Transcript 4/13/16 Missy Hillock (carryover)

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Missy Hillock
Psychologist
Louisville, Ky.

If Missy wins a million, she and her firefighter husband want to open a bed-and-breakfast.

$10,000
Of the four corners on the United States flag, how many of them are red?
A: 0 B: 1
C: 2 D: 3

Answer

D: 3

$20,000
Though it’s unconfirmed, medical researchers who’ve studied Rembrandt’s self-portraits believe he may have had amblyopia, a condition commonly known as what?
A: Attached earlobes B: Cleft palate
C: Nervous tic D: Lazy eye

Answer

D: Lazy eye

$30,000
What classic Christmas song was written by a Jewish man who grew up in a Yiddish-speaking home and whose real name was Israel Isidore Baline?
A: Santa Claus is Coming to Town B: We Three Kings
C: White Christmas D: All I Want for Christmas Is You

Answer

Missy says B: We Three Kings.
The correct answer is C: White Christmas.
Missy wins $5,000.

Commercial break

[jarnon]

Missy Hillock
Psychologist
Louisville, Ky.

If Missy wins a million, she and her firefighter husband want to open a bed-and-breakfast.

$30,000
What classic Christmas song was written by a Jewish man who grew up in a Yiddish-speaking home and whose real name was Israel Isidore Baline?
A: Santa Claus is Coming to Town B: We Three Kings
C: White Christmas D: All I Want for Christmas Is You

Answer

Missy says B: We Three Kings.
The correct answer is C: White Christmas.
Missy wins $5,000.

Ironically, the song is from the movie Holiday Inn, which is about a bed-and-breakfast.

[earendel]

Missy Hillock
Psychologist
Louisville, Ky.

If Missy wins a million, she and her firefighter husband want to open a bed-and-breakfast.

$10,000
Of the four corners on the United States flag, how many of them are red?
A: 0 B: 1
C: 2 D: 3

Answer

D: 3

And 9 rows of stars.

$30,000
What classic Christmas song was written by a Jewish man who grew up in a Yiddish-speaking home and whose real name was Israel Isidore Baline?
A: Santa Claus is Coming to Town B: We Three Kings
C: White Christmas D: All I Want for Christmas Is You

Answer

Missy says B: We Three Kings.
The correct answer is C: White Christmas.
Missy wins $5,000.

She eliminated White Christmas fairly early. I was surprised that Chris didn't say that the writer was better known as Irving Berlin.

[ghostjmf]

10K: SSS will be happy to know that what I did in my head was count "red stripe/white stripe" up to 13, not just try & picture the flag.

20K: I had a cousin who was operated on for this problem.

30K: All that stuff about Jewishness really mislead the contestant. If you already know that Irving Berlin was born Israel Isadore Baline & wrote "White Christmas", you know it. Otherwise, all that stuff is irrelevant but contestant used it to rule out right answer.

[K.P.]

Missy was in the green room with me on tape day. She's a wonderfully fun lady, and she and I stuck up an immediate friendship. In the green room, she told us that her lucky number was 14, so she planned on answering 14 questions and winning the million in this 14th season. She was particularly excited when I informed her that if successful, she'd be the 14th millionaire.

I'm happy to say that she has opened her bed and breakfast since taping her show. The Chateau Bourbon in Prospect, Kentucky.

[MarleysGh0st]

30K: All that stuff about Jewishness really mislead the contestant. If you already know that Irving Berlin was born Israel Isadore Baline & wrote "White Christmas", you know it. Otherwise, all that stuff is irrelevant but contestant used it to rule out right answer.

I wouldn't say the hints mislead her; she just followed them in an unexpected direction. Rather than making the connection between his birth name and his professional name, she tried to identify a song with a logical connection to Judaism. And she failed in that, since the three kings (or wise men) don't have any such connection.

[SportsFan68]

So far, so good.