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For Whiz Kids week a 4th lifeline is available, the cut, to get rid of a question and replace it with another of the same value.
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MarkBarrett wrote: ↑Mon Apr 10, 2017 4:03 pm Next:Spoiler
$7,000 was the a typical math thing for this kind of week with 101 Dalmatians each having 101 puppies to get to 10,201. $10,000 wanted the office James Garfield was elected from as he is the only to become Prez from that position. The audience game 42% for the correct U.S. Representative with Senator, Governor and Vice President the other options. $20,000 was a Crayola color and shortest wavelength color that can be seen being violet.
HA! No, I didn't see the show (never do, actually, except what gets posted here). But I'll stick with my justification given the 'leg count' hint and asMarkBarrett wrote: ↑Wed Apr 12, 2017 3:46 pm Volante your comment is funnier than you realize especially if you did not see the show.
$5,000
In A Series of Unfortunate Events, what of these was fittingly book #12?
A: The Reptile Room
B: The Wide Window
C: The Penultimate Peril
D: The Ersatz Elevator
The $7000 question from the Tuesday show:Spoiler
C: of course
By head count & certainly by leg count, what dept. boasts the most specimens at NY’s American Museum of Natural History?
A: Icthyology
B: Mammalogy
C: Herpetology
D: Entomology
Brooke Elliott used her 50:50 and it left C & D.
It's just a slogan. There is no real definition for the buzzword. "Whiz kids" is also more concise than "Well-educated X-year olds with above average IQs".
Eh, as someone who knew a lot of these "young inventors" (participants and award winners in the Intel and Siemens high school science fairs) growing up, there is a ridiculous amount of nepotism among them. There are exceptions, obviously, but one can practically guess the parents' professions in most cases. Occasionally, it wasn't even well-hidden; a science project by a 15 year-old would be about an original new use for (costly) chemicals only found within a commercial lab.kprather895 wrote: ↑Sat Apr 15, 2017 3:08 pm The first couple go-arounds, they made a point to cast kids who were particularly outstanding. Inventors, teenage college students, etc. Looks like they've been loosening up on that lately, which is alright. Having kids that are more relatable to kids watching isn't a bad thing necessarily.
Pop culture would have destroyed me and everyone else on our (good) high school quiz bowl team back then.kprather895 wrote: It does seem to me that this week, they went to the pop culture well a lot more than they did in previous Whiz Kids Weeks, which could have contributed to the lower scores from the book-smart whiz kids.
There was another gift 50K Q on Tuesday and at least the player converted it to see the next Q.
I had thought it was Hawaiian. I had not heard of the French river.MarkBarrett wrote: ↑Sat Apr 22, 2017 10:05 amThere was another gift 50K Q on Tuesday and at least the player converted it to see the next Q.
Though it’s the name of a river in France, which of the following can be played in SCRABBLE because it’s also a kind of volcanic lava?
A: Aa
B: Ee
C: Oo
D: Uu
Yeah, definitely – the writers should know the trivia/Scrabble crossover is much higher than in the general population!MarkBarrett wrote: ↑Sat Apr 22, 2017 10:05 amThere was another gift 50K Q on Tuesday and at least the player converted it to see the next Q.
Though it’s the name of a river in France, which of the following can be played in SCRABBLE because it’s also a kind of volcanic lava?
A: Aa
B: Ee
C: Oo
D: Uu
Heck, if you're a Scrabble/Words With Friends player, you could know that "Aa" is a valid word even if you have no idea what it means.MarkBarrett wrote: ↑Sat Apr 22, 2017 10:05 am Though it’s the name of a river in France, which of the following can be played in SCRABBLE because it’s also a kind of volcanic lava?
A: Aa
B: Ee
C: Oo
D: Uu
nlw44 wrote: ↑Mon Apr 24, 2017 1:09 pm So I just watched today's (4/24/17) ep and feel the need to comment on one question in particular...Spoiler
I don't have the exact wording, but basically it was asking which of the given instruments would lend itself to improving the upper airway strength of a player. The choices were a) harpsichord, b) musical saw, c) didgeridoo, and d) timpani.
I listened to this one with the sound muted, so I don't know exactly what the contestant was thinking. But I do know that she used her 50/50 (leaving harpsichord and didgeridoo) then her "ask the audience" (15% harpsichord, 85% didgeridoo.) Two lifelines used in what should have been a dead easy question if she'd used just a little logic. Honestly, the only one that uses the airways in any way is, of course, the didgeridoo, so the whole thing just hit my "rant-o-meter" at a very high level.