Transcript 06/17/10 - Michael Frank

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Michael Frank
North Tonawanda, NY
Warehouse man

Michael's friends call him Tank. When he was a kid, he was real chubby. When he got to high school, he thinned out and people continued to call him that to make fun of him. The name has stuck.

Question Topics:
* Wars
* Heated Competitions
* Taking the Plunge
* Prescription Drugs
* Weird Science
* Show Business
* The Beatles
* Smartly Dressed
* U.S. History
* CELEBRITY Q
* Moving Stories
* Sports Heroes
* Words & Phrases
* Utilities
* Holiday Events


$500 * Holiday Events
An annual event for children at the Denver Zoo, "Boo at the Zoo" occurs around what holiday?

A: Christmas B: Independence Day
C: Halloween D: Zombie Presidents Day

Answer

C: Halloween ( 10 )

$1,000 * Utilities
Often caused by excessive consumer demand, a "brownout"" is a period of reduced service from what public utility?

A: Sewer B: Water
C: Telephone D: Electricity

With 9 seconds left, Michael decides to Ask The Audience.

ATA

A: 12% B: 9% C: 2% D: 77%

Answer

D: Electricity ( 7 )

-- Commercial Break --

Michael's wife, Kelly, is in the audience. Kelly does all the work around the house, while Michael puts holes in the ceiling. Kelly was finishing the attic into a master bedroom and bath when Michael tried to help. He was hammering the sub-floor, not knowing he was going right through the lattice, hitting the plaster of the ceiling below, which eventually caved in.

$2,000 * Words & Phrases
Which of these legendary figures shares his name with a word that means "to make food spicy"?

A: Devil B: Cupid
C: Santa D: Bigfoot

Answer

A: Devil ( 10 )

$3,000 * Sports Heroes
In 1997, what pro sport officially retired the number 42, the uniform number worn by Jackie Robinson?

A: Football B: Hockey
C: Baseball D: Basketball

Answer

C: Baseball ( 12 )

$5,000 * Moving Stories
Based on a true story, the movie "Operation Dumbo Drop" portrays U.S. soldiers attempting to bring what animal to a Vietnamese village?

A: Giraffe B: Elephant
C: Whale D: Polar bear

Answer

B: Elephant ( 10 )

The following question is read by Rob Morrow, from the CBS drama "Numbers".
$7,500 * CELEBRITY Q
For six seasons, I played Dr. Joel Fleischman on "Northern Exposure," which was set primarily in what U.S. state?

A: Alaska B: Maine
C: Minnesota D: Washington

Answer

A: Alaska ( 22 )

$10,000 * U.S. History
Composed of seven high-ranking U.S. government officials, the "Warren Commission" was created to investigate what?

A: The Exxon Valdez oil spill B: The JFK assassination
C: The Iran-Contra affair D: The Watergate scandal

Answer

B: The JFK assassination ( 21 )

$12,500 * Smartly Dressed
What Ivy League college started its own line of preppy menswear in 2009, with button holes colored the school's signature crimson?

A: Yale B: Columbia
C: Princeton D: Harvard

Answer

D: Harvard ( 23 )

-- Commercial Break --

Michael actuals has three jobs: he substitute teaches, works at the warehouse, and does some bartending.
Michael has two kids; Allie is eight and Brian is fourteen, so he needs college tuition money.

$15,000 * The Beatles
What member of the Beatles is commonly known by his middle name instead of his real first name "James"?

A: John Lennon B: Paul McCartney
C: George Harrison D: Ringo Starr

Answer

B: Paul McCartney ( 25 )

$25,000 * Show Business
Because of how they are paid, what Hollywood professionals are slangily referred to as "tenpercenters"?

A: Film directors B: Caterers
C: Animal wranglers D: Talent agents

Answer

D: Talent agents ( 19)

$50,000 * Weird Science
Prosopagnosia is an unusual neurological impairment that renders a person unable to do what?

A: Recognize faces B: Blink
C: Feel pain D: Awaken naturally from sleep

With 34 seconds left, Michael decides to Ask The Expert. Today's expert is actress and comedian Margaret Cho.

Margaret: Ohhhhhh! Ohhhhhh!

Michael: Oh, no!

Margaret: Ohhhh nooooo! Okay, let's break it down. Let's break it down.

Michael: Okay.

Margaret: Prosopagnosia. Prosopagnosia. You almost want to say that it is recognize faces, because it has a nose. Prosopagnose. No! No! But I don't think it's blinking. I don't think-- Awaken naturally from sleep, you can't wake up? Wouldn't that be a coma? My best guess is A, but I also have NO IDEA what I'm talking about.

Michael was thinking the same thing. With 32 seconds left, he decides to Double Dip.

Michael's first answer is

Spoiler

A: Recognize faces

.

Answer

A: Recognize faces ( 32 )

-- Commercial Break --

Sneak Peak at One of the Next Episode's Questions

$10,000
For nearly twenty years, what Hollywood leading man kept a pet pig named Max, which he claims saved him in a 1994 earthquake?

A: Brad Pitt B: Tom Cruise
C: Bruce Willis D: George Clooney

The show returns from the commercial break with the audience chanting, "Tank! Tank! Tank! Tank!"

Michael has a surprise for the guys at the warehouse. There's about fifty of them and they watch Millionaire during lunch. Michael plans to buy pizza for all of them and have a viewing party.

Michael has a degree in history and social studies. He hope to teach, full time.

$100,000 * Prescription Drugs
Warfarin, a blood thinner that is one of the most-prescribed drugs in the world, was originally developed and is still used as a what?

A: Garden fertilizer B: Antifreeze
C: Rat poison D: Metal cleaner

Michael has no idea, so he walks with $50,000.

Answer

C: Rat poison ( 25 )

[Bob78164]

Wow. If the audience or the expert could get me past the Beatles question I'd have $100,000 in hand. This seemed an easier stack than usual, particularly in the upper tier. --Bob

[jarnon]

Michael Frank
North Tonawanda, NY
Warehouse man

Not WE®; near Niagara Falls.

$1,000 * Utilities
Often caused by excessive consumer demand, a "brownout"" is a period of reduced service from what public utility?

A: Sewer B: Water
C: Telephone D: Electricity

With 9 seconds left, Michael decides to Ask The Audience.

ATA

A: 12% B: 9% C: 2% D: 77%

Answer

D: Electricity ( 7 )

Don't they have brownouts in upstate New York?

$15,000 * The Beatles
What member of the Beatles is commonly known by his middle name instead of his real first name "James"?

A: John Lennon B: Paul McCartney
C: George Harrison D: Ringo Starr

Answer

B: Paul McCartney ( 25 )

I know Ringo's real first name is Richard, and I don't think it's John, so DD on Paul and George.

$50,000 * Weird Science
Prosopagnosia is an unusual neurological impairment that renders a person unable to do what?

A: Recognize faces B: Blink
C: Feel pain D: Awaken naturally from sleep

Answer

A: Recognize faces ( 32 )

Lucky guess. I recognize "agnosia" as "not knowing."

$100,000 * Prescription Drugs
Warfarin, a blood thinner that is one of the most-prescribed drugs in the world, was originally developed and is still used as a what?

A: Garden fertilizer B: Antifreeze
C: Rat poison D: Metal cleaner

Michael has no idea, so he walks with $50,000.

Answer

C: Rat poison ( 25 )

My wife took this medicine and knew this. In large doses, it thins the rats' blood so much that they bleed out.

[MarleysGh0st]

Michael Frank
North Tonawanda, NY
Warehouse man

Not WE®; near Niagara Falls.

$1,000 * Utilities
Often caused by excessive consumer demand, a "brownout"" is a period of reduced service from what public utility?

A: Sewer B: Water
C: Telephone D: Electricity

With 9 seconds left, Michael decides to Ask The Audience.

ATA

A: 12% B: 9% C: 2% D: 77%

Answer

D: Electricity ( 7 )

Don't they have brownouts in upstate New York?

When I saw the question, I thought that sewer would make a wonderful joke answer to the question. I didn't expect Michael and 12% of the audience to take it seriously! But what's with the 9% who thought water was the right answer? Like, in times of heavy demand, they only do a partial filtration on the water?

Nice recovery by Tank, after using the ATA on the first question!

[Pastor Fireball]

$1,000 * Utilities
Often caused by excessive consumer demand, a "brownout"" is a period of reduced service from what public utility?

A: Sewer B: Water
C: Telephone D: Electricity

With 9 seconds left, Michael decides to Ask The Audience.

ATA

A: 12% B: 9% C: 2% D: 77%

I'm not surprised that such a high percentage of the audience went for the obvious "brown" joke.

$50,000 * Weird Science
Prosopagnosia is an unusual neurological impairment that renders a person unable to do what?

A: Recognize faces B: Blink
C: Feel pain D: Awaken naturally from sleep

The translation here is a little bit tricky. The Greek word "prosopon" does not actually mean "face"; rather, the original meaning of that word is "mask". Even though it still refers to the face, it's not a direct translation to "face". But the "agnosia" part does confirm the correct answer as A. "Agnosia" should make you think of "agnostic", not knowing the existence of God.

There was a potential trap in this question that I spotted just after I established the correct answer. The Latin word for sleep is "sopor", so the "sop" in that word could've falsely led somebody to D.

$100,000 * Prescription Drugs
Warfarin, a blood thinner that is one of the most-prescribed drugs in the world, was originally developed and is still used as a what?

A: Garden fertilizer B: Antifreeze
C: Rat poison D: Metal cleaner

I made the logical connection between blood thinning and rat poison through the most unusual of sources: an episode of 1000 Ways to Die. One episode dramatized a health-food nut who ate nothing but food grown in her organic garden. What she didn't know (and what her landlord never told her) was that her landlord had been spraying her organic garden with pesticides for several weeks. Every time she ate food from her garden, her blood thinned. Eventually, her blood had thinned so much that the blood vessels in her brain burst. So there's your lesson from the pastor today: Never soak your precious tomato plants in bug killer. I bet you'll never get that kind of advice from NBC's "The More You Know" segments.

Going for $250K with all of my lifelines.

[Kazoo65]

Man, I woulda cleaned up with this stack.

We have our own variation of "Boo at the Zoo" every October in nearby Battle Creek. Theirs is called "The Great Zoo Boo." Volunteers dressed in costumes pass out candy to kids (also in costumes) and the whole zoo is filled with lighted jack-o-lanterns.


$50K-read about this somewhere-perhaps in a psychology book.

$100K-I know someone who takes Warfarin. I had to look it up online and it mentioned being used as a rat poison.

[earendel]

Michael Frank
North Tonawanda, NY
Warehouse man

Michael's friends call him Tank. When he was a kid, he was real chubby. When he got to high school, he thinned out and people continued to call him that to make fun of him. The name has stuck.

There are worse things one could be called.

$2,000 * Words & Phrases
Which of these legendary figures shares his name with a word that means "to make food spicy"?

A: Devil B: Cupid
C: Santa D: Bigfoot

Answer

A: Devil ( 10 )

Not a hard question, but deviled ham and deviled eggs aren't particularly spicy to me.

The following question is read by Rob Morrow, from the CBS drama "Numbers".
$7,500 * CELEBRITY Q
For six seasons, I played Dr. Joel Fleischman on "Northern Exposure," which was set primarily in what U.S. state?

A: Alaska B: Maine
C: Minnesota D: Washington

Answer

A: Alaska ( 22 )

Filmed in Washington, however.

$50,000 * Weird Science
Prosopagnosia is an unusual neurological impairment that renders a person unable to do what?

A: Recognize faces B: Blink
C: Feel pain D: Awaken naturally from sleep

With 34 seconds left, Michael decides to Ask The Expert. Today's expert is actress and comedian Margaret Cho.

Margaret: Ohhhhhh! Ohhhhhh!

Michael: Oh, no!

Margaret: Ohhhh nooooo! Okay, let's break it down. Let's break it down.

Michael: Okay.

Margaret: Prosopagnosia. Prosopagnosia. You almost want to say that it is recognize faces, because it has a nose. Prosopagnose. No! No! But I don't think it's blinking. I don't think-- Awaken naturally from sleep, you can't wake up? Wouldn't that be a coma? My best guess is A, but I also have NO IDEA what I'm talking about.

Michael was thinking the same thing. With 32 seconds left, he decides to Double Dip.

Michael's first answer is

Spoiler

A: Recognize faces

.

Answer

A: Recognize faces ( 32 )

Margaret was probably thinking of "proboscis" for "nose". Michael showed guts in going for it without much support. As for me, I'd be in bad shape - I don't know what this means, and I don't think the audience or the expert will be of any help, though I'd burn the lifelines rather than leave them on the table.

$100,000 * Prescription Drugs
Warfarin, a blood thinner that is one of the most-prescribed drugs in the world, was originally developed and is still used as a what?

A: Garden fertilizer B: Antifreeze
C: Rat poison D: Metal cleaner

Michael has no idea, so he walks with $50,000.

Answer

C: Rat poison ( 25 )

This one, OTOH, I knew. So if I survived the WWOQ, I'd be going for $100K but without any lifelines.

[andrewjackson]

Which of these legendary figures shares his name with a word that means "to make food spicy"?

A: Devil B: Cupid
C: Santa D: Bigfoot

Answer

A: Devil ( 10 )

Not a hard question, but deviled ham and deviled eggs aren't particularly spicy to me.
/quote]

That's what I'm thinking. Is there really a meaning for "to devil" that means to make food spicy? What's an example?

Hmmm. I guess so:

Dictionary.com has:

–verb (used with object)
10.
to annoy; harass; pester: to devil Mom and Dad for a new car.
11.
to tear (rags, cloth, etc.) with a devil.
12.
Cookery . to prepare (food, usually minced) with hot or savory seasoning: to devil eggs.

I always thought it was the mincing that was the "deviling", not the spiciness, related to definition #11. Didn't know about the hot or savory connotation.

[tanstaafl2]

I manage to get to a 100K without having to even consider a lifeline from the safety and comfort of the Lazyboy. A rare stack indeed.

Perhaps they are looking to go out with a bang to end the season?

[Estonut]

Which of these legendary figures shares his name with a word that means "to make food spicy"?

A: Devil B: Cupid
C: Santa D: Bigfoot

Answer

A: Devil ( 10 )

Not a hard question, but deviled ham and deviled eggs aren't particularly spicy to me.

That's what I'm thinking. Is there really a meaning for "to devil" that means to make food spicy? What's an example?

Hmmm. I guess so:

Dictionary.com has:

–verb (used with object)
10.
to annoy; harass; pester: to devil Mom and Dad for a new car.
11.
to tear (rags, cloth, etc.) with a devil.
12.
Cookery . to prepare (food, usually minced) with hot or savory seasoning: to devil eggs.

I always thought it was the mincing that was the "deviling", not the spiciness, related to definition #11. Didn't know about the hot or savory connotation.

I did some cursory searching after reading ear's comments, too. It seems that with eggs, "to devil" orginally meant to make them spicy. Nowadays, it seems to describe the process and the look more than the heat index. If you slice a hard-boiled egg, remove the yolk, mix it (or totally replace it) with other stuff and replace it into the cavity, it's a "deviled" egg.

It seems that deviled ham still carries that spicy connotion from the original manufacturer. I am not very familiar with it, though.

Around these parts, the "Devil" word many restaurants use to convey spiciness is "Diablo," as in "Shrimp Diablo." Some Italian places also use "Diavolo."