"Let's Ask America" airs 2:30 p.m. weekdays on KJRH, Channel 2. One of their meteorologists, George Flickinger, participated in Thursday's broadcast with three other meteorologists.
On Thursday's broadcast of gameshow "Let's Ask America," Tulsa meteorologist George Flickinger of KJRH, Channel 2, earned $1,000 for the Humane Society of Tulsa.
Flickenger, along with two other meteorologists, earned $1,000 for their charities, but the big prize, $47,000, went to the Phoenix (Ariz.) Children's Hospital, thanks to Phoenix's ABC15 chief meteorologist Amber Sullins.
How did the meteorologists earn money for charity? Here are the questions (choose America's most popular answer), followed by the answers:
1. Hurricanes or politicians: Which did people in Florida say is more likely to make a mess of their state?
2. Boyfriend or dog: Who did female dog owners say they keep on a shorter leash?
3. Black or white: Which automobile color did car enthusiasts say is the hardest to keep clean?
4. Watered down mai tais, canceled hula lessons or sand in shorts: What did travel buffs say is more likely to cause a tropical depression?
5. Price, convenience or toy: What did parents say is the best part about a fast food kids meal?
6. Snow, fog or freezing rain: What did commuters say is the most difficult type of weather to drive in?
7. Seattle, Boston, Chicago or Houston: Residents of San Diego said which of these cities has the worst weather?
8. The Great Gatsby, To Kill A Mockingbird, Huckleberry Finn or The Catcher In the Rye: Which literary classic did high school students say they'd most like to see banned?
9. And now, the $47,000 question: Unbiased reporters, attractive anchors, sense of humor or facts: What did TV viewers say television news programs could use more of?
BONUS: On Tuesday's Final Jeopardy round, Tulsa's own Joshua Brakhage had to answer the following question to win the game (for the fifth time!):
"In the 1940s an anemometer aided Antarctic experiments that first determined this measurement heard in weather reports."ANSWERS:
1. 74 percent said politicians
2. 58 percent said dog
3. 51 percent said white
4. 58 percent said watered down mai tais
5. 40 percent said convenience
6. 55 percent said freezing rain
7. 38 percent said Chicago
8. 29 percent said Huckleberry Finn
9. 44 percent said unbiased reporters
BONUS: Brakhage was the only one to answer correctly, "What is wind chill?" and won $33,594.
Please join us again this weekend for a Super Bowl forecast, and on Monday as Jerry takes on his annual weather nemesis, Groundhog's Day!
--Althea Peterson
