Transcript 09/25/09 Alex Ortiz

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Alex Ortiz
Stamford, CT
Aspiring Veterinarian

Alex is an aspiring vet from Stamford, CT. Alex just celebrated her birthday with her lifeline friends. They brought her trivia cards, and they also played the online game. Alex didn’t do so well. Meredith says she has a belated present of $1 million for her. All she has to do is answer 15 questions to get it.

Topics:

Pennsylvania Avenue
Maryland
Painters
Mythology
Birds
British Monarchs
Sports
Technology Terms
Same Name
Headlines
Advertising Icons
Word Origins
In The News
Words & Phrases
Weather

$500 (Weather)- An electrical storm is a natural event that commonly showcases an eye-popping display of what?

A- Volcanic lava B- Lightning bolts
C- Morning dew D- Brad Pitt’s pecs

Spoiler

B- Lightning bolts (5)

$1000 (Words & Phrases)- In a popular phrase, a plan that makes useless changes is said to be like “rearranging the deckchairs on the” what?

A- Goodyear Blimp B- Concorde
C- Titanic D- Orient Express

Spoiler

C-Titanic (1)

$2000 (In The News)- Fish and chips were on the menu for the Obama girls during a surprise visit to what European city?

A- Madrid B- London
C- Rome D- Berlin

Spoiler

B- London (5)

$3000 (Word Origins)- The word “alligator” is derived from the Spanish term “el lagarto”, meaning what?

A- The lizard B- The fish
C- The frog D- The crab

Spoiler

A- The lizard (2)

$5000 (Advertising Icons)- In the 1980s, what food franchise ran a series of ads starring a red-suited Claymation villain known as “the Noid”?

A- Red Lobster B- Dairy Queen
C- Wendy’s D- Domino’s Pizza

Spoiler

D- Domino’s Pizza (5)

$7500 (Headlines)- On July 1, 2009, the Duluth News tribune ran what two-word headline about Minnesota’s new U.S. Senator?

A- Sorry: Sanford B- Finally: Franken
C- Uh-oh: Udall D- Sneaky; Specter

At 19 seconds, Alex uses her ATA lifeline

ATA Results: A- 7%, B- 82%, C- 6%, D- 5%

Spoiler

B- Finally: Franken (17)

$10,000 (Same Name)- Which of these cities in Michigan shares its name with a cryptocrystalline variety of the mineral quartz?

A- Flint B- Saginaw
C- Lansing D- Kalamazoo

Spoiler

A- Flint (13)

Commercial Break


$12,500 (Technology Terms)- In the wireless phone abbreviation “3G”, the “G” stands for what?

A- Global B- Generation
C- Gateway D- Guidance

At 24 seconds, Alex uses her ATE lifeline. The expert is still Ashleigh Banfield (who has been great).

Ashleigh’s guess is

Spoiler

“Generation”

. She’s somewhat confident (saying her husband explained this to her, but it “went in one ear and out the other”)

Spoiler

B- Generation (18)

$15,000 (Sports)- Because traditional matches can take as long as five days, what sport also has a sped-up version called “Twenty20”?

A- Polo B- Rugby
C- Squash D- Cricket

At 25 seconds, Alex decides to use her PAF lifeline. Her PAF team is Jeff (Stamford, CT), Tricia (Scarsdale, NY), and Jeff F. (Stamford, CT). Alex chooses Jeff F. Jeff F. chooses

Spoiler

cricket- 90% sure, he says as time expires

Spoiler

D- Cricket(18)

$25,000 (British Monarchs)- In the name of Henry VIII’s first wife, Catherine of Aragon, Aragon refers to a region in what country?

A- Spain B- Belgium
C- Netherlands D- Denmark

Alex “doesn’t know why she knows this”, but to be safe, calls for her DD lifeline at 18 seconds.

Alex’ first guess is

Spoiler

A- Spain

Spoiler

A- Spain (18)

Commercial Break

Alex is now out of lifelines. Alex wants to help her mom retire, since she has worked hard all her life.

$50,000 (Birds)- Which of these first names is also the name of a type of songbird in the swallow family?

A- Rodney B- Martin
C- Howard D- Dwight

Spoiler

B- Martin (31)

$100,000 (Mythology)- Written by the poet Hesiod, one of the earliest known versions of the Pandora myth features Pandora opening not a box but a what?

A- Tomb B- Bag
C- Book D- Jar

Alex thinks it’s tomb but decides to walk with $50,000

Spoiler

D- Jar

Alex moves into fifth place in the Tournament of Ten.

[NellyLunatic1980]

$12.5K: I'm between generation and gateway. ATA.

$50K: Dwight and Howard just don't sound right for names of birds. DD on Rodney and Martin.

I'm playing for $250K with ATE and PAF remaining.

[Jeemie]

ATA or ATE (hopefully not both!) on the $12.5K (although knowing that a 4G network exists makes me wonder if I would go with "Generation" without a LL), but no problems with the rest.

Nice to have a PAF for >$250K!!

[tanstaafl2]

Other than a brief pause at the "noid" this was a pretty smooth stack for me until the 100K. With all lifelines available hopefully would have been able to get the 100K and at least see the 250K althouh not sure how easy this would be to google.

The cast member really burned through lifelines with abandon to scramble to the 25K mark on what didn't seem to be particularly hard Q's. Maybe I was just fortunate to have them be ones I knew as I certainly have had plenty of trouble in the middle tier in other stacks.

[Estonut]

With all lifelines available hopefully would have been able to get the 100K and at least see the 250K althouh not sure how easy this would be to google.

Entering pandora's box originally brings up jar in clear context in the first hit. Entering pandora's box original brings it up in the second hit.

[earendel]

Alex Ortiz
Stamford, CT
Aspiring Veterinarian

Alex is an aspiring vet from Stamford, CT. Alex just celebrated her birthday with her lifeline friends. They brought her trivia cards, and they also played the online game. Alex didn’t do so well. Meredith says she has a belated present of $1 million for her. All she has to do is answer 15 questions to get it.

Haven't we had two aspiring vets as BBs (vettech and vetgirl - assuming they aren't one and the same)?

$7500 (Headlines)- On July 1, 2009, the Duluth News tribune ran what two-word headline about Minnesota’s new U.S. Senator?

A- Sorry: Sanford B- Finally: Franken
C- Uh-oh: Udall D- Sneaky; Specter

At 19 seconds, Alex uses her ATA lifeline

ATA Results: A- 7%, B- 82%, C- 6%, D- 5%

Spoiler

B- Finally: Franken (17)

How quickly they forget!

$12,500 (Technology Terms)- In the wireless phone abbreviation “3G”, the “G” stands for what?

A- Global B- Generation
C- Gateway D- Guidance

At 24 seconds, Alex uses her ATE lifeline. The expert is still Ashleigh Banfield (who has been great).

Ashleigh’s guess is

Spoiler

“Generation”

. She’s somewhat confident (saying her husband explained this to her, but it “went in one ear and out the other”)

Spoiler

B- Generation (18)

Credit where credit is due - Ashleigh has been pretty good.

$25,000 (British Monarchs)- In the name of Henry VIII’s first wife, Catherine of Aragon, Aragon refers to a region in what country?

A- Spain B- Belgium
C- Netherlands D- Denmark

Alex “doesn’t know why she knows this”, but to be safe, calls for her DD lifeline at 18 seconds.

Alex’ first guess is

Spoiler

A- Spain

Spoiler

A- Spain (18)

Shoulda gone with your gut, Alex.

$100,000 (Mythology)- Written by the poet Hesiod, one of the earliest known versions of the Pandora myth features Pandora opening not a box but a what?

A- Tomb B- Bag
C- Book D- Jar

Alex thinks it’s tomb but decides to walk with $50,000

Spoiler

D- Jar

Mythology is one of my better subjects but I didn't know this. I'd have gone with the DD and chosen C and D as my choices.