi = our Smith or Jones.