Transcript 10/28/10 - Michael Miyazaki

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Michael Miyazaki
Washington, DC

Michael loves crossword puzzles, makes a mean cupcake and blogs about cabaret.

Question Topics (Unrandomized):
* African Art
* True to Type
* Fashion Labels
* Global Eats
* Ageless Beauty
* Celebrity Roast
* Chick Flicks
* Anatomy
* Brain Food
* Pig Poems

Question Topics (Randomized):
* African Art
* Brain Food
* Pig Poems
* Celebrity Roast
* Fashion Labels
* Global Eats
* Ageless Beauty
* True to Type
* Anatomy
* Chick Flicks

Question #1 * Chick Flicks
"I Carried a Watermelon," "Thanks, Baby" and "Time of My Life" are chapter titles on what chick flick's 20th anniversary edition DVD?

A: Pretty Woman B: Dirty Dancing
C: Moonstruck D: Grease

Answer/Value/Bank

B: Dirty Dancing
Question Value: $25,000
Bank: $25,000

Question #2 * Anatomy
With three knuckles on each finger and two on each thumb, a person typically has how many total knuckles?

A: 22 B: 24
C: 26 D: 28

Answer/Value/Bank

D: 28
Question Value: $100
Bank: $25,100

Question #3 * True to Type
Which of these fonts is named after the Latin word for Switzerland, where it was designed in the 1950s?

A: Palatino B: Lucida
C: Bodoni D: Helvetica

Answer/Value/Bank

D: Helvetica
Question Value: $5,000
Bank: $30,100

Michael: So this is your category.

Question #4 * Ageless Beauty
What 65-year-old actress caused a stir in 2010 when she posed for New York magazine sitting in a bathtub topless?

A: Judi Dench B: Kathy Bates
C: Meryl Streep D: Helen Mirren

Answer/Value/Bank

D: Helen Mirren
Question Value: $2,000
Bank: $32,100

Question #5 * Global Eats
In Mexico, a tortilla is a thin corn or flour flatbread, but in Spain, a tortilla is a what?

A: Fruit turnover B: Rice porridge
C: Potato omelet D: Breaded steak

Michael: I've made them, but not well, so let's do

Spoiler

C: Potato omelet,

final answer.

Answer

C: Potato omelet

Meredith goes to a commercial break without revealing the question value.

-- Commercial Break --

Value/Bank

Question Value: $10,000
Bank: $42,100

Meredith reminds Michael that he hasn't used one lifeline yet; he's in great shape! Michael's partner, Ron, is rooting for him in the audience.


Question #6 * Fashion Labels
The phrase "Love, G&P" is stitched into the tags of nearly every item made by what trendy fashion line?

A: Juicy Couture B: Lucky Brand
C: 7 For All Mankind D: True Religion

Meredith: Are you a clothes horse? Do you like--
Michael: Obviously not!

But Michael says the audience looks like they are, so he decides to ask them.

ATA

A: 32% B: 18% C: 21% D: 29%

Michael decides to Jump The Question.

Answer/Value/Bank

A: Juicy Couture
Question Value: $7,000
Bank: $42,100

Question #7 * Celebrity Roast
Comedians riffed about lifeguards and talking cars at a 2010 Comedy Central roast skewering what actor?

A: Steve Gutenberg B: Luke Perry
C: David Hasselhoff D: Ralph Macchio

Answer/Value/Bank

C: David Hasselhoff
Question Value: $15,000
Bank: $57,100

Question #8 * Pig Poems
In the children's rhyme "This Little Piggy," where did the first little piggy go?

A: To farm B: To market
C: To church D: To school

Answer/Value/Bank

B: To market
Question Value: $500
Bank: $57,600

Question #9 * Brain Food
Which of these chain restaurants is named after a character created by author Robert Lewis Stevenson?

A: Long John Silver's B: Papa John's
C: Red Robin D: Ruby Tuesday

Answer/Value/Bank

A: Long John Silver's
Question Value: $1,000
Bank: $58,600

-- Commercial Break --

Question #10 * African Art
In 2010, what African nation unveiled in its capital Dakar a statue of a man, woman and child that is slightly taller than the Statue of Liberty?

A: Mali B: Namibia
C: Senegal D: Botswana

Michael meant to study a map of Africa before coming to the show. He decides to Jump The Question.

Answer/Value/Bank

C: Senegal
Question Value: $3,000
Bank: $58,600

$100,000
Named for a British aristocrat, "Mountbatten pink," is a mauve-like shade of grayish-pink originally developed for what purpose?

A: Dressing hunting parties B: Decorating cakes and cookies
C: Printing stock certificates D: Camouflaging ships

Despite his cupcake experience, Michael knows of Lord Mountbatten's experience with

Spoiler

the navy

, so he goes for it.

Answer

D: Camouflaging ships

-- Commercial Break --


$250,000
Less trafficked than a similarly named one in New York, John F. Kennedy Memorial Airport serves what Midwest community?

A: Ashland, Wisconsin B: Mason City, Iowa
C: Troy, Ohio D: Greenfield, Indiana

Michael does not have a clue in the world on this one. He walks away with $100,000.

Answer

A: Ashland, Wisconsin

[MarleysGh0st]

$250,000
Less trafficked than a similarly named one in New York, John F. Kennedy Memorial Airport serves what Midwest community?

A: Ashland, Wisconsin B: Mason City, Iowa
C: Troy, Ohio D: Greenfield, Indiana

Michael does not have a clue in the world on this one. He walks away with $100,000.

Answer

A: Ashland, Wisconsin

How in the world was anyone (outside of the Ashland neighborhood) supposed to have a clue about this WWOQ?

Here's the webpage for this airport. It looks like a decent general aviation airport, but I don't see any notation about any commercial airline service. I also didn't see any explanation for the name, i.e., any connection with JFK that might let someone logically deduce that an airport located there would be named after him. Sheesh!

http://www.coawi.org/taxonomy/term/48

Oh, but the terminal building is a very attractive log cabin.

[Kazoo65]

Did anybody else think this guy looks like Jason Alexander from Seinfeld??

On to the questions:


1. easy. I've seen the movie.
2. for a math question, this was easy.
3. easy. I think this was on J! once.
4. ATA.
5 and 6-JTQ.
7. easy
8, 9, and 10-way too easy,
11-I know that Lord Mountbatten was in the Royal Navy, so I guessed D and was right.
12-ARRRRGH!!! Who knows this????????? Not me. I take the $100K and go. They are coming up with some weird high-level questions this year.

[elwoodblues]

Gus update:

Kazoo's post above is #343434.

[ten96lt]

$250,000
Less trafficked than a similarly named one in New York, John F. Kennedy Memorial Airport serves what Midwest community?

A: Ashland, Wisconsin B: Mason City, Iowa
C: Troy, Ohio D: Greenfield, Indiana

Michael does not have a clue in the world on this one. He walks away with $100,000.

Answer

A: Ashland, Wisconsin

How in the world was anyone (outside of the Ashland neighborhood) supposed to have a clue about this WWOQ?

Here's the webpage for this airport. It looks like a decent general aviation airport, but I don't see any notation about any commercial airline service. I also didn't see any explanation for the name, i.e., any connection with JFK that might let someone logically deduce that an airport located there would be named after him. Sheesh!

http://www.coawi.org/taxonomy/term/48

Oh, but the terminal building is a very attractive log cabin.

I knew it, how could you not know?!?!?!?!?

[ulysses5019]

Gus update:

Kazoo's post above is #343434.

I don't think she cares about numbers.

[TheConfessor]

$250,000
Less trafficked than a similarly named one in New York, John F. Kennedy Memorial Airport serves what Midwest community?

A: Ashland, Wisconsin B: Mason City, Iowa
C: Troy, Ohio D: Greenfield, Indiana

Michael does not have a clue in the world on this one. He walks away with $100,000.

Answer

A: Ashland, Wisconsin

How in the world was anyone (outside of the Ashland neighborhood) supposed to have a clue about this WWOQ?

Here's the webpage for this airport. It looks like a decent general aviation airport, but I don't see any notation about any commercial airline service. I also didn't see any explanation for the name, i.e., any connection with JFK that might let someone logically deduce that an airport located there would be named after him. Sheesh!

Ashland's population was 8620 in the 2000 census. I would guess that fewer than 1% of Americans have even heard of Ashland, Wisconsin, and fewer than 1% of 1% would know the airport's name, or that it even has an airport. It's not a town you'd be likely to encounter unless you were specifically looking for it. It's in the far north of the state, near Lake Superior. The four towns listed have an average population of about 18,000. The largest one and the only one I'm sure I've heard of is Mason City, Iowa, since Buddy Holly died just after his plane took off from Mason City. I can think of no legitimate justification for asking this question. It's a pure 1 in 4 guess unless you live in northern Wisconsin.

[themanwho]

Michael Miyazaki
Michael ... blogs about cabaret.

That makes him a WE. (Google confirms this)

Did anybody else think this guy looks like Jason Alexander from Seinfeld??

The first picture of Miyazaki that comes up on GIS really looks like Jason Alexander.

When I saw the promo for this week, I though to myself, "I guess I didn't get on because they'd used up their chubby, balding guy quota for this season already." Now I find out he even co-opted my initials. Bad form, dude.

Nah, congrats on the win.

-M

[earendel]

Michael Miyazaki
Washington, DC

Michael loves crossword puzzles, makes a mean cupcake and blogs about cabaret.

One of the unfortunate side-effects of the new "Hot Podium" and the emphasis on expressiveness showed up today - Michael's deodorant failed him at the worst possible moment.

Question #1 * Chick Flicks
"I Carried a Watermelon," "Thanks, Baby" and "Time of My Life" are chapter titles on what chick flick's 20th anniversary edition DVD?

A: Pretty Woman B: Dirty Dancing
C: Moonstruck D: Grease

Answer/Value/Bank

B: Dirty Dancing
Question Value: $25,000
Bank: $25,000

If it hadn't been for "Time of My Life" I'd have been lost on this one.

Question #4 * Ageless Beauty
What 65-year-old actress caused a stir in 2010 when she posed for New York magazine sitting in a bathtub topless?

A: Judi Dench B: Kathy Bates
C: Meryl Streep D: Helen Mirren

Answer/Value/Bank

D: Helen Mirren
Question Value: $2,000
Bank: $32,100

Time to ATA. I would have had no idea.

Question #5 * Global Eats
In Mexico, a tortilla is a thin corn or flour flatbread, but in Spain, a tortilla is a what?

A: Fruit turnover B: Rice porridge
C: Potato omelet D: Breaded steak

Michael: I've made them, but not well, so let's do

Spoiler

C: Potato omelet,

final answer.

Answer

C: Potato omelet

Value/Bank

Question Value: $10,000
Bank: $42,100

Time to JTQ. It seems like it should be "A" but I wouldn't be sure enough, even though I took 4 years of Spanish in high school.

Question #6 * Fashion Labels
The phrase "Love, G&P" is stitched into the tags of nearly every item made by what trendy fashion line?

A: Juicy Couture B: Lucky Brand
C: 7 For All Mankind D: True Religion

Meredith: Are you a clothes horse? Do you like--
Michael: Obviously not!

But Michael says the audience looks like they are, so he decides to ask them.

ATA

A: 32% B: 18% C: 21% D: 29%

Michael decides to Jump The Question.

Answer/Value/Bank

A: Juicy Couture
Question Value: $7,000
Bank: $42,100

I'd use my second JTQ here.

$100,000
Named for a British aristocrat, "Mountbatten pink," is a mauve-like shade of grayish-pink originally developed for what purpose?

A: Dressing hunting parties B: Decorating cakes and cookies
C: Printing stock certificates D: Camouflaging ships

Despite his cupcake experience, Michael knows of Lord Mountbatten's experience with

Spoiler

the navy

, so he goes for it.

Answer

D: Camouflaging ships

I'm out of lifelines but, like Michael, I associate "Mountbatten" with the Royal Navy.

$250,000
Less trafficked than a similarly named one in New York, John F. Kennedy Memorial Airport serves what Midwest community?

A: Ashland, Wisconsin B: Mason City, Iowa
C: Troy, Ohio D: Greenfield, Indiana

Michael does not have a clue in the world on this one. He walks away with $100,000.

Answer

A: Ashland, Wisconsin

Same here. This would have been a rough stack for me.

[earendel]

The largest one and the only one I'm sure I've heard of is Mason City, Iowa, since Buddy Holly died just after his plane took off from Mason City. I can think of no legitimate justification for asking this question. It's a pure 1 in 4 guess unless you live in northern Wisconsin.

That explains why I've heard of Mason City. When I saw the question that was the only one I recognized.

[MarleysGh0st]

Did anybody else think this guy looks like Jason Alexander from Seinfeld??

The first picture of Miyazaki that comes up on GIS really looks like Jason Alexander.

Funny, but my first reaction was "Hello, Newman!"

BTW, here's the link to his blog: http://cabaretdc.wordpress.com/

[Ritterskoop]

Mason City, Iowa, is mentioned in "Iowa Stubborn" from The Music Man (and was Meredith Willson's hometown), is why it stood out to me. But I could not think of any reason there'd be a JFK memorial airport there, or anywhere. I couldn't think of any places JFK went as a student or on vacation or any projects or ANYTHING.

So I called the airport manager and asked him WTF.

He was very nice, and said they have a picture of JFK shaking hands with some lady there, about three weeks before he was killed. He took a helicopter from that airport back to maybe Duluth to get back on Air Force One. When he was killed not long after that, they renamed the airport. Before that it was Ashland County Regional Airport or some such (it opened in 1958).

The manager didn't realize they had been on TV, so I told him to call his local affiliate and ask for a tape.

[MarleysGh0st]

Wow, you actually phoned the airport manager, Skoop?

They have a nice story, but it's still not anything anybody outside of Ashland would know.

[Ritterskoop]

Wow, you actually phoned the airport manager, Skoop?

They have a nice story, but it's still not anything anybody outside of Ashland would know.

I agree. I bet few people inside of Ashland know that story.

Which is to say, it is totally a bullshit question, but I figured it may as well be an opportunity to learn something.