Transcript 11/30/2012 - Elyse Peterson

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Elyse Peterson
Bridgewater, NJ
geologist

Elyse loves rocks and fossils. When she was young her class took a trip to the local geology museum. There was a wall of fossils and she was stunned. She later learned that they were trilobites and that made her decide she wanted to be a geologist. She has her master's degree in that subject. She has a trilobite tattoo on her right forearm. Her parents aren't too pleased.

Topic Tree: (randomized)
Wedding Shows
Brand Names
All 4 U
Organized Artists
Classifying Catastrophies
Early Versions DOUBLE MONEY QUESTION
Searching for Santa
A Life in Movies
I'm a Believer
Video Round Up

Question #1 (Video Round Up)
Released in 1991, "Ribbit!" was an unofficial sequel to what classic arcade game?
A - Centipede
B - Frogger
C - Space Invaders
D - Donkey Kong

In college a lot of Elyse's friends were into retro video games.

Spoiler

Answer: B (Frogger)
Value: $500
Bank: $500

Question #2 (I'm a Believer)
Given their extensive knowledge of primates, who once said that they believed creatures like Bigfoot do exist?
A - Jane Goodall
B - Temple Grandin
C - Jeff Corwin
D - Joan Embery

Elyse knows that

Spoiler

Jeff Corwin

is an animal person but she also knows that

Spoiler

Jane Goodall studied primates extensively

.

Spoiler

Answer: A (Jane Goodall)
Value: $1,000
Bank: $1,500

Question #3 (A Life in Movies)
A rap star born Christopher Wallace is the subject of a recent biopic titled what?
A - Notorious
B - Walk the Line
C - I'm Not There
D - W.

Elyse knows that

Spoiler

Walk the Line is about Johnny Cash

and she's pretty sure that

Spoiler

W. is about George Bush

. She knows that Christopher Wallace was

Spoiler

the Notorious B.I.G. - "may he rest in peace"

.

Spoiler

Answer: A (Notorious)
Value: $25,000
Bank: $26,500

Elyse runs over to embrace someone in the audience.

Question #4 (Searching for Santa)
Letting kids chart his route, what government organization recently enlisted Google Earth to help with its annual "Santa Tracker"?
A - USDA
B - NIM
C - NORAD
D - FEMA

Elyse and her sister go to the Web site every year.

Spoiler

Answer: C (NORAD)
Value: $15,000
Bank: $41,500

Question #5 (Early Versions) DOUBLE MONEY QUESTION
Until 1770, bread was reportedly used in lieu of what now common school supply?
A - glue stick
B - rubber eraser
C - ruler
D - construction paper

Spoiler

Answer: B (rubber eraser)
Value: $2,000 (doubled to $4,000)
Bank: $45,500

commercial break

The person Elyse embraced is her boyfriend Carl.

Question #6 (Classifying Catastrophies)
"Blind thrust," "dip-slip" and "supershear" are classifications related to what kind of natural disaster?
A - tornado
B - wildfire
C - flood
D - earthquake

Elyse smiles and says,

Spoiler

"Thank you masters in geology!"

Spoiler

Answer: D (earthquake)
Value: $10,000
Bank: $55,500

Question #7 (Organized Artists)
What artist's notebook includes a "to-do" list including reminders to "Draw Milan" and get a skull?
A - Boticelli
B - Michaelangelo
C - Raphael
D - da Vinci

When Elyse saw this one she had a gut feeling but she wasn't confident so she's going to jump the question. Meredith asks what her hunch was and she replies,

Spoiler

"da Vinci"

.

Spoiler

Answer: D (da Vinci)
Value: $100
Bank: $55,500 (unchanged)

Question #8 (All 4 U)
Which of these words is popular among texters even though it doesn't shorten the length of the word it's supposed to mean?
A - luv
B - enuf
C - kewl
D - l8er

Based on spelling them out there's only one that has the same number of letters.

Spoiler

Answer: C (kewl)
Value: $3,000
Bank: $58,500

Question #9 (Brand Names)
Once known as "Health Kups," Dixie Cups were named after a then-popular line of what?
A - stockings
B - dolls
C - musical instruments
D - hats

Elyse isn't too sure on this one. She's going to jump the question.

Spoiler

Answer: B (dolls)
Value: $7,000
Bank: $58,500 (unchanged)

commercial break

Question #10 (Wedding Shows)
Premiering on their wedding day, 10/11/75, Bill and Hillary Clinton were probably too busy to watch the first episode of what TV show?
A - Entertainment Tonight
B - Saturday Night Live
C - 20/20
D - SportsCenter

Elyse says that she's fired all the big guns already so she's going to have to figure out whether to use her last lifeline. She feels she knows it but isn't sure she wants to take any chances. The audience looks pretty smart today so she's going to ask them.

ATA results

A - 0%
B - 80%
C - 12%
D - 8%

Elyse looks rueful as she sees the results. She wasn't alive in 1975.

Spoiler

Answer: B (Saturday Night Live)
Value: $5,000
Bank: $63,500

CLASSIC MILLIONAIRE

$100K - With 32,256 jigsaw pieces, "Double Retrospect" depicts a montage of 32 works by what artist?
A - Andy Warhol
B - Keith Haring
C - Roy Lichtenstein
D - David Hockney

Elyse says she's gone really far and she's not going to risk it by guessing.

Spoiler

B (Keith Haring)

THE END OF GAME "NOISE"

Millionaire question of the day: (shown before Elyse's question 10)
With some theorizing it refers to the year Prohibition ended, "33" is a number that app0ears on bottles of what brand of beer?
A - Coors Light
B - Sam Adams
C - Rolling Rock
D - Miller Lite
Answer:

Spoiler

C (Rolling Rock)

[MarleysGh0st]

Elyse Peterson
Bridgewater, NJ
geologist

Elyse loves rocks and fossils. When she was young her class took a trip to the local geology museum. There was a wall of fossils and she was stunned. She later learned that they were trilobites and that made her decide she wanted to be a geologist. She has her master's degree in that subject. She has a trilobite tattoo on her right forearm. Her parents aren't too pleased.

<sigh>

Does anyone know when this episode was taped?

I wore a trilobite tie to my last audition, but here they have a contestant with a trilobite tattoo!

Question #10 (Wedding Shows)
Premiering on their wedding day, 10/11/75, Bill and Hillary Clinton were probably too busy to watch the first episode of what TV show?
A - Entertainment Tonight
B - Saturday Night Live
C - 20/20
D - SportsCenter

Elyse says that she's fired all the big guns already so she's going to have to figure out whether to use her last lifeline. She feels she knows it but isn't sure she wants to take any chances. The audience looks pretty smart today so she's going to ask them.

ATA results

A - 0%
B - 80%
C - 12%
D - 8%

Elyse looks rueful as she sees the results. She wasn't alive in 1975.

Spoiler

Answer: B (Saturday Night Live)
Value: $5,000
Bank: $63,500

I was alive in 1975 and that year sounded right for the premiere of SNL. But as I considered that choice, I realized there was a big clue in question: wedding days are typically on Saturday!

[SportsFan68]

Question #3 (A Life in Movies)
A rap star born Christopher Wallace is the subject of a recent biopic titled what?
A - Notorious
B - Walk the Line
C - I'm Not There
D - W.

Elyse knows that

Spoiler

Walk the Line is about Johnny Cash

and she's pretty sure that

Spoiler

W. is about George Bush

. She knows that Christopher Wallace was

Spoiler

the Notorious B.I.G. - "may he rest in peace"

.

Spoiler

Answer: A (Notorious)
Value: $25,000
Bank: $26,500

The only reason I know this is because I saw a trailer for Notorious on television.

Question #7 (Organized Artists)
What artist's notebook includes a "to-do" list including reminders to "Draw Milan" and get a skull?
A - Boticelli
B - Michaelangelo
C - Raphael
D - da Vinci

When Elyse saw this one she had a gut feeling but she wasn't confident so she's going to jump the question. Meredith asks what her hunch was and she replies,

Spoiler

"da Vinci"

.

Spoiler

Answer: D (da Vinci)
Value: $100
Bank: $55,500 (unchanged)

JTQ 1

Question #9 (Brand Names)
Once known as "Health Kups," Dixie Cups were named after a then-popular line of what?
A - stockings
B - dolls
C - musical instruments
D - hats

Elyse isn't too sure on this one. She's going to jump the question.

Spoiler

Answer: B (dolls)
Value: $7,000
Bank: $58,500 (unchanged)

Ugh! I would have guessed hats. JTQ 2

$100K - With 32,256 jigsaw pieces, "Double Retrospect" depicts a montage of 32 works by what artist?
A - Andy Warhol
B - Keith Haring
C - Roy Lichtenstein
D - David Hockney

Elyse says she's gone really far and she's not going to risk it by guessing.

Spoiler

B (Keith Haring)

ATA, but I'm guessing it's not going to help. I might take a big second spike response following Andy Warhol. . . . Nah, I wouldn't.

[earendel]

Elyse Peterson
Bridgewater, NJ
geologist

Elyse loves rocks and fossils. When she was young her class took a trip to the local geology museum. There was a wall of fossils and she was stunned. She later learned that they were trilobites and that made her decide she wanted to be a geologist. She has her master's degree in that subject. She has a trilobite tattoo on her right forearm. Her parents aren't too pleased.

It was large and colorful. I can see why her parents weren't pleased.

Question #3 (A Life in Movies)
A rap star born Christopher Wallace is the subject of a recent biopic titled what?
A - Notorious
B - Walk the Line
C - I'm Not There
D - W.

Elyse knows that

Spoiler

Walk the Line is about Johnny Cash

and she's pretty sure that

Spoiler

W. is about George Bush

. She knows that Christopher Wallace was

Spoiler

the Notorious B.I.G. - "may he rest in peace"

.

Spoiler

Answer: A (Notorious)
Value: $25,000
Bank: $26,500

I get this one by process of elimination, just as Elyse did.

Question #9 (Brand Names)
Once known as "Health Kups," Dixie Cups were named after a then-popular line of what?
A - stockings
B - dolls
C - musical instruments
D - hats

Elyse isn't too sure on this one. She's going to jump the question.

Spoiler

Answer: B (dolls)
Value: $7,000
Bank: $58,500 (unchanged)

I'll JTQ also. elwing had the right answer.

$100K - With 32,256 jigsaw pieces, "Double Retrospect" depicts a montage of 32 works by what artist?
A - Andy Warhol
B - Keith Haring
C - Roy Lichtenstein
D - David Hockney

Elyse says she's gone really far and she's not going to risk it by guessing.

Spoiler

B (Keith Haring)

I've never heard of Haring or Hockney. I use my second JTQ on this one.