Transcript 12/22/2017 - Clayton Finney

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Transcript 12/22/2017 - Clayton Finney

#1 Post by BBTranscriptTeam » Fri Jan 12, 2018 10:25 am

WHIZ KIDS WEEK (again)

Clayton Finney
Pompano Beach, FL


Clayton is a future engineer and scored in the 97th percentile on his PSAT. For Whiz Kids Week Clayton gets a 4th lifeline, Cut the Question, usable up to the $50,000 question.

$500: A veteran of more than a dozen Pixar feature films, John Ratzenberger voiced what animated piggy bank in all three "Toy Story" movies?
A - Hamm
B - Chickenn
C - Beeff
D - Goatt
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Answer: A (Hamm)


$1000: Predating Lara Croft by 3,000 years, National Geographic noted that what crime is "as old as the PHaraohs" and has recently worsened in Egypt and Syria?
A - tomb raiding
B - telemarketing fraud
C - car theft
D - computer hacking
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Answer: A (tomb raiding)


$2000: Horses have a system of ligaments, tendons and muscles known as a "stay apparatus," which allows them to do what?
A - sleep while standing
B - eat while running
C - whinny while rolling
D - kick while jumping

clayton asks the audience.
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Ask the Audience results:
A - 95%
B - 0%
C - 0%
D - 5%

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Answer: A (sleep while standing)


$3000: Ironically not true about the word itself, what adjective describes a word that is spelled the way it sounds?
A - funetic
B - phonetic
C - fahnetic
D - phanetique
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Answer: B (phonetic)

commercial break

$5000: What novel has been called a more realistic version of "The Coral Island," a book where boys get stranded on an island, but everything works out in the end?
A - Last of the Mohicans
B - Lord of the Flies
C - Call of the Wild
D - Oliver Twist

He read this in English class this year.
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Answer: B (Lord of the Flies)


$7000: If Sam buys a $400 iPhone from the Apple Store at 25% off, and then sells it to Suzy for 30% off what he paid, how much will Suzy pay for the phone?
A - $100
B - $210
C - #220
D - $270

Sam runs through the math and comes up with the answer.
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Answer: B ($210)

Sam compted on a math team and was the youngest member of the team.

$10,000: Similar to the 3-headed Cerberus of Greek mythology, the legendary Norse figure Garm, guardian of the gates of the underworld, is what type of creature?
A - lion
B - bear
C - horse
D - dog
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Answer: D (dog)

commercial break

MILLIONAIRE "QUESTION OF THE DAY"When Jimmy Kimmel ws a radio disc jockey in California, what future star worked for him as a teenaged intern?:
A - Zach Galifianakis
B - Carson Daly
C - Dave Chappelle
D - Ryan Seacrest
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Answer: B (Carson Daly)

commercial break

$20,000: Captain Christopher Jones was at the helm of which of these historic crafts?
A - Hindenburg
B - Mayflower
C - Titanic
D - Enola Gay

Clayton eliminates
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Enola Gay because it's a plane, and the Hindenberg comes from Germany and that's not a German mame
. Clayton decides to cut the question.
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Answer: B (Mayflower)


$20,000: Of the various types of blood vessels, which take oxygen-poor blood back to the heart?
A - arteries
B - veins
C - capillaries
D - cilia

Clayton has never heard of
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cilia, so he eliminates it[/spoiler. He calls down his +1, his sister Chase. She knows a lot but anatomy and biology aren't her strong suits. She's thinking
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veins send blood out to the rest of the body, so she's leaning toward arteries
. She is trying to remember what she learned in 2nd grade about the heart.Clayton considers using the 50:50 but Chase says if it ends up A & B that won't help. Chase knows that
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capillaries are very small and doesn't know what cilia are
. Clayton trusts his sister.
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Answer: B (veins)

Clayton leaves with $5,000.

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Re: Transcript 12/22/2017 - Clayton Finney

#2 Post by ghostjmf » Fri Jan 12, 2018 11:54 am

20K: Have read about Enola Gay captain & don't think its him.

Not German name so rule out Hindenberg. STQ but I wouldn't have it. +1
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Re: Transcript 12/22/2017 - Clayton Finney

#3 Post by earendel » Fri Jan 12, 2018 12:25 pm

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:WHIZ KIDS WEEK (again)

Clayton Finney
Pompano Beach, FL


Clayton is a future engineer and scored in the 97th percentile on his PSAT. For Whiz Kids Week Clayton gets a 4th lifeline, Cut the Question, usable up to the $50,000 question.
BBTranscriptTeam wrote:$20,000: Captain Christopher Jones was at the helm of which of these historic crafts?
A - Hindenburg
B - Mayflower
C - Titanic
D - Enola Gay

Clayton eliminates
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Enola Gay because it's a plane, and the Hindenberg comes from Germany and that's not a German mame
. Clayton decides to cut the question.
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Answer: B (Mayflower)
Tibbets was in command of the Enola Gay, Captain Smith helmed the Titanic. "Jones" doesn't sound German, so go with "Mayflower".
BBTranscriptTeam wrote:$20,000: Of the various types of blood vessels, which take oxygen-poor blood back to the heart?
A - arteries
B - veins
C - capillaries
D - cilia

Clayton has never heard of
Spoiler
cilia, so he eliminates it[/spoiler. He calls down his +1, his sister Chase. She knows a lot but anatomy and biology aren't her strong suits. She's thinking
Spoiler
veins send blood out to the rest of the body, so she's leaning toward arteries
. She is trying to remember what she learned in 2nd grade about the heart.Clayton considers using the 50:50 but Chase says if it ends up A & B that won't help. Chase knows that
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capillaries are very small and doesn't know what cilia are
. Clayton trusts his sister.
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Answer: B (veins)

Clayton leaves with $5,000.
A pity - but as soon as Chase said what she did, I thought Clayton would go down. I suspect he was right about the 50:50, which wouldn't have helped. Of course there was the time factor - the question aired after the MQOD, meaning that he was going to either walk away or answer incorrectly.
"Elen sila lumenn omentielvo...A star shines on the hour of our meeting."

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Re: Transcript 12/22/2017 - Clayton Finney

#4 Post by Estonut » Fri Jan 12, 2018 9:19 pm

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:$20,000: Of the various types of blood vessels, which take oxygen-poor blood back to the heart?
A - arteries
B - veins
C - capillaries
D - cilia

Clayton has never heard of
Spoiler
cilia, so he eliminates it[/spoiler. He calls down his +1, his sister Chase. She knows a lot but anatomy and biology aren't her strong suits. She's thinking
Spoiler
veins send blood out to the rest of the body, so she's leaning toward arteries
. She is trying to remember what she learned in 2nd grade about the heart. Clayton considers using the 50:50 but Chase says if it ends up A & B that won't help. Chase knows that
Spoiler
capillaries are very small and doesn't know what cilia are
. Clayton trusts his sister.
Spoiler
Answer: B (veins)

Clayton leaves with $5,000.
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I believe he must have (incorrectly) answered "arteries," not (correctly) "veins."
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