Transcript 11/03/11 - Doug Grove

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Doug Grove
Harrisburg, PA
High School English teacher

This is Doug's fifth year as a teacher.

Meredith asks the computer to randomize the money and the questions, but this time it displays the unrandomized Topic Tree for a fraction of a second.

Topic Tree (Unrandomized)
10: Well, Lookee Hair
9: Ancient ABC's
8: Sign of Freedom
7: Sad Day for Tourism
6: You're What?
5: German Foods
4: Other Uses
3: Danger Sign
2: Historic Mergers
1: Crowd Favorite

Topic Tree (Randomized)
1: Crowd Favorite
6: You're What?
3: Danger Sign
8: Sign of Freedom
9: Ancient ABC's
5: German Foods
7: Sad Day for Tourism
10: Well, Lookee Hair
4: Other Uses
2: Historic Mergers


Question #1 - Level 2: Historic Mergers
Combining their resources, James A. Bailey became a business partner with what historic figure in 1880?

A: Annie Oakley B: Harry Houdini
C: P.T. Barnum D: Thomas Edison

Answer/Value/Bank

C: P.T. Barnum
Question Value: $100
Bank: $100

Question #2 - Level 4: Other Uses
Famously played by Marlene Dietrich, what common tool becomes a musical instrument when bent and played with a bow?

A: Adjustable Wrench B: Crowbar
C: Hand Saw D: Pliers

Doug doesn't know about Marlene Dietrich, but he doesn't know how many of those you can bend, other than

Spoiler

C: Hand Saw.

Answer/Value/Bank

C: Hand Saw
Question Value: $2,000
Bank: $2,100

Question #3 - Level 10: Well, Lookee Hair
Before breaking into Hollywood, what follicly-challenged celeb was, ironically, a hair stylist in his sister's beauty salon?

A: Stanley Tucci B: Vin Diesel
C: Danny DeVito D: Bruce Willis

Doug jumps the question. Meredith begins to say, "I know this one," then stops herself as a different answer is revealed. She thought it was

Spoiler

D: Bruce Willis.

Answer/Value/Bank

C: Danny DeVito
Question Value: $3,000
Bank: $2,100

Question #4 - Level 7: Sad Day for Tourism
What landmark was closed for repairs in 2011 after it was damaged by an earthquake whose epicenter was near Mineral, VA?

A: Mount Rushmore B: Empire State Building
C: Washington Monument D: The Alamo

Answer/Value/Bank

C: Washington Monument
Question Value: $7,000
Bank: $9,100

-- Commercial Break --


Doug's students didn't give him any advice for the game, but they did want him to give them shout-outs, individually. Instead, he gives a general shout-out to the high school, and to the cast of Lady Dracula, which is their show this year.

Doug's wife, Shannon, is in the audience. They met on her 18th birthday when she went in to get her ears pierced at a store Doug was working at. Doug has just been trained to pierce ears, but when she asked him to do it, he said "no" because he didn't want to hurt her.


Question #5 - Level 5: German Foods
The German version of what popular cereal features three mascots named Knisper, Knasper and Knusper?

A: Trix B: Honey Smacks
C: Froot Loops D: Rice Krispies

Answer/Value/Bank

D: Rice Krispies
Question Value: $10,000
Bank: $19,100

Question #6 - Level 9: Ancient ABC's
What three letters were not originally part of the classic Roman alphabet?

A: J,K,U B: J,U,W
C: J,K,X D: J,U,Z

Doug jumps the question.

Answer/Value/Bank

B: J,U,W
Question Value: $1,000
Bank: $19,100

-- Commercial Break --


Question #7 - Level 8: Sign of Freedom
Historical markers honoring the Freedom Riders of 1961 are located in what U.S. state?

A: Vermont B: Colorado
C: Alabama D: Michigan

Doug really doesn't know. He hopes the audience might.

ATA

A: 10% B: 8% C: 79% D: 3%

Answer/Value/Bank

C: Alabama
Question Value: $15,000
Bank: $34,100

Question #8 - Level 3: Danger Sign
An early warning sign of impending danger is often said to be a "canary in a" what?

A: Coal mine B: Oil well
C: Lumberyard D: Wheat field

Answer/Value/Bank

A: Coal mine
Question Value: $500
Bank: $34,600

-- Commercial Break --


Question #9 - Level 6: You're What?
What event prompted J. Robert Oppenheimer to quote the ancient line, "I am become death, destroyer of worlds"?

A: Earthquake B: Atomic bomb test
C: Stock market crash D: Moon rocket launch

Doug said at first he wasn't sure, but from the phrasing of the quote, he thinks it's something bad a person would do.

Answer/Value/Bank

B: Atomic bomb test
Question Value: $5,000
Bank: $39,600

Question #10 - Level 1: Crowd Favorite
Foam Hands is a company that encourages its customers to wear its gear at which of these events?

A: Broadway play B: Circus
C: Football game D: Wedding

Answer/Value/Bank

C: Football game
Question Value: $
Bank: $64,600

-- Commercial Break --


When Meredith asks what the money means to him, Doug says that he and his wife just bought a new house, with a big mortgage. Shannon also needs a new car.


$100,000
Where does a cowboy place a numnah on his horse?

A: Between the reins B: In the horse's mouth
C: Over the horse's eyes D: Under the saddle

Doug walks away with $64,600. If he had to guess, he would have said

Spoiler

In the horse's mouth, bcause it sounds like "num-num-num".

Answer

D: Under the saddle

-- The End of Game "Noise" --

[MarleysGh0st]

$100,000
Where does a cowboy place a numnah on his horse?

A: Between the reins B: In the horse's mouth
C: Over the horse's eyes D: Under the saddle

Doug walks away with $64,600. If he had to guess, he would have said

Spoiler

In the horse's mouth, bcause it sounds like "num-num-num".

Answer

D: Under the saddle

Since a numnah is apparently a saddle pad used in English-style riding, I'd say that a cowboy wouldn't put one anywhere! He'd use a saddle blanket!

Besides being an entertaining mishearing of the word, this clip from the 2008 National Spelling Bee (thank you, Google!) provides evidence on that point: the judge says the language of origin is Hindi.

[Beebs52]

Some of these questions are brutally obscure.

[Estonut]

Some of these questions are brutally obscure.

Unless you read the Bored...

[MarleysGh0st]

Here's an article about Doug's appearance (with a short update about his results).

http://blog.pennlive.com/go/2011/11/mid ... to_ap.html

Lower Dauphin High School--that's who his shout-out went to! I listened to that a couple times and I still couldn't make out what he was saying.

[Kazoo65]

I saw the show yesterday and got to watch this guy.

Most of his questions were easy for me. I would have jumped the Ancient ABC question-the only one I could eliminate was C, because I know that X is a Roman numeral.

I would have used ATA on the bald celeb Q.

I knew the Freedom Rider question-Alabama is the only one of the states listed that's in the South, where the Freedom Rides took place.

The last one he got, I would have used JTQ on. I had no idea.

[earendel]

Doug Grove
Harrisburg, PA
High School English teacher

This is Doug's fifth year as a teacher.

Meredith asks the computer to randomize the money and the questions, but this time it displays the unrandomized Topic Tree for a fraction of a second.

It's pretty obvious that they are showing these episodes out of order based on the way the randomization of the questions is being done.

Question #3 - Level 10: Well, Lookee Hair
Before breaking into Hollywood, what follicly-challenged celeb was, ironically, a hair stylist in his sister's beauty salon?

A: Stanley Tucci B: Vin Diesel
C: Danny DeVito D: Bruce Willis

Doug jumps the question. Meredith begins to say, "I know this one," then stops herself as a different answer is revealed. She thought it was

Spoiler

D: Bruce Willis.

Answer/Value/Bank

C: Danny DeVito
Question Value: $3,000
Bank: $2,100

I might ATA on this one because it seems like one the audience would know.

Question #6 - Level 9: Ancient ABC's
What three letters were not originally part of the classic Roman alphabet?

A: J,K,U B: J,U,W
C: J,K,X D: J,U,Z

Doug jumps the question.

Answer/Value/Bank

B: J,U,W
Question Value: $1,000
Bank: $19,100

There's no J ("I" is used) and no U. So if there's no U, there couldn't be a double-U.

Question #7 - Level 8: Sign of Freedom
Historical markers honoring the Freedom Riders of 1961 are located in what U.S. state?

A: Vermont B: Colorado
C: Alabama D: Michigan

Doug really doesn't know. He hopes the audience might.

ATA

A: 10% B: 8% C: 79% D: 3%

Answer/Value/Bank

C: Alabama
Question Value: $15,000
Bank: $34,100

He's never heard of the Freedom Riders?

$100,000
Where does a cowboy place a numnah on his horse?

A: Between the reins B: In the horse's mouth
C: Over the horse's eyes D: Under the saddle

Doug walks away with $64,600. If he had to guess, he would have said

Spoiler

In the horse's mouth, bcause it sounds like "num-num-num".

Answer

D: Under the saddle

This is a fairly obscure term but it gets mentioned around Kentucky Derby time in stories about the horses, trainers, hot walkers and such.

[SportsFan68]

. . .
This is a fairly obscure term but it gets mentioned around Kentucky Derby time in stories about the horses, trainers, hot walkers and such.

I'd call it an unfairly obscure term. My Kentucky SIL says it's impossible to follow the Kentucky Derby around here because there's maybe a short story or two on the sports pages in the week leading up to the Derby. In Louisville, all the papers have three or four detailed stories every day about everything -- jockeys, trainers, horses, hot walkers, how the horses were named, racing histories of all the above, and on and on.

Even those fantastic hats, probably, although that probably doesn't affect the race results...

[Estonut]

. . .
This is a fairly obscure term but it gets mentioned around Kentucky Derby time in stories about the horses, trainers, hot walkers and such.

I'd call it an unfairly obscure term.

As I told Beebs, unless you read the Bored.

You even posted to the thread...

[Snaxx]

. . .
This is a fairly obscure term but it gets mentioned around Kentucky Derby time in stories about the horses, trainers, hot walkers and such.

I'd call it an unfairly obscure term.

As I told Beebs, unless you read the Bored.

You even posted to the thread...

Based on the timestamp of that thread, I'd say a photographic memory would also help.

[SportsFan68]

I'd call it an unfairly obscure term.

As I told Beebs, unless you read the Bored.

You even posted to the thread...

Based on the timestamp of that thread, I'd say a photographic memory would also help.

Yep. I had no memory of that thread.

I still think it's unfairly obscure. But I think that about the WWOQs.

[MarleysGh0st]

As I told Beebs, unless you read the Bored.

You even posted to the thread...

Based on the timestamp of that thread, I'd say a photographic memory would also help.

Yep. I had no memory of that thread.

I still think it's unfairly obscure. But I think that about the WWOQs.

Yes, being mentioned on the Bored--once--does not remove a piece of trivia from either obscurity or the WWOQ category. Even if we do make a game about citing news trivia that later gets used as a WWTBAM question, it's still obscure!

And as I said earlier, this particular question is flawed because a numnah is a piece of English riding equipment, the word being of Hindi origin, so a cowboy would not be expected to use it at all in Western riding!