Transcript May 7, 2008 Lisa LaGore
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Transcript May 7, 2008 Lisa LaGore
Transcript May 7,2008
Lisa LaGore
Eastpointe, MI
Carryover contestant at $500. All lifelines remain.
$1000
Derived from an old hymn, the slogan "We shall overcome" is most closely associated with what movement in U.S. History?
A: Civil rights
B: Women's suffrage
C: Pacifism
D: Prohibition
$2000
The Catskill/Delaware watershed provides what major U.S. city with about ninety percent of its drinking water?
A: Los Angeles
B: Chicago
C: New York
D: St Louis
$4000
What popular 1960's TV series featured a piano-playing, TV-watching pig named Arnold?
A: My Favorite Martian
B: The Beverly Hillbillies
C: My Mother the Car
D: Green Acres
$8000
According to a 2006 CDC report, what is the average life expectancy of an American man?
A: 72
B: 75
C: 78
D: 81
Lisa asks the audience.
ATA:
A: 30%
B: 35%
C: 33%
D: 2%
Meredith says "that's pathetic!" With no discussion, Lisa goes ahead and guesses despite the small difference in percentages.
$16000
The title of the 2007 film "In the Valley of Elah" refers to the location of what famous Biblical event?
A: Resurrection of Jesus
B: Building of Noah's ark
C: Battle of David and Goliath
D: Creation of Adam and Eve
50/50 leaves
B: Building of Noah's ark
C: Battle of David and Goliath
Lisa needs some of the money to get a new chimney.
$25000
According to a quote often credited to Charles Darwin, who is "a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat which isn't there"?
A: Physicist
B: Archaeologist
C: Astronomer
D: Mathematician
Lisa calls her cousin, Karen, who never heard of that quote and has no idea. Lisa is thinking about going for it, although she knows her husband is starting the car and ready to go home with $16,000. She decides to guess "c", but changes her mind and goes with "b" and leaves with $1000.
Answers:
$1000 A - Civil Rights
$2000 C - New York
$4000 D - Green Acres
$8000 B - 75
$16000 C - Battle of David and Goliath
$25000 D - Mathematician
Lisa LaGore
Eastpointe, MI
Carryover contestant at $500. All lifelines remain.
$1000
Derived from an old hymn, the slogan "We shall overcome" is most closely associated with what movement in U.S. History?
A: Civil rights
B: Women's suffrage
C: Pacifism
D: Prohibition
$2000
The Catskill/Delaware watershed provides what major U.S. city with about ninety percent of its drinking water?
A: Los Angeles
B: Chicago
C: New York
D: St Louis
$4000
What popular 1960's TV series featured a piano-playing, TV-watching pig named Arnold?
A: My Favorite Martian
B: The Beverly Hillbillies
C: My Mother the Car
D: Green Acres
$8000
According to a 2006 CDC report, what is the average life expectancy of an American man?
A: 72
B: 75
C: 78
D: 81
Lisa asks the audience.
ATA:
A: 30%
B: 35%
C: 33%
D: 2%
Meredith says "that's pathetic!" With no discussion, Lisa goes ahead and guesses despite the small difference in percentages.
$16000
The title of the 2007 film "In the Valley of Elah" refers to the location of what famous Biblical event?
A: Resurrection of Jesus
B: Building of Noah's ark
C: Battle of David and Goliath
D: Creation of Adam and Eve
50/50 leaves
B: Building of Noah's ark
C: Battle of David and Goliath
Lisa needs some of the money to get a new chimney.
$25000
According to a quote often credited to Charles Darwin, who is "a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat which isn't there"?
A: Physicist
B: Archaeologist
C: Astronomer
D: Mathematician
Lisa calls her cousin, Karen, who never heard of that quote and has no idea. Lisa is thinking about going for it, although she knows her husband is starting the car and ready to go home with $16,000. She decides to guess "c", but changes her mind and goes with "b" and leaves with $1000.
Answers:
$1000 A - Civil Rights
$2000 C - New York
$4000 D - Green Acres
$8000 B - 75
$16000 C - Battle of David and Goliath
$25000 D - Mathematician
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Re: Transcript May 7, 2008 Lisa LaGore
I guess she'll be a few bricks shy of a full load then. Plus ten points for going for it, minus $15,000 for getting it wrong.BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Transcript May 7,2008
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Re: Transcript May 7, 2008 Lisa LaGore
With those choices this looks like a typical 50K question that I would STQ before resorting to any other lifelines. Unless I really could narrow it to 72 or 75 then I might try 50/50. Since I just turned 37.5, half of 75, this is my midlife crisis I remember taking some sort of online fun-quiz posted by a BB (When will you die?) that also said I would live to 75.BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Transcript May 7,2008
$8000
According to a 2006 CDC report, what is the average life expectancy of an American man?
A: 72
B: 75
C: 78
D: 81
Lisa asks the audience.
ATA:
A: 30%
B: 35%
C: 33%
D: 2%
Meredith says "that's pathetic!" With no discussion, Lisa goes ahead and guesses despite the small difference in percentages.
Oh, and another nurse bites the dust at 25K and falls to 1K. Drat!
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Re: Transcript May 7, 2008 Lisa LaGore
$8K: I would've been gone on this question. I thought it was 78 for a man, 81 for a woman.
E: Phone-A-FriendBBTranscriptTeam wrote:$25000
According to a quote often credited to Charles Darwin, who is "a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat which isn't there"?
A: Physicist
B: Archaeologist
C: Astronomer
D: Mathematician
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Re: Transcript May 7, 2008 Lisa LaGore
Correction: A Google-less PAF.NellyLunatic1980 wrote:$8K: I would've been gone on this question. I thought it was 78 for a man, 81 for a woman.
E: Phone-A-FriendBBTranscriptTeam wrote:$25000
According to a quote often credited to Charles Darwin, who is "a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat which isn't there"?
A: Physicist
B: Archaeologist
C: Astronomer
D: Mathematician
"Elen sila lumenn omentielvo...A star shines on the hour of our meeting."
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Re: Transcript May 7, 2008 Lisa LaGore
I was rooting for her as I do for all nurses.BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Transcript May 7,2008
Lisa LaGore
Eastpointe, MI
Carryover contestant at $500. All lifelines remain.
Lisa's comment before she gave her answer was something about her mother saying that watching TV would never get you anything.BBTranscriptTeam wrote:$4000
What popular 1960's TV series featured a piano-playing, TV-watching pig named Arnold?
A: My Favorite Martian
B: The Beverly Hillbillies
C: My Mother the Car
D: Green Acres
Wow, Meredith, scolding the audience?? I knew it used to be around 72, but couldn't be sure enough not to use a lifeline. I'll go with 50/50 since I expect it to be either B or C. If those two come up as the results, time to PAF.BBTranscriptTeam wrote:$8000
According to a 2006 CDC report, what is the average life expectancy of an American man?
A: 72
B: 75
C: 78
D: 81
Lisa asks the audience.
ATA:
A: 30%
B: 35%
C: 33%
D: 2%
Meredith says "that's pathetic!" With no discussion, Lisa goes ahead and guesses despite the small difference in percentages.
Not only was this mentioned in several reviews, but as a Biblical scholar the answer was simple. Lisa did a good job of eliminating the other possibilities but just couldn't pull the trigger.BBTranscriptTeam wrote:$16000
The title of the 2007 film "In the Valley of Elah" refers to the location of what famous Biblical event?
A: Resurrection of Jesus
B: Building of Noah's ark
C: Battle of David and Goliath
D: Creation of Adam and Eve
50/50 leaves
B: Building of Noah's ark
C: Battle of David and Goliath
Lisa needs some of the money to get a new chimney.
I'm not sure why I knew this one, but I did.BBTranscriptTeam wrote:$25000
According to a quote often credited to Charles Darwin, who is "a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat which isn't there"?
A: Physicist
B: Archaeologist
C: Astronomer
D: Mathematician
Lisa calls her cousin, Karen, who never heard of that quote and has no idea. Lisa is thinking about going for it, although she knows her husband is starting the car and ready to go home with $16,000. She decides to guess "c", but changes her mind and goes with "b" and leaves with $1000.
So Lisa won't be getting a new chimney; after taxes she may net enough to pay for her trip, given the price of gasoline.
"Elen sila lumenn omentielvo...A star shines on the hour of our meeting."
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I would have been gone on the life expectancy clue also. I felt confident that it was 78. I don't doubt that the particular study they cited says 75, but I certainly recall seeing numbers in line with NellyLunatic's. All in all, a very tough clue though it should have been obvious that the audience wouldn't have been at all helpful. I'd probably go 50/50 and close my eyes and pick one. Maybe I"d get luck and 81 would pop up.
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Re: Transcript May 7, 2008 Lisa LaGore
If you hadn't noticed, Meredith, those choices were very close together. Anyone who hasn't memorized the latest statistics could very well believe any of those answer might be correct.BBTranscriptTeam wrote: $8000
According to a 2006 CDC report, what is the average life expectancy of an American man?
A: 72
B: 75
C: 78
D: 81
Lisa asks the audience.
ATA:
A: 30%
B: 35%
C: 33%
D: 2%
Meredith says "that's pathetic!" With no discussion, Lisa goes ahead and guesses despite the small difference in percentages.
Yeesh! How is Darwin associated with any of these fields? I'd be afraid of the contestant (and the audience, if the ATA was used) would confuse archaeology with paleontology and associate that with Darwin.BBTranscriptTeam wrote:$25000
According to a quote often credited to Charles Darwin, who is "a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat which isn't there"?
A: Physicist
B: Archaeologist
C: Astronomer
D: Mathematician
This was a wicked middle tier, without even resorting to pop culture!
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Re: Transcript May 7, 2008 Lisa LaGore
What an odd quote. First, why would Darwin say such a thing, and second, why would he say such a thing about mathematicians.? It would be more apt in reference to just about any kind of scientist than a mathematician, who deals in absolute certainties almost exclusively (even probability theorists deal with quantifiable uncertainties). As far as I can tell, it is not from any of Darwin's voluminous writings, and was first attributed to him in the 1940s. Most likely, he never said it. One source suggests the quote, whoever said it first, was about theologians (or philosophers). This makes more sense to me, and might explain why it is attributed to Darwin, whose work is often mischaracterized as antagonistic to theology.MarleysGh0st wrote:Yeesh! How is Darwin associated with any of these fields? I'd be afraid of the contestant (and the audience, if the ATA was used) would confuse archaeology with paleontology and associate that with Darwin.BBTranscriptTeam wrote:$25000
According to a quote often credited to Charles Darwin, who is "a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat which isn't there"?
A: Physicist
B: Archaeologist
C: Astronomer
D: Mathematician
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Re: Transcript May 7, 2008 Lisa LaGore
Hmmm. What source are you referring to? Wikiquote also says it's a misattribution; they cite several possible sources for the quote or for one very similar.smilergrogan wrote:What an odd quote. First, why would Darwin say such a thing, and second, why would he say such a thing about mathematicians.? It would be more apt in reference to just about any kind of scientist than a mathematician, who deals in absolute certainties almost exclusively (even probability theorists deal with quantifiable uncertainties). As far as I can tell, it is not from any of Darwin's voluminous writings, and was first attributed to him in the 1940s. Most likely, he never said it. One source suggests the quote, whoever said it first, was about theologians (or philosophers). This makes more sense to me, and might explain why it is attributed to Darwin, whose work is often mischaracterized as antagonistic to theology.MarleysGh0st wrote:Yeesh! How is Darwin associated with any of these fields? I'd be afraid of the contestant (and the audience, if the ATA was used) would confuse archaeology with paleontology and associate that with Darwin.BBTranscriptTeam wrote:$25000
According to a quote often credited to Charles Darwin, who is "a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat which isn't there"?
A: Physicist
B: Archaeologist
C: Astronomer
D: Mathematician
The phrasing of the question--"often credited"--seems to acknowledge the possibility that this obscure quote, which has no logical connection to Darwin, might not even have been his own. Yeesh, again!
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This $25K question might be the controversy of the season. If it's true that many sources (mis)attribute the quote about mathematicians to Darwin, but a convincing case can be made that he didn't actually say it and those who did were referring to something else, is that grounds from throwing out the question and inviting Lisa back?
Or is it a valid question to ask, "Many people believe what wrong thing?"
Or is it a valid question to ask, "Many people believe what wrong thing?"