Word Jocks, Lettered in Language - 17 Aug. 2008
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đď¸ 17 August 2008
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| 0:23.8 | Engineered to do it all. That's Martha Barnett. And I'm Grand Barrett. |
| 0:39.6 | And Martha, I see that you've been wasting a lot of time with the free rice game again. |
| 0:44.0 | I have indeed we receive several emails about this site. It's called free rice |
| 0:48.3 | dot com and that's freeze and gratis and rice as in grain it was started by a guy named John Green and he lives in Bloomington, Indiana and he's a computer programmer who works with an anti-poverty organization. |
| 1:00.0 | And John noticed that his 15 year old son was bored studying for his SATs, so he combined |
| 1:06.0 | both of those things into an online vocabulary quiz that's underwritten by major advertisers. |
| 1:11.7 | And so for every answer you get right those companies |
| 1:14.6 | pay for one grain of rice to be donated to a United Nations food program and |
| 1:19.0 | I have to say that the quiz is pretty darned addictive so grant I thought that while we're on the air you and I could have a little rice off between the two of us. |
| 1:27.0 | Ah ha! How about that? Let's do it. Okay, I'll pick a word I saw on the site and asked you for the definition. |
| 1:33.2 | How about Ram Pike, R-A-M-P-I-K-E, does that mean A, Standing Dead Tree, B, Quicksilver, C- Eyglass, or D Custodian, Ram Pike. |
| 1:47.0 | The, the tree? |
| 1:48.0 | How did you know? |
| 1:50.0 | I have no idea, Pike is the clue, I guess. |
| 1:52.0 | Mm, Very good. |
| 1:53.0 | Because a Pike is a pole, right? |
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