Julie Sidoni and Scott Schaffer (editor's note - the last names were never shown so the spelling is taken from the station's Web site)
A married couple and news anchors from WNEP-16 in Wilkes-Barre, PA
They are playing for Marley's Mission - it's a fairly localized (around the Scranton area) charity started by parents whose daughter had undergone a trauma. It uses equine therapy to help children start trusting again.
Topic Tree: (unrandomized)
- Atonement
- Day Jobs
- Language
- Famous Women
- Word Games
- TV Fan Mail
- Happy Hour
- Christmas Remixed
- The Final Word
- Hyper Text
Topic Tree: (randomized)
- TV Fan Mail
- Atonement
- Language
- The Final Word
- Word Games
- Happy Hour
- Famous Women
- Christmas Remixed
- Day Jobs
- Hyper Text
Question #1 (Hyper Text)
A Brooklyn teen quickly thumbed "Ei, Ei, Oh!" and other parts of what nursery rhyme to win the 2010 National Texting Championship?
A - Humpty Dumpty
B - Old MacDonald
C - Jack and Jill
D - Little Bo Peep
Julie hums a little bit of the tune before giving the couple's final answer.
Spoiler
Value: $25,000
Bank: $25,000
Question #2 (Day Jobs)
In addition to inventing his famous telegraph code, Samuel Morse was known as one of the 19th century's premier what?
A - playwrights
B - pianists
C - poets
D - portrait painters
Scott doesn't have a guess but Julie ponders and says she thinks she knows but isn't sure she knows it strongly enough. Scott says they could jump the question because they already have the $25,000. They decide to JTQ.
Spoiler
Value: $7,000
Bank: $25,000 (no change)
Question #3 (Christmas Remixed)
"Three shotgun shells, two hunting dogs and some parts to a Mustang GT" are lyrics in Jeff Foxworthy's version of what carol?
A - O Christmas Tree
B - Joy to the World
C - The 12 Days of Christmas
D - Deck the Halls
Julie says she's from Elk(?) County, PA and she knows Jeff Foxworthy.
Spoiler
Value: $5,000
Bank: $30,000
Released publicly in 2009, a home movie shot in Amsterdam in 1941 is the only known existing film footage of whom?
A - Marie Curie
B - Amelia Earhart
C - Florence Nightengale
D - Anne Frank
Spoiler
Value: $100
Bank: $30,100
What is the ticker symbol for the Boston Beer Company on the New York Stock Exchange?
A - SAM
B - PBR
C - BUD
D - MGD
Julie looks at Scott and says, "It's all you." Scott identifies
Spoiler
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Value: $3,000
Bank: $33,100
Which of these words is an anagram of the name of the country that features Mount Everest on its northern border?
A - plane
B - moan
C - rain
D - braise
Spoiler
Value: $500
Bank: $33,600
Question #7 (The Final Word)
The last entry in the Scrabble Players Dictionary, "zzz" is defined as "used to suggest the sound of" what?
A - laughing
B - snoring
C - sneezing
D - crying
Scott says to Julie, "You should know this," prompting "oohs" from the audience. Meredith says Scott might want to walk away; Julie pushes him and he says, "Does someone else want to take me home tonight?"
Spoiler
Value: $15,000
Bank: $48,600
Which of these words is used in Germany to refer to a type of elite high school?
A - gymnasium
B - cafeteria
C - laboratory
D - auditorium
Scott thinks it's either
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ATA results
B - 3%
C - 39%
D - 18%
Spoiler
Spoiler
Value: $10,000
Bank: $48,600 (no change)
To atone for its thirty-year occupation until 1943, what country agreed in 2008 to pay Libya $5 billion?
A - Germany
B - Italy
C - France
D - Portugal
Scott says it couldn't be
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Value: $
Bank: $24,300 (final winnings)