Transcript 11/01/07 - Lyn Payne
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Lyn Payne
Orlando, FL
Journalist
Lyn is a self-proclaimed trivia geek and four-time Jeopardy champion. She still hasn't gained the confidence of her two kids.
Meredith: In fact, they're more amazed at how much their mom doesn't know. What is that about? You seem very smart to me!
Lyn: Well, when I'm at home playing the game, of course, everything's much easier than it is here, especially for my children, and so if I don't know, like a $100 TV question, they're going, "Oh, no! You don't know that? What's going to happen when you're on the show?" And they look really, really terrified.
Meredith: Oh, because they're worried about you messing up.
Lyn: They're worried about me bombing out on a $100 question about a TV program.
$16,000
In the name of the A&P supermarket chain, the "A" and the "P" stand for the names of two what?
A: U.S. cities B: Bodies of water
C: U.S. states D: Mountain ranges
Lyn remembers getting this question in a trivia game, before.
$25,000
Fictional author Nathan Zuckerman is featured in several works by what U.S. novelist?
A: Joseph Heller B: Don DeLillo
C: Philip Roth D: Richard Russo
Lyn goes "Yes!" as soon as she sees the question.
Lyn: I love you, Philip Roth. I really love you, Philip Roth. I love your books, and now I love you even more.
$50,000
Located in Russia, Chechnya is a volatile region that neighbors what nation?
A: Georgia B: Ukraine
C: Moldova D: Belarus
Lyn really thinks it's Georgia, but she really doesn't want to do anything dumb.
50/50 leaves A & B.
$100,000
England coronated Queen Elizabeth II in 1953, how many years after the death of Queen Elizabeth I?
A: 200 B: 250
C: 300 D: 350
Lyn is a Shakespeare fan and is almost positive Elizabeth I died while he was writing some of his best stuff, in 1603.
-- Commercial Break --
Lyn is feeling kind of overwhelmed, but people who know her know she knows lots of obscure trivia.
Lyn has a 1992 car with peeling paint, the radio doesn't work and the air conditioning just went out, so she needs a new car.
$250,000
Whose New York Times obituary mentioned taht "Since 1889" he "had been hopelessly insane"?
A: Vincent van Gogh B: Franz Kafka
C: Johannes Brahms D: Friedrich Nietzsche
Lyn: This is such a Lyn Payne question! I can't believe that I know this. This is the kind of thing that I read a lot, I read philosophy, so I know this.
Lyn thinks this through some more and her mind is going Nietzsche, Nietzsche, Nietzsche.
$500,000
To the nearest cent, the Bureau of Engraving and Printing spends an average of how much to make each currency note in circulation?
A: 2 cents B: 4 cents
C: 6 cents D: 8 cents
Lyn: I don't like this question, Meredith. This is not a Lyn Payne question. This involves, like, numbers.
If she had to guess, she'd say 4 cents, but Lyn switches the question.
STQ $500,000
The title of the TV series "Will & Grace" was inspired by what philosopher's famous "I and Thou" treatise?
A: Michel Foucault B: Martin Heidegger
C: Martin Buber D: Ludwig Wittgenstein
Lyn: These are philosophers. I like philosophers!
Lyn read the book. She says C: Martin Buber, final answer.
-- Commercial Break --
The pressure is on for the audience. In the six years that Meredith has been hosting the show, they've never been in a position where a contestant could ask the audience on a million dollar question before.
It doesn't seem real to Lyn, because when you're a trivia geek, it's all about the questions.
$1,000,000
Khrushchev's famous 1960 "shoe-banging" outburst at the U.N. was in response to a delegate from what nation?
A: Australia B: The Netherlands
C: The Philippines D: Turkey
Lyn would like to think she knows this, but she doesn't.
ATA: A: 8% B: 29% C: 15% D: 48%
If this was a lower level question, Lyn would feel this question through and decide it was Turkey. She'll probably kill herself, because she thinks Russia was mad at Turkey because of the conflict between Turkey and Greece, and if it wasn't a million dollars, she'd just shout out "Turkey", but
she's not going to do it.
Lyn walks away with $500,000.
Meredith thought the answer was Turkey, too, and she was thinking "Why did you do that? The confetti was ready!"
-- Commercial Break --
Answers:
$16,000: B: Bodies of water
$25,000: C: Philip Roth
$50,000: A: Georgia
$100,000: D: 350
$250,000: D: Friedrich Nietzsche
$500,000: C: 6 cents
STQ $500,000: C: Martin Buber
$1,000,000: C: The Philippines
Orlando, FL
Journalist
Lyn is a self-proclaimed trivia geek and four-time Jeopardy champion. She still hasn't gained the confidence of her two kids.
Meredith: In fact, they're more amazed at how much their mom doesn't know. What is that about? You seem very smart to me!
Lyn: Well, when I'm at home playing the game, of course, everything's much easier than it is here, especially for my children, and so if I don't know, like a $100 TV question, they're going, "Oh, no! You don't know that? What's going to happen when you're on the show?" And they look really, really terrified.
Meredith: Oh, because they're worried about you messing up.
Lyn: They're worried about me bombing out on a $100 question about a TV program.
$16,000
In the name of the A&P supermarket chain, the "A" and the "P" stand for the names of two what?
A: U.S. cities B: Bodies of water
C: U.S. states D: Mountain ranges
Lyn remembers getting this question in a trivia game, before.
$25,000
Fictional author Nathan Zuckerman is featured in several works by what U.S. novelist?
A: Joseph Heller B: Don DeLillo
C: Philip Roth D: Richard Russo
Lyn goes "Yes!" as soon as she sees the question.
Lyn: I love you, Philip Roth. I really love you, Philip Roth. I love your books, and now I love you even more.
$50,000
Located in Russia, Chechnya is a volatile region that neighbors what nation?
A: Georgia B: Ukraine
C: Moldova D: Belarus
Lyn really thinks it's Georgia, but she really doesn't want to do anything dumb.
50/50 leaves A & B.
$100,000
England coronated Queen Elizabeth II in 1953, how many years after the death of Queen Elizabeth I?
A: 200 B: 250
C: 300 D: 350
Lyn is a Shakespeare fan and is almost positive Elizabeth I died while he was writing some of his best stuff, in 1603.
-- Commercial Break --
Lyn is feeling kind of overwhelmed, but people who know her know she knows lots of obscure trivia.
Lyn has a 1992 car with peeling paint, the radio doesn't work and the air conditioning just went out, so she needs a new car.
$250,000
Whose New York Times obituary mentioned taht "Since 1889" he "had been hopelessly insane"?
A: Vincent van Gogh B: Franz Kafka
C: Johannes Brahms D: Friedrich Nietzsche
Lyn: This is such a Lyn Payne question! I can't believe that I know this. This is the kind of thing that I read a lot, I read philosophy, so I know this.
Lyn thinks this through some more and her mind is going Nietzsche, Nietzsche, Nietzsche.
$500,000
To the nearest cent, the Bureau of Engraving and Printing spends an average of how much to make each currency note in circulation?
A: 2 cents B: 4 cents
C: 6 cents D: 8 cents
Lyn: I don't like this question, Meredith. This is not a Lyn Payne question. This involves, like, numbers.
If she had to guess, she'd say 4 cents, but Lyn switches the question.
STQ $500,000
The title of the TV series "Will & Grace" was inspired by what philosopher's famous "I and Thou" treatise?
A: Michel Foucault B: Martin Heidegger
C: Martin Buber D: Ludwig Wittgenstein
Lyn: These are philosophers. I like philosophers!
Lyn read the book. She says C: Martin Buber, final answer.
-- Commercial Break --
The pressure is on for the audience. In the six years that Meredith has been hosting the show, they've never been in a position where a contestant could ask the audience on a million dollar question before.
It doesn't seem real to Lyn, because when you're a trivia geek, it's all about the questions.
$1,000,000
Khrushchev's famous 1960 "shoe-banging" outburst at the U.N. was in response to a delegate from what nation?
A: Australia B: The Netherlands
C: The Philippines D: Turkey
Lyn would like to think she knows this, but she doesn't.
ATA: A: 8% B: 29% C: 15% D: 48%
If this was a lower level question, Lyn would feel this question through and decide it was Turkey. She'll probably kill herself, because she thinks Russia was mad at Turkey because of the conflict between Turkey and Greece, and if it wasn't a million dollars, she'd just shout out "Turkey", but
she's not going to do it.
Lyn walks away with $500,000.
Meredith thought the answer was Turkey, too, and she was thinking "Why did you do that? The confetti was ready!"
-- Commercial Break --
Answers:
$16,000: B: Bodies of water
$25,000: C: Philip Roth
$50,000: A: Georgia
$100,000: D: 350
$250,000: D: Friedrich Nietzsche
$500,000: C: 6 cents
STQ $500,000: C: Martin Buber
$1,000,000: C: The Philippines
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Re: Transcript 11/01/07 - Lyn Payne
OK... that's where I've seen her before. She played against Bob Harris in the '98 TOC.BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Lyn is a self-proclaimed trivia geek and four-type Jeopardy champion.
$25K: Need the audience here.
$50K: I'm glad another former Soviet Republic from that part of the world (such as Armenia or Azerbaijan) didn't show up with Georgia.
$100K: Not as difficult as it looks. If you knew that Elizabeth I was the daughter of Henry VIII, you could narrow the choices down to the last two. And if you saw "Shakespeare in Love", you remember Judi Dench's Oscar-winning (albeit minimal) role as Elizabeth I and knew that 350 years was the only possible answer.
$250K: Kafka was just a kid in 1889, so that was wrong. Brahms made absolutely no sense. van Gogh was a nasty distractor, as he also was committed in 1889. But given that he died only a year after that, I doubted that there would've been a "since 1889" in his obit. Through deduction, I came up with the right answer.
$500K: Seven years ago, me and some of my homeboys vacationed in Philadelphia and Washington D.C. One of the places we visited in D.C. was the Bureau of Engraving and Printing. I'm almost certain that this fact was mentioned in the tour, but I just could not remember what the number was. That was sooooo long ago. Smart idea to STQ.
$500K #2: LOL! What are the chances of a person who loves philosophy getting two high-level philosophy questions in a row? I had no clue on this one. This is a perfect question for a Googling PAF. I did my own Google on this question. Simply typing "i and thou" gets Buber within 5 seconds.
$1M: Khrushchev denounced colonialism at that infamous meeting. Turkey looked right, as a coup d'etat did indeed take place in 1960. Since I still have the 50:50 here, I would've used it. In hindsight, I would've hoped that the 50:50 got rid of Turkey; otherwise, I would've been leaving with $25,000. The 48% vote from the audience made me believe that it was the right answer. Turkey was a downright evil distractor.
I think we finally found a contestant that MBFFB® would have to respect. Lyn played the game absolutely beautifully.
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Re: Transcript 11/01/07 - Lyn Payne
BBTranscriptTeam wrote: Lyn Payne
Orlando, FL
Journalist
Lyn is a self-proclaimed trivia geek and four-type Jeopardy champion.
That takes care of the "trivia geek" quota for the season.
BBTranscriptTeam wrote:$100,000
England coronated Queen Elizabeth II in 1953, how many years after the death of Queen Elizabeth I?
A: 200 B: 250
C: 300 D: 350
I was thinking around 400, so would have gone with D for my final answer.
So where did her 4-day J! winnings go?BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Lyn has a 1992 car with peeling paint, the radio doesn't work and the air conditioning just went out, so she needs a new car.
Thanks to studying philosophy in college and the seminary I knew this one and the $500K question as well.BBTranscriptTeam wrote:$250,000
Whose New York Times obituary mentioned taht "Since 1889" he "had been hopelessly insane"?
A: Vincent van Gogh B: Franz Kafka
C: Johannes Brahms D: Friedrich Nietzsche
No idea. From the comfort of my recliner I guessed the right answer, but would have used STQ here also.BBTranscriptTeam wrote:$500,000
To the nearest cent, the Bureau of Engraving and Printing spends an average of how much to make each currency not in circulation?
A: 2 cents B: 4 cents
C: 6 cents D: 8 cents
I didn't know the TV series was inspired by Buber, but I read "I and Thou" in the seminary. A dream question!BBTranscriptTeam wrote:STQ $500,000
The title of the TV series "Will & Grace" was inspired by what philosopher's famous "I and Thou" treatise?
A: Michel Foucault B: Martin Heidegger
C: Martin Buber D: Ludwig Wittgenstein
OK, I'd have been here with 50/50, ATA and PAF still available, so it's time to PAF. I don't know how hard this would have been to Google. Lyn did the right thing - I certainly wouldn't trust the audience on a question of this magnitude (and the ATA results prove it). This is a much harder question than any of those on PTBAM, IMO.BBTranscriptTeam wrote:$1,000,000
Khrushchev's famous 1960 "shoe-banging" outburst at the U.N. was in response to a delegate from what nation?
A: Australia B: The Netherlands
C: The Philippines D: Turkey
"Elen sila lumenn omentielvo...A star shines on the hour of our meeting."
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Re: Transcript 11/01/07 - Lyn Payne
I just typed "khrushchev delegate" in the search box. The very first hit returned includes the summary: "A New York Times correspondent, Benjamin Welles, reported that Khrushchev was reacting to a speech by a Philippine delegate..."earendel wrote:OK, I'd have been here with 50/50, ATA and PAF still available, so it's time to PAF. I don't know how hard this would have been to Google.
The delegate's name was Lorenzo Sumulong.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorenzo_Sumulong
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Re: Transcript 11/01/07 - Lyn Payne
She was fortunate to get an upper tier so squarely in her wheelhouse, but I agree.NellyLunatic1980 wrote: I think we finally found a contestant that MBFFB® would have to respect. Lyn played the game absolutely beautifully.
I'm sure she's been pondering--will ponder forever--the same "what if" that I'm thinking of, though. If she had chosen to follow the more conventional strategy of confirming her hunch on the $8K question with the ATA instead of using her PAF first, she'd have had Leszek to google for $1 million.
Is there any doubt he could have done it?
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I'm very impressed with Lyn, and extremely grateful that these questions are gone. I can't remember another stack where I had only the slightest clue about any question from $25K and up. Would have made it to $100K at best, and that only with a rapid conflagration of lifelines.
Trivia geek or no, it's the largely unrecognized luck factor that gets you high into the stack. It's better to be lucky than good, but she was both. Congrats to her.
Trivia geek or no, it's the largely unrecognized luck factor that gets you high into the stack. It's better to be lucky than good, but she was both. Congrats to her.
I just ordered chicken and an egg from Amazon. I'll let you know.
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The first day of her appearance, I am personally morified to have agreed with HoltDad - that she seemed like Kevin Smith. I am thrilled to say that her second day - there was a transformation, either in her or in me. I loved her - I rooted for her - I was her fan. She showed funness (go ahead, tell me that's not a rod), she showed flair, she showed quirkiness.
I especially loved that Meredith thought she was thrwoing away the million and she didn't.
Hooray for Lyn - even though she is missing an N.
I especially loved that Meredith thought she was thrwoing away the million and she didn't.
Hooray for Lyn - even though she is missing an N.
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My hats off to Lyn, I'd never have gone this high on this stack.
The ATA on the last question showed a second place spike for the non obvious, (but ultimately correct answer) so walking was a good choice.
The ATA on the last question showed a second place spike for the non obvious, (but ultimately correct answer) so walking was a good choice.
Suitguy is not bitter.
feels he represents the many educated and rational onlookers who believe that the hysterical denouncement of lay scepticism is both unwarranted and counter-productive
The problem, then, is that such calls do not address an opposition audience so much as they signal virtue. They talk past those who need convincing. They ignore actual facts and counterargument. And they are irreparably smug.
feels he represents the many educated and rational onlookers who believe that the hysterical denouncement of lay scepticism is both unwarranted and counter-productive
The problem, then, is that such calls do not address an opposition audience so much as they signal virtue. They talk past those who need convincing. They ignore actual facts and counterargument. And they are irreparably smug.
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Uh, suitguy, I hate to point this out, but the second most popular answer was "The Netherlands", which was not right, either. Only 15% went with "Philippines", the correct answer.themanintheseersuckersuit wrote:My hats off to Lyn, I'd never have gone this high on this stack.
The ATA on the last question showed a second place spike for the non obvious, (but ultimately correct answer) so walking was a good choice.
"Elen sila lumenn omentielvo...A star shines on the hour of our meeting."
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Here's a short article about Lyn's appearance.
http://blogs.orlandosentinel.com/entert ... man-w.html
http://blogs.orlandosentinel.com/entert ... man-w.html
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I agree that Lyn wasn't going to be stampeded into making a foolish decision. It was a nice gesture for her to apologize to the audience for not going with their answer, too.peacock2121 wrote:I don't think she could have. Lyn seemed sure she was not going to go with a hunch.
Thank goodness
"Elen sila lumenn omentielvo...A star shines on the hour of our meeting."
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And she was certainly a different person in the Hot Seat the second day - she seemed to have loosened up somewhat and was more relaxed.peacock2121 wrote:I really liked her.
She was anti-arrogant.
I also liked her comment that for the trivia geek it's all about the questions, something that we've been saying here for years.
"Elen sila lumenn omentielvo...A star shines on the hour of our meeting."
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Re: Transcript 11/01/07 - Lyn Payne
BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Lyn Payne
Orlando, FL
Journalist
$16,000
In the name of the A&P supermarket chain, the "A" and the "P" stand for the names of two what?
A: U.S. cities B: Bodies of water
C: U.S. states D: Mountain ranges
I got essentially the same question on my fourth day when I was on Jeopardy! The Category was X's and O's, and the $1,000 Jeopardy! answer was "It's what A&P stands for in the name of the grocery chain.' I answered, "What are the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans?" and Alex ruled me wrong-- based upon the Category of X's and O's, the correct form was (he said) "What are Oceans?" I disagreed, but I didn't argue the point (as it happens, I won that game anyway-- it was one of the days when I went into Final Jeopardy! with more than double anyone else's score-- so it was not a big deal) but I was annoyed. Alex really didn't like me.
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Lyn kept making reference to the Cyprus situation between Greece and Turkey, but if that were true the USSR wouldn't have been too upset, it seems to me, since it involved two NATO countries squabbling with each other.bazodee wrote:Turkey was a nasty distractor on the $1 Million question. The Cuban Missile Crisis, in part, was set off by the US desire to place missiles in Turkey. Even though the time frame was a few years off, this might have been a foggy memory in the back of someone's head.
"Elen sila lumenn omentielvo...A star shines on the hour of our meeting."
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I don't understand this question.$500,000
To the nearest cent, the Bureau of Engraving and Printing spends an average of how much to make each currency not in circulation?
A: 2 cents B: 4 cents
C: 6 cents D: 8 cents
Why do they spend money to make currency not in circulation? Or is it different than the money they spend to make currency that is in circulation?
I'm not happy about "each currency" either. Currency is all the money being used in the U.S., not individual denominations. "Each currency" would have to refer to money from different countries wouldn't it?
No matter where you go, there you are.
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Oops. That should have read "currency note". And it does now.andrewjackson wrote:I don't understand this question.$500,000
To the nearest cent, the Bureau of Engraving and Printing spends an average of how much to make each currency not in circulation?
A: 2 cents B: 4 cents
C: 6 cents D: 8 cents
Why do they spend money to make currency not in circulation? Or is it different than the money they spend to make currency that is in circulation?
I'm not happy about "each currency" either. Currency is all the money being used in the U.S., not individual denominations. "Each currency" would have to refer to money from different countries wouldn't it?
That makes three typos so far in this transcript. How many more did I make?