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Guest Host: Regis Philbin

Tricia Pimental
Ocala, FL

Tricia has lived practically everywhere. She was born in Brooklyn. Over the years, she worked at the Playboy Club in Los Angeles, which she calls the best job she ever had. She got to do all kinds of things, including being a Backgammon Bunny. Then she was on the set of The Odd Couple when Tony Randall came up to her and said "You have a college degree. You ought to do something with your brains." Not long after that, she became a legal secretary. Now, she's married, in Ocala, with three children and two grandchildren.

Question Topics:
* World Records
* Masterpieces
* Presidential History
* Gunpowder
* Justice
* Exotic fruit
* Toys & Games
* Health Insurance
* CELEBRITY Q
* At the Zoo
* 2009 Movies
* Mexican Spirits
* Crossword Puzzles
* Talk Shows
* Pass the Remote


$500 * Pass the Remote
On a TV remote control, the button "VOL" stands for what?

A: Volcano B: Volume
C: Volunteer D: Women's Volleyball 24/7



$1,000 * Talk Shows
On "The View," co-host Joy Behar often talks about her pet Benito Pussolini, who is what kind of animal?

A: Dog B: Cat
C: Bird D: Fish



$2,000 * Crossword Puzzles
In 2009, what was the answer to the New York Times crossword puzzle clue "Greeting you shouldn't say at an airport"?

A: HI PAUL B: HI RALPH
C: HI JACK D: HI BRIAN



$3,000 * Mexican Spirits
In the eighteenth century, Jose Antonio de Cuervo founded a distillery in Mexico that produced what spirit?

A: Tequilla B: Gin
C: Vodka D: Whiskey



$5,000 * 2009 Movies
The 2009 Matthew McConaughey movie "Ghosts of Girlfriends Past" is loosely based on what classic Charles Dickens story?

A: Great Expectations B: A Tale of Two Cities
C: Oliver Twist D: A Christmas Carol



$7,500 * At the Zoo
At the Denver Zoo, which of these animals is housed in the Pachyderm Building?

A: Orangutans B: Penguins
C: Rhinoceroses D: Bats



-- Commercial Break --



$10,000 * CELEBRITY Q
Larry King reads this question on prerecorded videotape.

Michael Jackson's unusual will stated that custody of his three children should go to his mother, or if she were unavailable, to what celebrity?

A: Elton John B: Brooke Shields
C: Macaulay Culkin D: Diana Ross

Tricia thinks she knows this, but with 16 seconds left, she decides to Ask The Audience.

ATA: A: 2% B: 5% C: 4% D: 89%


$12,500 * Health Insurance
Expensive health insurance plans offering great benefits have recently been given what nickname by the media?

A: Armani plans B: Tiffany plans
C: Rolex plans D: Cadillac plans

With 11 seconds left, Tricia decides to Ask The Expert. Today's expert is Michale Gelman.

Gelman: I'll start off by saying I don't recognize any of these, right up front. Let me think about each one. The Armani plans, I don't think that's it; I've never heard that expression.

Tricia: Me, neither.

Gelman: Rolex plans, I haven't heard that. Tiffany and Cadillac sound the most realistic to me. I'm just trying to think about those. I am not sure, but if I were a guessing man, I would say between Tiffany and Cadillac. I'm going back and forth.



-- The Horn --

Tricia will return on tomorrow's show.

Not only a hook about being a Bunny, but a celebrity anecdote to explain how she stopped being one!

Thank you transcribers. The local storm knocked my power out for minute, & I thought I had everything fixed in the 2 seconds before I had to take off for work, but obvously I did not.

A grandma former Bunny, huh? Kinda glad I don't have the visuals on this one.

Oops I will get the visuals if the setup works today, because she carries over.

so far so good

There's a photo in the article I linked to yesterday. It's still easy to picture her as a Bunny.

http://www.ocala.com/article/20091202/A ... re-TV-show

She's a former Where Else®, and being a former Playboy Bunny could qualify her for "former What Else®" status, as well.


Minor shout-out to Marley.

Nihil obstat® so far.

Definitely. Besides mentioning that anecdote about meeting Tony Randall on the set of The Odd Couple, I found that she has her own web site, where she says:



http://www.triciapimental.com/bio.htm

Isn't there a scene from "Airplane" illustrating this?

Nihil obstat®.

Who's on the hook for this transcript? (Friday 12/4)

I dunno but I can't wait for the transcripts - we lost power for about 90 minutes right before the show started.

Friday should have been Jeemie's turn.

Is he out of town or something?

I found Friday's show interesting because of a pretty good "teeter on the edge" moment for this contestant. () It almost felt like the audience influenced her redemption, but I listened closely and heard no signs of that. I think something just clicked and she managed to snatch victory from defeat at the very last moment.

If necessary, I will transcribe... Jeemie?