WWTBAM Bored

Lawrence Thomas
Playa del Ray, CA
Stand-up comedian

Returning with $16,000 and 3 lifelines remaining:
Ask The Audience (ATA)
Double Dip (DD)
Ask The Expert (ATE) - Bill Nye


Question Topics:
* Famous Structures
* Online
* Shakespeare
* U.S. History
* Jazz
* Sports
(* The Supreme Court
* Authors
* Snack Time
* Recent Movies
* Famous Headlines
* Video Games
* The Big Apple
* Acronyms
* Familiar Phrases)


$25,000 - Category: Sports
Airing thirty-five years apart, the first and last ABC Monday Night Football games both ended with what team losing 31-21?

A: Miami Dolphins B: Green Bay Packers
C: New York Jets D: Dallas Cowboys

With 22 seconds left, Lawrence asks the audience.

ATA: A: 23% B: 23% C: 37% D: 17%

Meredith mentions it was a big risk - Lawrence comments that he thinks Bill Nye doesn't look like a big jock

Spoiler

C: New York Jets (17)

$50,000 - Category: Jazz
Which of these terms do jazz musicians use to refer to a musical mistake, such as a missed or wrong note?

A: Squash B: Clam
C: Sausage D: Cabbage

With 39 seconds left, Lawrence uses ATE and goes to Bill Nye.

Meredith notes that Bill Nye has been right with ever ATE so far. Bill finds it quite difficult. He goes with intuition and goes with Sausage - but says it is not based on musical knowledge just by how sausage is made.

Lawrence goes with Bill's answer and leaves with $25,000.

Spoiler

B: Clam (33)

BBTranscriptTeam wrote: Lawrence Thomas
Playa del Ray, CA
Stand-up comedian

Returning with $16,000 and 3 lifelines remaining:
Ask The Audience (ATA)
Double Dip (DD)
Ask The Expert (ATE) - Bill Nye

I have all of my lifelines still available.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:$25,000 - Category: Sports
Airing thirty-five years apart, the first and last ABC Monday Night Football games both ended with what team losing 31-21?

A: Miami Dolphins B: Green Bay Packers
C: New York Jets D: Dallas Cowboys

With 22 seconds left, Lawrence asks the audience.

ATA: A: 23% B: 23% C: 37% D: 17%

Meredith mentions it was a big risk - Lawrence comments that he thinks Bill Nye doesn't look like a big jock

Spoiler

C: New York Jets (17)

I'd have used the DD on this one, guessing Miami first and then New York. I knew it was an AFC team.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:$50,000 - Category: Jazz
Which of these terms do jazz musicians use to refer to a musical mistake, such as a missed or wrong note?

A: Squash B: Clam
C: Sausage D: Cabbage

With 39 seconds left, Lawrence uses ATE and goes to Bill Nye.

Meredith notes that Bill Nye has been right with ever ATE so far. Bill finds it quite difficult. He goes with intuition and goes with Sausage - but says it is not based on musical knowledge just by how sausage is made.

Lawrence goes with Bill's answer and leaves with $25,000.

Spoiler

B: Clam (33)

Tough question, and it didn't matter that Lawrence didn't STAY CLAM® because he'd have left with $25K either way. I've never heard the term and I don't think any of the PAFs I'd have had would either. elwing is a jazz fan and she hadn't heard the term. I don't know how googlable this would be.

$25K: I didn't pay attention to who played in the last MNF game. So much for my thinking that I could waltz through the first ten without a lifeline. I would've used the audience, but since 37% was very unconvincing, I also would've phoned a friend.

$50K: I thought for sure it was a sausage, so I would've gone home with $25K and two unused lifelines.

Tough questions!

ATA for me at $25K and Google PAF at $50K.

It's a shame that Bill Nye had to miss one, right after Meredith jinxed him with that "always been right" banter.

$50,000 - Category: Jazz
Which of these terms do jazz musicians use to refer to a musical mistake, such as a missed or wrong note?

A: Squash B: Clam
C: Sausage D: Cabbage

I can find absolutely no citation for this.

Probably would not have trusted my gut on the $25K, so would have used a lifeline to verify it.

Knew the $50K. Ghu knows why or from where. No idea of its origins. I think it's referred to as "catching a (see the spoiled answer)".

Bob Juch wrote:

$50,000 - Category: Jazz
Which of these terms do jazz musicians use to refer to a musical mistake, such as a missed or wrong note?

A: Squash B: Clam
C: Sausage D: Cabbage

I can find absolutely no citation for this.

http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=1404

Clams --- Mistakes while playing music.
Charlie is really layin' down some “clams” tonight.

MarleysGh0st wrote:

Bob Juch wrote:

$50,000 - Category: Jazz
Which of these terms do jazz musicians use to refer to a musical mistake, such as a missed or wrong note?

A: Squash B: Clam
C: Sausage D: Cabbage

I can find absolutely no citation for this.

http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=1404

Clams --- Mistakes while playing music.
Charlie is really layin' down some “clams” tonight.

Apparently, neither the Daily Kos nor Huffington Post has a jazz section.

MarleysGh0st wrote:

Bob Juch wrote:

$50,000 - Category: Jazz
Which of these terms do jazz musicians use to refer to a musical mistake, such as a missed or wrong note?

A: Squash B: Clam
C: Sausage D: Cabbage

I can find absolutely no citation for this.

http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=1404

Clams --- Mistakes while playing music.
Charlie is really layin' down some “clams” tonight.

Google must not index that page.

What's the difference between a clam and a clinker?

Appa23 wrote:

MarleysGh0st wrote:

Bob Juch wrote: I can find absolutely no citation for this.

http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=1404

Clams --- Mistakes while playing music.
Charlie is really layin' down some “clams” tonight.

Apparently, neither the Daily Kos nor Huffington Post has a jazz section.

The Huffington Post does have a music section.

Bob Juch wrote:

MarleysGh0st wrote:

Bob Juch wrote: I can find absolutely no citation for this.

http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=1404

Clams --- Mistakes while playing music.
Charlie is really layin' down some “clams” tonight.

Google must not index that page.

What's the difference between a clam and a clinker?

$25,000?

---Jay

Bob Juch wrote:

MarleysGh0st wrote:

Bob Juch wrote: I can find absolutely no citation for this.

http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=1404

Clams --- Mistakes while playing music.
Charlie is really layin' down some “clams” tonight.

Google must not index that page.

Hmmmm, that's how I found it. Google: jazz clam slang and it's the first hit.

MarleysGh0st wrote:

Bob Juch wrote:

MarleysGh0st wrote: http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=1404

Google must not index that page.

Hmmmm, that's how I found it. Google: jazz clam slang and it's the first hit.

Yeah, but that's gundecking.

Bob Juch wrote:

MarleysGh0st wrote:

Bob Juch wrote: Google must not index that page.

Hmmmm, that's how I found it. Google: jazz clam slang and it's the first hit.

Yeah, but that's gundecking.

I haven't heard of that term before, but if you mean that I've chosen the keywords carefully to make it the #1 hit, isn't that dependent on the fact that the site is indexed on Google?

MarleysGh0st wrote:

Bob Juch wrote:

MarleysGh0st wrote: Hmmmm, that's how I found it. Google: jazz clam slang and it's the first hit.

Yeah, but that's gundecking.

I haven't heard of that term before, but if you mean that I've chosen the keywords carefully to make it the #1 hit, isn't that dependent on the fact that the site is indexed on Google?

Yes