WWTBAM Bored

Bridget Delauro
Brooklyn, NY
Dog nanny

Meredith wipes a smudge of her lipstick off Bridget's face even though Bridget says, "I don't mind." Bridget is also a graduate student in animal behavior. She spends more time with dogs than with humans and says she even prefers them. She hastens to say that she means no insult to Meredith.

Topic Tree:
- Animal Lovers
- Prize Money
- Fear Itself
- Paddington Bear
- The White House
- Cave Paintings
- Take Your Vitamins
- What's the Address?
- Sushi Rolls
- Ellen DeGeneres
- Classic Toys
- Back to Reality
- Meow
- Odorama
- It's a Big Job

$100 - During the 2008 presidential race, pundits regularly pointed out that the U.S. vice president is "a heartbeat away" from what job?
A - Secretary of State
B - President
C - Supreme Court justice
D - Assistant manager at Denny's

$200 - Able to recognize up to 3,000 different scents, a "perfumer" is also known as a what?
A - nose
B - ear
C - eye
D - mouth

$300 - On its Web site, what grocery store brand encourages visitors to "discover your cat's world"?
A - Clorox
B - Friskies
C - Sara Lee
D - Folgers

$500 - As its title implies, the cable reality series "Must Love Kids" focuses on the dating experiences of women who are all what?
A - college students
B - recent immigrants
C - professional athletes
D - single mothers

$1000 - What classic toy was reportedly used by soldiers in Vietnam as a makeshift radio antenna?
A - Play-Doh
B - yo-yo
C - Slinky
D - Hula Hoop

commercial break

Bridget has two dogs of her own, Kelsey and Riley, rat terriers (we get to see a photo of them). Meredith says if Bridget wins the million, that's a lot of Dog Chow.

$2000 - For several seasons, Ellen DeGeneres has kicked off episodes of her daytime talk show by doing what?
A - playing Frisbee
B - lifting weights
C - jumping rope
D - dancing

$4000 - Sushi-rolling mats are commonly made from which of these materials?
A - tinfoil
B - leather
C - bamboo
D - cheesecloth

Bridget says she thinks she knows it but she's nervous. Then she asks Meredith, "Do I know it?", to which Meredith replies, "I don't know. But you have to do what you believe; it's your money." Bridget goes for it rather than burning a lifeline.

$8000 - Used to refer to a computer's unique location in cyberspace, "IP address" is short for "Internet" what?
A - protocol address
B - port address
C - platform address
D - password address

Again Bridget says she thinks she knows it but this time she opts to ask the audience, stopping the clock with 19 seconds left.

Bridget says that she's going to trust the audience because they look very smart.

commercial break

$16000 - Thiamine, riboflavin and niacin are three vitamins in a group commonly known as what?
A - vitamin-A complex
B - vitamin-B comples
C - vitamin-D complex
D - vitamin-K complex

Bridget says it's really easy to second-guess oneself here but she isn't going to do that.

$25000 - Some of the world's oldest paintings are France's Lascaux cave paintings, which primarily depict what?
A - rain clouds
B - animals
C - fire
D - trees and flowers

Bridget looks as if she's going to answer, but says, "I'm going to ask...I'm going to phone a friend," stopping the clock with 18 seconds remaining. On her PAF list are: Erin, from Brooklyn, NY; Rachael, from Orange, CT; and Dean, from Austin, TX. She opts to call Erin and "give her a heart attack."

Bridget goes with Erin's answer.

Meredith says, "It's as if all the animals that love you sort of got together for this stack."
$50000 - Screened for President Woodrow Wilson, what was the first feature film ever shown at the White House?
A - The Kid
B - The Three Muskateers
C - The Squaw Man
D - The Birth of a Nation

Bridget wastes no time in deciding to ask the expert, stopping the clock with 36 seconds remaining.

Bridget decides to gamble with the Double Dip.


$100000 - Before he was adopted by a British family, the kids' lit character Paddington Bear lived in Peru and had what name?
A - Pilar
B - Pascual
C - Paulo
D - Pastuso

She says that Pilar is a woman's name. After a few more seconds she decides she doesn't want to risk it and walks away.



THE HORN!!!!!

Something I learned watching the Discovery Channel's Life After People is that the Lascaux paintings that the tourists see today are not the original. They are seeing a replica in a nearby cave. The originals were being damaged by all the carbon dioxide produced by tourists.

Found it.

I missed that!



This contestant reminded me SO MUCH of a youngish teacher standing behind me in line at the Tampa auditions. I thought her perkitude and demeanor were so on target, so I was kind of sad for her that she didn't pass the test.


And if I recall, the teacher lady behind me had cats.


I love this question, for some reason.


IIRC, she even asked the audience (literally), "Do I know this?" to which the audience enthusiastically responded yes. Good for her for going with her gut, I can understand how being in that chair can suddenly make the doubt fairy pay you a visit.



Again, good for her.


I thought this question was slightly easy for $25,000, but Bridget had a good PAF. This could have gone horribly wrong with the word "Lascaux" and whatnot.
Oy, Carmen. I don't blame ya for not knowing a hardish question like this, but this is now the third time in 2 days that you narrow down the choices with a tinge of confidence in your voice, only to (almost) lead the contestants astray. It's ok if you don't know an answer, but no false hope, please!


Ooh, thought I knew this and I didn't, although I would have had to use my first lifeline (maaaaaybe ATA, but most likely PAF after that).

So I'm going for $250k with either 2 or 3 lifelines.

I'm sure Wilson enjoyed it immensely; he was a terrible racist.

I wouldn't want to be good at racism either.

There goes my ATA.

Anyone who's read the latest installment in Jean Auel's Earth's Children series (starring Ayla and FlintDude) knows this one. That's how I knew it, anyway. I might guess animals based on the petroglyphs found here in the SW, but I don't know . . .

I still have ATE, PAF, and DD. I'm gonna make sure and PAF.

I'll ATE, but without much hope. I'm not double dipping. The last three all sound too likely. OK, I'm out the door with $50,000. Good stack.

Anyone looking for episodes of Life After People should look on the History Channel, not Discovery. They just ran the season finale this week, but still have a few re-runs scheduled.

Yikes. My bad. Yes the series is on the History Channel when they're not running Ice Road Truckers or that logger one. Discovery has Cash Cab.

She's a WE®. Bridget is what I call "annoyingly cheerful". She's got a "rah, rah" attitude that is probably the reason why she got the call. Also it seems that as the show reaches the end of the season they are just calling locals to be on.

No idea. Time to use ATA.

And kudos for not using that lifeline.

Well, the kudos are taken back. Although, truth to tell, I don't think the audience's answer was what she was thinking because of the hesitation before her final answer.

At first I thought the PAF call was going to be a disaster - Bridget was talking fast and Erin couldn't catch what she was saying. Then she slowed down and gave Erin the chance to Google the answer (presumably, since she spelled "Lascaux" slowly and deliberately). Why Erin would have introduced a measure of doubt by her last comment baffles me.

Good for Bridget for going with her gut, but if that's what she thought, why did she use the lifeline? Oh, well.

I would have had no idea, so it would be time to break out the PAF lifeline.

And so the season ends, with somewhat of a bang rather than a whimper.

WE®


But I still don't know which numbers those three vitamins are.

$50K: No clue on this one. PAF.


I remember this name from my study of Paddington Bear a few months ago while writing clues for my first Tangredi game.

I'm going for $250,000 with three lifelines.

Whose lipstick was being removed? Did Meredith give her a peck on the cheek as they came out, or was Bridget a little shaky when applying her own?

Would have loved this stack. Depending on my confidence level at the $50K level, I might have had all my LLs for the $100K. NAC there, so try the ATA first if still available, and go to the Googling PAF if not (or if ATA is inconclusive). "paddington bear peruvian name" on Google gets it in the blurb for the second hit.

Properly speaking, the audience should have kept quiet there. Getting that response from the audience was something of a fifth lifeline for her. (Even though she hadn't said what she was thinking, she could take that response as a "Yes, the obvious answer is correct and they're not trying to trick you.")

Really? You never saw photos of the Lascaux cave paintings before reading The Shelters of Stone?

Back in the day when I was an extremely amateur philatelist one of my favorite sets of stamps were from France and the series depicted the Lascaux paintings.

Just to clarify, Meredith gave Bridget a little buss on the cheek and evidently left some of her lipstick behind, and then tried to remove it.

I've probably seen them a number of times, Marley. I've seen cave painting photos just as I've seen Southwest U.S. pictograph photos my whole life. It's that geography connection that trips me up. Until Shelters of Stone, I knew from nothing about Lascaux.

I don't think you needed any of the details about Lascaux to immediately associate cave paintings with animals. Those other choices seemed pretty lame--cave men drawing pictures of trees and flowers?

I can easily imagine that -- maize is highly prevalent in Hopi artistic depictions, as are rain and rain clouds.

The preponderance of the evidence is for animals, and I almost certainly would have gone that way even without Auel. But for certain? I don't know...

One significant difference in your example: the Hopi had progressed beyond being hunter/gatherers to being an agricultural society. Ayla and Jondalar (despite being great innovators who had personally domesticated dogs, cats and horses, and invented the atlatl and the flint & steel method of firemaking) hadn't.

That there was funny.

Where'd they get steel?