Transcript 5/6/2011 - Chad Donah

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Chad Donah
Glendale, CA
Restaurant manager

If Chad wins big he'd like to open his own food truck with specialty sub sandwiches and specialty French fries catering to club-goers. Meredith says she'd be interested in a franchise for New York City.

Topic Tree: (unrandomized)
10 - Arts & Sciences
9 - On-set Romance
8 - Waterways
7 - Delayed Autobiography
6 - New Year's Nosh
5 - Story Time
4 - Devil May Care
3 - Fancy Shoes
2 - National Symbols
1 - Chemical Humor

Topic Tree: (randomized)
5 - Story Time
1 - Chemical Humor
2 - National Symbols
4 - Devil May Care
8 - Waterways
9 - On-set Romance
3 - Fancy Shoes
6 - New Year's Nosh
10 - Arts & Sciences
7 - Delayed Autobiography

Question #1 (Delayed Autobiography - Level 7)
What author's long-awaited autobiography was published in 2010, one hundred years after his death, as he insisted?
A - Stephen Crane
B - Nathanial Hawthorne
C - Washington Irving
D - Mark Twain

Spoiler

Answer: D (Mark Twain)
Value: $5,000
Bank: $5,000

Question #2 (Arts & Sciences - Level 10)
The first two initials in which of these authors' names does not form the symbol of an element on the periodic table?
A - C.S. Lewis
B - H.G. Wells
C - J.D. Salinger
D - P.D. James

Chad doesn't know if this is the kind of thing he'd like to ask the audience about, but he decides to do that anyway.

ATA results

A - 10%
B - 2%
C - 80%
D - 8%

Chad knows that statistically going with the audience when the numbers are that high is the thing to do. So he's going to trust them.

Spoiler

Answer: C (J.D. Salinger)
Value: $7,000
Bank: $12,000

commercial break

Chad's girlfriend Reese is in the relationship seat. She helps him manage the restaurant. She didn't know the answer to the previous question.

Question #3 (New Year's Nosh - Level 6)
A traditional New Year's Day dish of black-eyed peas and rice is known in the South as what?
A - Hoppin' John
B - Spinnin' Tim
C - Rockin' Bob
D - Slappin' Jim

Chad immediately says he's going to have to jump the question.

Spoiler

Answer: A (Hoppin' John)
Value: $3,000
Bank: $12,000 (no change)

Question #4 (Fancy Shoes - Level 3)
Which of these is the name of a horse that raced in the 2010 Kentucky Derby, and not the name of a famous shoe designer?
A - Manolo Blahnik
B - Jimmy Choo
C - Jackson Bend
D - Christian Louboutin

Spoiler

Answer: C (Jackson Bend)
Value: $500
Bank: $12,500

Question #5 (On-set Romance - Level 9)
Surprisingly, the actors who played the parents of the main character in which of these '80s films would later marry in real life?
A - Dirty Dancing
B - Ferris Buehler's Day Off
C - A Christmas Story
D - Risky Business

Chad doesn't know this. He hates to use up all his lifelines this early but he's going to have to jump the question.

Spoiler

Answer: B (Ferris Buehler's Day Off)
Value: $10,000
Bank: $12,500 (no change)

Question #6 (Waterways - Level 8)
The St. Anthony Falls, one of the few waterfalls on the Mississippi River, is in what U.S. City?
A - New Orleans, LA
B - Memphis, TN
C - St. Louis, MO
D - Minneapolis, MN

Chad doesn't know but he's going to try and reason it out.

Spoiler

He thinks it's either Tennessee or Minnesota

. Meredith tells Chad his options. He says that the difference between $6,000 and $1,000 is negligible. He's already paid for the trip by being there, and he didn't come to be a "six-thousandaire".

Spoiler

Answer: D (Minneapolis, MN)
Value: $25,000
Bank: $37,500

commercial break

The "Blast from the past" question was worth $250,000 in 2000:
In Greek mythology, who entered the labyrinth and killed the Minotaur?
A - Perseus
B - Tiresias
C - Jason
D - Theseus

Spoiler

D (Theseus)

Question #7 (Devil May Care - Level 4)
A dust devil is a smaller, less destructive version of what natural event?
A - hurricane
B - mudslide
C - tornado
D - earthquake

Spoiler

Answer: C (tornado)
Value: $100
Bank: $37,600

Question #8 (National Symbols - Level 2)
Uncle Sam is traditionally depicted with what kind of facial hair?
A - mutton chops
B - goatee
C - handlebar mustache
D - soul patch

Spoiler

Answer: B (goatee)
Value: $2,000
Bank: $39,600

Question #9 (Chemical Humor - Level 1)
What chemical element is the punch line to a joke that asks, "What do you do with dead elements?"
A - barium
B - titanium
C - magnesium
D - lithium

Spoiler

Answer: A (barium)
Value: $15,000
Bank: $54,600

Question #10 (Story Time - Level 5)
Michaelangelo's nine "central stories" depicted on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel are taken from what book of the Bible?
A - Revelation
B - Luke
C - Matthew
D - Genesis

Chad doesn't know the Bible that well but he does know that the most famous image is

Spoiler

God and Adam and he knows that's in Genesis

.

Spoiler

Answer: D (Genesis)
Value: $1,000
Bank: $55,600

THE END OF GAME "NOISE"

Chad will be back on Monday to play Classic Millionaire with $55,600 in his bank but no lifelines remaining.

[SportsFan68]

Question #2 (Arts & Sciences - Level 10)
The first two initials in which of these authors' names does not form the symbol of an element on the periodic table?
A - C.S. Lewis
B - H.G. Wells
C - J.D. Salinger
D - P.D. James

Chad doesn't know if this is the kind of thing he'd like to ask the audience about, but he decides to do that anyway.

I'm in trouble. CS is cesium; HG is mercury. What the heck are JD and PD?

I'm glad that ATA worked out for Chad.

[silvercamaro]

Question #2 (Arts & Sciences - Level 10)
The first two initials in which of these authors' names does not form the symbol of an element on the periodic table?
A - C.S. Lewis
B - H.G. Wells
C - J.D. Salinger
D - P.D. James

Chad doesn't know if this is the kind of thing he'd like to ask the audience about, but he decides to do that anyway.

I'm in trouble. CS is cesium; HG is mercury. What the heck are JD and PD?

JD is Judytonium. It hasn't been discovered officially yet, but it is surprisingly powerful.

[SportsFan68]

Question #2 (Arts & Sciences - Level 10)
The first two initials in which of these authors' names does not form the symbol of an element on the periodic table?
A - C.S. Lewis
B - H.G. Wells
C - J.D. Salinger
D - P.D. James

Chad doesn't know if this is the kind of thing he'd like to ask the audience about, but he decides to do that anyway.

I'm in trouble. CS is cesium; HG is mercury. What the heck are JD and PD?

JD is Judytonium. It hasn't been discovered officially yet, but it is surprisingly powerful.

Of course! The source of the White Hot Glare of Righteousness! Duh!

[Bob78164]

Question #2 (Arts & Sciences - Level 10)
The first two initials in which of these authors' names does not form the symbol of an element on the periodic table?
A - C.S. Lewis
B - H.G. Wells
C - J.D. Salinger
D - P.D. James

Chad doesn't know if this is the kind of thing he'd like to ask the audience about, but he decides to do that anyway.

I'm in trouble. CS is cesium; HG is mercury. What the heck are JD and PD?

I'm glad that ATA worked out for Chad.

Spoiler

Pd

is

Spoiler

Palladium

. There is no

Spoiler

Jd

-- that's why the correct answer is

Spoiler

C

. --Bob

[danangel]

It was either this or Shark Tank...

[earendel]

Chad Donah
Glendale, CA
Restaurant manager

If Chad wins big he'd like to open his own food truck with specialty sub sandwiches and specialty French fries catering to club-goers. Meredith says she'd be interested in a franchise for New York City.

Question #1 (Delayed Autobiography - Level 7)
What author's long-awaited autobiography was published in 2010, one hundred years after his death, as he insisted?
A - Stephen Crane
B - Nathanial Hawthorne
C - Washington Irving
D - Mark Twain

Spoiler

Answer: D (Mark Twain)
Value: $5,000
Bank: $5,000

When I saw the category I pre-called the answer.

Question #2 (Arts & Sciences - Level 10)
The first two initials in which of these authors' names does not form the symbol of an element on the periodic table?
A - C.S. Lewis
B - H.G. Wells
C - J.D. Salinger
D - P.D. James

Chad doesn't know if this is the kind of thing he'd like to ask the audience about, but he decides to do that anyway.

ATA results

A - 10%
B - 2%
C - 80%
D - 8%

Chad knows that statistically going with the audience when the numbers are that high is the thing to do. So he's going to trust them.

Spoiler

Answer: C (J.D. Salinger)
Value: $7,000
Bank: $12,000

I'm surprised the audience response was as strong as it was. This would not have been a level 10 question for me.

Question #4 (Fancy Shoes - Level 3)
Which of these is the name of a horse that raced in the 2010 Kentucky Derby, and not the name of a famous shoe designer?
A - Manolo Blahnik
B - Jimmy Choo
C - Jackson Bend
D - Christian Louboutin

Spoiler

Answer: C (Jackson Bend)
Value: $500
Bank: $12,500

No problem here, thanks to the shoe discussions that take place here.

Question #5 (On-set Romance - Level 9)
Surprisingly, the actors who played the parents of the main character in which of these '80s films would later marry in real life?
A - Dirty Dancing
B - Ferris Buehler's Day Off
C - A Christmas Story
D - Risky Business

Chad doesn't know this. He hates to use up all his lifelines this early but he's going to have to jump the question.

Spoiler

Answer: B (Ferris Buehler's Day Off)
Value: $10,000
Bank: $12,500 (no change)

I'd JTQ also.