100 QUESTIONS ANSWERED!!!!!!!

2009-08-30 · Q&A · John · 3:21 · watch on YouTube

Topic: Nerdfighteria · mode: Q&A & conversation · tags: community lore, recurring series, punishment or challenge

John answers 100 viewer questions in under four minutes, mixing quick preferences (The Mountain Goats, Joyce, Picard) and in-jokes with a few sincere answers (the meaning of life is other people; hope over despair).

What is said

The parts of the video and what is said in each (★ — how much it matters to the video).

00:00:00 — Question Tuesday record attempt: 100 viewer questions answered in four minutes (Willy, the puff, books, bands, Hank, favorites, in-your-pants); sign-off

• ★★★ John attempts to answer 100 viewer questions in four minutes, on a Sunday. — 00:00:00 · Question Tuesday
• ★ Asked whether he likes his John Green bobblehead, John answers without a word, just rattling it so its head nods. — 00:00:12 · John Green bobblehead
• ★★ Asked whether Paper Towns will be published in France, John answers in French that he thinks so. (hedged) — 00:00:22 · Paper Towns
• ★★ John names The Mountain Goats his favorite, second and fourth favorite band, with Hank third, and Hank's anglerfish song as his favorite Hank song. (playful) — 00:00:50 · Hank Green
• ★ John says his first job was at Steak 'n Shake. — 00:01:09
• ★★ Asked whether he will write a sequel to Looking for Alaska, John answers probably not. (hedged) — 00:01:15 · Looking for Alaska (novel)
• ★★ In quick literary picks John chooses Joyce over Yeats and Whitman over Faulkner, names Hamlet his favorite play, and says he liked The Hunger Games. — 00:01:20
• ★★★ Asked the meaning of life, John answers other people; his favorite word is 'together', he chooses hope over despair, and says he is almost happy. — 00:01:27
• ★ John names James Buchanan the worst president. — 00:02:06
• ★ John picks Picard over Kirk, Mario over Link, Canon over Nikon, Final Cut as best editing software, Amsterdam as favorite city and Fantasia as favorite Disney movie. — 00:02:55 · Amsterdam

Humor (dominant)

• Asked the running question 'Who the eff is Hank?' — 00:00:32

  “He's a massive, incandescent gas.”

• Asked if he is worried about balding. — 00:01:32

  “Jeez, I wasn't until you mentioned it. But now I am.”

• A chain of who/what/where questions answered 'Monkeys', until 'Where?' — 00:01:44

  “In your pants!”

• Asked his favorite Beatle, John answers 'John'; asked his favorite color, he completes his own name. — 00:02:36

  “Green.”

Threads in this video

• kept · John: break the Question Tuesday record by answering 100 questions in four minutes (2009) — The description says John answers 100 questions in less than four minutes, completing his Question Tuesday record attempt. (video description)
• callback · John's 'the puff' stress habit (2007) — Viewers ask how many puffs a puff would puff and how long John has had the puff. (00:00:03)
• callback · 'In your pants' suffix game (2007) — John names 'Little Pea in your pants' his favorite picture book and later answers 'Where?' with 'In your pants!' (00:00:10)
• variation · 'Who the F is Hank?': John's joke answers (2008) — Asked 'Who the eff is Hank?', John gives a new joke answer: a massive, incandescent gas. (00:00:32)
• callback · John's 'Nerd Fighters' arcade game at the Savannah airport (2007) — Asked his favorite arcade game, John answers 'Nerdfighters', recalling the 'Nerd Fighters' arcade game. (00:01:58)
• result reported · John asks Nerdfighters for many succinct questions for his 100-questions-in-four-minutes Question Tuesday (2009) — The questions John answers are the succinct questions Nerdfighters left for the record attempt. (00:02:26)
• mentioned · John's Steak 'n Shake graveyard shift versus his lower-paid Booklist job after college (2008) — John says his first job was at Steak 'n Shake. (00:01:09)
• milestone · Question Tuesday: weekly Tuesday question days for nerdfighters (2007) — John attempts to answer 100 viewer questions in four minutes, on a Sunday. (00:00:00)
• milestone · John Green bobblehead: John's birthday present, sold to Nerdfighters (2009) — Asked whether he likes his John Green bobblehead, John answers without a word, just rattling it so its head nods. (00:00:12)

Where the stories that moved here went next

• John asks Nerdfighters for many succinct questions for his 100-questions-in-four-minutes Question Tuesday (2009) — reported back; last: result reported, 2009-08-30
• John: break the Question Tuesday record by answering 100 questions in four minutes (2009) — kept
• John Green bobblehead: John's birthday present, sold to Nerdfighters (2009) — completed; last: looked back, 2016-08-26
• Question Tuesday: weekly Tuesday question days for nerdfighters (2007) — last documented in 2020; last: restarted, 2020-07-21

Mentioned

Central: Question Tuesday

Also: People: James Buchanan · James Joyce · Sarah Urist Green · W. B. Yeats · Walt Whitman · William Faulkner

Projects: Nerdfighter Fitness Challenge

Works: A Song About an Anglerfish · Aero Fighters · Hamlet (play) · John Green bobblehead · Little Pea (“Little Pea in your pants”) · Looking for Alaska (novel) · Paper Towns · Star Wars · The Hunger Games (book series)

Organizations: Chicago Cubs · Kenyon College · Steak 'n Shake

Groups: The Beatles (“Favorite Beatle?”) · The Mountain Goats

Terms: in your pants · the Puff

Places: Amsterdam · France

Characters: Alaska Young · James T. Kirk · Jean-Luc Picard · Lindsey Lee Wells · Margo Roth Spiegelman

Products: Final Cut Express

animal: Willy

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