Transcript 11/28/2014 Michael Gelman

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Michael Gelman
TV producer

Michael became one of the youngest TV producers ever at the age of 24 and is an Emmy-award winning producer of "Live with Kelly and Michael". Michael is playing for the March of Dimes because his daughter Misha was born 6 weeks premature. This is National Prematurity Month. Terry says that he has a special message for Michael and plays a video of Kelly and Michael. Michael says Gelman will do well but Kelly says he should just cut a check to the March of Dimes and not embarrass him or them. Michael's +1 is his wife Laurie. She's a pop culture expert and knows a lot.

Question #1: What now-trademarked sound did Edgar Rice Burroughs once describe in his books as "the victory cry of the bull ape"?
A - The wolfman's howl
B - Tarzan's yell
C - Frankenstein's growl
D - Long John Silver's laugh

Spoiler

Answer: B (Tarzan's yell)
Value: $1,000
Bank: $1,000

Question #2: Complete with dozens of rocking chairs, the Grand Hotel on Michigan's Mackinac Island boasts that it has the world's largest what?
A - basement
B - porch
C - elevator
D - water slide

Michael grew up in the midwest and he knows this resort.

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Answer: B (porch)
Value: $100
Bank: $1,100

Question #3: You'll find dozens of different facial expressions and a few hand gestures in what foreign language book that helps you communicate like a "true paesano"?
A - German Without Umlauts
B - French Without Punctuation
C - Italian Without Words
D - Spanish Without Vowels

Michael says that

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paesano

is the key.

Spoiler

Answer: C (Italian Without Words)
Value: $10,000
Bank: $11,100

commercial break

Question #4: A 2011 study by Brigham and Women's Hospital found that women have a shorter circadian rhythm cycle than men, suggesting they're more likely to what?
A - forget things
B - eat less
C - exercise more
D - wake up early

Michael says that

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circadian rhythms lead him to "wake up early"

.

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Answer: D (wake up early)
Value: $7,000
Bank: $18,100

Question #5: Though being "born in" one is an idiom for uncouthness, the New York Times recently noted a trend of people choosing to get married in a what?
A - gym
B - parking lot
C - barn
D - Walmart Supercenter

Spoiler

Answer: C (barn)
Value: $15,000
Bank: $33,100

Question #6: Similar to the symbol for infinity, the mathematical figure known as a lemniscate looks like what number turned on its side?
A - 1
B - 4
C - 8
D - 9

Michael says he thinks it might be

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8, but then says, "or 9"

. He decides to ask the audience, saying he hopes they aren't swayed by his thoughts.

Ask the Audience results

Ask the Audience results:
A - 0%
B - 1%
C - 90%
D - 9%

Michael goes with the audience.

Spoiler

Answer: C (8)
Value: $2,000
Bank: $35,100

commercial break

Question #7: Steven Tyler has admitted that the Aerosmith song "Walk This Way" was inspired by a gag in what Mel Brooks comedy?
A - Young Frankenstein
B - Blazing Saddles
C - The Producers
D - Spaceballs

Michael says that this is the type of pop culture question that his +1 would know so he calls upon his wife. Laurie says this is a tough one but she knows it. She refers to a scene from

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Young Frankenstein, where Igor slouches across the screen

.

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Answer: A (Young Frankenstein)
Value: $5,000
Bank: $40,100

Question #8: Defined by Merriam-Webster as something that serves to inflame, what word is also the name of a popular "dating" app?
A - Kindling
B - Fatwood
C - Tinder
D - Butane

Spoiler

Answer: C (Tinder)
Value: $3,000
Bank: $43,100

Question #9: Said to taste better than today's ubiquitous Cavendish vareity, the Gros Michel was the most popular type of what until a fungus nearly wiped it out?
A - banana
B - watermelon
C - apple
D - orange

Before the answers came up an answer came to Michael but now he's second-guessing himself. He doesn't want to rush and make a hasty decision. He decides to go with his initial instinct and makes

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C

his final answer.

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Answer: A (banana)
Value: unrevealed
Bank: $10,000 (minimum guarantee)

MILLIONAIRE "QUESTION OF THE DAY": Still in his 20 in 1997, Michael Gelman became one of TV's youngest producers upon taking over what show, known today as "Live with Kelly and Michael"?
A - Rise and Shine!
B - The Morning Show
C - Breakfast TV
D - Wake Up and Smile

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Answer: B (The Morning Show)