Transcript 9/19/2014a - Lee Ann Roberts [ElendilPickle]

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Lee Ann Roberts (ElendilPickle)
Albuquerque, NM

Lee Ann flew 5200 miles to audition and 2000 miles to be on the show. Lee Ann has $48,500 in her bank and all of her lifelines. If she wins the million Lee Ann would like to do some "voluntourism", going places to help people in need. Terry asks what she would do for herself. Lee Ann replies that they live in the high desert and her backyard is basically sand, so she would like to do some landscaping.

Question #6:
With fans known as "hot dogs," Felix Frankfurter from Vienna was the United States' last foreign-born what?
A - Supreme Court justice
B - five-star general
C - Senate majority leader
D - Secretary of the Treasury

Lee Ann can't imagine how many of the people in any of those professions would have fans. She decides to jump the question.

Spoiler

Answer: A (Supreme Court justice)
Value: $10,000 (jumped)
Bank: $48,500

Question #7:
"We do not have green skin, and only some of us have warts" was a quote from a CNN article about what?
A - Why Germans Hate Oktoberfest
B - Why Atheists Hate Easter
C - Why Mexicans Hate Cinco de Mayo
D - Why Wiccans Hate Halloween

Lee Ann laughs. "That's an interesting question."

Spoiler

Answer: D (Why Wiccans Hate Halloween)
Value: $100
Bank: $48,600

Question #8:
What location in "The Walking Dead" is also the former name of Atlanta, where some of the show has been filmed?
A - Terminus
B - Greene Family Farm
C - Woodbury
D - Yellow Jacket Creek

Lee Ann isn't familiar with "The Walking Dead". But because it's a current show she's going to ask the audience.

Ask the Audience results

A - 25%
B - 18%
C - 40%
D - 17%

Lee Ann says the audience responses reflect a pretty good split. She decides to use her Plus 1 to invite Brandon to help her. Terry asks how they got together and Lee Ann says they are members of an online forum for people who like game shows and who have been on game shows. Brandon was on BAM a couple years ago and Lee Ann asked him to come and be her Plus 1. Brandon doesn't know a lot about The Walking Dead either. The audience's strongest answer is a pretty good percentage and Brandon thinks he's heard of Woodbury in association with Atlanta but he's not 100% sure and says he doesn't want her to go on his account. Lee Ann decides to go with the audience's answer.

Spoiler

Answer: A (Terminus)
Value: unrevealed
Bank: $1,000 (consolation prize)

commercial break

[SportsFan68]

Question #8:
What location in "The Walking Dead" is also the former name of Atlanta, where some of the show has been filmed?
A - Terminus
B - Greene Family Farm
C - Woodbury
D - Yellow Jacket Creek

Lee Ann isn't familiar with "The Walking Dead". But because it's a current show she's going to ask the audience.

Ask the Audience results

A - 25%
B - 18%
C - 40%
D - 17%

Lee Ann says the audience responses reflect a pretty good split. She decides to use her Plus 1 to invite Brandon to help her. Terry asks how they got together and Lee Ann says they are members of an online forum for people who like game shows and who have been on game shows. Brandon was on BAM a couple years ago and Lee Ann asked him to come and be her Plus 1. Brandon doesn't know a lot about The Walking Dead either. The audience's strongest answer is a pretty good percentage and Brandon thinks he's heard of Woodbury in association with Atlanta but he's not 100% sure and says he doesn't want her to go on his account. Lee Ann decides to go with the audience's answer.

Spoiler

Answer: A (Terminus)
Value: unrevealed
Bank: $1,000 (consolation prize)

JTQ

[SportsFan68]

Great job, Lee Ann. Wish I could have watched.

[tlynn78]

Lee Ann Roberts (ElendilPickle)
Albuquerque, NM

Lee Ann flew 5200 miles to audition and 2000 miles to be on the show. Lee Ann has $48,500 in her bank and all of her lifelines. If she wins the million Lee Ann would like to do some "voluntourism", going places to help people in need. Terry asks what she would do for herself. Lee Ann replies that they live in the high desert and her backyard is basically sand, so she would like to do some landscaping.

Question #6:
With fans known as "hot dogs," Felix Frankfurter from Vienna was the United States' last foreign-born what?
A - Supreme Court justice
B - five-star general
C - Senate majority leader
D - Secretary of the Treasury

Lee Ann can't imagine how many of the people in any of those professions would have fans. She decides to jump the question.

Spoiler

Answer: A (Supreme Court justice)
Value: $10,000 (jumped)
Bank: $48,500

Question #7:
"We do not have green skin, and only some of us have warts" was a quote from a CNN article about what?
A - Why Germans Hate Oktoberfest
B - Why Atheists Hate Easter
C - Why Mexicans Hate Cinco de Mayo
D - Why Wiccans Hate Halloween

Lee Ann laughs. "That's an interesting question."

Spoiler

Answer: D (Why Wiccans Hate Halloween)
Value: $100
Bank: $48,600

Question #8:
What location in "The Walking Dead" is also the former name of Atlanta, where some of the show has been filmed?
A - Terminus
B - Greene Family Farm
C - Woodbury
D - Yellow Jacket Creek

Lee Ann isn't familiar with "The Walking Dead". But because it's a current show she's going to ask the audience.

Ask the Audience results

A - 25%
B - 18%
C - 40%
D - 17%

Lee Ann says the audience responses reflect a pretty good split. She decides to use her Plus 1 to invite Brandon to help her. Terry asks how they got together and Lee Ann says they are members of an online forum for people who like game shows and who have been on game shows. Brandon was on BAM a couple years ago and Lee Ann asked him to come and be her Plus 1. Brandon doesn't know a lot about The Walking Dead either. The audience's strongest answer is a pretty good percentage and Brandon thinks he's heard of Woodbury in association with Atlanta but he's not 100% sure and says he doesn't want her to go on his account. Lee Ann decides to go with the audience's answer.

Spoiler

Answer: A (Terminus)
Value: unrevealed
Bank: $1,000 (consolation prize)

commercial break

I would have gone down here with the same answer, but without using any lifelines. Why do I associate Terminus with Atlanta so strongly in my head??

[Catfish]

I would have gone down here with the same answer, but without using any lifelines. Why do I associate Terminus with Atlanta so strongly in my head??

I had the feeling it was Terminus but didn't know why. Could it have been in Gone with the Wind?

[ghostjmf]

catfish says:

I had the feeling it was Terminus but didn't know why. Could it have been in Gone with the Wind?

tlynn78 says:

I would have gone down here with the same answer, but without using any lifelines. Why do I associate Terminus with Atlanta so strongly in my head??

Terminus was the original name for Atlanta. This is one of the very few things I remember from studying atlases in order to be on BAM. They also may have actually previously used this as a Q (the original name for Atlanta part, not the Walking Dead part). Or J! has.

At any rate, I don't watch Walking Dead. Even if I had cable I wouldn't be watching Walking Dead. So I had no idea whether Terminus figured in WD. Nor whether those other names are prominent in Atlanta or not. They probably are? Or if they figure in WD or not. So I was halfway to knowing the answer to this one.

Oh; now I read what I didn't read on my TV set, that they do give away the "former name" part in the Q. For some reason I thought they were just giving Atlanta locations (my brain, as well as the rest of me, is not in good shape these days). So unless those other places were also former names for Atlanta, I did have the answer.


That the audience got it wrong for Ellendil is a major bummer.

[silverscreenselect]

At any rate, I don't watch Walking Dead. Even if I had cable I wouldn't be watching Walking Dead. So I had no idea whether Terminus figured in WD.

Both Terminus and Woodbury have been on The Walking Dead. Terminus is the town that the main characters wound up in at the end of last season where they were taken captive (by what may be a bunch of cannibals). Woodbury was mentioned prominently in earlier seasons as the town run by the evil Governor. Because Woodbury was featured on far more episodes than Terminus, I can see why the audience would have selected it.

Being from Atlanta (and watching the Walking Dead), this would have been an instaget.

[tlynn78]

At any rate, I don't watch Walking Dead. Even if I had cable I wouldn't be watching Walking Dead. So I had no idea whether Terminus figured in WD.

Both Terminus and Woodbury have been on The Walking Dead. Terminus is the town that the main characters wound up in at the end of last season where they were taken captive (by what may be a bunch of cannibals). Woodbury was mentioned prominently in earlier seasons as the town run by the evil Governor. Because Woodbury was featured on far more episodes than Terminus, I can see why the audience would have selected it.

Being from Atlanta (and watching the Walking Dead), this would have been an instaget.

If both Terminus and Woodbury were former names for Atlanta, I am still missing why Terminus is less right than Woodbury - the question doesn't ask which was featured more in WD.. still missing something, I am.

[TheConfessor]

At any rate, I don't watch Walking Dead. Even if I had cable I wouldn't be watching Walking Dead. So I had no idea whether Terminus figured in WD.

Both Terminus and Woodbury have been on The Walking Dead. Terminus is the town that the main characters wound up in at the end of last season where they were taken captive (by what may be a bunch of cannibals). Woodbury was mentioned prominently in earlier seasons as the town run by the evil Governor. Because Woodbury was featured on far more episodes than Terminus, I can see why the audience would have selected it.

Being from Atlanta (and watching the Walking Dead), this would have been an instaget.

If both Terminus and Woodbury were former names for Atlanta, I am still missing why Terminus is less right than Woodbury - the question doesn't ask which was featured more in WD.. still missing something, I am.

I don't see any statement in this thread that Woodbury is a former name of Atlanta, so that may be what you're missing. Assuming the writers are correct, only Terminus is a former name of Atlanta.

Regarding Gone With The Wind references to Terminus, yes, the original book mentioned Terminus three times. Here are the first two, and the third is a few paragraphs later.

The story Gerald had told her was based on the fact that she and
Atlanta were christened in the same year. In the nine years
before Scarlett was born, the town had been called, first,
Terminus and then Marthasville, and not until the year of
Scarlett's birth had it become Atlanta.

When Gerald first moved to north Georgia, there had been no
Atlanta at all, not even the semblance of a village, and
wilderness rolled over the site. But the next year, in 1836, the
State had authorized the building of a railroad northwestward
through the territory which the Cherokees had recently ceded. The
destination of the proposed railroad, Tennessee and the West, was
clear and definite, but its beginning point in Georgia was
somewhat uncertain until, a year later, an engineer drove a stake
in the red clay to mark the southern end of the line, and Atlanta,
born Terminus, had begun.

[tlynn78]

Both Terminus and Woodbury have been on The Walking Dead. Terminus is the town that the main characters wound up in at the end of last season where they were taken captive (by what may be a bunch of cannibals). Woodbury was mentioned prominently in earlier seasons as the town run by the evil Governor. Because Woodbury was featured on far more episodes than Terminus, I can see why the audience would have selected it.

Being from Atlanta (and watching the Walking Dead), this would have been an instaget.

If both Terminus and Woodbury were former names for Atlanta, I am still missing why Terminus is less right than Woodbury - the question doesn't ask which was featured more in WD.. still missing something, I am.

I don't see any statement in this thread that Woodbury is a former name of Atlanta, so that may be what you're missing. Assuming the writers are correct, only Terminus is a former name of Atlanta.

Regarding Gone With The Wind references to Terminus, yes, the original book mentioned Terminus three times. Here are the first two, and the third is a few paragraphs later.

The story Gerald had told her was based on the fact that she and
Atlanta were christened in the same year. In the nine years
before Scarlett was born, the town had been called, first,
Terminus and then Marthasville, and not until the year of
Scarlett's birth had it become Atlanta.

When Gerald first moved to north Georgia, there had been no
Atlanta at all, not even the semblance of a village, and
wilderness rolled over the site. But the next year, in 1836, the
State had authorized the building of a railroad northwestward
through the territory which the Cherokees had recently ceded. The
destination of the proposed railroad, Tennessee and the West, was
clear and definite, but its beginning point in Georgia was
somewhat uncertain until, a year later, an engineer drove a stake
in the red clay to mark the southern end of the line, and Atlanta,
born Terminus, had begun.

Never mind - I swear sometimes I think I've had a mini stroke. I read the transcript as saying SHE had answered Terminus and got it wrong. It only took me reading it three more times to get it. Ugh.

[earendel]

Lee Ann Roberts (ElendilPickle)
Albuquerque, NM

Lee Ann flew 5200 miles to audition and 2000 miles to be on the show. Lee Ann has $48,500 in her bank and all of her lifelines. If she wins the million Lee Ann would like to do some "voluntourism", going places to help people in need. Terry asks what she would do for herself. Lee Ann replies that they live in the high desert and her backyard is basically sand, so she would like to do some landscaping.

I hope her first show will be transcribed and posted soon.

Question #6:
With fans known as "hot dogs," Felix Frankfurter from Vienna was the United States' last foreign-born what?
A - Supreme Court justice
B - five-star general
C - Senate majority leader
D - Secretary of the Treasury

Lee Ann can't imagine how many of the people in any of those professions would have fans. She decides to jump the question.

Spoiler

Answer: A (Supreme Court justice)
Value: $10,000 (jumped)
Bank: $48,500

I didn't know that he had fans but I knew that he was a Supreme Court justice.

Question #8:
What location in "The Walking Dead" is also the former name of Atlanta, where some of the show has been filmed?
A - Terminus
B - Greene Family Farm
C - Woodbury
D - Yellow Jacket Creek

Lee Ann isn't familiar with "The Walking Dead". But because it's a current show she's going to ask the audience.

Ask the Audience results

A - 25%
B - 18%
C - 40%
D - 17%

Lee Ann says the audience responses reflect a pretty good split. She decides to use her Plus 1 to invite Brandon to help her. Terry asks how they got together and Lee Ann says they are members of an online forum for people who like game shows and who have been on game shows. Brandon was on BAM a couple years ago and Lee Ann asked him to come and be her Plus 1. Brandon doesn't know a lot about The Walking Dead either. The audience's strongest answer is a pretty good percentage and Brandon thinks he's heard of Woodbury in association with Atlanta but he's not 100% sure and says he doesn't want her to go on his account. Lee Ann decides to go with the audience's answer.

Spoiler

Answer: A (Terminus)
Value: unrevealed
Bank: $1,000 (consolation prize)

I wouldn't have had any idea - I'm not into zombie culture and my knowledge of Atlanta is limited. If I still had it, I'd use my JTQ.

[Catfish]

[snippity-do-dah]
Regarding Gone With The Wind references to Terminus, yes, the original book mentioned Terminus three times. Here are the first two, and the third is a few paragraphs later.

The story Gerald had told her was based on the fact that she and
Atlanta were christened in the same year. In the nine years
before Scarlett was born, the town had been called, first,
Terminus and then Marthasville, and not until the year of
Scarlett's birth had it become Atlanta.

When Gerald first moved to north Georgia, there had been no
Atlanta at all, not even the semblance of a village, and
wilderness rolled over the site. But the next year, in 1836, the
State had authorized the building of a railroad northwestward
through the territory which the Cherokees had recently ceded. The
destination of the proposed railroad, Tennessee and the West, was
clear and definite, but its beginning point in Georgia was
somewhat uncertain until, a year later, an engineer drove a stake
in the red clay to mark the southern end of the line, and Atlanta,
born Terminus, had begun.

Thank you, Mr. Confessor!
Love,

[ElendilPickle]

I focused on the wrong part of that last question.

A terminus is where a railroad ends. If I had thought about that, that would have gotten me to the Civil War, and Sherman destroying the railroads in Georgia, and I would have gotten the right answer without using those lifelines. Unfortunately, I didn't figure it out until I was on my way back to the green room.

[tlynn78]

I focused on the wrong part of that last question.

A terminus is where a railroad ends. If I had thought about that, that would have gotten me to the Civil War, and Sherman destroying the railroads in Georgia, and I would have gotten the right answer without using those lifelines. Unfortunately, I didn't figure it out until I was on my way back to the green room.

That 'figuring' part is a whole lot harder in the seat than at home or (especially) in hindsight. Well, spot now; formerly, seat.

[jarnon]

Did you see the cover of the latest TV Guide?



If you're like me, it makes you cringe. (I cringed yesterday evening at the National Constitution Center, when I passed a row of state flags in chronological order.)

[Catfish]

If you're like me, it makes you cringe. (I cringed yesterday evening at the National Constitution Center, when I passed a row of state flags in chronological order.)

Cringe whenever I'm reminded that VE Day is in May.

[ElendilPickle]

Did you see the cover of the latest TV Guide?



If you're like me, it makes you cringe. (I cringed yesterday evening at the National Constitution Center, when I passed a row of state flags in chronological order.)

I knew about Walking Dead before I was on the show (though not much, obviously), but since then, Walking Dead stuff is everywhere. Bumper stickers, t-shirts, you name it. I mentioned that to dh, who works at a music store, and he said they'd just gotten in a choral piece called Terminus.

[MarleysGh0st]

Lee Ann flew 5200 miles to audition and 2000 miles to be on the show.

Can you tell us about your audition experiences, Lee Ann? How many times did you audition and where did you go for them?

Question #6:
With fans known as "hot dogs," Felix Frankfurter from Vienna was the United States' last foreign-born what?
A - Supreme Court justice
B - five-star general
C - Senate majority leader
D - Secretary of the Treasury

Lee Ann can't imagine how many of the people in any of those professions would have fans. She decides to jump the question.

Spoiler

Answer: A (Supreme Court justice)
Value: $10,000 (jumped)
Bank: $48,500

I knew who Frankfurter was, but I had the same reaction to the phrasing of the question as Lee Ann did. When did any of these positions come with "fans"?

According to this quote from Wikipedia, the question writers may have used that term very loosely (in the "New Deal" section, before he was appointed to the Supreme Court):

Frankfurter successfully recommended many bright young lawyers toward public service with the New Deal administration; they became known as "Felix's Happy Hot Dogs".[30][31]

They might have been protégés, but I wouldn't call them "fans"

Question #8:
What location in "The Walking Dead" is also the former name of Atlanta, where some of the show has been filmed?
A - Terminus
B - Greene Family Farm
C - Woodbury
D - Yellow Jacket Creek

Lee Ann isn't familiar with "The Walking Dead". But because it's a current show she's going to ask the audience.

Ask the Audience results

A - 25%
B - 18%
C - 40%
D - 17%

Lee Ann says the audience responses reflect a pretty good split. She decides to use her Plus 1 to invite Brandon to help her. Terry asks how they got together and Lee Ann says they are members of an online forum for people who like game shows and who have been on game shows. Brandon was on BAM a couple years ago and Lee Ann asked him to come and be her Plus 1. Brandon doesn't know a lot about The Walking Dead either. The audience's strongest answer is a pretty good percentage and Brandon thinks he's heard of Woodbury in association with Atlanta but he's not 100% sure and says he doesn't want her to go on his account. Lee Ann decides to go with the audience's answer.

Spoiler

Answer: A (Terminus)
Value: unrevealed
Bank: $1,000 (consolation prize)

I'm sorry you got Dursted by the audience, Lee Ann. I'm also surprised that there were so few Walking Dead fans in that audience, since the right answer didn't get any more than its expected share of a random guess response, with Woodbury picking up the lion's share of guesses, probably because it sounded far more likely as a town name that choices B and D.

As as big fan of Walking Dead, I'm looking forward to the return of the show in October, so we can find out how the cast gets themselves out of the very deep trouble they've gotten into, in Terminus. If they weren't stars of the show, I'd say they were doomed, without a doubt.

[SportsFan68]

Lee Ann Roberts (ElendilPickle)
Albuquerque, NM

Lee Ann flew 5200 miles to audition and 2000 miles to be on the show.

I didn't notice until this post that Lee Ann and I are in the same neck of the woods -- I'm just a few hundred miles upstream, except none of the streams I live near empty into the Rio Grande; they all end up in the Colorado.

Anyway, I'm delighted to see an Out Westerner do so well in the Hot Seat. I wish I were going to the bridge tournament in Taos this weekend, maybe we could have worked out a lunch date. Oh well, there'll be other times I'm south of the border.

Congratulations again, Lee Ann.

[BackInTex]

Question #8:
What location in "The Walking Dead" is also the former name of Atlanta, where some of the show has been filmed?
A - Terminus
B - Greene Family Farm
C - Woodbury
D - Yellow Jacket Creek

All I know is Sad Fred says it is not "Atlanta Hartsfield Jackson International" Airport. And he can kiss my ass.

[ElendilPickle]

Lee Ann flew 5200 miles to audition and 2000 miles to be on the show.

Can you tell us about your audition experiences, Lee Ann? How many times did you audition and where did you go for them?

I decided to try for Millionaire after I was on Jeopardy in 2013. Once my year of non-eligibility was up, I started checking on audition dates.

We were in Wales with dh's men's a capella choir when the audition date for Las Vegas was posted in late May. The audition was five days after we were scheduled to return to the US, and I wasn't sure if I should go since I didn't know how tired I would be after the trip. Dh encouraged me to try out, so I flew to Vegas the day before auditions. Basically, I was home long enough to do laundry and make arrangements for my absence.

I got a contestant pool email the day after I got home from the audition, and the call came less than a week later, on the 20th. We took a red-eye to JFK June 25th, and I taped on the 27th.

[MarleysGh0st]

Those were quick responses to your audition!

But I'm still trying to figure out how one round trip from Albuquerque to Vegas equalled flying 5200 miles to audition. Was that counting the return trip home from Wales?

[vettech]

Lee Ann flew 5200 miles to audition and 2000 miles to be on the show.

Can you tell us about your audition experiences, Lee Ann? How many times did you audition and where did you go for them?

I decided to try for Millionaire after I was on Jeopardy in 2013. Once my year of non-eligibility was up, I started checking on audition dates.

We were in Wales with dh's men's a capella choir when the audition date for Las Vegas was posted in late May. The audition was five days after we were scheduled to return to the US, and I wasn't sure if I should go since I didn't know how tired I would be after the trip. Dh encouraged me to try out, so I flew to Vegas the day before auditions. Basically, I was home long enough to do laundry and make arrangements for my absence.

I got a contestant pool email the day after I got home from the audition, and the call came less than a week later, on the 20th. We took a red-eye to JFK June 25th, and I taped on the 27th.

I once auditioned on my way home from Hawaii. It did not go well... I'm glad it worked for you!

Fortunately I kept trying.