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Patrick Pugh
Laurel, DE

Patrick comes in from the bench, walks around the outside of the floor (where the Ring of Fire used to be) to where the former contestant entrance was and then walks to the Hot Seat. Meredith says he's a jokester and Patrick replies that he didn't know where he was going.

$100 - In a common holiday tradition, children visit shopping malls to have their photos taken with what iconic figure?

A - Uncle Sam
B - Santa Claus
C - Father Time
D - Ryan Seacrest

Spoiler

B - Santa Claus (8)

$200 - Other than a question mark, what is the only puncutation mark to appear in this question?

A - exclamation point
B - semicolon
C - period
D - comma

Spoiler

D - comma (10)

$300 - The 2008 horror flick "Prom Night" features main characters who are mostly what?

A - infants
B - teens
C - middle-aged
D - senior citizens

Spoiler

B - teens (8)

$500 - After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, what president famously called December 7, 1941, "a date that will live in infamy?"

A - Franklin D. Roosevelt
B - Woodrow Wilson
C - Dwight Eisenhower
D - Harry Truman

Spoiler

A - FDR (8)

$1K - In which of these games do players move their pieces onto spaces around the edge of the board but never into the center?

A - Trivial Pursuit
B - Chutes and Ladders
C - Monopoly
D - Candy Land

Spoiler

C - Monopoly (6)

[commercial break]

Patrick is a summer (??) police officer and a bit of a comedian who cracks up his friends with an imitation of Chris Farley as motivational speaker Matt Foley. Patrick does a bit of it for Meredith.

The category tree is finally revealed:

- Famous Pets
- Medals
- Human Development
- Supreme Court
- The Middle East
- Words
- Writers
- Band Names
- Historical Events
- Sleep
- Games
- Famous Quotes
- Horror Movies
- Grammar
- Holiday Traditions

$2K - Governing wakefulness and sleep, the "circadian rhythm" is a cycle of biological process that lasts approximately how long?

A - one hour
B - one day
C - one month
D - one year

Spoiler

B - one day (15)

$4K - What unpleasant historical event is the subject of a 1997 scholarly article titled "Did the Cow Do It?"

A - Hindenburg explosion
B - Cuban missile crisis
C - great Chicago fire
D - Irish potato famine

Spoiler

Ryan says that he remembers that for long time they thought that a cow...then realizing the clock is ticking he makes C his final answer.

Spoiler

C - great Chicago fire (10)

$8K - Famous for the hit "Mr. Robato" the '70s band Styx shares its name with what type of natural landmark from Greek mythology?

A - river
B - mountain
C - tree
D - desert

Spoiler

Ryan knows that the Styx is the river that the boatman ferries people across to the land of the underworld so he makes A his final answer.

Spoiler

A - river (17)

THE HORN!!!!!

Patrick will return on Monday with all his lifelines still available.

ANSWERS:
$100 - B (Santa Claus)
$200 - D (comma)
$300 - B (teens)
$500 - A (Franklin D. Roosevelt)
$1K - C (Monopoly)
$2K - B (one day)
$4K - C (great Chicago fire)
$8K - A (river)

Here's an odd article about Patrick's appearance. It mentions that Patrick was "the second contestant from Delmarva to appear on the game show 'Who Wants To Be A Millionaire,'" but it doesn't bother to mention how Patrick did on Friday or the fact that he'll be the carryover contestant on Monday!

http://www.delmarvanow.com/apps/pbcs.dl ... /809280313

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Patrick Pugh
Laurel, DE

Patrick comes in from the bench, walks around the outside of the floor (where the Ring of Fire used to be) to where the former contestant entrance was and then walks to the Hot Seat. Meredith says he's a jokester and Patrick replies that he didn't know where he was going.

It would only be a joke to those who used to watch PTBAM or previous seasons of CindyBAM. Which raises the question: Why did they change the entrance?

It's a nihil obstat® stack. Patrick wanted to expound on several of his answers (the Chicago fire, Styx) but, constrained by the clock he couldn't.

earendel wrote:

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Patrick Pugh
Laurel, DE

Patrick comes in from the bench, walks around the outside of the floor (where the Ring of Fire used to be) to where the former contestant entrance was and then walks to the Hot Seat. Meredith says he's a jokester and Patrick replies that he didn't know where he was going.

It would only be a joke to those who used to watch PTBAM or previous seasons of CindyBAM. Which raises the question: Why did they change the entrance?

Probably because they decided to add the "On Deck Contestant" shots. If they're going to have a upcoming contestant on stage, they'd want him or her behind the contestant in the Hot Seat, just like the contestant's companions, so there's no possiblity of picking up visual signals. And tied into that decision was the one to get rid of the live feed in the green room, so that being on deck is now the first opportunity for some contestants to see the new rules in action.

I much prefer the classic entry through the arch, facing the camera!

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:- Famous Pets
- Medals
- Human Development
- Supreme Court
- The Middle East
- Words
- Writers
- Band Names
- Historical Events
- Sleep
- Games
- Famous Quotes
- Horror Movies
- Grammar
- Holiday Traditions

With the exception of words, everything after band names could pose problems for me. Famous pets sounds like an interesting million-dollar category.

Nihil obstat® so far for me.