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Roger Storm
Fairview Park, OH
They mention he is a father of eight and has lived a hardworking, frugal life to bring the kids up. He has been married 36 years.
said to Meredith "You'll meet a lot of wealthier people but you'll never meet anyone richer"

No lifelines remain
Time banked so far: 3:37


Topic Tree:

All in the Family
Air Supply
(Outrageous Claims)
(Headline News)
(Fuzzy Math)
(I Fold)
(Strait Ahead)
(Big Business)
(Mickey D’s)
(Things We Say)
(Rock-Hard Abs)
(Happy Holidays)
(Boom!)
(Feed Bag)
(Little House)


$500,000 (Air Supply):
In 1902, Willis Carrier became the father of modern air conditioning when he developed a humidity controller for use where?
A. Bakery B. Cigarette factory
C. Burlesque theater D. Printing shop

Roger did not know for sure and decided to walk with $250K.

Just in the past few weeks I watched a wonderful PBS NOVA documentary about the history of refrigeration and they spent some time talking about Carrier and this first effort. I believe its title was "The Conquest of Cold."

I had it between B and D, but I certainly wouldn't have guessed at that level!

Even though I stated yesterday morning that I would've made a logical guess on cigarette factory, there is no way that I would've played this question--even if I had my Double Dip. My second guess would've been printing shop, but this was just too much of a risk.

A very nice sentiment.

My first thought was "bakery" because of the problems with frosting not drying properly and cracking. However I wouldn't have been sure enough of my answer to go without using a lifeline. Unfortunately I've already used PAF, and the other lifelines don't look promising, so it's time to walk away. Had I been forced to use the DD, I'd have chosen A and B.

500K: No idea, so I'll phone someone. If the phone-friend doesn't know, I'll happily walk away with $250,000.

This was one of those great if you know it questions on technology like the first scanned item in a grocery store Much more to my liking than what do the English call Jumpers.

But I knew the answer to that one!

Here's an article about Roger's carryover appearance.

http://www.cleveland.com/news/plaindeal ... xml&coll=2



TPTB don't take out for taxes, do they?

Nope. Unless they do something at the higher levels? I thought if you won $250k, you got it in one check, and no taxes taken out. It's only at $500k that the multi-year payment schedule kicks in. If it's the same as last season, that is. Taxes were not taken out for me, and I have not yet done my 2008 taxes.

tmitsss says:



Dave Weber of the British folk duo Dave Weber & Ani Fentiman does a "routine", in his chats with the audience between songs, of British names for clothing that are different from American names for the same things.

Also, there is a song, Patrick Street, of which there are many versions (all named after different streets in different towns) in which a prostitute gets a sailor drunk, takes him upstairs, he passes out & wakes the next day to find his wallet & clothes gone & "a woman's shift & jumper" as the only clothes available to him.

So I'd have known what a jumper was from the songs, even without Dave Weber's routine.

But from the routine, British pants are American underpants (British trousers are American pants, also trousers), British vests are American undershirts, etc. Punchline of the routine is that if he showed up at a British friend's house dressed in pants, vest, & some other item of clothing I've forgotten, they would not be happy.

Actually, here's a good website I just found.

http://www.englishclub.com/vocabulary/b ... erican.htm

Of course, to British knocking someone up is just rapping with your knuckles on their door. British people are forever knocking up their mothers......

The $100K question they spoiled was easy, but the rest of the stack was not.