Transcript 5/3/17 Bob Scarpone (carryover)

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Transcript 5/3/17 Bob Scarpone (carryover)

#1 Post by BBTranscriptTeam » Wed May 03, 2017 2:46 pm

Bob Scarpone
High school history teacher
Flanders, N.J.


$5,000
The opposite of the feeling that everyone is out to get you, which term has been defined as “the suspicion the universe is a conspiracy on your behalf”?
A: Passive-compulsive disorder B: Manic-elation
C: Pronoia D: Helsinki syndrome
Answer
C: Pronoia
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In 2015, Gina Rodriguez won the CW’s first-ever Golden Globe for her role on what show, adapted from a popular Venezuelan telenovela?
A: Jane the Virgin B: Crazy Ex-Girlfriend
C: Supergirl D: The Vampire Diaries
ATA
A: 88% B: 7% C: 1% D: 4%
Answer
A: Jane the Virgin
$10,000
During Banned Book Week in 2006, a Texas high school received a request to ban what book that’s about banning books?
A: The Catcher in the Rye B: The Great Gatsby
C: Moby-Dick D: Fahrenheit 451
Answer
D: Fahrenheit 451
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Though they broke apart as the Atlantic Ocean expanded, what two mountain ranges are believed to have once been connected?
A: Urals and Sierra Nevadas B: Andes and Alps
C: Appalachians and Caledonians D: Himalayas and Rockies
Answer
C: Appalachians and Caledonians
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Richard Nixon, George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton and Barack Obama are the only presidents to have done what while in office?
A: Lived with their children B: Appointed three Supreme Court justices
C: Visited all 50 states D: Travelled internationally on Air Force One
Answer
C: Visited all 50 states
$50,000
According to the American Pet Products Assn., if you go by the total number of pets in the U.S., which of these is the second most popular, behind only fish?
A: Lizards B: Dogs
C: Cats D: Birds
+1
+1 Brad thinks it’s birds since, like fish, people own more than one.
50/50
50/50 leaves dogs and cats. Brad would go with cats, but Bob thinks it’s dogs, so Bob walks away.
Answer
C: Cats
Bob wins $30,000.
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#2 Post by ghostjmf » Wed May 03, 2017 4:08 pm

5K: Never heard of it 'til now, but by description has to be C.

20K: depending on how you line up the continents, could be any. C are currently closest. Never heard Caledonians by that name. Caledonia is Scotland.


30K: 50/50.


50K: Think I've ruled out all but C, but +1

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#3 Post by MarkBarrett » Wed May 03, 2017 5:40 pm

Since Chris and Bob did not bring it up, Bob was a 5-time J! champ and finalist (2nd place $11,000) in the 1996 tournament of champions.

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#4 Post by Estonut » Thu May 04, 2017 3:13 am

ghostjmf wrote:
BBTranscriptTeam wrote: $20,000
Though they broke apart as the Atlantic Ocean expanded, what two mountain ranges are believed to have once been connected?
A: Urals and Sierra Nevadas B: Andes and Alps
C: Appalachians and Caledonians D: Himalayas and Rockies
Answer
C: Appalachians and Caledonians
20K: depending on how you line up the continents, could be any.
Uh, no it can't be any. If the expansion of the Atlantic divided a mountain range into 2, they MUST be somewhere near the Atlantic.
A: Middle of Russia and east side of California - NOPE
B: West coast of South America and middle of Europe - NOPE
C: East coast of U.S.A. and western Europe - One on west side of Atlantic and one on the east side. - YUP
D: West side of Asia and western U.S.A. - NOPE
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#5 Post by earendel » Thu May 04, 2017 8:57 am

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Bob Scarpone
High school history teacher
Flanders, N.J.
BBTranscriptTeam wrote:$50,000
According to the American Pet Products Assn., if you go by the total number of pets in the U.S., which of these is the second most popular, behind only fish?
A: Lizards B: Dogs
C: Cats D: Birds
+1
+1 Brad thinks it’s birds since, like fish, people own more than one.
50/50
50/50 leaves dogs and cats. Brad would go with cats, but Bob thinks it’s dogs, so Bob walks away.
Answer
C: Cats
Bob wins $30,000.
This is really tough - I suspected the 50:50 would leave B and C. We talk about "crazy cat ladies" who have many cats, but not "crazy dog ladies", so I'd lean toward C, but this is one of those where I don't think any lifeline would help unless the +1 had read something specific about this.
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#6 Post by ghostjmf » Thu May 04, 2017 9:49 am

Estonut: You haven't read any of those fun SF novels where the continents are moved/smashed into each other by time-travelers w/ mind-over-matter powers? I'm blocking on the ref I want to give, & google ain't helping as yet.

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#7 Post by ghostjmf » Thu May 04, 2017 10:39 am

Ah, its Julian May's Many-Coloured Land cycle. Not that there aren't others.

I remember a book by someone else where visiting alien overlords reduce the Himalayas to foothills, doing more to promote climate change in the region than even Republicans.

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#8 Post by Estonut » Thu May 04, 2017 8:48 pm

ghostjmf wrote:Estonut: You haven't read any of those fun SF novels where the continents are moved/smashed into each other by time-travelers w/ mind-over-matter powers? I'm blocking on the ref I want to give, & google ain't helping as yet.
Oh! I'm sorry. I thought the question was referring to real life. :roll:
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#9 Post by Bob Juch » Fri May 05, 2017 9:43 am

Estonut wrote:
ghostjmf wrote:
BBTranscriptTeam wrote: $20,000
Though they broke apart as the Atlantic Ocean expanded, what two mountain ranges are believed to have once been connected?
A: Urals and Sierra Nevadas B: Andes and Alps
C: Appalachians and Caledonians D: Himalayas and Rockies
Answer
C: Appalachians and Caledonians
20K: depending on how you line up the continents, could be any.
Uh, no it can't be any. If the expansion of the Atlantic divided a mountain range into 2, they MUST be somewhere near the Atlantic.
A: Middle of Russia and east side of California - NOPE
B: West coast of South America and middle of Europe - NOPE
C: East coast of U.S.A. and western Europe - One on west side of Atlantic and one on the east side. - YUP
D: West side of Asia and western U.S.A. - NOPE
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#10 Post by Estonut » Fri May 05, 2017 4:05 pm

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Where are the time-travelers w/ mind-over-matter powers?
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#11 Post by ghostjmf » Fri May 05, 2017 5:09 pm

The continent-splitting during the Pliocene actually occurs in one of the 2nd-tier set of books in May's Galactic Milieu series, just to be clear. I think. Been a while.

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#12 Post by Bob Juch » Fri May 05, 2017 5:56 pm

ghostjmf wrote:The continent-splitting during the Pliocene actually occurs in one of the 2nd-tier set of books in May's Galactic Milieu series, just to be clear. I think. Been a while.
Yeah, 3 to 5 million years or so. :lol:
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#13 Post by ghostjmf » Fri May 05, 2017 6:42 pm

Naah, I've been reading up on what is in what series. The Pliocene stuff is all in the 1st 4 books of the series, the Pliocene Exile.

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#14 Post by SportsFan68 » Sun Jun 18, 2017 7:02 pm

$20,000
Though they broke apart as the Atlantic Ocean expanded, what two mountain ranges are believed to have once been connected?
A: Urals and Sierra Nevadas B: Andes and Alps
C: Appalachians and Caledonians D: Himalayas and Rockies

Spoiler
C: Appalachians and Caledonians
Despite considerable fuzziness about where the Caledonians were, I pick C. The Rockies, Urals, and Alps are in the middle of continents.
$50,000
According to the American Pet Products Assn., if you go by the total number of pets in the U.S., which of these is the second most popular, behind only fish?
A: Lizards B: Dogs
C: Cats D: Birds

Spoiler
+1 Brad thinks it’s birds since, like fish, people own more than one.


Spoiler
50/50 leaves dogs and cats. Brad would go with cats, but Bob thinks it’s dogs, so Bob walks away.


Spoiler
C: Cats
Bob wins $30,000.
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