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Transcript 04/24/17 Marlon Shows

#1 Post by BBTranscriptTeam » Mon Apr 24, 2017 5:38 pm

Marlon Shows
Detroit, MI
Dean of Students
6’6.5”

Marlon’s Plus One is Tom.


$500 In an article on beach etiquette, USA Today lists all but which of these as things “not to do at the shore”?
A. Shake out your towel near others
B. Smoke
C. Feed the seagulls
D. Build sandcastles without proper permits
Spoiler
D. Build sandcastles without proper permits
$1K A popular marketing tool, what term refers to potato chips that were prepared in batches, and not in mass quantities on an assembly line?
A. Vitamin fortified
B. Kettle cooked
C. Ultra pasteurized
D. Injection molded
Spoiler
B. Kettle cooked
$2K Replacing them when they’re damaged or if they come out, a great white shark can go through roughly 30,000 different what in its lifetime?
A. Eyes
B. Tails
C. Hearts
D. Teeth
Spoiler
D. Teeth
$3K With workers making 39% more than the U.S. average, what did Business Insider recently call “the most disproportionately high-paying job” in Minnesota?
A. Loan officer
B. Hotel manager
C. Insulation worker
D. Beautician
Spoiler
C. Insulation worker
$5K What former MA senator was once accused of dodging a half-million dollars in taxes by docking his luxury yacht in neighboring Rhode Island?
A. Al Gore
B. Bob Dole
C. Dan Quayle
D. John Kerry
Spoiler
D. John Kerry
commercial break

$7K The tailors who fitted him say that who was both the lightest and heaviest James Bond, weighing 164 lbs. in “GoldenEye” and 211 lbs. in “Die Another Day”?
A. Sean Connery
B. Roger Moore
C. Pierce Brosnan
D. Daniel Craig
Spoiler
C. Pierce Brosnan
$10K According to Guinness World Records, what is the combined height of the tallest man ever plus the tallest man alive?
A. 11’1”
B. 15’4”
C. 17’2”
D. 23’0”

Marlon makes
Spoiler
15’4”
his final answer.
Spoiler
C. 17’2”
Marlon leaves with $5K.
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Re: Transcript 04/24/17 Marlon Shows

#2 Post by ghostjmf » Mon Apr 24, 2017 9:18 pm

7K: Think its Brosnan, but 50/50 to be sure

10K: between B & C. +1

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#3 Post by earendel » Tue Apr 25, 2017 5:12 am

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Marlon Shows
Detroit, MI
Dean of Students
6’6.5”

Marlon’s Plus One is Tom.
BBTranscriptTeam wrote:$10K According to Guinness World Records, what is the combined height of the tallest man ever plus the tallest man alive?
A. 11’1”
B. 15’4”
C. 17’2”
D. 23’0”

Marlon makes
Spoiler
15’4”
his final answer.
Spoiler
C. 17’2”
Marlon leaves with $5K.
This is a YEKIOYD question. I don't think any of the lifelines would be very helpful, but I'd try 50:50 and hope that B and C weren't the 2 remaining choices.
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#4 Post by Estonut » Tue Apr 25, 2017 6:13 am

earendel wrote:
BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Marlon Shows
Detroit, MI
Dean of Students
6’6.5”

Marlon’s Plus One is Tom.
BBTranscriptTeam wrote:$10K According to Guinness World Records, what is the combined height of the tallest man ever plus the tallest man alive?
A. 11’1”
B. 15’4”
C. 17’2”
D. 23’0”

Marlon makes
Spoiler
15’4”
his final answer.
Spoiler
C. 17’2”
Marlon leaves with $5K.
This is a YEKIOYD question. I don't think any of the lifelines would be very helpful, but I'd try 50:50 and hope that B and C weren't the 2 remaining choices.
I didn't know it, but it's fairly straightforward to figure out. There are a couple of Asian basketball playes who are 7' 9". That puts them over (B). You have to figure that ever includes some dude well over 8 feet tall. Thus, it has to be (C).
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#5 Post by SportsFan68 » Tue May 23, 2017 10:41 pm

$3K With workers making 39% more than the U.S. average, what did Business Insider recently call “the most disproportionately high-paying job” in Minnesota?
A. Loan officer
B. Hotel manager
C. Insulation worker
D. Beautician

Spoiler
C. Insulation worker
Boy, I missed this. I can't even google it now.

$7K The tailors who fitted him say that who was both the lightest and heaviest James Bond, weighing 164 lbs. in “GoldenEye” and 211 lbs. in “Die Another Day”?
A. Sean Connery
B. Roger Moore
C. Pierce Brosnan
D. Daniel Craig

Spoiler
C. Pierce Brosnan


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