Transcript 11/15/12 - Scott Green (hss501)

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Scott Green (hss501)
Chicago, IL

Scott went to law school, graduated from it and found there were no jobs, so he turned his hobby into a profession by becoming a magician.

Scott: Yeah, in law school, I mastered the art of deception and as a magician, I put it to use for good!


Meredith asks the computer to randomize the money and the questions. The unrandomized Topic Tree is not shown.

Topic Tree (Randomized)
?: Presumed Existence
?: Holy Spit Take
?: Go Team
?: Made By Hand
?: Punk Protest
?: Picture Perfect
?: Don't Mock Me
?: Good Reads
?: Medical Conditions
?: Higher Learning


Question #1 - Level ?: Higher Learning
One of the leading musicians in his genre, Bootsy Collins is the co-founder of an online bass guitar school with what straightforward name?

A: Country University B: Funk University
C: Punk University D: Pop University

Scott: The only thing I can think of--Before I say anything, I think I'm going to ask the audience. I don't want to influence them.

ATA

A: 26% B: 59% C: 7% D: 8%

Scott thinks about it some more, commenting on how much easier it is at home, before deciding to jump the question.

Answer/Value/Bank

B: Funk University
Question Value: $5,000
Bank: $0

Question #2 - Level ?: Medical Conditions
People with the rare medical condition known as cherubism appear to have swollen or enlarged what?

A: Ears B: Hips
C: Cheeks D: Feet

Scott: It makes me think of

Spoiler

angels with the puffy, red cheeks.

Answer/Value/Bank

C: Cheeks
Question Value: $1,000
Bank: $1,000

Question #3 - Level ?: Good Reads
Noting their purchase of "Exile and the Kingdom," a recent article ran with the headline "Malia and Sasha Obama Buy Young Adult Novels - and" what?

A: Kafka B: Sartre
C: Camus D: Beckett

Scott jumps the question.

Answer/Value/Bank

C: Camus
Question Value: $7,000
Bank: $1,000

Question #4 - Level ?: Don't Mock Me
By definition, a "mocktail" is a cocktail that has no what?

A: Sugar B: Alcohol
C: Color D: Ice

Answer/Value/Bank

B: Alcohol
Question Value: $500
Bank: $1,500

-- Commercial Break --


Question #5 - Level ?: Picture Perfect
Photographer Gordon Parks used the name of what classic painting for his 1942 photo of a standing woman holding a broom?

A: Christina's World B: Nighthawks
C: American Gothic D: Whistler's Mother

Answer/Value/Bank

C: American Gothic
Question Value: $100
Bank: $1,600

Question #6 - Level ?: Punk Protest
On August 17, 2012, Merriam-Webster lookups of what word spiked following the imprisonment of three members of a Russian female punk band?

A: Hooliganism B: Ruffianism
C: Derelictism D: Rascalism

Answer/Value/Bank

A: Hooliganism
Question Value: $3,000
Bank: $4,600

Question #7 - Level ?: Made By Hand
A popular website for purchasing handmade items, what company calls itself "The world's most vibrant handmade marketplace"?

A: Amazon B: eBay
C: Shopzilla D: Etsy

Answer/Value/Bank

D: Etsy
Question Value: $2,000
Bank: $6,600

Question #8 - Level ?: Go Team
Burnie is the official mascot of what NBA team?

A: Chicago Bulls B: Los Angeles Lakers
C: Miami Heat D: Sacramento Kings

Answer/Value/Bank

C: Miami Heat
Question Value: $10,000
Bank: $16,600

Question #9 - Level ?: Holy Spit Take
Though busy with a show that airs on weeknights, what funny man sets aside time on weekends to teach Sunday school?

A: Conan O'Brien B: Stephen Colbert
C: Jimmy Fallon D: Jay Leno

Answer/Value/Bank

B: Stephen Colbert
Question Value: $15,000
Bank: $31,600

-- The End of Game "Noise" --


Scott will return to look at the $25,000 question on tomorrow's show.

[SportsFan68]

Yay Scott!

[SportsFan68]

Question #1 - Level ?: Higher Learning
One of the leading musicians in his genre, Bootsy Collins is the co-founder of an online bass guitar school with what straightforward name?

A: Country University B: Funk University
C: Punk University D: Pop University

Scott: The only thing I can think of--Before I say anything, I think I'm going to ask the audience. I don't want to influence them.

ATA

A: 26% B: 59% C: 7% D: 8%

Scott thinks about it some more, commenting on how much easier it is at home, before deciding to jump the question.

Answer/Value/Bank

B: Funk University
Question Value: $5,000
Bank: $0

JTQ

Question #3 - Level ?: Good Reads
Noting their purchase of "Exile and the Kingdom," a recent article ran with the headline "Malia and Sasha Obama Buy Young Adult Novels - and" what?

A: Kafka B: Sartre
C: Camus D: Beckett

Scott jumps the question.

Answer/Value/Bank

C: Camus
Question Value: $7,000
Bank: $1,000

Ack! JTQ 2

Question #7 - Level ?: Made By Hand
A popular website for purchasing handmade items, what company calls itself "The world's most vibrant handmade marketplace"?

A: Amazon B: eBay
C: Shopzilla D: Etsy

Answer/Value/Bank

D: Etsy
Question Value: $2,000
Bank: $6,600

The only reason I know this one is because BDM has stuff there.

Question #9 - Level ?: Holy Spit Take
Though busy with a show that airs on weeknights, what funny man sets aside time on weekends to teach Sunday school?

A: Conan O'Brien B: Stephen Colbert
C: Jimmy Fallon D: Jay Leno

Answer/Value/Bank

B: Stephen Colbert
Question Value: $15,000
Bank: $31,600

Tough stack for me. I'm outta there.

[Sunflower's Partner]

Question #6 - Level ?: Punk Protest
On August 17, 2012, Merriam-Webster lookups of what word spiked following the imprisonment of three members of a Russian female punk band?

A: Hooliganism B: Ruffianism
C: Derelictism D: Rascalism

Answer/Value/Bank

A: Hooliganism
Question Value: $3,000
Bank: $4,600

Pussy Riot don't know jack about hooliganism!

And I bet I couldn't get their number either.....

[littlebeast13]

Bootsy Collins is part of a running joke we have at work....

Don't ask, but it still cracks me up every time I see his name....

lb13

[mrkelley23]

Still remember the album cover, and especially the album title, from my deejaying days in college:

[hss501]

Question #1 - Level ?: Higher Learning
One of the leading musicians in his genre, Bootsy Collins is the co-founder of an online bass guitar school with what straightforward name?

A: Country University B: Funk University
C: Punk University D: Pop University

ATA

Question #3 - Level ?: Good Reads
Noting their purchase of "Exile and the Kingdom," a recent article ran with the headline "Malia and Sasha Obama Buy Young Adult Novels - and" what?

A: Kafka B: Sartre
C: Camus D: Beckett

JTQ



This is a decent stack for me. I'd have a jump left, so I... oh. Oops.

[littlebeast13]

Question #1 - Level ?: Higher Learning
One of the leading musicians in his genre, Bootsy Collins is the co-founder of an online bass guitar school with what straightforward name?

A: Country University B: Funk University
C: Punk University D: Pop University

ATA

Question #3 - Level ?: Good Reads
Noting their purchase of "Exile and the Kingdom," a recent article ran with the headline "Malia and Sasha Obama Buy Young Adult Novels - and" what?

A: Kafka B: Sartre
C: Camus D: Beckett

JTQ



This is a decent stack for me. I'd have a jump left, so I... oh. Oops.

This may be funnier than anything MBFFB ever posted.....

lb13

[ghostjmf]

Question #1 - Level ?: Higher Learning
One of the leading musicians in his genre, Bootsy Collins is the co-founder of an online bass guitar school with what straightforward name?

A: Country University B: Funk University
C: Punk University D: Pop University

Scott: The only thing I can think of--Before I say anything, I think I'm going to ask the audience. I don't want to influence them.


[Reveal] Spoiler: ATA
A: 26% B: 59% C: 7% D: 8%


Scott thinks about it some more, commenting on how much easier it is at home, before deciding to jump the question.[]


I was kind of furious, beaming thoughts at the set & so-forth, because I really hate funk music (love r&b, hate funk) & watched one of those "history of rock" shows once where George Clinton, Funkadelic Master Whatever, describes how he had various musicians play a little out-of-tune with each other to "increase the irritation" quality of his music (I thought "yeah, that explains a lot"), but, of course, he didn't ask that of the person laying the backbone of the beat, Bootsy Collins. Bootsy is playing steadily & beaming a probably-drug-induced beam in all the footage of him I've ever seen. He's a great bass player. It's kind of funny that hss501 conjectured (left out of the write-up) that he's pretty sure he's seen Bootsy playing in back of (I forget name) who is, I think, a blues player, not a funk player.

And I know that the band in back of the Motown classics called themselves the Funk Brothers, or something. To me, though, they’re not funk, they’re Motown. Whereas that really irritating stuff that George Clinton promulgated is funk. Whatever.

[Reveal] Spoiler: Answer/Value/Bank
B: Funk University
Question Value: $5,000
Bank: $0



Question #2 - Level ?: Medical Conditions
People with the rare medical condition known as cherubism appear to have swollen or enlarged what?

A: Ears B: Hips
C: Cheeks D: Feet

Scott: It makes me think of angels with the puffy, red cheeks.

got it

[Reveal] Spoiler: Answer/Value/Bank
C: Cheeks


Question Value: $1,000
Bank: $1,000



Question #3 - Level ?: Good Reads
Noting their purchase of "Exile and the Kingdom," a recent article ran with the headline "Malia and Sasha Obama Buy Young Adult Novels - and" what?

A: Kafka B: Sartre
C: Camus D: Beckett

Scott jumps the question.

I would have thought I knew this stuff but I’ve never heard of this book. Know it’s not Kafka, reasonably sure it’s not Beckett, drawing blanks on sticking it on Camus or Sartre. Don’t trust audience on this one. Jump it.

[Reveal] Spoiler: Answer/Value/Bank
C: Camus
Question Value: $7,000
Bank: $1,000



Question #4 - Level ?: Don't Mock Me
By definition, a "mocktail" is a cocktail that has no what?

A: Sugar B: Alcohol
C: Color D: Ice

got it

[Reveal] Spoiler: Answer/Value/Bank
B: Alcohol
Question Value: $500
Bank: $1,500



-- Commercial Break --


Question #5 - Level ?: Picture Perfect
Photographer Gordon Parks used the name of what classic painting for his 1942 photo of a standing woman holding a broom?

A: Christina's World B: Nighthawks
C: American Gothic D: Whistler's Mother


Didn’t know this one either; never heard of Parks taking such a picture. But Parks isn’t the clue here unless you know the picture; description of picture is clue. I’d have got it, by much the same reasoning as hss501 did.

[Reveal] Spoiler: Answer/Value/Bank
C: American Gothic
Question Value: $100
Bank: $1,600



Question #6 - Level ?: Punk Protest
On August 17, 2012, Merriam-Webster lookups of what word spiked following the imprisonment of three members of a Russian female punk band?

A: Hooliganism B: Ruffianism
C: Derelictism D: Rascalism


[Reveal] Spoiler: Answer/Value/Bank
A: Hooliganism
Question Value: $3,000
Bank: $4,600

got it

Question #7 - Level ?: Made By Hand
A popular website for purchasing handmade items, what company calls itself "The world's most vibrant handmade marketplace"?

A: Amazon B: eBay
C: Shopzilla D: Etsy

got it

[Reveal] Spoiler: Answer/Value/Bank
D: Etsy
Question Value: $2,000
Bank: $6,600



Question #8 - Level ?: Go Team
Burnie is the official mascot of what NBA team?

A: Chicago Bulls B: Los Angeles Lakers
C: Miami Heat D: Sacramento Kings


I was listening rather than watching at this point; said “a mascot is Bernie?”; rewound tape to read “Burnie”, then got it

[Reveal] Spoiler: Answer/Value/Bank
C: Miami Heat
Question Value: $10,000
Bank: $16,600



Question #9 - Level ?: Holy Spit Take
Though busy with a show that airs on weeknights, what funny man sets aside time on weekends to teach Sunday school?

A: Conan O'Brien B: Stephen Colbert
C: Jimmy Fallon D: Jay Leno


Didn’t know for sure, but have heard enough interviews with the raised-devoutly-religious-&-still-is Colbert to bet on him. Cross fingers, go for it

[Reveal] Spoiler: Answer/Value/Bank
B: Stephen Colbert
Question Value: $15,000
Bank: $31,600

[hss501]

I was kind of furious, beaming thoughts at the set & so-forth, because I really hate funk music (love r&b, hate funk) & watched one of those "history of rock" shows once where George Clinton, Funkadelic Master Whatever, describes how he had various musicians play a little out-of-tune with each other to "increase the irritation" quality of his music (I thought "yeah, that explains a lot"), but, of course, he didn't ask that of the person laying the backbone of the beat, Bootsy Collins. Bootsy is playing steadily & beaming a probably-drug-induced beam in all the footage of him I've ever seen. He's a great bass player. It's kind of funny that hss501 conjectured (left out of the write-up) that he's pretty sure he's seen Bootsy playing in back of (I forget name) who is, I think, a blues player, not a funk player.

And I know that the band in back of the Motown classics called themselves the Funk Brothers, or something. To me, though, they’re not funk, they’re Motown. Whereas that really irritating stuff that George Clinton promulgated is funk. Whatever.

It was Fatboy Slim, who is most associated with funk. I remembered Bootsy Collins's name attached to Weapon of Choice, but Fatboy Slim samples all types from all people, so while that made funk most likely it didn't exclude the possibility of country. Arrgh.

[hanzz]

I was listening rather than watching at this point; said “a mascot is Bernie?”; rewound tape to read “Burnie”, then got it.

This brings up an interesting point: did Eddie Timanus have the clues in Braille when he played Millionaire? I know on J! he had to go completely by ear, save for the categories, which were printed for him.

[earendel]

Scott Green (hss501)
Chicago, IL

Scott went to law school, graduated from it and found there were no jobs, so he turned his hobby into a profession by becoming a magician.

Scott: Yeah, in law school, I mastered the art of deception and as a magician, I put it to use for good!

Huzzah! Another BB to root for.

Question #3 - Level ?: Good Reads
Noting their purchase of "Exile and the Kingdom," a recent article ran with the headline "Malia and Sasha Obama Buy Young Adult Novels - and" what?

A: Kafka B: Sartre
C: Camus D: Beckett

Scott jumps the question.

Answer/Value/Bank

C: Camus
Question Value: $7,000
Bank: $1,000

I'd JTQ this one also.

Question #6 - Level ?: Punk Protest
On August 17, 2012, Merriam-Webster lookups of what word spiked following the imprisonment of three members of a Russian female punk band?

A: Hooliganism B: Ruffianism
C: Derelictism D: Rascalism

Answer/Value/Bank

A: Hooliganism
Question Value: $3,000
Bank: $4,600

I associate that word more with English soccer fans.

Question #7 - Level ?: Made By Hand
A popular website for purchasing handmade items, what company calls itself "The world's most vibrant handmade marketplace"?

A: Amazon B: eBay
C: Shopzilla D: Etsy

Answer/Value/Bank

D: Etsy
Question Value: $2,000
Bank: $6,600

elwing has tried selling some of her sweaters on etsy. Not much success, though.

Question #9 - Level ?: Holy Spit Take
Though busy with a show that airs on weeknights, what funny man sets aside time on weekends to teach Sunday school?

A: Conan O'Brien B: Stephen Colbert
C: Jimmy Fallon D: Jay Leno

Answer/Value/Bank

B: Stephen Colbert
Question Value: $15,000
Bank: $31,600

That would have been my guess, knowing what I do about the four of them.

[hss501]

Okay, two things I've been wondering about since September, one of which I could have just looked up and the other of which probably can't be known.

1. Has anyone ever had the top three dollar amounts at the top of their stack, in order? I've seen the top three amounts in the top three questions before, but never 10, 15 and 25 in that order like I had. Am I the only one so far? The odds of that happening are 1 in 720, so it's possible.

2. Anyone want to take a stab at what my unrandomized stack might have looked like? My questions were:
1. Bootsy Collins = Funk University
2. Cherubism = puffy cheeks
3. Exile and the Kingdom = Camus
4. Mocktail = no alcohol
5. Photo = American Gothic
6. Pussy Riot = Hooliganism
7. Handmade = Etsy
8. Burnie = Miami Heat
9. Sunday school = Colbert
10. Southern = Australia

My best guess to the unrandomized stack is:
Level 10 - 9. Sunday school = Colbert
Level 9 - 3. Exile and the Kingdom = Camus
Level 8 - 6. Pussy Riot = Hooliganism
Level 7 - 1. Bootsy Collins = Funk University
Level 6 - 7. Handmade = Etsy
Level 5 - 10. Southern = Australia
Level 4 - 5. Photo = American Gothic
Level 3 - 8. Burnie = Miami Heat
Level 2 - 2. Cherubism = puffy cheeks
Level 1 - 4. Mocktail = no alcohol

Thoughts?

[jarnon]

Anyone want to take a stab at what my unrandomized stack might have looked like? My questions were:
1. Bootsy Collins = Funk University
2. Cherubism = puffy cheeks
3. Exile and the Kingdom = Camus
4. Mocktail = no alcohol
5. Photo = American Gothic
6. Pussy Riot = Hooliganism
7. Handmade = Etsy
8. Burnie = Miami Heat
9. Sunday school = Colbert
10. Southern = Australia

My best guess to the unrandomized stack is:
Level 10 - 9. Sunday school = Colbert
Level 9 - 3. Exile and the Kingdom = Camus
Level 8 - 6. Pussy Riot = Hooliganism
Level 7 - 1. Bootsy Collins = Funk University
Level 6 - 7. Handmade = Etsy
Level 5 - 10. Southern = Australia
Level 4 - 5. Photo = American Gothic
Level 3 - 8. Burnie = Miami Heat
Level 2 - 2. Cherubism = puffy cheeks
Level 1 - 4. Mocktail = no alcohol

Thoughts?

Pussy Riot has been in the news a lot. However, Etsy is probably a harder question. I've heard of it, but many people haven't.