In alt.home.repair, on Tue, 25 May 2021 17:51:22 -0400,
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On Tue, 25 May 2021 12:14:31 -0400, micky
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In alt.home.repair, on Tue, 25 May 2021 18:10:04 +1000, "Rod Speed"
wrote:

Bod wrote

Americans testing their knowledge | Funny and ignorant Americans

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PO9Bw-o8iF4

It would be interesting to see the result you get on Glasgow.

Or London. But Bod would never post that. Not on his agenda.


Corse it would need subtitles.

The 80 and 40 miles and hour question results were interesting tho.

This is pretty common everywhere, Steve Allen was doing it in the 50s
but they don't show the people who can answer the questions correctly
very often. That is not going to be "must see TV".
If you want to see that watch Jeopardy.

I used to watch Jeopardy regularly. I could often get 20 right out of
30. I went to Atlantic City two years to try out for it, and the second
year I was asked back. For the return, I got there the night before and
stayed ina motel a block away so I could get a good night's sleep. (In
high school the night before the SATs etc. I would go to bed at 8PM and
I think it helped my score.)

I guess I did pretty well because they had me for the interview and I
played the game iirc but only one question's worth. I wasn't
interesting enough at the interview. Often I'm 80% of a live wire, but
I was boring. I think that hurt, but other contestants told me you
have to, when playing at home, consistently get 25 out of 30 to win on
the show. It's not a rule, it just works out that way.

It's sort of like vaccination. 20 out of 30 sounds almost as good as 25
out of 30, but looking at it the other way, 10 errors is twice as many
as 5 errors.

There was usually a category of popular culture, rock music, movies,
sports, that I know almost nothing about. So I'd get 5 wrong there and
then 5 others spread out on the remaining questions.

But it was fun to try out. The bus from Baltimore is iirc about $17
round trip, but one or another casino subsidizes it by giving you a
coupon good for chips when you get there. The amount varies with the
season, and when they need customers it's more, maybe $10. You can
redeem the coupon for chips and then you can redeem the chips for money,
so you don't actually have to "gamble" at all. I would spend 25c on a
slot machine, but no more than that, because I don't want to cooperate
with gambling casinos. (And this was BT, before trump.)

One time the bus had a movie on it! A good movie. And another time,
they had a girl selling something like candy and soda. All this for a
2-hour trip! Now 10 or 20 years later the price is 27, 32, or 35
dollars. Some maybe more, and a quick search doesn't show anything about
casino rebates. Maybe because of the virus.