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Cheryl McLeod
Staten Island, NY
Small business owner

Cheryl does rooster impersonations.

Meredith explains that the PAF lifeline is now gone. The ATE will be available from the first question.
She says that it was unfair that some people would have a PAF with a computer and others wouldn’t.

Topic Tree:

Paperwork
Illinois
Astronomy
Famous Firsts
Women authors
Government
Organized Labor
The Middle East
Cells
State Songs
CELEBRITY Q
Movie Stars
Mottos
Dining Out
At the Movies

Today’s ATE is co-anchor of CNN’s “American Morning,” Kiran Chetry.

$500 Which of these creatures appears in the 2009 movie “Under the Sea 3D”?
A. Panda
B. Shark
C. Hummingbird
D. Nicole Squidman

Spoiler

B. Shark ( 8 )

$1K By definition, a chophouse is a restaurant that specializes in serving what?
A. Pizza
B. Dumplings
C. Meat
D. Soup

Spoiler

C. Meat (10)

$2K “Take a bite out of crime” is the motto of public service announcements starring what trench coat-wearing “Crime Dog”?
A. Barkington
B. Fletcher
C. Scraply
D. McGruff

Spoiler

D. McGruff (6)

$3K What movie star was nicknamed “the Duke,” and even appeared in one film credited as “Duke Morrison”?
A. Humphrey Bogart
B. John Wayne
C. Gregory Peck
D. Jimmy Stewart

Spoiler

B. John Wayne (7)

CELEBRITY Q

Today’s celebrity is Cookie Monster.

$5K A popular snack at North Carolina’s annual BugFest, “Chocolate-Chirp Cookies” are baked with what insect ingredient?
A. Crickets
B. Butterflies
C. Ants
D. Bees

Spoiler

A. Crickets (6)

$7.5K Old West explorer Kit Carson is referenced in the official song of what U.S. state?
A. Nevada
B. North Dakota
C. Arizona
D. Utah

ATA (25)

63% A. Nevada
13% B. North Dakota
15% C. Arizona
9% D. Utah

Spoiler

A. Nevada (19)

commercial break

$10K What component of a human cell is named after the Italian Nobel Prize winner who discovered it?
A. Lysosome
B. Endoplasmic reticulum
C. Golgi apparatus
D. Mitochondrion

ATE ( 18 )

Kiran asks Cheryl if she had any ideas or if she could eliminate any.

Cheryl says she was leaning towards “C” for no good reason.

Kiran says she was also, because the others sound to scientific to be named after and Italian Nobel Prize winner.

DD (16)

Cheryl’s first choice is correct.

Spoiler

C. Golgi apparatus (16)

$12.5K The West Bank is so-named because it lies to the west of what Middle Eastern river?
A. Tigris
B. Jordan
C. Nile
D. Euphrates

Cheryl says she has no idea and decides to leave with $15K.

Spoiler

B. Jordan (16)

commercial break

Answers:
$500 B. Shark
$1K C. Meat
$2K D. McGruff
$3K B. John Wayne
$5K A. Crickets
$7.5K A. Nevada
$10K C. Golgi apparatus
$12.5K B. Jordan

To correct dollar amounts

Gee, this first post-PaF era stack was pretty easy for me. No problems.

I guess she didn't know that the capital of Nevada is CARSON CITY.

I'm really curious what that Illinois question is for $500K.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote: Cheryl McLeod
Staten Island, NY

WE®

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Cheryl does rooster impersonations.

If that was the hook that got her on the show, I'm gonna grumble.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Meredith explains that the PAF lifeline is now gone. The ATE will be available from the first question.
She says that it was unfair that some people would have a PAF with a computer and others wouldn’t.

Well, I think it's unfair that "some people" are still being rejected by the APs, so stick it up your nose, Meredith.

Nihil obstat®

BBTranscriptTeam wrote: Cheryl McLeod
Staten Island, NY
Small business owner

Cheryl does rooster impersonations.

Meredith explains that the PAF lifeline is now gone. The ATE will be available from the first question.
She says that it was unfair that some people would have a PAF with a computer and others wouldn’t.

Yeah, gotta keep the game "pure". Pfaugh!

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:CELEBRITY Q

Today’s celebrity is Cookie Monster.

$5K A popular snack at North Carolina’s annual BugFest, “Chocolate-Chirp Cookies” are baked with what insect ingredient?
A. Crickets
B. Butterflies
C. Ants
D. Bees

Spoiler

A. Crickets (6)

OK, I have to confess I thought this was cute, especially Cookie Monster's asides.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:$15K What component of a human cell is named after the Italian Nobel Prize winner who discovered it?
A. Lysosome
B. Endoplasmic reticulum
C. Golgi apparatus
D. Mitochondrion

ATE ( 18 )

Kiran asks Cheryl if she had any ideas or if she could eliminate any.

Cheryl says she was leaning towards “C” for no good reason.

Kiran says she was also, because the others sound to scientific to be named after and Italian Nobel Prize winner.

DD (16)

Cheryl’s first choice is correct.

Spoiler

C. Golgi apparatus (16)

A shame that she had to burn the lifelines here. As Kiran noted, only one of them sounds remotely Italian.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:$25K The West Bank is so-named because it lies to the west of what Middle Eastern river?
A. Tigris
B. Jordan
C. Nile
D. Euphrates

Cheryl says she has no idea and decides to leave with $15K.

Spoiler

B. Jordan (16)

I'll bet she wouldn't have needed a Google PAF to answer this one. One thing I think will result from the axing of the PAF - a greater "hot seat churn" since people have only three lifelines rather than four.

earendel wrote:

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:CELEBRITY Q

Today’s celebrity is Cookie Monster.

$5K A popular snack at North Carolina’s annual BugFest, “Chocolate-Chirp Cookies” are baked with what insect ingredient?
A. Crickets
B. Butterflies
C. Ants
D. Bees

Spoiler

A. Crickets (6)

OK, I have to confess I thought this was cute, especially Cookie Monster's asides.

Cute, maybe, but did you notice that they moved the Celebrity Q down from the second tier to the first tier in this stack? Fifteen seconds on TDC, including the time it takes to read the answers, and Cookie Monster had to read them with his long, drawn-out accent!

earendel wrote:

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:$25K The West Bank is so-named because it lies to the west of what Middle Eastern river?
A. Tigris
B. Jordan
C. Nile
D. Euphrates

Cheryl says she has no idea and decides to leave with $15K.

Spoiler

B. Jordan (16)

I'll bet she wouldn't have needed a Google PAF to answer this one. One thing I think will result from the axing of the PAF - a greater "hot seat churn" since people have only three lifelines rather than four.

Now that TPTB have killed the PAF, we'll have to see if the change in policy got communicated down to the question writers. They ought to eliminate those WWOQs that could only be answered with a Google PAF. If the WWOQs are still there, the odds of penetrating the upper tier be much worse.

As for this question, I wonder if Cheryl was familiar with any of those rivers? Or did she have any idea where the West Bank was?

Here's a short article about Cheryl's appearance. Nothing here we don't already know from the transcript.

http://www.silive.com/entertainment/tvf ... st_12.html

Um ... on my computer, no questions for $10K or $12.5K appeared for Cheryl. Did this happen for anyone else?

rgcviper wrote:Um ... on my computer, no questions for $10K or $12.5K appeared for Cheryl. Did this happen for anyone else?

The transcriptionist must have fallen asleep during the commercial.

rgcviper wrote:Um ... on my computer, no questions for $10K or $12.5K appeared for Cheryl. Did this happen for anyone else?

Nice catch. The numbers were accidentally jumped up. Cheryl only walked with $10,000.

rgcviper wrote:Um ... on my computer, no questions for $10K or $12.5K appeared for Cheryl. Did this happen for anyone else?

She left with 10K, so she walked on the 12.5K question not the $25K question. The questions are there, the dollar
amount needs to be changed.


kay

Thanks for the help on the values of the questions, everyone. I did not see the show, so I was wondering about the amounts.