Transcript 4/17/2015 - Linda Kerr

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Linda Kerr
Houston, TX
flight attendant

She and Terry joke about being color coordinated.

Question #1: Meant to be a comment on quality, what beverage's slogan has caused some to ask, "So what's wrong with the last drop"?
A - V8
B - Maxwell House
C - Yoo-hoo
D - Kool-Aid

Linda rejoices because she knows the first answer.

Spoiler

Answer: B (Maxwell House)
Value: $25,000
Bank: $25,000

Linda's +1 comes out of her seat and they embrace on stage.

Question #2: For Sports Illustrated in 2014, a bikini-clad Kate Upton floated around in a reduced gravity aircraft commonly called a what?
A - vomit comet
B - whirl and hurl
C - barfflier
D - upchuck rocket

Linda says the nickname could refer to any of them but she knows the right answer.

Spoiler

Answer: A (vomit comet)
Value: $7,000
Bank: $32,000

Question #3: Where on Earth can you find about 12,000 people living inside General MacArthur?
A - Japan
B - New Guinea
C - Philippines
D - Indonesia

Linda has a fairly strong idea but wants to think about it. She decides she wants to jump the question.

Spoiler

Answer: C (Philippines)
Value: $15,000 (jumped)
Bank: $32,000 (unchanged)

Question #4: Germans sometimes call a gadget that can do everything an "eierlegende Wollmilchsau," which translates to what?
A - fuel-friendly compact bus bike
B - egg-laying wool milk pig
C - 50" flat-screen pocket tablet
D - drive-thru grocery dry cleaning gym

Linda has flown to Germany but she never heard this mentioned and the only German she speaks is "Gesundheit". Nothing is jumping out at her so she's going to ask the audience.

Spoiler

Ask the Audience results:
A - 16%
B - 63%
C - 14%
D - 7%

Linda is glad that there are people in the audience who speak German. That's a strong number and she's going with the audience.

Spoiler

Answer: B (egg-laying wool milk pig)
Value: $2,000
Bank: $34,000

commercial break

Question #5: Despite being a teenager through most of it, who told Time magazine he didn't really learn about the Great Depression until reading about it while attending Harvard?
A - Richard Nixon
B - John F. Kennedy
C - Ronald Reagan
D - George W. Bush

Spoiler

Answer: B (John F. Kennedy)
Value: $1,000
Bank: $35,000

Question #6: Rule 2, Section 1 of what sports league's rule book states, "The Ball musts be a 'Wilson'"?
A - NBA
B - PGA
C - NFL
D - MLB

Linda says she

Spoiler

sees a round orange ball in her mind - so it's not the PGA or MLB

. She then comments that

Spoiler

the NFL doesn't have round balls

.

Spoiler

Answer: C (NFL)
Value: unrevealed
Bank: $1,000 (consolation prize)

commercial break

MILLIONAIRE "QUESTION OF THE DAY": What kind of animals live in nests known as drays?
A - squirrels
B - eagles
C - turtles
D - badgers

Spoiler

Answer: A (squirrels)

[ghostjmf]

Q4: I don't speak German, but I know "woll" from both clothes labels & obvious Eng equiv, & "milch" from both Yiddish & obvious Eng equiv.

Q6: I saw the movie, I'd go for NBA, I'd be out. Here's where knowing Q value would sure have helped determining if "obvious" ans is right one.

[SportsFan68]

Question #6: Rule 2, Section 1 of what sports league's rule book states, "The Ball musts be a 'Wilson'"?
A - NBA
B - PGA
C - NFL
D - MLB

Linda says she

Spoiler

sees a round orange ball in her mind - so it's not the PGA or MLB

. She then comments that

Spoiler

the NFL doesn't have round balls

.

Spoiler

Answer: C (NFL)
Value: unrevealed
Bank: $1,000 (consolation prize)

Can't believe I never heard of this. JTQ

[Estonut]

Q6: I saw the movie, I'd go for NBA, I'd be out. Here's where knowing Q value would sure have helped determining if "obvious" ans is right one.

There's a movie about the NBA rule book?

[ghostjmf]

Estonut:

There's a movie "Cast Away", where Tom Hanks plays a man stranded alone on an island with, among other stuff that survived the plane wreck along w/ him, a basketball he calls Wilson, from the name printed on it. Gotta talk to something. Its a narrative device for the movie.


I saw the movie on TV years after it came out. But I already knew about Wilson because every review mentioned "the basketball he talks to". I read/hear/watch far more reviews than actually see movies.

It stands to reason that the Wilson company would make balls for other sports. And that one of the other sports might dictate "Wilson only" in their rule book. If I'd known this was a high-level Q, I might have thought that far. But these days they don't even show you the Q levels, at least not on-air.

[ghostjmf]

Also to clarify, since I may have once posted that I'm allergic to wool worn against my skin (specifically to the lanolin in it; can't use many lotions for that reason either), though I can wear wool coats & cover my also-sheet-covered form with wool blankets w/ no problem, & someone inclined to go archive digging may throw that at me, that I actually know the clothes-label "woll" from "baumwoll", translating to "cotton", a fabric I wear with no problem.

[earendel]

Linda Kerr
Houston, TX
flight attendant

She and Terry joke about being color coordinated.

Question #2: For Sports Illustrated in 2014, a bikini-clad Kate Upton floated around in a reduced gravity aircraft commonly called a what?
A - vomit comet
B - whirl and hurl
C - barfflier
D - upchuck rocket

Linda says the nickname could refer to any of them but she knows the right answer.

Spoiler

Answer: A (vomit comet)
Value: $7,000
Bank: $32,000

It's not a "reduced gravity aircraft". It's a specially designed cargo plane.

Question #3: Where on Earth can you find about 12,000 people living inside General MacArthur?
A - Japan
B - New Guinea
C - Philippines
D - Indonesia

Linda has a fairly strong idea but wants to think about it. She decides she wants to jump the question.

Spoiler

Answer: C (Philippines)
Value: $15,000 (jumped)
Bank: $32,000 (unchanged)

I figured it was either Japan or the Philippines and would have gone with the latter as more likely.

Question #4: Germans sometimes call a gadget that can do everything an "eierlegende Wollmilchsau," which translates to what?
A - fuel-friendly compact bus bike
B - egg-laying wool milk pig
C - 50" flat-screen pocket tablet
D - drive-thru grocery dry cleaning gym

Linda has flown to Germany but she never heard this mentioned and the only German she speaks is "Gesundheit". Nothing is jumping out at her so she's going to ask the audience.

Spoiler

Ask the Audience results:
A - 16%
B - 63%
C - 14%
D - 7%

Linda is glad that there are people in the audience who speak German. That's a strong number and she's going with the audience.

Spoiler

Answer: B (egg-laying wool milk pig)
Value: $2,000
Bank: $34,000

Woll = wool, milch = milk, and sau = pig.

Question #6: Rule 2, Section 1 of what sports league's rule book states, "The Ball musts be a 'Wilson'"?
A - NBA
B - PGA
C - NFL
D - MLB

Linda says she

Spoiler

sees a round orange ball in her mind - so it's not the PGA or MLB

. She then comments that

Spoiler

the NFL doesn't have round balls

.

Spoiler

Answer: C (NFL)
Value: unrevealed
Bank: $1,000 (consolation prize)

I expected "volleyball" to be one of the choices.

[Estonut]

Estonut:

There's a movie "Cast Away", where Tom Hanks plays a man stranded alone on an island with, among other stuff that survived the plane wreck along w/ him, a basketball he calls Wilson, from the name printed on it. Gotta talk to something. Its a narrative device for the movie.


I saw the movie on TV years after it came out. But I already knew about Wilson because every review mentioned "the basketball he talks to". I read/hear/watch far more reviews than actually see movies.

It stands to reason that the Wilson company would make balls for other sports. And that one of the other sports might dictate "Wilson only" in their rule book. If I'd known this was a high-level Q, I might have thought that far. But these days they don't even show you the Q levels, at least not on-air.

"Wilson" in "Cast Away" was a volleyball.

[ghostjmf]

See; I'm remembering a basketball. I'm screwed by this Q all around.

At least volley & basketballs are both round. Sigh.